Friends, Please join us in praying for David. Saint Gemma Galgani, we humbly implore your intercession on behalf of David by and through the Holy Name and Precious Blood of Our Lord. Amen

You wouldn’t know the difference between Iconography and Idolatry because you fail to appreciate the distinction between Dulia and Latria. Your views aren’t Scriptural and are proximate to the Heresy of Iconoclasm. (1) From the Council of Trent: “they (the Holy Fathers and Sacred Councils) especially instruct the faithful diligently concerning the intercession and invocation of saints; the honour (paid) to relics; and the legitimate use of images: teaching them, that the saints, who reign together with Christ, offer up their own prayers to God for men; that it is good and useful suppliantly to invoke them, and to have recourse to their prayers, aid, (and) help for obtaining benefits from God, through His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who is our alone Redeemer and Saviour; but that they think impiously, who deny that the saints, who enjoy eternal happiness in heaven, are to be invocated; or who assert either that they do not pray for men; or, that the invocation of them to pray for each of us even in particular, is idolatry; or, that it is repugnant to the word of God; and is opposed to the honour of the one mediator of God and men, Christ Jesus; or, that it is foolish to supplicate, vocally, or mentally, those who reign in heaven. Also, that the holy bodies of holy martyrs, and of others now living with Christ,-which bodies were the living members of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Ghost, and which are by Him to be raised unto eternal life, and to be glorified,–are to be venerated by the faithful; through which (bodies) many benefits are bestowed by God on me.;” (2) Condemnation of Iconoclasm From the Second Council of Nicaea: Anathemas concerning holy images (1) If anyone does not confess that Christ our God can be represented in his humanity, let him be anathema. (2) anyone does not accept representation in art of evangelical scenes, let him be anathema. (3) If anyone does not salute such representations as standing for the Lord and his saints, let him be anathema. (4) If anyone rejects any written or unwritten tradition of the church, let him be anathema. And, please, before you presume to create a false distinction based on misapprehension of the aforementioned language note that God the Father is painted prominently in the Sistine Chapel. (3) The Catechism of Pope Pius X “What is idolatry? Idolatry is the giving to any creature, for example, to a statue, to an image, or to a man, the supreme worship of adoration that belongs to God alone. Do these words forbid every kind of image? Certainly not; but only those of false divinities, made to be adored, as idolaters adore them. So true is this, that God Himself commanded Moses to make images, as, for example, the two statues of the Cherubim for the Ark . . . “ The Catechism of Pope Pius X Pages CXXVI-CXXVII Nos. 9 & 11 (4) Scripture Veneration Of Holy Images ⁃Exodus 25:18-22 “Make two Cherubim of gold.” ⁃Numbers 21:9 “Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it up as a sign.” ⁃1 Kings 6:23-29 (walls of temples covered with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers) ⁃1 Kings 7:25-45 (more bronze images inside the temple: sea, oxen, and lions) See Also ⁃Joshua 3:14-16 ⁃2 Samuel 6:13-16 ⁃1 Kings 3:15 ⁃1 Kings 8:5 ⁃Isaiah 10:11 ⁃Hosea 11:2 ⁃Jonah 2:8 ⁃Acts 15:20 ⁃2 Corinthians 6:16 ⁃1 John 5:21 And Miraculous Relics ⁃2 Kings 2:13-14 (Elisha uses Elijah’s Mantle to part Jordan River) ⁃2 Kings 13:21 “as soon as man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived.” ⁃Matthew 9:20 (Miracle of Bleeding Woman) ⁃Acts 5:14-16 (Peter’s shadow falls on sick; they are healed) John 3:14-15 And just as Moses lifted up[e] the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, f]so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” See also ⁃Mark 6:56 ⁃Luke 8:43-48 ⁃Acts 19:11-12