Mrs Brady on the Assumption of the BVM

Last updated on: December 26, 2014 at 9:01 pm by Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Mrs Brady on the Assumption of the BVM 2014-12-26T21:01:19-05:00 Fr. Dwight Longenecker

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Why look who it is! Sylvia! Come in dear! Come in! I am so glad to see you, and little Charlie too!

I was just taking a few minutes to sit here on the porch. Well, I say a few minutes, but I’ve 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’t you agree?

Now Charlie, I bet you’d like a little treat wouldn’t you? I’ve just made some lemon sugar cookies. You both sit here on the porch while I go get some with a glass of lemonade. Don’t worry about Aloysius dear, just shoo him off the rocking chair and sit down.

Here we are. When you’ve finished Charlie, why don’t you go out into the yard and play on the bench swing? Don’t rock too high on it now or you might tip over! I do love the Feast of the Assumption don’t you Sylvia? You say you don’t have much time for it? Oh my dear, how can you say such a thing. I don’t think it’s a fairy tale at all, and to tell you the truth, I rather like the stupendous miracles in our Catholic faith. Who wants a religion without miracles? Father O’Driscoll put it very well. I remember him saying, “People who want a religion without the supernatural don’t want a religion, they want a set of table manners.”

As for it not being in the Bible–there is that passage in Revelation where the Blessed Mother is seen crowned in heaven. I know the Baptists say that doesn’t count, but it doesn’t really bother me dear. In fact, well, I suppose it’s a bit naughty of me, but you know, I’m rather pleased that it’s not in the Bible. After all, it reminds us that we’re not Bible Christians.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m 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. But have you ever thought that there are quite a few things in the Evangelical religion that are not in the Bible too?

I’ve 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–you know the Bible only? But I was reading up on it and the doctrine of sola Scriptura isn’t in the Bible! No indeed! I’ve 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.

So 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’t really say the Scriptures were the only authority he got a bit cross with me! That made me think he was on shaky ground.

Well, 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 sola Scriptura 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!

So it doesn’t bother me too much dear. The pope teaches us that it’s true, and when you think it through it makes perfect sense doesn’t 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.

Oh look, there’s Charlie, and he’s crying! Did you tip the swing over Charlie dear? Come on up and we’ll find a Band-Aid for you. There, there. Be a big fellow and turn off those tears. We’ll have you right as rain in no time.

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