2)
You are trying to make a sports team and you
want to emulate someone who is very successful
in that sport i.e. Drew Brees, quarterback for
the New Orleans Saints. So you study him.
You study the way he prepares for a game – you
study how he reads the defense. You want to
be like him. We read about and study the saints
because they dedicated their lives to the Lord
and we strive to do the same with our lives.
The statues within our Church are there for
inspiration. They are our reminder of the rewards
given to those who live with Our Lord Jesus Christ
as the Center of our life.
The Sister Dulce Foundation, Inc.
Supporting the Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center
Did you know...
The First Commandment – I am the Lord,
thy God. You shall have no other gods before
me is often a challenge made to Catholics by our
Protestant friends who question the “worshiping”
of images within our Church.
In the Church’s opinion, “the honor paid to
sacred images is a ‘respectful veneration’, not
the adoration and worship due to God alone”.
The Catechism, using very traditional arguments,
posits that God gave permission for images that
symbolize Christian salvation by leaving symbols
such as the bronze serpent, and the cherubim on
the Ark of the Covenant.
Here are a couple of ways to share the Catholic
view of venerating our saints:
1)
Say you are applying for a job and you
know someone who is very well respected at
that company, so you call them and ask them
to” put in a good word for you,” hoping to
increase your chances of getting the job. We
pray to the saints and ask their intercession
with our prayer, or
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