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What is a Protestant to do at the table of the feast, when we so seldom practice them?  And more important on this day, The Feast of Assumption, how do we feast to something we don't verify or know or assume from Scriptural evidence and textual criticism?

The Protestant (more specifically non-high church Protestant) comes to the feast table often unaware, and often cautious of anything idolatrous.  We are supposed to only celebrate divinity, right?

The importance of a feast, to persuade the Protestant, must be rightly seen not in the superiority of the saint (for we are all them), but in the celebration of the Kingdom coming to earth through the lives of these saints.

It's hard for me to think about the Assumption without the assumptions of my Protestant upbringing.  It's hard for me as a person who tries to find the path between divisions and disagreements to find a middle ground on something like the Assumption of Mary.

But we can still celebrate the greatness and beauty of Mary's life.  Maybe she was given such grace from God that she was assumed like Elijah.  I don't know.

I do know that Mary spoke with the voice of God, "all generations will call me blessed."  And on this day, the feast of Mary's Assumption, all Christians should remember the prophecy of Mary the Mother of Jesus, who is a blessed saint and deserves a day of celebrating all that God did through her to save the cosmos.