Posted on 11/01/2012 8:58:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
....One principal of the Reformation that would be appropriate to remember today is the one that goes by the tune of "Reformata et Semper Reformanda" -- "Reformed and Always Reforming."
Luther started it on Halloween? Really? And that doesn’t indicate to you who his real father is? the devil took over martin’s soul and led him
The Methodist Church celebrates both Reformation Sunday (the last one in October) and All Saints Sunday, which comes a week later. At the All Saints service, the names of parishioners who have departed over the previous year are read, and we sing, “For All the Saints.” We could also sing, “When the Saints Go Marching In,” but that isn’t in our hymnal.
I like Holy, Holy, Holy, but it is a poor substitute for For All The Saints.
I have my doubts that Halloween was observed in 1517 as it is today. When I was in Germany in the 1960's and early 1970's, the only ones celebrating Halloween were American "overseas brats." They would hold a Halloween party at Burg Frankenstein, an abandoned medieval castle on a hilltop south of Darmstadt that on October 31 was transformed into "Frankenstein's Castle."
He bought an indulgence.
Did you know that you can still buy indulgences today? It's only the currency that has changed. Today you trade your labor for it, instead of coin.
no one is defending selling of indulgences, that was just the hook luther hung his sinful hat on when he formed his own “church”
never heard of it. You can certainly do penance for your sins
Another great gospel song by John Dykes, composer of the music for "Holy, Holy, Holy," that would be appropriate for All Saints Day is "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand" (1875).
Ten thousand times ten thousand in sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints throng up the steeps of light;
Tis finished, all is finished, their fight with death and sin;
Fling open wide the golden gates, and let the victors in.
Really? Allow me to indulge you:
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Catholics given chance at shorter stay in Purgatory
Papal Indulgences, Two Ways: Easy and Hard
Trips to Lourdes to Cut Time Spent in Purgatory
Philadelphia archdiocese offers indulgences
8 TIPS TO HELP YOU WALTZ THROUGH PURGATORY!
That makes it even less likely that Luther, a devout Christian, was into Halloween.
He was not a devout Christian.
Yes, he was. How about yourself?
I did not know that, I'm not in the market for one anyway.
Well, then. That pretty much settles it.
No need for anything like an actual discussion of facts.
Wow, Bill Clinton Tetzl. Nice use of the verb tense. The fact is, and remains that the Catholic Church of the time did in fact not only defend the practice but promoted it. Of course when the papacy at the time was being bought and sold and those great Italian humanitarians the Borgias and de Medici were in the business of God, what are a few indulgences? Indulgences fit well with bribery and simony.
Luther had a cowl at the time, by all accounts earned. I doubt the same could be said of all the 'hats' his ecclesiastical opponents wore.
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