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
6 comments:
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.
Weird, 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.
Yeah, 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.
Beans, it seems to me that +Barron isn't a bad guy. Am I wrong?
With you, Wild.
Super-Fun-Rock-Band-Church?
What an abhorrence.
With a latte in my hand and a praise band in my mind I will...
And it strikes me as odd that the Church which Jesus founded had it completely wrong up until the 16th century. Huh, what a fortuitous time. But I won't bang on.
Bishop Barron is one of those history professors and/or theologians that is well-spoken and a treat to listen to. The man makes you feel what he says.
Yes, he isn't a bad guy. His recount of St. Edith Stein's conversion and martyrdom is full of enough repressed emotion that it made me cry.
He's the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization 'Word on Fire.'
I hope he makes Cardinal one day. Holy Mother Church needs more of him and less of the lavender mafia.
Sadly it's not what we Catholics believe, it's how we believe that seems to stick in the craw of Protestants.
And, quite frankly, there is some worth in what they say is negatory about Catholicism. The lack of religious education and self-examination of the Bible being the big one. Vatican II really dumbed down religious education to children. And we can't, as a whole, quote Bible verses like many Protestants can. Part of this, of course, is the Church's adherence to the concept of 'Priest as Teacher and Leader (and lettered) to the unlettered illiterate congregates.' Which, duh, was very true for a long time and still is, especially in many places even in these United states (thanks, Carter, you jackbutt, for inflicting the Department of (un)Education upon us.)
He'ah in the South, the old joke of the three 'K's in KKK was, well, one was 'Katholic.'
Now if I had some decent religious education, which expounded upon the Mysteries and Majesties of the Holy Church, like my dad was when he grew up, things might have been better for me all along. And wouldn't have left me finally learning Truths at the tender age of 62.
Vatican II dumbed down everything, especially youth religious education, for, what seems to me, an attempt to not bore youngsters. But dumbing down the Mysteries and Majesties makes for really poor Catholics.
Fortunately there has been a wave, through all denominations, of a return to God. In the Catholic Church, the return of the Latin service, which was banned at one time and then greatly suppressed for a while (seriously, secret Latin masses being held in some dioceses with the diocese officials seeking to suppress said Latin masses. We were at war with ourselves.)
Better religious education, like that provided by Opus Dei (screw you, Dan Brown, for maligning that movement) and others, even the Knights of Columbus, has slowly been bringing Christianity back into the American Catholic church.
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