[Salvation]

**With your laundry list of “things holy to catholics”**

I don’t think so. These things are to be added to a celebration to give meaning to it. Or more meaning to it.

For example, on Ash Wednesday — “Remember, man, thou art dust and into dust thou shall return.”

Just the truth. Thanks for your input.

[pjr12345]

For example, on Ash Wednesday — “Remember, man, thou art dust and into dust thou shall return.”

By this logic one could construct a golden lamb and call it sacred. After all, Jesus was the Lamb of God. Similarly, one could erect an image of Jesus as a shepherd and worship it; after all, He was "the good shepherd. In the extreme, one could even erect a figure of Christ on a cross call it sacred; after all, He hung there to pay for our sins.

Let's review Exodus 20:4-5

4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,