How to Venerate a Relic
Relics have always played an important part at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Why do Catholics venerate relics? Deacon Chris Kabat explains what a relic is and the ways that you can venerate relics of saints. While living on earth, the saints were “some of the faithful,” ordinary people like those who now ask their prayers. By God’s grace at work in them, by “the power of the Spirit of holiness,” they came to reflect that holiness in their own lives. Now, with Our Lord in the perfect union of Heaven, they are “models and intercessors,” helping those still on earth by their example and their prayers.