| ### QUESTION 84 ### OF ADORATION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### In due sequence we must consider the external acts of latria, and in the first place, adoration whereby one uses one's body to reverence God; secondly, those acts whereby some external thing is offered to God; thirdly, those acts whereby something belonging to God is assumed. #### Under the first head there are three points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether adoration is an act of latria? #### (2) Whether adoration denotes an internal or an external act? #### (3) Whether adoration requires a definite place? ####  |