On Praying to Saints

"What is a Saint, according to the Catholic Church, except the spirit of a person who has been made righteous by God's grace and who has been made perfect."

No place in the Bible orders or forbids us to pray to the saints for their intercession. However, the Bible allows us and commends us to seek their intercession. In Hebrews 12:22-24 we see the basis for it.

"But you have approached Mount Zion and the City of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels
23 and to an assembly and a Church of the first born ones
who have been enrolled in heaven, and to God, Judge of all,
and to spirits of righteous persons who have been made
perfect, and to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to
the Blood of sprinkling, which speaks better things than Abel."

This passage says that we Christians have approached the heavenly Jerusalem, the angels, God the Judge, the First-born enrolled in heaven, and the spirits of the righteous one who have been made perfect. What is a Saint, according to the Catholic Church, except the spirit of a person who has been made righteous by God's grace and who has been made perfect. It is because they are made perfect that they are considered saints.

Note that we are supposed to come close to these saints, just as we should approach the angels, God the Judge of all, Jesus the Mediator, and His Blood of the New Covenant. We need to approach all of these for our salvation including the Saints, who are the "spirits of righteous persons who have been made perfect."