On Catholic Worship

WORSHIP IS ABSOLUTE ALLEGIANCE and allegiance is absolutely about love; it is like a love that longs for Itself.

We love only because God is Love and only because God abides in us can we truly love all that is in God and we must love truly all that is in God because we must truly love our LORD.

Therefore, love God and God alone and with one love alone, for only the LORD shalt thou worship and the rest of creation shall fall into place.

This one love is descriptive of latria.

Hyerdulia is the proper veneration rightly accorded to the Theotokos, the great Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

We love our Lady because we love God alone with one love alone.

Dulia is the veneration rightly accorded to our beloved Saints and the Holy Angels of God.

We love our Saints and Angels because we love God alone with one love alone.

All that is love begins in Love and ends in Love and all that abides in God abides in Love because God is Love and where we to be gifted with the one love of charity, were we to be mindful of this gift, were we to cherish this love, were we to cultivate it like it longs for Itself, we shall soon possess it because we shall be possessed by It.

But in order to truly appreciate the awesome glory of this Love, we must understand the central mystery of our Christian faith - the one triune Perfection, the most Holy Trinity for this is eternal life: To be caught up in the Holy Spirit between the most intimate embrace of the Father and the Son; this is oneness with God, communion with our LORD, and a return to our Creator.

For this is eternal life, it is one Love, one LORD, and we are one people for we are Love's portion, each of us, a love broken for others for our own good's sake; a one Communion of Saints.
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Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

I AM THE VINE, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.

John 15: 5