The Source of All Blessings

Most people know the apocryphal story of the person who goes into the jewellery store and asks for a Cross, to be questioned by the assistant, “one with the little man on it, or without?” An urban myth, perhaps, but remembering Tolkien’s point about myth and truth, it is highly likely that in the deeply secularised West, there are many who know nothing of the Cross, why this Friday is ‘Good,’ or who indeed the “little man” is, on that strange piece of body decoration. If you doubt that that level of cultural and religious ignorance exists—even amongst those expensively programmed into ignorance by our institutes of higher learning, a programming which is intentional—I will never forget, many years ago, attending a screening of the movie The Passion of the Christ and, while chatting with a friend before the film began, being tapped on the shoulder by a young woman and being reprimanded for “giving the story away.” Read Full Article »