Tuesday 16 August 2011

Devotion to Our Lady Brings Joy

Mass religious fervour: The English football hooligan
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith writes an excellent piece today for The Catholic Herald on how this country has been deprived of the joyful devotion to Our Blessed Lady that once rose sweetly up to Heaven.

We have become a quite joyless race of people and Fr Alexander is right to point to the continent where not only is the climate more sunny and cheerful, but the people are more sunny and cheerful as well.

The effects of protestantism on us have been many and varied, but above all, we are a very stressed out, quite violent and pent up people who are as unable to accept ourselves as we are others. The only processions the English are interested in are to do with football and, as we know, the occasional riot. Catholicism may be waning severely in Spain, but liberalism has not yet diminished the Spaniards public devotion to Our Lady and the Saints, and regardless of a decline in the belief in the Real Presence, their processions in honour of the Sacred Heart and especially the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady are something to behold. Our Lady brings us joy.

5 comments:

Anne said...

How very true your words are.

Laura said...

I so agree with you.

Tim © said...

Spread the joy by displaying lovely blessed images of Our Lady as publicly as you can get away with - front doors, windowsills, car windscreens, work desks (if allowed), lapel pins, stickers on correspondence, etc.

georgem said...

Yay! Give us back the Assumption Holy Day.

Stuart said...

I agree.

Do you mind if i share my joy with you?

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