Most Protestants object to the very idea of Christians asking those who have departed to pray for them, and count such a practice as being close to necromancy or at least as standing in the way of a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet it has been the continuing practice of Christians from the earliest centuries to ask those who have reposed to intercede for them, not as being dead, but as being truly alive in Christ.

In this podcast Father Peter Farrington considers both the practice of Orthodox Christians and the objections which are raised by many Protestants, and shows that these objections do not have any weight, and should not stand in the way of all Christians expressing their unity with the Church both living and departed to be with Christ through the seeking of the intercession of the saints.