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trumpet152
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What exactly does this accomplish?
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b_justb
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It’s called veneration. It accomplishes showing honor and respect.
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ElizabethJoy
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I have a crucifix pendant and a larger crucifix by my front door - I kiss Jesus on the feet by kissing the pendant or the wall-hanging, just as I send a kiss to my sister in heaven by kissing her picture.
It’s just another way of expressing my gratitude for Him and my Hope in Him.
“Jesus, I love you!” As Mother Angelica says, it’s good to fill your day with these short little prayers - “and even reach over and give him a little smooch now and then.”
We don’t know all the ways in which the angels and saints in God’s heaven might express affection or adoration - we’re just humans - but Jesus was fully human, so he knows what we mean when He gets those periodic “smooches.”
“She has not ceased to kiss my feet and wash them with her tears.”
It’s just another way of expressing my gratitude for Him and my Hope in Him.
“Jesus, I love you!” As Mother Angelica says, it’s good to fill your day with these short little prayers - “and even reach over and give him a little smooch now and then.”
We don’t know all the ways in which the angels and saints in God’s heaven might express affection or adoration - we’re just humans - but Jesus was fully human, so he knows what we mean when He gets those periodic “smooches.”
“She has not ceased to kiss my feet and wash them with her tears.”
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contemplative
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I do this everynight just before I close my eyes to sleep.
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AquinasXVI
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Trumpet:
Have you seen people kissing photographs of their loved ones. Same thing. You should try it sometime. It is one of those 1million ways that we as catholics show tenderness to Christ. Try it sometime.
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Have you seen people kissing photographs of their loved ones. Same thing. You should try it sometime. It is one of those 1million ways that we as catholics show tenderness to Christ. Try it sometime.
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edward_george
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I usually kiss my Crucifix and Miraculous Medal when I take them off. I also kiss my Brown Scapular whenever I (briefly) take it off–there’s a partial indulgence attached to devoutly kissing a scapular, as granted by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV.
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Valarious
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There is one person I know that every time I speak to him he starts kissing his plastic crucifix rosary over and over and over all the smooching sounds and all I think the guy is possessed by demons.
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bardegaulois
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It’s merely a sign of veneration. It might have been indulgenced at one time, but I don’t believe it is any longer. In our liturgical rites, the crucifix is solemnly and impressive venerated by clergy and faithful alike on Good Friday in an impressive ceremony, wherein we show our great respect for “the wood of the cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world,” the instrument by which Christ wrought our salvation…
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littlestsouls2
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… A greater devotion, hopefully.
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