It’s also worth noting that though we may venerate the saints, we never worship or adore them, for that is reserved for God alone. Veneration of a saint’s image is intended to venerate the saint, not the picture. The things they portray are the objects of “respectful veneration” in that they are pointing us to something higher. These images are not the object of our worship or devotion. In other words, we know images such as the ones we have to not be idols because we have seen such examples from the Israelites, the very ones who received this message from God. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.” (CCC, #2132)
Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. Indeed, ‘the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype,’ and ‘whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it.’ The honor paid to sacred images is a ‘respectful veneration,’ not the adoration due to God alone: “The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. “Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim.” (CCC, #2130)
He referenced two passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: But where does this misconception come from? On a recent segment of The Faith Explained, Cale Clarke took a look at this errant belief, why it’s not true, and how Catholics can respond to this accusation.Ĭale began by explaining exactly why the making of holy images is allowed and not contradictory to God’s teaching. ‘I think my big mistake is loving people too much.’ However droll Emin is, the more she chastises journalists, the bitterer her acerbic tongue becomes: the more we try to love her.But showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (Exodus 20:4-6)Ĭatholics are often accused of worshipping idols because of our extensive use of holy images, icons, statues, and sacramentals in our homes or churches.
I don’t think I’ve really hated hardly anyone,’ she has said. I think I’ve cried over more people that I love than people that I hate. The marriage to the stone (it’s not a rock, Emin insists) is a metaphor about the longing to be with someone and the stability that comes with enduring love. ‘You can find people to have sex with, but, you know, loving them is something else,’ she said. ‘I can just make my work and show it, that’s what’s important to me.’ To wit, the show is typically Emin: unabashedly confessional in its nude drawings of splayed female figures yearning words scrawled in light and across canvases and raw, explosive brushstrokes.Įmin doesn’t deviate far from the artist we know, yet, her new works seem bolstered by a newfound sense of self-acceptance, perhaps the result of her recent union. ‘It’s about me being able to not have to define myself within a gallery, within a space, within a country,’ she explains in the exhibition catalogue to Carl Freedman.
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