The musings and meandering thoughts of a crotchety old man as he observes life in the world and in a small, rural town in South East Nebraska. My Pledge-Nulla dies sine linea-Not a day with out a line.
Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'
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23 November 2019
Word of the Day: Latria
LATRIA. The veneration due to God alone for his supreme excellence and
to show people's complete submission to him. It is essentially adoration. As
absolute latria, it is given only to God, as the Trinity, or one of the Divine
Persons, Christ as God and as man, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Holy Eucharist.
Representations of God as images connected with the Divinity may receive relative
latria, which is given not to the symbol but to the Godhead, whom it signifies.
(Etym. Greek latreiā, service, worship.)
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