Mrs Brady, Catholic Old Lady is one of our guest bloggers\u2026<\/em><\/p>\nWhy look who it is! Sylvia! Come in dear! Come in! I am so glad to see you, and little Charlie too!<\/p>\n
I was just taking a few minutes to sit here on the porch. Well, I say a few minutes, but I\u2019ve been here with Aloysius on my lap for most of the afternoon. No sense working in the garden in the heat of the day, don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n
Now Charlie, I bet you\u2019d like a little treat wouldn\u2019t you? I\u2019ve just made some lemon sugar cookies. You both sit here on the porch while I go get some with a glass of lemonade. Don\u2019t worry about Aloysius dear, just shoo him off the rocking chair and sit down.<\/p>\n
Here we are. When you\u2019ve finished Charlie, why don\u2019t you go out into the yard and play on the bench swing? Don\u2019t rock too high on it now or you might tip over! I do love the Feast of the Assumption don\u2019t you Sylvia? You say you don\u2019t have much time for it? Oh my dear, how can you say such a thing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a fairy tale at all, and to tell you the truth,\u00a0I rather like the stupendous miracles in our Catholic faith. Who wants a religion without miracles? Father O\u2019Driscoll put it very well. I remember him saying, \u201cPeople who want a religion without the supernatural don\u2019t want a religion, they want a set of table manners.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for it not being in the Bible\u2013there is that passage in Revelation where the Blessed Mother is seen crowned in heaven. I know the Baptists say that doesn\u2019t count, but it doesn\u2019t really bother me dear. In fact, well, I suppose it\u2019s a bit naughty of me, but you know, I\u2019m rather pleased that it\u2019s not in the Bible. After all, it \u00a0reminds us that we\u2019re not Bible Christians.<\/p>\n
Oh don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m a former Southern Baptist myself and I memorized all those Bible verses from the King James Version, and I do still try to read a chapter of the Bible every night, but in a funny sort of way it reminds me that there are plenty of things in our wonderful Catholic faith that are not in the Bible.\u00a0But have you ever thought that there are quite a few things in the Evangelical religion that are not in the Bible too?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always found it rather odd that they blame us Catholics for following late invented, man made doctrines when their whole religion is based on a late invented man made doctrine. What I mean to say dear is that the Protestants based their whole religion on a belief called sola Scriptura<\/em>\u2013you know the Bible only? But I was reading up on it and the doctrine of\u00a0sola Scriptura\u00a0<\/em>isn\u2019t in the Bible! No indeed! I\u2019ve looked high and low, and I remember when I was exploring the whole matter that it occurred to me that something was a bit fishy.<\/p>\nSo I sat down and had a nice talk with Pastor Boden who was my Baptist pastor and I asked him where in the Bible we could find the teaching that our only source of truth was the Bible. He quoted that famous verse in Timothy about the Scriptures being profitable for doctrine and reproof and correction in righteousness, but do you know dear, when I pointed out to him that this was a wonderful verse, but that it didn\u2019t really say the Scriptures were the\u00a0only<\/em> authority he got a bit cross with me! That made me think he was on shaky ground.<\/p>\nWell, I looked and looked, but sure enough, there was nothing in the Bible to say that the Bible was the only authority. Then I discovered that the whole thing was invented by the Protestant Reformers! Fancy that! Nobody had heard of such a thing as\u00a0sola Scriptura\u00a0<\/em>before the sixteenth century! My goodness gracious me! What a surprise it was! So here they are blaming us Catholics for following late, un-Biblical, man made doctrines like the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, while their whole system rests on a late, man-made, un-biblical doctrine!<\/p>\nSo it doesn\u2019t bother me too much dear. The pope teaches us that it\u2019s true, and when you think it through it makes perfect sense doesn\u2019t it? Jesus and his blessed Mother were connected in every thing. She shared in his sorrow so she must have also shared in his glory. I do hope Father Gibbons uses lots of incense tonight. The clouds of incense remind me of her going up into heaven.<\/p>\n
Oh look, there\u2019s Charlie, and he\u2019s crying! Did you tip the swing over Charlie dear? Come on up and we\u2019ll find a Band-Aid for you. There, there. Be a big fellow and turn off those tears. We\u2019ll have you right as rain in no time.<\/p>\n
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