From an early age, of course, extra-liturgical adoration of the sacrament was encouraged.
Uncritical language adoration makes way for a more objective attitude.
Here, the process of idolatry has wholly submerged the quasi-pagan adoration of saints into the absolute worship of the self.
Their first disc is a miscellaneous collection of chants that generally focuses on adoration and veneration.
Yet what they shared was a remarkable ability to rise in the weakly institutionalised society of the late imperial intelligentsia, gaining as well the adoration of many of their contemporaries.
When we use the term 'worship ' in describing a religious person's veneration of a saint or a child's adoration of a sibling we are using it analogically.
Uwe grew up in his brother's shadow as he experienced the adoration heaped by friends and family on his fallen brother, who died, in their eyes, a 'war hero'.
Third, there is this difference : the religious practices are directed at an appropriate object of intense adoration and devotion, what we might call ' maximal ' worship.
