SUMMARY

1. The Second Commandment forbids us to worship images or pictures or, indeed, anything except God alone; that is to say, we must not give to anything or anyone else that supreme honour which is due to God and God alone.

2. So when we ask Our Lady and the Saints to pray for us, we do not worship them, but God wishes us to love and honour them because he loves and honours them.

3. We should also treat a crucifix or other figure of Our Lord with great reverence, for in that way we show our reverence to him whom it represents.  On the same principle we should treat with reverence statues and pictures of Our Lady and the Saints.