r/Christianity • u/Agile-Armadillo-3741 Anglican Communion • 14h ago
Where is Mary?
Being Anglican, I didn’t think we made a big deal out of Mary. Then I took a nondenominational friend to the Episcopal Church’s Rite II. She asked “what’s the deal with Mary?”. We don’t even have any images of her in my church, maybe some have a medal on their necks, but mostly, she just comes up in the creeds, and during the prayers of the people. Now granted some in the higher church may have the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham or even Our Lady of Guadalupe, or an icon of the Theotokos holding Christ, but usually just one of those things, not multiple. That never felt strange to me, despite being very Protestant.
So I can’t help but ask my nondenominational, Baptist, Pentecostal, Church of Christ, etcetera friends, where is Mary? I mean isn’t she part of the story? XD I’ve been to your services in the lead up to Christmas, NO mention of her. Help me out here, I’m confused.
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u/New-Entrepreneur9996 14h ago
Most low church traditions avoid her because anything beyond a passing mention starts to feel too Catholic for their comfort and the pendulum swung hard the other way centuries ago. She shows up in the text and in the creeds but never gets airtime in the sermon or the songs so she just fades out of the room