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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. ... more