Editing Piety (section)

==Piety and devotion ==
{{Main|Popular piety}}
Expressions of piety vary according to country and local tradition. "Feast days", with their preparations for various religious celebrations and activities, have forged traditions peculiar to communities. Many pious exercises are part of the cultic patrimony of particular Churches or religious families.<ref name=Directory>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html|author=Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments|title=Directory on popular piety and the Liturgy|location=Vatican City|date=December 2001}}</ref>{{rp|at=§§7, 20}} Devotions help incorporate faith into daily life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catholicphilly.com/2017/10/catholic-spirituality/devotions-and-popular-piety-bring-faith-into-everyday-life/|title=Devotions and popular piety bring faith into everyday life|website=CatholicPhilly|publisher=Catholic News Service|date=October 13, 2017}}</ref>

{{quote|Popular piety "...manifests a thirst for God which only the simple and poor can know. It makes people capable of generosity and sacrifice even to the point of heroism, when it is a question of manifesting belief. It involves an acute awareness of profound attributes of God: fatherhood, providence, loving and constant presence. It engenders interior attitudes rarely observed to the same degree elsewhere: patience, the sense of the cross in daily life, detachment, openness to others, devotion. By reason of these aspects, we readily call it "popular piety," that is, religion of the people, rather than religiosity.|[[Pope Paul VI]]<ref>{{citation|author=[[Pope Paul VI]]|title=Evangelii nuntiandi|date=December 8, 1975|at=§48|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana}}</ref>}}

{{quote|They are the manifestation of a theological life nourished by the working of the Holy Spirit who has been poured into our hearts (cf. {{Bibleverse|Romans|5:5}}).|[[Pope Francis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html#The_evangelizing_power_of_popular_piety|author=[[Pope Francis]]|date=November 24, 2013|title=Evangelii gaudium|at=§125|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana}}</ref>}}

While acknowledging that Anglican piety took the forms of more frequent communion and liturgical observances and customs, [[Ronald Williams (bishop)|Bishop Ronald Williams]] spoke for increased reading of the Bible.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://churchsociety.org/docs/churchman/074/Cman_074_2_Williams.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804122109/https://churchsociety.org/docs/churchman/074/Cman_074_2_Williams.pdf|archive-date=2019-08-04|last=Williams|first=Ronald|title=The Bible and Anglican Piety|journal=The Churchman|year=1960|page=91}}</ref>{{Importance inline|reason=|date=September 2023}}

In the Methodist Church, works of piety are a means of grace. They can be personal, such as reading, prayer, and meditation; or communal, such as sharing in the sacraments or Bible study.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.umc.org/en/content/the-wesleyan-means-of-grace|title=The Wesleyan Means of Grace|website=United Methodist Church}}</ref> For Presbyterians, piety refers to a whole realm of practices—such as worship, prayer, singing, and service—that help shape and guide the way one's reverence and love for God are expressed; and "the duty of the Christian to live a life of piety in accordance with God’s moral law".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/presbyterian-theology/|last=Pipa|first=Joseph|title=Presbyterian Theology|website=The Gospel Coalition}}</ref>

The veneration of sacred images belongs to the nature of Catholic piety, with the understanding that "the honour rendered to the image is directed to the person represented".{{r|Directory|at=§18}}