Why do Catholics worship God?

Answer 1

Catholics worship God because they believe He is their Creator and that adoration, Thanksgiving, petition and reparation are due to Him for His many blessings and benefits He has bestowed, especially that most basic of things, our own existence. Catholics believe that God created us to choose, of our own volition to love Him, to choose to worship Him as a Father, not just a distant Creator. Through this relationship, loving, serving and worshiping God, Catholics have Faith and Hope that they will come to be with Him forever in heaven.

Answer 2

Catholics, like all Christians, believe Jesus to be God because The Bible and the Church tells them so.

The details of Christology (that part of Theology related to Christ) is very complex and I would suggest a trip to either your local library (there is a very good introduction to Theology by McGrath) or your local Christian priest.

Answer 3

Catholic Answer

Catholics worship the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. (St. Matthew 22:32; Acts 7:32). Catholics worship the Son, Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ - "For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. (St. John 3:16)

Answer 4

Catholics do not worship the Pope. They venerate (honor) him because he is the Apostle Peter on this Earth and it is his job to be the steward of the Chuch in Christ's stead. Thus, Catholics may offer up prayers for the intentions of the Pope - which means that they want to pray for the things the Pope is praying for. However, Catholics don't pray directly or worship the Pope in any means. Anyone who says otherwise is not accurate and not a good Catholic.

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Catholic AnswerActually, I am a good Catholic, and I do worship the Pope. Certainly not as protestants have managled the word, but in the same sense that Englishman use the word when addressing a magistrate as "Your Worship" as the proper respect that is due to him. Below is the word's definition as it has always been understood. Along with the words, latria - which is the adoration given to God, and dulia, which is for the saints and angels:

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from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Worship. Acknowledgment of another's worth, dignity, or superior position. In religion, worship is given either to God, and then it is adoration, or to the angels and saints, and it is called veneration. Divine worship actually includes three principal acts, namely adoration (or the recognition of God's infinite perfection), prayer or the asking for divine help, and sacrifice or the offering of something precious to God. Worship as veneration also has three principal forms, whereby the angels and saints are honored for their sanctity, asked to intercede before the divine Majesty, and imitated in their love and service of God.

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Dulia. The reverence and homage paid to saints and angels on account of their supernatural excellence and union with God. To be distinguished from the adoration of God (latria) and the special honour paid to Mary (hyperdulia). Dulia is from the Greek word for servants (of God).

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Hyperdulia.

The special homage paid to Mary on account of her supreme dignity as Mother of God, and her consequent unique holiness and nearness to God. It recognizes that she is a creature, and so it differs from latria; but a creature holier and nobler than any angel or saint, and therefore worthy of a greater reverence than the dulia paid to them. It implies a loving reverence for God's mother and ours, and a confidence in her power and benevolence.

Answer 5

A:The Catholic Church teaches belief in God and Jesus as articles of faith. This means that not to believe in them would mean that a person could no longer really be a Roman Catholic. In fact, increasing numbers of Catholics, as with members of other Christian denominations, are accepting that God is not real and that Jesus was not the son of God. They may continue to call themselves Catholics for cultural reasons, or to avoid being shunned by their Catholic friends, but they are no longer really Catholics.

Answer 6

Because they believe the truth that God has given to the world.

Answer 7

Through prayer. The most powerful and greatest of which is the Mass.

Answer 8

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Catholic AnswerWorship is important to Catholic because it was commanded by God, and is necessary for our salvation.

Answer 9

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Catholic AnswerThe Pope worships God because he is a Christian, and the Vicar of Christ.