📜✨ NEW SONG: HONOR IS NOT WORSHIP, KAREN” — Honor isn’t a PIE… it’s a FLAME.

📜✨ NEW SONG: HONOR IS NOT WORSHIP, KAREN” — Honor isn’t a PIE… it’s a FLAME.

Some folks treat honor like a zero-sum pie:
If you give *any* honor to Mary or the saints, you must be taking a slice away from Jesus.

But Catholics don’t think of glory like pie.
We think of it more like a flame.

Lighting another candle doesn’t “steal” fire from the first—it fills the room with more light.
And that’s the point: when a saint shines, it’s not competition with Christ…
it’s evidence that Christ is real, powerful, and still sanctifying people.

That’s why the Church uses three different words:

• **Latria** = adoration / worship — **God alone** (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
• **Dulia** = honor / veneration — the honor given to God’s friends, His saints
• **Hyperdulia** = the *highest* honor beneath worship — given to Mary because she is the Mother of the Son

And here’s the easiest analogy:
You can honor **Michelangelo** by praising *Michelangelo*…
and you can honor him by standing in awe before the **David** or the **Pietà**.

Admiring the artwork doesn’t detract from the artist.
It magnifies him.

Same thing with Mary and the saints:
honor given to the “work of grace” magnifies the “Artist.”

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**PIE** 🍰 or **FLAME** 🔥
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