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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

Dennis Teall-Fleming shares a thoughtful meditation on Assumption Sunday and how we should be looking back to the Feast of Visitation to see Mary, the mother of Jesus, in all of her courage and glory.  An excerpt from Dennis's post, Mary's Courage:

Visitation follows Annunciation, also told only in Luke — the angel Gabriel’s announcing to Mary that she will bear a son, the Messiah, and Mary courageously accepting this mission. ... more

Two nights ago my wife and I were praying the evening prayer in the Glenstal prayerbook which incorporates the Magnificat into the litany.  Then this morning, as I read from the Scriptures, I had made it to the Beatitudes as I read through Luke and the perverbial light bulb went off.

The Magnificat Mary sings before Christ's birth and the Beatitudes Christ later preaches are awfully similar. ... more