Worshipping Jesus?

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Are we, as Catholic, supposed to worship Jesus Christ? Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I decided to try and learn more about our faith. I always assumed that we are only supposed to worship God the Father, but today I learned that we are to worship Jesus from a fellow Catholic. I never thought of that, and I have always thought we are only to worship God, I never thought we were supposed to worship Jesus. But anyways is that true?

Also, if we are to worship Jesus, would I be in mortal sin for not doing so???
 
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The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. This is the doctrine of the Trinity- one God in three divine persons. So, yes, we are to worship Jesus.
 
Ohhh that makes sense. So if I were to say “I worship God the father,” would that alone be saying I worship Jesus? @Thom18
 
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Labaddy said:
Ohhh that makes sense. So if I were to say “I worship God the father,” would that alone be saying I worship Jesus?
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Yes- you can’t “partially” worship God- you either do or you don’t. If you worship the Father, you worship the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.
 
Oh yes. Many more gifted have ponder this, I find comfort by thinking of all things a matrix. Have one portion and have the entirety.
To pray to the Father, Jesus said it must go through him. So as I see God is three persons, separate and yet One.
Hope it helps!
 
Might help as well to remember that in His divinity Jesus Christ the Second Person, the Word, actively created the universe and everything in it, according to the will of the Father
John 1 crystallizes Christology so wonderfully!
 
And not only do Catholics worship Jesus as God, we also worship the Holy Spirit as God too. All three (God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit) make up the Holy Trinity: one God, three person.

Hence: when we make the Sign of the Cross, we make it in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
 
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Ohhh that makes sense. So if I were to say “I worship God the father,” would that alone be saying I worship Jesus?
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Not if by saying that you mean that you don’t worship Jesus or the Holy Spirit or that you don’t believe they are God.

God the Father is not God the Son nor is he God the Holy Spirit. There are three persons in one God.
 
We are baptized with the Trinitarian formula: ’ in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit’. So even if you were not aware, you are entrusted to the Trinity.
 
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Are we, as Catholic, supposed to worship Jesus Christ?
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Yes. He’s God. The second person of the Holy Trinity. We worship him.

We also worship God the Father (First person of the Trinity), God the Holy Spirit (Third person of the Trinity), and God (the one God in whom are the Three Persons).
 
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Labaddy:
Ohhh that makes sense. So if I were to say “I worship God the father,” would that alone be saying I worship Jesus?
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Yes- you can’t “partially” worship God- you either do or you don’t. If you worship the Father, you worship the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.
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Whoa! Dont tell the Jehovah Witnesses this. While they worship God the Father they are very adament about not worshiping Jesus the son nor the Holy Spirit.

Peace!!!
 
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Yes- you can’t “partially” worship God- you either do or you don’t. If you worship the Father, you worship the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.
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I disagree with your assessment: see Nestorian and Arian heresies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Oneness Pentecostals, and Unitarians.
 
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Thom18:
Yes- you can’t “partially” worship God- you either do or you don’t. If you worship the Father, you worship the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.
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I disagree with your assessment: see Nestorian and Arian heresies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Oneness Pentecostals, and Unitarians.
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Oh and there is also the Jews.
Peace!!!
 
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Thom18:
Yes- you can’t “partially” worship God- you either do or you don’t. If you worship the Father, you worship the Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.
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I disagree with your assessment: see Nestorian and Arian heresies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Oneness Pentecostals, and Unitarians.
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They may not think that they are, but if we say that they are worshipping God, then they are worshipping all three persons. God can’t be divided.
 
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They may not think that they are, but if we say that they are worshipping God, then they are worshipping all three persons. God can’t be divided.
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I think the issue is how you worded your post. You said “if you don’t worship any one of them, you don’t worship any of them.”

Actually it would seem more correct that if they worship at least one of them, they are by necessity worshipping all three of them, regardless of whether they deny it. For example Jewish people only worship the God of Abraham, which would be God the Father. They deny they are worshipping Jesus and the Holy Spirit as well. But when they worship God the Father they are necessarily worshipping Jesus and the Holy Spirit (as you contended in your second post).

The fact that they deny they are worshipping Jesus and the Holy Spirit does not invalidate their worship of God the Father (as you seemed to say in your first post).
 
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They may not think that they are, but if we say that they are worshipping God, then they are worshipping all three persons. God can’t be divided.
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In a sense you are correct but as i tell my JW family “you don’t get to tell me what i worship and what i dont worship”. I think it is just as wrong for us to presume what they actially worship and what they actually dont worship.

Peace!!!
 
When you render worship to God the Father, it’s not like you’re ignoring the Son or Holy Ghost by doing so. When one person of the Blessed Trinity is glorified, they are all glorified.
 
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