Question:
The beads or other artifacts woven into some dream catchers are put there to encourage particular types of dreams. Particular beads may be ‘blessed’ to bring dreams of love, sea shells may be tasked with bring dreams of self-realization or beauty. These items are used to attract dreams of a particular type. She was a Dream Catcher. In that moment, she was my hero. Mia did not have a straight line to success. Her journey included several highs and lows along the way. In 1 st grade, she squirreled around with her peers, tasting knowledge and sampling lessons. When something was a challenge, she would pull away.
Answer:
Displaying a dreamcatcher in a home is not a problem, assuming it is used solely for decorative purposes. If your church wishes to make clear that it is not encouraging use of dreamcatchers for any other purposes, the person who wishes to donate a dreamcatcher to your silent auction could be asked to tag it with a label stating, “Offered for decorative purposes only.”
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CATHOLICS OWNING A
DREAM CATCHER.
Q. 1. What is the Church teaching regarding Catholics owning a dream catcher?
A. 1. Dream catchers are objects that are based on superstition. On the matter of superstition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
'The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion; irreligion is the vice contrary by defect to the virtue of religion.' [C.C.C. # 2110]
'Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.' [C.C.C. # 2111]
The display of a 'dream catcher' in your home is no different than the display of a Buddha as a decoration. While you may not believe in the superstition of a 'dream catcher,' desiring to own one simply as a decoration, such ownership may offend your Catholic parents or influence relatives and/or friends in obtaining one because of the belief related to them.
As a Catholic who should be faithful to his religion, you should not promote, buy, possess, sell or trade dreamcatchers.
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