Grandfather was a Lutheran. I think he would be OK with this.What a nice comment, SwedeBoy2. I'm about 80% Swede (my grandparents came over from Sweden with the last name of Anderson -- and some of my relatives still live in Motley, Minnesota -- but when "ma and pa" saw so many Andersons in the phone book in America, they changed their last name). Anyway, I was an MS-Synod Lutheran for 33 years before converting to Catholicism. Happy to hear your grandfather would be OK with this. I think mine would be too. :)
Mine would. My dad’s dad, and his dad’s dad were Presbyterian ministers. My dad’s mom was a second generation Swedish American in Spicer, MN, so I think I understand. Both my parents converted in the fifties. Yet when my grandfather learned of my dad’s incipient conversion, he took it in stride, knowing my father heard a call as strong as the one he felt he’d heard. I think that my grandfather would agree with His Holiness about the edge of the precipice we’re on, and at least some of the reasons. The emptiness within the secular world and it’s constant search for newer, bigger, bolder, faster will never be filled at the well of depravity.
We are blessed by having Pope Benedict. Those who aren’t Catholic, too. The West, in it’s truest sense, needs men like him, who speak only the truth, and wish to show the world way back to sanity. As Father Z says, he is, truly, the Pope of Christian Unity.
“Happy to hear your grandfather would be OK with this.”
The Pope quoted De Tocqueville’s observation about the sharing of a common value system bringing the blessings of Freedom and Prosperity to America.
America’s Freedom and Prosperity is a Blessing and as long as there are so many issues that divide us, those blessings will continue to whither and may ultimately die.
I was making an observation about the separate burial facilities of the two groups ( Lutherans and Catholics )
If the two groups were more integrated they might have had a town Cemetery. I found the arrangement strange and evidence of Bigotry on both sides.
Grandfather left that place and some of his family members to find better work opportunities elsewhere.