French Priest's 150-Year-Old Heart Being Worshipped in NYC

The Associated Press ^ | April 6, 2019 | Associated Press

[buffyt]

THE 150-year-old heart of a French priest is on a U.S. tour

[buffyt]

This is Blasphemy! Jesus said to pray in His name! And the 10 Commandments warn us not to worship anyone but God. There is NOTHING in the Bible that tells us to pray to anyone or anything other than the TRINITY!

[humblegunner]

Just damn.

Even Walmart has fresher meat than that.

[JudyinCanada]

This is pretty bizarre. Not to mention, gross. Sounds like something some weird demonic cult would be into.

[NativeSon]

I worship my Wife’s 40 year old *ss.

[humblegunner]

I bet it ain’t floating in a jar.

[I want the USA back]

Venerated, not worshipped.

[Chickensoup]

veneration (vĕnˌə-rāˈshən) ► n. The act of venerating. n. Profound respect or reverence. n. The condition or status of one who is venerated. Veneration is not worship.

[Campion]

Veneration, not worship as in worship-of-God. Nobody thinks SJV’s heart is God, and SJV would be the first to point you to Jesus as the center of all things.

[NativeSon]

No, you got me there, it’s resting comfortably in our bed.

[Gay State Conservative]

Worshipped? Please! This priest may very well have served his God faithfully but neither he,nor any part of him,deserves to be worshipped!

That's Christianity 101.

[4Runner]

Duplicate posting. First one was earlier this morning.

[steve8714]

Venerated, not worshipped. Worship for God alone.

[Campion]

I love You, O my God, and my only desire is to love You until the last breath of my life.
I love You, O my infinitely lovable God,
and I would rather die loving You, than live without loving You.
I love You, Lord, and the only grace I ask is to love You eternally
My God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I love You,
I want my heart to repeat it to You as often as I draw breath -- St. John Vianney

[daniel1212]

Caths will argue that such "veneration" as bowing down and attributing to created beings glory titles and atributes which are never given to them in Scripture does not necessarily constitute worship, and it does not, but even their manner of veneration can would be considered to be so as part of what many Catholics exhibit .

One would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, beseeching such for Heavenly help, and making offerings to them, and giving glory and titles and ascribing supernatural attributes to such which are never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods), including having the uniquely Divine power glory to hear and respond to virtually infinite numbers of prayers individually addressed to them.

Yet Catholics imagine that by playing word games then they can avoid crossing the invisible line between mere "veneration" and worship.

In addition, prayer to created beings in Heaven (PTCBIH) certainly does not come from the Bible. Nowhere in Scripture do we see any believers engaging in prayer to created beings in Heaven (PTCBIH), or instructed to do so, despite the Spirit inspiring the recording of over 200 prayers by believers, and despite this being a most basic practice, and despite there always being plenty of created beings to pray to, and occasions for it since the Fall. Yet the only prayers or offerings in Scripture to anyone else in the spiritual world is by pagans, including to the only Queen of Heaven see therein.

Failing to find even one example of PTCBIH, and with instruction on who to address in prayer to Heaven only being that of to the Lord, thus you must resort to eisegetical extrapolation, presuming those in Heaven can not only hear/understand all prayers from earth, mental or oral (which only God is shown able to do), but that we are to address them, though again the Holy Spirit never mentions even one example of doing so.

Meanwhile, from what I recall, any two-way communication btwn created beings in Heaven and earth required both to somehow be present in the same location, and was not that of asking them to intercede to God for them, and was very rare.

Note that elders and angels offering prayers (Rv. 5:8; 8:4,5) in memorial - like as in Lv. 2:2,15,16; 24:7; Num. 5:15; 16:9, "an offering of memorial" cf. Num. 16:9, - is not that of them being addressed in prayer, nor does it indicate that they had heard them previously, nor is it described as being a regular postal service, but it is one of the things which is a preclude to the final judgments upon the earth, testifying to the persecutions of the saints by the devil and world that it fit to be punished.

For when "He maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. (Psalms 9:12; cf. Genesis 4:10) and before judgment God brings forth testimony of the warrant for it, which includes the cry of those martyred souls under the altar in Rv. 6:9, and with odors representing prayer, akin to Leviticus 6:15, "burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord." (Leviticus 6:15)

Nor can Prayer to created beings in Heaven be extrapolated from general commands to pray or from requests for pray from other believers on earth, for this ignores the God-ordained divisions btwn realms. Which is why Christ had to come down to this earth, while only God is shown able to hear all prayer from Heaven, which is a Divine privilege and attribute nowhere shown to be given to humans.

The only heavenly intercessor btwn man and God is said to be Jesus Christ, (1 Timothy 2:5) and by Him believers have immediate spiritual access with humble contrite boldness into the holy of holies in Heaven to pray to the Lord God, (Hebrews 10:19) while the Spirit within believers cries out “Abba, Father,” (Galatians 4:6) and not “Mama, Mother.”

And believers kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, beseeching such for Heavenly help, and making offerings to them, and giving glory and titles and ascribing attributes to such which are never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods) - including having the uniquely Divine power and glory to hear and respond to virtually infinite numbers of prayers individually addressed to them - would constitute worship in Scripture.

[Fido969]

Planning the funeral for my Dad, the Catholic church was very particular on the state and completeness of the body.

Then they tear apart the corpses of saints and run around worshipping the parts. It makes no sense to me.

[Hieronymus]

This is the associated press. You think they are accurately reporting the the actions of Catholics?

In fairness to them, in English, adore is technically the form of honour done to God alone—worship was not always used as a synonym, and technically isn’t a synonym. It originally is the honorific proper to the mayor of a town, justice of the peace, or magistrates, and still occasionally used that way, particularly in places with greater English influence. An uncle of mine, who was mayor of a small town, tried to get his wife to use the proper nomenclature, but she didn’t buy into it (in fairness, she used to be mayor of a much bigger town).

[Old Yeller]

Not worshipped! Venerated! Or so the Catholics always like to say.

[high info voter]

Wow....that is SICK!

[moovova]

As you should.

[Big Red Badger]

Bill Cosby had something to
Say about things like this.