Oldbear83 said:
Serious question, Realitybites:
Suppose someone wants to speak to someone who is dead. Following the template of the Hail Mary, this someone mentally and emotionally focuses on the person they want to contact, just as they would if they were praying to God, and asks for that person to hear them and respond, again just as happens in prayer.
If that someone is not praying to that person, what is the means of contact?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
The fundamental problem is you think that these people have died.
I'm not sure what you mean by "mentally and emotionally focus on the person they want to contact" as this in no way describes how you would talk to someone at the end of your pew. If you're asking if I can describe the scientific process by which this discussion is heard by someone in heaven, no I cannot. Neither can I describe the scientific process by which a man is raised from the dead.
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
- 1st Corinthians 13:12
The Hail Mary is a Roman Catholic prayer, and is not used by the Orthodox (though I don't find anything particularly wrong in its theology). I ask the saints to pray to God for me. I do not ask for, or expect a call back from them.