A few posts ago you were claiming it was a symbol.
Now you want to take it literally.
The verses I gave show that those in heaven present our prayers (requests) to God.
We also know that those in heaven are aware of what is happening on the earth (Heb 12:1, Rev 6:9-11)
We are also told that the prayers of the righteous are powerful and effective (Jas 5;16). Who is more righteous than those in heaven?
Jesus uses the image of the vine, with us as the branches.
“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (John 15:4-7)
Are those saints who die cut off from Christ and thrown into the fire? Or are they still abiding in Christ and still bearing much fruit? Is Jesus still doing for them whatever they ask?
12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
My brother, cloud of witnesses can be angels or devils, it doesn't say saints in heaven able to see or hear us.
Rev 6
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
It doesn't say Mary or saint able to hear billion of Catholic pray to them
Is death saint abide in Jesus, I think so, their fruits is love to God and love to their fellow death saint, but I don't think they able to help us.
I never hear st Luke ghost help cancer patient