Praising and honoring -- in short, venerating -- a saint IS honoring and praising and glorifying Christ Who made them saints.
Praising and honoring — in short, venerating — a saint IS honoring and praising and glorifying Christ Who made them saints.
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Keanu was among 1,500 students from some 15 Catholic elementary and high schools in South Florida at a youth rally and Mass for Blessed John Paul II at St. Thomas University in Miami.
On display for the students to touch and pray with was what the archdiocese described as the “Official Relic of the Postulation of Blessed John Paul II” — a vile of the late pontiff’s blood.
“It is wonderful and a privilege to see the relics of Pope John Paul II,” said Keanu, who added his family turned out at St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Miami the previous day to see the relics there as part of a 10-parish tour of the relics scheduled in Miami.
In the Catholic Church, relics fall into one of three categories: A first-class relic is the physical bodily remains of a saint or blessed like bones, blood and hair; a second-class relic is a personal possession, such as clothing, devotional objects, handwritten letters or even furniture; and a third-class relic is an object that has touched a first-class relic.