“Worship is the homage which goodness claims as its due. God is the all good, and therefore claims supreme homage or worship, which is known as latria. But creatures, too, are good, and some creatures there are that possess the kind of goodness — virtue, namely, or moral worth — which merits the homage of rational beings. Such, in a preeminent sense, are ‘the spirits of the just made perfect,’ the saints and the holy angels who dwell with God.”
— “Veneration of the Saints,” by the Right Rev. Alexander MacDonald, D.D., 1921
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