[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[cantor03 at aol.com]

I am pretty much in the same boat, with heavy stress on the AnglocatholicTradition.
As to Mary, it's no wonder that I have carved wooden images of her in in severalsizes in multiple rooms in my home.  This is because I've had a number of (to me)mystical experiences involving Mary which are hard to forget.
OTOH, sometimes the catholic emphasis on the saints, particularly Mary,can lead to humorous situations such as the one I found myself in abouttwenty years ago.  I was cantoring a Mass from the Novena of Saint Ann in thebig Basilica of Saint Ann in Scranton.  The Litany of Saint Ann test contained
something like, "We pray to you good Saint Ann to ask your daughter (Mary)to ask her son (Jesus) to ask his Father (God the Father) to hear our prayer."
I was so amused by this circumambulatory text that I began quietly giggling.


David S.




In a message dated 8/23/2019 5:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, simon at kershaw.org.uk writes:

So I am catholic and I am reformed. I am orthodox and I am Protestant. I am liberal and I am conservative. 
Most people would regard me as pretty middle to high Anglican, but I’m probably more theologically liberal than most realize (assuming they think about it at all, of course!). My scepticism of Marianism and my scepticism of the fantasy land of NT apocrypha flow directly from that liberalism.