in the book of revelations you have the censers containing the prayers of saints.
And yet it records no one ever praying to a saint.
Nor do Apostles teach it, nor command it, nor ever practice it.
Welcome to paganism
Actually you do read of praying to the saints in the book of Maccabees.
And to the point of paganism - that’s more in line with the non-Christian beliefs that one finds outside orthodoxy.
Say, your group is outside orthodoxy, right?