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DEFENDING  THE  BRIDE

 
 

Proof
that Catholics clearly teach
to worship only God and
not to worship Mary

The Catholic Church clearly proclaims that God alone is to be worshipped.  This is proclaimed in the liturgy at Mass as well as stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Mass - Biblical Quotations
Catechism of the Catholic Church - The 10 Commandments

 

The Mass - Biblical Quotations

Every Catholic reiterates this belief every Sunday when he prays the Gloria at Mass.  We proclaim that we worship God the Father and Jesus Christ who “alone is the Most High” with the Holy Spirit.

There are several Biblical passages from both the Old and the New Testament which teach this fundamental truth to worship God and only God.  These are proclaimed on a regular basis throughout the year at Mass. 

There is a three year cycle of readings, Year A, Year B, and Year C which repeat continually.  The readings are assigned as follows such that this teaching is repeated every year without fail.

Matthew 4:10
“At this, Jesus said to him,  
‘Get away, Satan! It is written:
“The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.”’”
Year A First Sunday of Lent

Exodus 20:1-3
“Then God delivered all these commandments: “I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.  You shall not have other gods besides me.”
Year B Third Sunday of Lent

Luke 4:8
“Jesus said to him in reply,  ‘It is written:
“You shall worship the Lord, your God,
and him alone shall you serve.”’”
Year C First Sunday of Lent

 

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) is the sure norm of Catholic teaching.  One whole section, Part 3, is based on the 10 Commandments. The first commandment clearly states that adoration goes to God alone.

 Paragraphs of CCC
2112
The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of "idols …

2113
Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God … Many martyrs died for not adoring “the Beast” refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.

CCC at Vatican website

 

These Secondary Verses are also proclaimed as follows

Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Year A Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Year C Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Mark 12:32
“And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he”
Year B Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time

Psalm 81:9
“There must be no foreign god among you;
you must not worship an alien god.”
Year B Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Responsorial Psalm

Isaiah  45: 6b-8, 18, 21b-25
  (6-7) “I am the LORD, there is no other;
I form the light, and create the darkness,
(21) “Was it not I, the LORD,
besides whom there is no other God?
There is no just and saving God but me.
(23-24) “To me every knee shall bend;
by me every tongue shall swear,
Saying, “Only in the LORD
are just deeds and power.”
 Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Reading 1
(Even Years - December 2009, and every other year after that)

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A Third Proof

Curiously there is second way to demonstrate the definitive teaching of the Catholic Church on this matter.  Some Catholics have a weak understanding of what the Church teaches.  For example, they fail to distinguish between the various types of honor, between the honor we give to say our mother or father (Matthew 19:19), the honor we give to the Saints in heaven and that highest honor of worship that is given to God alone.

And when those Catholics end up leaving the Catholic Church to join a Protestant one, even before they leave the Catholic Church they usually know deep down that they are supposed to worship God and God alone.  Why and how do they know this?  They know this because they have been taught these Bible passages on a regular basis while they were still in the Catholic Church.