{"id":11030,"date":"2011-08-14T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2011-08-14T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T21:52:39","slug":"dumping-my-assumptions-about-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/14\/dumping-my-assumptions-about-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumping My Assumptions about Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Roman Catholics. In the 1979 <em>Book of Common Prayer<\/em> (Episcopal) August 15th is Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In the 2006 <em>Evangelical Lutheran Worship<\/em> it is Mary, Mother of Our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Patheos<\/em>, Pat Gohn writes on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Dumping-My-Assumptions-about-Mary-Pat-Gohn-08-11-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\"> dumping her assumptions about Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed feast day, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I had absorbed a subtle lie: if I imitated Mary, I would become weak, passionless, and boring\u2014the antithesis of the modern woman. Mary was an old-school relic that had nothing to do with me. 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