Today is the ever controversial “Feast of the Assumption”. I guess it isn’t controversial to the faithful – but those of us who enjoy a good debate – in 1950, Pius 12, said:
By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
The pope just announced that it happened. Therefore it did. Sort of like that other outrage of the 1950’s – the addition of under God to the pledge of allegiance. Theology aside, today is the Feast of the Assumption.
About noon – I hear the Star Spangled Banner being sung. Was something going on at Arlington Cemetery? When the wind is right we can hear the bugle calls from Arlington. Maybe we could hear singing too? Nope it is coming from across the street. Our Bolivian population is celebrating the Feast of the Assumption.
They also had lots of manly testosterone on display.
One wonders what this has to do with the Virgin Mary.
PS – they had food too. And a raffle for a flat screen TV.
PSS – In Arlington, we like our immigrants – legal or not.