THE
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October 2012
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F a t h e r P e t e r ’s P a ge
Faith of our Fathers
Last month,
I wrote about the great Marian feast of August 15. In
response I received an irate email claiming that “I was making assumptions
about the Assumption”. The writer went on to claim that since its (public)
celebration within the Christian community was “a later development” it could not have been part of the
original deposit of faith; in contrast to the Church of which she was a member which had remained true to
it. I am afraid that I immediately called to mind something about ‘pots & kettles’!
a natural development
Although the public celebration
of Mary’s Assumption took time to
be recorded - although it is earlier, it
must be stated, than the feast of the
Holy Trinity about which I assume
she has no qualms - it was clearly
perceived as a natural development
of the true understanding of the
effects of the Redemption of Christ.
What scripture clearly attributes
happened to Enoch, Elijah, Moses,
& the Saints who arose at His
Resurrection: such an honour
should not be withheld from His
Mother.
affirmed by Luther, Zwingli,
and … Bullinger
life of the Church is dependent.
Such a change, condemned by
the bulk of Christendom, is being
enacted by a decision made by a
tiny unrepresentative body. It will
produce in its wake, not concord
an