Andrew C. Thompson has posted an interesting article on his experiences at Duke Youth Academy. In particular, he writes about the Praying the Rosary Workshop he attended. Because of the information Andrew's blog, I gather that he is a practicing Methodist. Andrew writes:
I admit that I found praying the rosary to be very comforting and peaceful. It even allowed me a disciplined way to pray for family members, friends, and church members who I knew needed God's care. It also strikes me that the real ecumenical work that needs to be done within Christ's broken body might best be done when Christians of different communions come together and join in common worship of our Lord and Savior using the particularities of our different traditions.
One of the things that I love about the rosary is that it is something in which all Christians can participate. It can be an Ecumenical practice, as the Catholic Church does not limit the Rosary only to Catholics.
Andrew goes on to quote John Wesley on the Virgin Mary from his irenic tract, A Letter to a Roman Catholic:
'I believe [Jesus] is the proper, natural Son of God, God of God, very God of very God; and that he is the Lord of all, having absolute, supreme, universal dominion over all things ... I believe that he was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.'
A Methodist doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary?
Who would've thunk it?
Maybe the Fathers of the Reformation were more open-minded. Interesting!...
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