Posted on 10/27/2021 7:02:05 AM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis met with a group of some five hundred Lutherans from Germany on Monday morning as part of an ecumenical pilgrimage called “better together.” The statue of Luther erected for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation appeared once again on the stage of the Vatican’s Paul VI hall.
The 500 pilgrims, made up of young Catholics and Lutherans from central Germany, greeted the Pope with a song. They had traveled from Germany to Rome as part of a joined initiative of the office for youth ministry of the Diocese of Magdeburg and the evangelical church of central Germany.
In his address to the pilgrims, the Pope first alluded to the group’s previous visit in October of 2016, to celebrate the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
“Some of you had already taken part in the ecumenical pilgrimage ‘with Luther to the Pope’ which took place five years ago,” he said.
Francis then referred to the song sung by the pilgrims to greet him at the beginning of the audience, and explained that singing together is a way to unite.
“At the beginning of this audience, you greeted me with a song. Singing unites,” he said. “In the choir, no one is alone. It is important to listen to others,” he continued, adding that he hoped for the same readiness to hear one another in the church, which he claimed will be brought about by the synodal path.
He invited the pilgrims to “listen to the melody of God” and to “open their hearts” as well as their ears.
“Always turn your ears to the melody of God in your lives,” he said, “this way, from many voices, a single song will be heard. That’s also how we bring about ecumenism, in Germany, and in many other parts of the world.”
Back in 2016, the sight came as a shock to many Catholics because Luther was excommunicated and his theses rejected by Pope Leo X in 1520. The split he caused in Christianity remains one of the most damaging in the Church’s 2,000-year history.
Some Catholics have also criticized Pope Francis for his approach to ecumenism, often citing Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos which had condemned the ecumenical movement of the 1920s. Others have challenged the synodal path Francis praised in his address to the Lutheran pilgrims, and have accused it of “paving the way towards schism.”
Despite his critics, Francis has continued to promote ecumenism throughout his pontificate.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis met with a group of some five hundred Lutherans from Germany on Monday morning as part of an ecumenical pilgrimage called “better together.” The statue of Luther erected for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation appeared once again on the stage of the Vatican’s Paul VI hall.
The 500 pilgrims, made up of young Catholics and Lutherans from central Germany, greeted the Pope with a song. They had traveled from Germany to Rome as part of a joined initiative of the office for youth ministry of the Diocese of Magdeburg and the evangelical church of central Germany.
In his address to the pilgrims, the Pope first alluded to the group’s previous visit in October of 2016, to celebrate the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
“Some of you had already taken part in the ecumenical pilgrimage ‘with Luther to the Pope’ which took place five years ago,” he said.
Francis then referred to the song sung by the pilgrims to greet him at the beginning of the audience, and explained that singing together is a way to unite.
“At the beginning of this audience, you greeted me with a song. Singing unites,” he said. “In the choir, no one is alone. It is important to listen to others,” he continued, adding that he hoped for the same readiness to hear one another in the church, which he claimed will be brought about by the synodal path.
He invited the pilgrims to “listen to the melody of God” and to “open their hearts” as well as their ears.
“Always turn your ears to the melody of God in your lives,” he said, “this way, from many voices, a single song will be heard. That’s also how we bring about ecumenism, in Germany, and in many other parts of the world.”
Back in 2016, the sight came as a shock to many Catholics because Luther was excommunicated and his theses rejected by Pope Leo X in 1520. The split he caused in Christianity remains one of the most damaging in the Church’s 2,000-year history.
Some Catholics have also criticized Pope Francis for his approach to ecumenism, often citing Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos which had condemned the ecumenical movement of the 1920s. Others have challenged the synodal path Francis praised in his address to the Lutheran pilgrims, and have accused it of “paving the way towards schism.”
Despite his critics, Francis has continued to promote ecumenism throughout his pontificate.
Padre Pio, the guy who was a fake mystic, using acid on his hands to fool people into thinking God was supernaturally giving him the wounds of Christ.
He was a fraud. His opinion of anything doesn’t matter…
Padre Pio is a saint in Heaven.
Martin Luther is burning in Hell.
Pick your poison.
Luther is in Heaven based on God’s Gospel - a Saint.
I am so grateful for how the Father used him to recover the gospel and to expose the fraud of Romanism.
I see you picked poison.
“Even by a conservative reckoning,” pointed out to me by an Augustinian. “Of those 95 Lutheran brother M, we have adapted at least 80 some corrections... why do you not admit that you’re in fact a Catholic at heart?”
He made me surrender a smile. He was a great God fearing man... as so many of the Roman catholic brothers and sisters actually are.
The current pope... has a different vibe entirely.
If the amazing Grace of God is poison to you, if salvation and assurance of salvation is poison to you, I feel deeply sorry that you turned down eternity in the presence of God.
But it is entirely on you ebb. You’ve been educated, exhorted, prayed for, and yet you prefer a failed scapular, useless rituals, and a host of things that can never save.
Stand close.
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