How can Mary, saints, or God hear all prayers made to them?
Concerning your question about how Mary can respond to all the prayers addressed to her, or any of the saints, or even God can hear all the prayers addressed… I’ve often wondered about that myself. Theologians say that we must realize that we are in time. God and those who die are in eternity, where there is no passage of time, but an eternal now. I’ve read explanations of this by people as brilliant as C.S. Lewis, but it’s still a mystery to me! I can see how it’s possible, but I don’t understand it. However, we may get some insight into the problem from some scientific theories which say that the faster we move in the universe, the slower time goes. Theoretically, at least, if people were to travel to another star in a spaceship whose speed approached the speed of light, they might be gone for 100 years by earth time, but they might age only 10 years while their friends on earth would age 100 years. Interesting theory! If this can happen even to human beings who have not died, then
