From ancient times, parricides and matricides received especially harsh punishment.
This is why even those who are prone to excuse other people’s faults are indignant at moral or physical violence perpetrated against parents.
In short, it is a sin, a grievous sin.įilial piety is inscribed in human nature by natural law and is a duty sanctioned by Divine Law in the Fourth Commandment. To act in the opposite manner is to show a hardening of heart and a spirit of revolt that subverts the nature of feelings and the order of things. For the most elementary justice commands us to honor and manifest gratitude and respect for those who gave us life, supported and guided us when we were weak and defenseless. One of the most shocking acts a person can do is to challenge, ridicule or slander his own father or mother. No Catholic can remain indifferent to such offenses. The Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a pagan! Evidently, in its perversity, blasphemy respects no limits. The novel ends with the Blessed Virgin idolatrously invoking the pagan goddess Artemis: “I speak to her in whispers, the great goddess Artemis… I tell her how much I long now to sleep in the dry earth, to go to dust peacefully with my eyes shut in a place near here where there are trees.” 13 In face of the affirmation that her Son “was the Son of God” and that “he was sent by his father to redeem the world,” Tóibín’s Mary “rage against them,” stating: “I will say that it was not worth it. When the disciples say that the Gospels will change the world, this counterfeit Mary disdainfully quips: “‘The world?’ I asked. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, True God and True Man, showed His Divine and paternal love for us by suffering the Passion and dying on the Cross, thus redeeming mankind of Original Sin and re-opening the Gate of Heaven to us.Īt the hour of Crucifixion - Tóibín continues - she fled: “It was my own safety I thought of, it was to protect myself.” 9 She did not cradle her Son in her arms when He was lowered from the Cross, nor did she ascertain how He was buried. While everyone else rejoiced at the miracle, “I did not cheer.” 8 Mary is portrayed as a skeptic who did not follow her own Son: “I am not one of his followers.” 5 And, she deemed His disciples, “a group of misfits.” Not one of them “was normal.” 6įor Tóibín, the Mother of God was secretly a pagan worshiper of the hunting goddess Artemis (the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana): “I bought from one of the silversmiths a small statue of the goddess who lifted my spirits.” 7Īt the wedding of Cana, the Irish writer would have us believe that she did not ask her Son to perform a miracle, and that she did not believe in the marvelous transformation of water into wine. Among other things, they urged her to affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, but she refused, since “She does not agree that her son is the Son of God.” 4 With an interior act of reparation, we present below some examples of these aberrations so that our readers can gauge how far impiety can go.Ĭontrary to what Christian tradition affirms, Tóibín suggests that Mary was not taken care of in a filial manner by Saint John the Evangelist in Ephesus, but instead was “kept” there by two extortionists who pressured her to provide false testimony they could use to compose the Gospels.
The play is a monologue in which the actress recites a so-called “testament of Mary,” and, while using “soft” language, voices the wildest aberrations against the Catholic Faith. His truth-twisting goal seems to be well summarized on the book’s flap: “Tobin’s tour de force of imagination…our image of Mary will be forever transformed.” 3
THE TESTAMENT OF MARY PLAY FREE
2Īlthough a former Catholic seminarian, the Irish writer gives free rein to his imagination when expressing his contempt for the Gospels, Christian tradition, and Mary Most Holy. It is noteworthy that besides being written by an avowed homosexual, at the Walter Kerr Theatre The Testament of Mary is being performed and directed by open lesbians, namely, Irish actress Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner. A narrow-minded, vulgar, egoistic and even idolatrous woman - this is how Irish author Colm Tóibín presents the Blessed Virgin Mary in his novel (now making its debut on the stage) titled The Testament of Mary.ġ His blasphemous play is being presented at the Walter Kerr Theatre, a Broadway theater, starting Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 8:00pm.The Testament of Mary is the latest in a wave of blasphemies that has been building for years.
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