How is "Veneration" similar or different from "Adoration"?
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So, there are many different forms of prayer, the three involved here are intercessory prayer and prayers of blessing and prayers of praise (which is more of paying honor to the saints and God).
Then there are three forms of paying homage to God and His Saints in heaven.
Veneration is the honor given to the saintсѕ аdoration is the honor given to God alone.
In Greek there's latria (worship/adoration due to God alone), dulia (veneration given to the saints) and hyperdulia (veneration given particularly to Our Lady).
The difference is, you really can't say that Our Lady did such and such for you, but traditionally Catholics understood what you were saying when you said such a thing. We understood her to be the Mediatrix of All Graces without a dogma. Bl. John Paul II took his motto, 'totus tuus Sum Maria', which is to say, "I'm all yours Mary".
The idea is that you can't really praise her enough, and all praise of her makes Our Lord happy, just like anything you say nice about my mom would make me happy!
You go overboard when you start calling her a Goddess, start having baptizing in her name, start really believing that it is her, not God who is working miracles. But cults like that die out and are suppressed by the Church eventually.
So, in short, you can't say enough good things about Mary, you can't praise her enough and everything done for her is done for Jesus.
It's not essential to salvation, but 'to Jesus through Mary' is not a bad path for any Catholic.
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I believe the issue of "adoration" versus "veneration" is a game of semantics that Catholicism has created in order to continue their glorification of Mary.
According to the Athansian Creed, "Fides autem catholica haec est: ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in unitate veneremur", which Wikipedia and most other English translations of the Athanasian Creed translate as, "And this is the catholic faith, that we worship the one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity..."
Notice the Latin word venerēmur. It is a conjugation of the verb veneror. From this Latin word is derived the English word "venerate." But, notice the English translation of the Creed: it states that we "worship" God using the verb venerēmur (veneror).
The Wikipedia article on "veneration" states,
Adoration, which is known as latria in classical theology, is the worship and homage that is rightly offered to God alone. It is the acknowledgement of excellence and perfection of an uncreated, divine person. It is the worship of the Creator that God alone deserves. Veneration, known as dulia in classical Catholic theology, is the honor due to the excellence of a created person.
If indeed "veneration" is honor of a created person, then why is the Latin verb veneremur used in reference to the Trinity in the Athanasian Creed? There is no doubt that Christians "worship" God, and so venerēmur must refer to worship due to God alone, not a created person.
If only "adoration" was "rightly offered to God alone," we would expect to see the verb adōrēmus, not venerēmur in the Athanasian Creed.
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