Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.
He paid with his life.
Posted on 07/06/2015 2:23:38 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The condemnation took place on July 6, 1415, in the presence of the solemn assembly of the council in the cathedral. After the performance of high mass and liturgy, Hus was led into the church. The bishop of Lodi delivered an oration on the duty of eradicating heresy; then some theses of Hus and Wycliffe and a report of his trial were read. He protested loudly several times, and when his appeal to Christ was rejected as a condemnable heresy, he exclaimed, "O God and Lord, now the council condemns even thine own act and thine own law as heresy, since thou thyself didst lay thy cause before thy Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed."
An Italian prelate pronounced the sentence of condemnation upon Hus and his writings. Again he protested loudly, saying that even at this hour he did not wish anything but to be convinced from Holy Scripture. He fell upon his knees and asked God with a low voice to forgive all his enemies. Then followed his degradation-- he was enrobed in priestly vestments and again asked to recant; again he refused. With curses his ornaments were taken from him, his priestly tonsure was destroyed, and the sentence was pronounced that the Church had deprived him of all rights and delivered him to the secular powers. Then a high paper hat was put upon his head, with the inscription Haeresiarcha. Thus Hus was led away to the stake under a strong guard of armed men. At the place of execution he knelt down, spread out his hands, and prayed aloud. Some of the people asked that a confessor should he given him, but a bigoted priest exclaimed, a heretic should neither be heard nor given a confessor.
The executioners undressed Hus and tied his hands behind his back with ropes, and his neck with a chain to a stake around which wood and straw had been piled up so that it covered him to the neck. Still at the last moment, the imperial marshal, Von Pappenheim, in the presence of the Count Palatine, asked him to save his life by a recantation, but Hus declined with the words "God is my witness that I have never taught that of which I have been accused by false witnesses. In the truth of the Gospel which I have written, taught, and preached I will die to-day with gladness." There upon the fire was kindled with John Wycliffe’s own manuscripts used as kindling for the fire. With uplifted voice Hus sang, "Christ, thou Son of the living God, have mercy upon me." Among his dying words he proclaimed, “In 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” His ashes were gathered and cast into the nearby Rhine River.
Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg. The prophecy of John Hus had come true!
Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.
He paid with his life.
I guess the Islamofacists are about 600 years behind us. Obama has a horse, and it is high.
I’ll give a listen to Dvorak’s Hussite Overture tonight in honor of Hus.
When churchmen use murder as a tool of persuasion, its a good sign that the Holy Spirit is no where present among them.
Can’t have all them christians getting uppity..
They could learn that they don’t even need an organized church..
Or Priests.. Cardinals or Popes.. Pastors or even Deacons..
or you know.. vestments, wafers, statues, pews or crosses..
sorry to say it.. BUT God would be enough..
“In 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” His ashes were gathered and cast into the nearby Rhine River.” - John Hus
“Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention”
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By then, the heresies of Rome had multiplied to include selling indulgences and church offices (simony).
Instead of repentance and change before the Father, they murdered Hus.
Instead of repentance and change before the Father, they tried to murder Luther.
Today, the beat goes on. No repentance and presiding over a membership that largely doesn’t attend. In South America, they are hemorrhaging members that are responding to God’s Holy Spirit as He calls them to Christ. Praise to God.
A very good reminder of a great man - Hus - and an evil church. May God protect us from hardening our necks to repentance before Him when we are led astray.
The new religion is an alphabet soup.
LGBT-EIEIO. Anything but C.
Not at all.
When Hus attacked the morality of Catholic priests and pressed for wider access to the scripture, he was not only accepted, but invited to the ecumenical synod of 1405.
He ran afoul of Church authorities on the doctrine of “impanation.” That is that the bread of the Mass remains bread, and the wine remains wine. Catholicism teaches that each the bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body, blood, soul and divinity.
This may seem like a fairly dry academic point to charge someone with heresy. But, on the basis of the heresy of impanation, Hus asserted that the Sacrifice of the Mass was invalid when communicants received only bread or only wine. Since only priests could handle the Holy Sacrifice, this meant that at least two priests were needed at any time to offer mass: one to distribute what was in the form of wine, the other to distribute what was in the form of bread. This in turn meant that according to Hus, only those in the great cities had access to salvation, while those in the parishes of solo priests were damned to eternal hellfires... including the priest.
This was shortly after the University of Prague expelled all foreign faculty.
Thus, Hus had a basis for claiming that only he and his university elite were saved, whereas all those in the countryside who clung to traditional Catholicism were damned to eternal Hell.
While various Hussites taught exactly that while in his company, and it’s the logical conclusion from his theology, Hus claimed he didn’t teach that per se. Thus, when sentenced by the Catholic Church, he claimed, “God is my witness that the things charged against me I never preached.” Maybe not, we’ll never know. But he hardly effectively opposed his own followers from drawing and promulgating those very errors.
More than Enough (written, ironically, by a wonderfully gifted Roman Catholic woman!)
If you knock off the year, I wonder how many students on college campus’ would sign a petition condemning it and to have him freed?
You may also still wonder why ANY heresy is deserving of death. I would concede that the death penalty is not the appropriate response. But also consider the stakes: Hus was a strict pacifist. He said that anyone practicing war went straight to Hell (and to explain how it was that so many Christians went straight to Hell despite their faith, recall his implication that no-one who receives only what had been bread was saved). The immediate prompt of this radical pacifism was a military skirmish between a pope and an antipope, but this was taught at a time when the Ottoman empire was rampaging across Christian lands; the Byzantine Empire was in utter collapse and the papacy was attempting to marshall troops for the defense of the Christendom.
[[When churchmen use murder as a tool of persuasion, its a good sign that the Holy Spirit is no where present among them.]]
Even when they CLAIM to be “Christians”
They are not Christians, they are doing the work of their father the devil under the guise of being religious
For those interested.
And why is that? As for impanation, so for the lack of priests this doctrine was formulated? When was this doctrine first espoused?
Let me just say I think there are members of the invisible church everywhere: Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant. Someday the angels will separate the wheat from the chaff.
Our call as followers of Christ is to proclaim the Good News.
No single man, organization, or group will ever attain the perfection required—that is why Jesus had to live and die in our place.
Official teachings and failings of the organizations aside, there are congregations and bodies of true believers all across this globe. Let’s remember that and keep our lamps ready—like the wise bridesmaids. :)
Reformation interest?
Whatever.
I am so sure that rises to the level of “morally” being murdered by the Catholic church.
Ironically, despite Hus’ pacifism, the Hussites eventually killed each other off. During the Battle of Lipany, more than 13,000 Hussites were killed... by other Hussites. The surviving faction submitted to the authority of the Bohemian king, and were allowed to practice their religion in peace.
In 1430, the Catholic Church agreed to permit reception of both bread and wine at mass, providing it was proclaimed that either was sufficient. Many abandoned Hussitism, but it was revived 50 years later when a subsequent pope determined that impanation was still thriving. Following the reformation, Hussites tended to take sides with either the Reformation or the Catholic Church and Hussitism eventually went extinct.
“No single man, organization, or group will ever attain the perfection required—that is why Jesus had to live and die in our place.”
No, but there are clearly healthy and unhealthy churches. It isn’t perfection that is required. It is a spirit of repentance and humility.
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