tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post7510395532390893431..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: Saint Edward the ConfessorBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-24669192500137238702017-10-21T04:58:15.348-07:002017-10-21T04:58:15.348-07:00Mr. Fitzgerald, thank you for the reminder that St...Mr. Fitzgerald, thank you for the reminder that St. Edward the Confessor is at the heart of English spirituality and its concomitant Christian polity. He embodies the sacredness of Christian kingship. All English monarchs since have been crowned near his tomb. Implicitly he legitimizes their authority, which ultimately is not derived from the consent of the people but from the grace of God. <br /><br />Henry VIII in asserting the Royal Supremacy did not disturb his bones. St. Edward lends credence to an understanding that the <i>imperium</i>, the authority to command, and the <i>sacerdotum</i>, the authority to bless, are to work in tandem, not as rivals. <br /><br />Anglicans would do well to venerate him. St. Edward is the content behind their<i> raison d'ĂȘtre</i>. <br /><br />Providentially the iconoclastic and regicide Puritans under Oliver Cromwell never got around to erasing his shrine. The Glorious Revolution, however, did much to bury his memory by making parliament (and its diffused politics) supreme.<br /><br />As you say,<br /><br /><b> This is the reorientation our fractured society cries out for - a restoration and restatement of what is eternal and real - the natural pattern, order and harmony of God's creation.<br /><br />St. Edward the Confessor, pray for us.</b><br /><br />Amen. Pray for us, indeed.Thomas Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162413436187942775noreply@blogger.com