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To: Ottofire
Note the equating of "veneration" with "worship" by Cardinal Antonio Bacci, in his devotional material. Although "worship" is further parsed into dulia and latria (veneration vs adoration), Cardinal Bacci refers to the act of bowing to, and the act of praying to saints as worship...
The worship of the Saints is an act of veneration (dulia), not of adoration (latria), which can be given only to God. It is wrong to imagine, as many Protestants do, that by praying to and venerating the Saints we subtract something from the homage we owe to God...
From the thread The Veneration and Imitation of the Saints
70 posted on 10/21/2008 8:37:05 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (What can I say? It's a gift. And I didn't get a receipt, so I can't exchange it.)
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To: Alex Murphy

So, by your logic, when the traditional form of the (Protestant) wedding vows have the groom telling his bride, “With my body I thee worship,” he’s promising to commit idolatry?


73 posted on 10/21/2008 8:42:21 AM PDT by Campion
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