Veneration is an act of honoring.
Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
d-fender: “Veneration is an act of honoring.”
Oh?
Was I supposed to venerate my parents? Does that mean I should have made statues of them and placed candles in front of them to light?
Name churches after them? Claim they were perfect? Pray to them now that they’re dead?
Who knew?
Did Jesus Christ call others to venerate, honor, WHATEVER, Mary? No. THAT’S the point, D-. Not that veneration is an act of honoring, but less than worshipping, or more than dulia, or less than latria.. or WHATEVER. The point is, He said “Yea, RATHER..” NOT “Yea”. It’s about hearing the word of God, and keeping it, not Mary. Or at least that’s what Christ said. Want to argue veneration/honor/worship/dulia/hyperdulia/latria with Him?
Intelligent dialog is really difficult when you are reduced to about 20% of your vocabulary. It gets old when so much of the dialog that does take place is over the correctness of the definitions that the Church uses to define Church dogma. Instead of getting responses along the lines of "I understand, but disagree", we are force fed a stream of "no it doesn't mean that, it means something different".