Today's the great Feast of the Assumption, which is typically ignored or hated by protestants because they think it idolatry. Here at the Compound we think it a singular devotion appropriate to the Mother of God, Mary Most Holy, the House of Gold. Here:
Deus, qui virginálem aulam beátæ Maríæ, in qua habitáres, elígere dignátus es: da, quǽsumus; ut, sua nos defensióne munitos, jucúndos fácias suæ intéresse festivitáti: Qui vivis et regnas, cum Deo Patre in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum."
Roughly translated by AI:
O God, Who chose the virginal dwelling of the blessed Mary to be Your abode, grant, we beseech You, that, defended by her protection, You may make us joyful to participate in her festival. Who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
In other news, it's VJ Day and a friend went to the Cenotaph in London to mark it. Well done him, but he was one of a small handful to honor our forgotten army. Bad show, quondam Great Britain.
Best,
LSP
The very same protestants would look with disdain upon Our Lady of Lourdes or Our Lady of Fatima or The Virgin of Guadalupe. Fie, I say, upon said protestants.
ReplyDeleteWeird, wife and I have been watching movies about saints and the "Catholicism" series by now-Bishop Robert Barron. And we're learning things that I never learned growing up Catholic.
Bad Vatican II for taking all the mysteries and magesties out of Holy Mother Church. Bad bad bad.
Well now. I was raised Protestant, but that particular branch didn't seem to engage in Catholic/Anglican/Episcopalian bashing to speak of. It literally wasn't a topic of discussion. Also had an uncle who converted to Catholic for marriage, and I considered him a Godly man, so there's that. Anyway, I've looked at all this snapping of mackerels business a bit and really can't find all that much to disagree with, certainly less so than that bunch who believe in Super-Fun-Rock-Band-Church, or rolling on floors as a holy rite, or taking up the serpent. That last bunch are just flat-out crazy, if-n you was to ax me. To belabor the obvious, that particular (peculiar?) practice comes back to bite them on occasion, but I never heard of a mackerel snapping back.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know, that's pretty simplistic, childish even. I meant it so. The question for me is, to get right down to the heart of the matter, does the Catholic assortment believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for the remission of our sins and our reconciliation back to Our Father, Holy God himself? Why, yes. Yes, they do. No honest Protestant can argue against that.