From Wikipedia2138 Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic.
The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be sinful in the sense that it denotes a lack of trust in the divine providence of God and, as such, is a violation of the first of the Ten Commandments. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states superstition “in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion” (para. #2110).
The Catechism attempts to dispel commonly held preconceptions or misunderstandings about Catholic doctrine relating to superstitious practices:
Superstition is a deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand is to fall into superstition. Cf. Matthew 23:16–22 (para. #2111)
Don’t take those things too seriously. Superstition is sinful, but what is really superstition. I belive the it has to do with beliefs. emails that say…send this to 10 people in the next 10 minutes and something good will happen, or something bad will happen. That sort of belief tends to make a person feel like a god. If I do this then I MAKE something happen. That is sinful, so there is a big difference between superstition and tradition.My question then is what exactly constitutes superstition? I’m fairly sure we all have been guilty of behavior that could be considered “superstitious.” For example just look at weddings, the bride and groom don’t see each other the day before the wedding, “something borrowed something blue” for the bride on the wedding day, the bouquet toss…
I mean most of my friends at school are even guilty of wearing ‘lucky underwear’ for finals…
Because superstition puts our faith into something else other than God.I know that superstition is a bad thing.What is it exactly though?.Over dependance on something for some alleged ability that is justified without any real reason?.Can it become so extreme that it can become a sin?.Thank you very much so for your time.
Only if she really believed that doing those things would affect her future in some way. Otherwise it’s harmless traditional fun.So would it be a sin if the bride wore something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and tossed her bouquet on her wedding day?
As has been said above, how much real credence do people put in these objects or actions, and does the bride honestly think that her marriage will be terrible if she doesn’t toss the bouquet?My question then is what exactly constitutes superstition? I’m fairly sure we all have been guilty of behavior that could be considered “superstitious.” For example just look at weddings, the bride and groom don’t see each other the day before the wedding, “something borrowed something blue” for the bride on the wedding day, the bouquet toss…
I mean most of my friends at school are even guilty of wearing ‘lucky underwear’ for finals…