Worship

For popular piety, see Popular Piety

Worship is primarily the adoration and love of God, which is the moral life, inscribed into human nature, and indeed, is the purpose of the world, of the Catholic Church, and of the sacraments. Worship is secondly veneration and love of God's holy creatures and creations, out of love of God, according to the Scriptures and to the Incarnation. Hence the Church worships (adores) the Eucharist and worships (venerates) the Scriptures, the angels and the saints, the relics of Jesus Christ and the relics of the saints, holy images and statues, etc.