Catholic worship definition

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I am converting to Catholicism and even if I don’t get a answer I’m still converting. I just wanted an answer to my question. I want to know the Catholic definition of worship, what separates love for God and love for his mother?
 
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What is the Catholic definition of worship? I’m converting and I’m just wondering what is the difference between the love you should have for God and Mary?
 
According to A Catholic Dictionary edited by Donald Attwater, worship is “the unique adoration and reverence paid to God called latria”.

The veneration paid to the saints and Mary are called dulia and hyperdulia respectively.
 
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God receives the special honor due to Him as Creator and first principle of all things which acknowledges Him as the source of all our being and on whom our existence completely depends. The Eucharistic Sacrifice is the supreme means of worship, given to us by God Himself.

We should also honor Mary, the Saints, and our parents, etc. with honor due to each (as the Scriptures say, give honor to whom honor is due), but since they are not supreme like God, the honor given them is a lesser degree.
 
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Oh I didn’t know I’m sorry I will delete the other
 
Sorry I didn’t know I’m deleting this one
 
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Catholic Encyclopedia
This article will deal with Christian worship according to the following definition: homage paid to God, to Jesus Christ, to His saints, to the beings or even to the objects which have a special relation to God. There are several degrees of this worship:
  • if it is addressed directly to God, it is superior, absolute, supreme worship, or worship of adoration, or, according to the consecrated theological term, a worship of latria. This sovereign worship is due to God alone; addressed to a creature it would become idolatry.
  • When worship is addressed only indirectly to God, that is, when its object is the veneration of martyrs, of angels, or of saints, it is a subordinate worship dependent on the first, and relative, in so far as it honours the creatures of God for their peculiar relations with Him; it is designated by theologians as the worship of dulia, a term denoting servitude, and implying, when used to signify our worship of distinguished servants of God, that their service to Him is their title to our veneration (cf. Chollet, loc. cit., col. 2407, and Bouquillon, Tractatus de virtute religionis, I, Bruges, 1880, 22 sq.).
  • As the Blessed Virgin has a separate and absolutely supereminent rank among the saints, the worship paid to her is called hyperdulia (for the meaning and history of these terms see Suicer, Thesaurus ecclesiasticus, 1728).
Cabrol, F. (1912). Christian Worship. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15710a.htm
 
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