Read the Catechism in a Year
Day 215 - Popular Piety
How important is so-called “popular piety”?
Popular piety, which is expressed in veneration for relics, processions, pilgrimages, and devotions, is an important way in which the faith becomes inculturated. It is good as long as it is in and of the Church, leads to Christ, and does not try to “earn” heaven by works, apart from God’s grace.
Is it permissible to venerate relics?
The veneration of relics is a natural human need, a way of showing respect and reverence to the persons who are venerated. Relics of saints are properly venerated when the faithful praise God’s work in people who have devoted themselves completely to God. (YOUCAT questions 274-275)
Dig Deeper: Corresponding CCC section (1674-1676) and other references here.
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