15th August: Feast of Our Lady's Assumption into Heaven
Religion in public is scoffed at
They are not few those who scoff at Catholics because they take the statue of Our Lady in a procession along the streets. And that is just one of the various other reasons why a number of parishes no longer bother to make a public demonstration of one’s faith. It is all too easy to kneel in church and pray, it is not so easy if you do it in the middle of a street and with a statue on scaffolding to remind you of the fact. Religion in public has become like emptying one’s bladder, something to be ashamed of, and to be done in private.
We carry the statue of Our Lady into the streets with the hope that Our Lady enters into the homes that have become ballrooms of death and abuse.
Concept of modern day freedom
However, the conception of “shame” has changed over the years. There is no shame in stripping naked and showing off the bits and pieces mother nature gave you, at a price. Neither is there shame in an all night orgy, with or without payment and taking the-day-after pill and kill off any poor blighter that might have been conceived in the process. All this comes under what is called modern day freedom. But there is no freedom in selling off one’s body as merchandise nor is there any freedom in killing any living being that has been conceived even seconds before. These are not negotiable items, for we were given only the custody of our bodies and all life belongs only and exclusively to God- we have no license to sell our bodies as merchandise or to kill.
We carry the statue of Our Lady into the streets to remind us we have no license to sell our bodies as merchandize or have a license to kill unborn life.
Youth who throw their lives away
I can well understand that those who go to the dance halls of death, get their eardrums blasted by sound, their eyes rolling with streaks and their brains devoured by all kinds of putrid fumes would not be seen dead carrying the statue of Our Lady through the streets of their town. Sooner or later they will be seen dead, however, as some of them do every week-end- either in a ditch, smashed against a wall or in a hospital bed more on the other side of eternity than this due to some “crack” or other they have injected in their veins. And the parents... well the parents send them to hell, don’t they? Or at any rate, they, the parents, do nothing to stop them getting there.
For those who say it is not written in the bible we should honour Mary- Maybe they should think twice- see caption in below photo
Not all Christians see it the same way
But they are not the only ones who scoff- other Christians do it too- Christians who have no place for the Mother of Jesus in their faith. She is not worthy of a second thought, neither are the Saints for that matter. I really can’t expect Christians, who have believed something all their lives to hear what I’m saying. But if you don’t like what I’m writing just click out. However if you do stay, and hear me out I just want to say this: Jesus, would never have come to this earth if it wasn’t for Mary, and no one would ever have known today He ever existed if it weren’t for Martyrs and Saints eaten up by lions in the Roman Arena and other delicacies. So please, please, don’t come telling me once more that it’s not written in the bible to take Mary out in the streets on a platform in a procession- for that matter it is not written anywhere in the bible to take anyone out in the street, including Christ Himself, but we do... Corpus Christie, the Via Crucis...
- When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
