CDLII – Coronation

I am watching a recording of the Coronation of Charles III (I am watching it late, no spoilers).

I am going to write a more thorough analysis but I have to get my uncharitable takes here.

The Church of England is a protestant Church. Just because they stole all their stuff from the Catholic Church and continue to simulate sacraments using the hand movements and words that the Catholic Church may have once used, does not mean it bestows any actual sacramental power.

However–the things they are saying are, one way or another, worshipful. That’s not nothing. Charles III taking the throne in the name of Christ is a good thing, even if the way he’s doing it is nasty. I am glad he had a “Church Coronation” and not a “Civil Coronation” like he did with his concubine the Queen Consort, Camilla.

Listening to media talking heads give their golf-voice analysis of the coronation as if it was a living museum exhibit or a really old play that needs to be explained is also rich. To them–they are interpreting this silly song and dance for modern audiences. I couldn’t find if C-Span had a recording, but I imagine of they just shut the heck up and let people feel the ceremony they would figure out what is happening.

Ugh, they took out a copy of the 6th century copy of the Gospels written by St. Augustine of Cantebury. St. Augustine is Catholic, that relic should be preserved by Catholics. Pearls before swine.

Ugh, they had representatives from “british muslims” and “british jews” and surely others to come bring forth regalia of some sort.

Let me take this and put a positive spin on it.

If the prodigal church of England is capable of putting on all this pomp and circumstance to crown a King of the pig-wallow, in the name of a long forgotten father half remembered and persistently rejected–

How great, and how glorious, must the Coronation of Mary be–outside of time and space, in Heaven, crowned not with gold but with GLORY, queen not of England but of HEAVEN AND EARTH, Our Queen, our Blessed Mother, who bore the incarnate Son of God, the means of our Salvation and the end of our devotion.

Perhaps, if we are lucky–we will get to sit in the back benches of this greatest Coronation outside of time and space. Perhaps, if we are lucky–we will get to see the crown of Glory resting on that spotless head, she who is humanities solitary boast, and through whose intercession we rely for unfailing help.

God is truly good.

Long live the King.

AMDG

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4 thoughts on “CDLII – Coronation”

  2. Choose to think the better of your own people, first! But yeah—British culture seems to be 20 years ahead of ours in terms of social degradation.

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  3. From an outsider’s perspective, I think England, New and Old, are also, like the South, Christ-haunted, but under different aspects.

    The South, which is in many ways New Scotland, is particularly haunted by the aspect of Christ the Savior. There is the Calvinist doctrines which formed the backbone of many Southern sects, and the Lost Cause itself. Thus, the macro unfruitful mournfulness, which is now only covered up by the “New South” aping of Yankee forms. And there are the Evangelical and charismatic movements, and “Christian Nationalism,” which are in many ways a reaction to the Southern Gothic.

    St. Peter cuts off the ear of the servant of the high priest, whom Christ heals, and sheathes his sword.

    Old England, I think, is haunted by Christ the King. England still has the shadow of its Christian monarch but stripped of all essentials. It first rejects the Vicar of Christ the King, and then sets up their own caricature of King and High Priest. The result is the social degradation of not being able to call things by their own names.

    St. Peter is the Keeper of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.

    New England seems especially haunted by Christ the Judge. The Puritan spirit gives way to the utopian experiments and Progressivism with Yankee characteristics. They awaited the Millennium, when all things are set right, and went away saddened.

    St. Peter denies Christ three times before the cock crowed, and so they must acknowledge that they were followers of His, in hope through the Catholic Church and in disappointment through error.

    And of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mother of the Savior, Queen of Heaven and intercessor, in her particular way shows the path to Christ.

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