By Michael Pakaluk, Crisis Magazine - Adoration, like saluting, is a movement linked to a purpose. Curiously, each of the two competing etymologies of the Latin word adoratio is mapped to each aspect. One etymology, the more obvious, says that the word comes from ad –orare, “to pray to.” Obviously, if you pray to someone, supposing He Himself has the power to grant your request, whatever it is, you are therefore taking Him to be divine, and your “praying to” Him counts, as they say, as latria, that is, the worship owed to God alone.