What's the difference between honor and worship?

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While I accept the church’s teaching that we honor Mary and the saints, I’m having trouble understanding the difference between honor and the worship that only God alone deserves. What qualitative differences are there between the two?
 
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We can show honor not only to saints, but to anyone we love and/or admire. But to worship or adore is to acknowledge the object of such attention as God. We all have an obligation from justice to acknowledge to God the truth of who He is. We can’t do this with anyone but Him because only He is God. So, strictly speaking, we only give worship (latria in Latin) to God.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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