For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.
One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint. "
Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
