“We manifest our worship to God “Little children, guard yourselves

through religious acts.” from idols.”​—1 John 5:21.

“God is a Spirit, and those

worshiping him must worship

with spirit and truth.”​—John 4:24.

“We are walking by faith, not

by sight.”​—2 Corinthians 5:7.

“I am Jehovah. That is my name;

and to no one else shall I give

my own glory, neither my praise

to graven images.”​—Isaiah 42:8.

“We should render religious “You must not make for yourself

acts to the Most Holy Virgin a carved image or a form like

Mary, to the angels, and to anything that is in the heavens

the saints. But [such] above or that is on the earth

religious acts of veneration . . . You must not bow down to

. . . finally come to God, in them nor be induced to serve

the same way that a king is them.”​—Exodus 20:4, 5.

honored when honor is given to “I John . . . fell down to

his ministers.” worship before the feet of the

angel . . . But he tells me: ‘Be

careful! Do not do that! . . .

Worship God.’”

​—Revelation 22:8, 9.

“There is one God, and one

mediator between God and men,

a man, Christ Jesus.”

​—1 Timothy 2:5

“The Crucifix is indispensable “The God that made the world and

on the altar; without this the all the things in it, being, as

Holy Mass cannot be celebrated. this One is, Lord of heaven and

Three altar cloths, two earth, does not dwell in handmade

candelabra, and the sacramental temples.”​—Acts 17:24.

tablets are also necessary.” “We keep our eyes, not on the

things seen, but on the things

unseen.”​—2 Corinthians 4:18.

“November 1 . . . the “The dead themselves do not

celebration of All Saints Day. praise Jah, nor do any going down

It is the Holy Day of all the into silence.”​—Psalm 115:17.

souls that live happily in “The dead know nothing.”

heaven, and that one day will ​—Ecclesiastes 9:5, Revised

be ours.” Standard Version Common Bible.

“Every soul which will not hear

that prophet shall be

destroyed.”​—Acts 3:23, Douay

Version.

“In aid of these souls [the “Neither work, nor reason, nor

Church] established the wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be

‘Commemoration of the faithful in hell, whither thou art

deceased’ on November 2nd. On hastening.”​—Ecclesiastes 9:10,

this day the priests celebrate Douay Version.

the Mass three times to relieve “Put not your trust in [man;]

the torments of these blessed . . . he shall return into his

souls of purgatory and to earth: in that day all their

hasten their entrance into thoughts shall perish.”

heaven.” ​—Psalm 145:2-4, Douay Version.

“In the final analysis, the

Catholic doctrine on purgatory

is based on tradition, not

Sacred Scripture.”​—New Catholic

Encyclopedia, Volume 11,

page 1034.