Lord Haseo said:
The concept of praying is tantamount asking your teacher to give you extra credit for doing absolutely nothing. It’s cheating.Hence why Catholics don’t believe you can get away with just praying and not actually living according to Catholic teaching (which is not to say that God ignores Protestants’ prayers).
Well simply living according to Catholic teachings isn’t much more than doing absolutely nothing. It’s not as though a deed is being done in lue of compensation for an answered prayer.