The phrase "addresses prayers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is responding to or acknowledging prayers, often in a religious or spiritual setting.
Example: "The pastor addresses prayers during the Sunday service, offering comfort and guidance to the congregation."
Alternatives: "responds to prayers" or "acknowledges prayers".
Aquinas says that when one addresses prayers to a saint other than the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is believed to retain her body in heaven and is, therefore, always a complete person one should say, not, for example, 'Saint Peter pray for us', but 'soul of Saint Peter pray for us'.
Jesus also addresses prayer, faith, repentance, forgiveness, honesty and our relationship to God.
In general, European and Catholic denominations will address meal-time prayers to God or "The Lord," while Evangelical Christians and other denominations that emphasize a personal relationship with Christ will address prayers to Jesus.
In another letter addressing prayer, Screwtape writes, "It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out".
There were many inconsistencies in that criticism, such as the willingness of Servetus to call Jesus "Son of God" and the Socinian custom of addressing prayer and worship to him.
What they have come for, beyond illegal residence, is never quite clear, but we know what they are leaving behind: the memory of Frankie, the youngest child, who died of a brain tumor, and to whom Christy still addresses her prayers.
The showpiece of the convent is an icon of Mary where Christians and Muslims alike (especially women who yearn to conceive) have addressed their prayers.
Having been told by well-meaning adults that my father was in heaven, I did not think it the least odd that in church everyone should address their prayers to him: 'Our father, which art in heaven'".
She draws in readers by focusing on social and cultural details. Henry V believed himself to be "God's soldier" and addressed his prayers to a God of Battles; but in the midst of war, he arranged for musicians to serenade his new wife, the French princess Catherine, every evening.
However, we recommend that you address your prayers to whichever God rules over the territory we are crashing into.
Having fled so far from Vietnam, I can no longer imagine what to say, or how I should address my prayers, or for that matter what promises I could possibly make to the long departed.
