Lon and the others adore him.

Then they repeat the "Let us adore," the Lord's Prayer, and read the Gospel (J ohn i.

Let them therefore not adore the cross.

Let them therefore not adore a cross of gold or silver or bronze or stone.

The Christ is an elect one, who, as the Cathars (q.v.) put it, having been consoled or become a Paraclete in the flesh, stands in prayer with his hands outspread in the form of a cross, while the congregation of hearers or audientes adore the Christ in him.