Posted on 01/14/2016 11:36:04 AM PST by ebb tide
I feel like throwing up.
So, uh, there already is a common prayer going on.
“The Common Prayer includes materials that can be adapted to local liturgical and musical traditions of churches in the two Christian traditions.”
Nice, so the Lutherans can sing it as a joyous hymn, while the Catholics turn it into a mournful dirge :)
Go ahead and be joyous all the time. “Sin and sin boldly”, Martin Luther.
Lutheran singing is one of those treasures that I had to leave home to realize. Growing up Lutheran, it was just assumed you could sing in three part harmony and bellow like a bull.
Just don’t ask us for solos
https://sites.google.com/site/srwsite/Home/lutheran-music
For the Catholic-haters nothing will be good enough.
So, it's a waste of breath posting to them. I'm glad you did though! :o)
HOWEVER, I didn't know that about the rosary. So, those Protestants are saying the "Hail Mary."
It was part of the Jewish culture to turn to the King's mother for help when the King was recalitrant about something. Jesus, being King, has His mother to whom we can speak with...as that is the essence of prayer.
I've "talked" with my family for years. :o)
Sometimes, there is no perfect action or sinless choice. Do you permit an evil government to continue or do you fight that government?
Romans 13:1 "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God."
If you are going to oppose the evil government, then you would be following Martin Luther's advice to "sin boldly". When there is no perfect choice, make a decision and follow through.
1. joyful mysteries
2. glorious mysteries
3. lumious mysteries
4. sorrowful mysteries.
It will remain a MYSTERY to me.
Sorry.
I love Lutheran hymnody. ‘Course my Latin choir doesn’t sing it, but it does show up in the Shape Note hymnals.
You don’t perhaps sing shapenote, do you?
My beloved don-o is a shapenote empresario.(sp?)
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I don’t know about the luminous but they do the other mysteries.
Since when did opposing "evil governments" become sinful?
Despite my appreciation and respect for Lutheran liturgical sensibilities, I always feel a sense of disgust every year when Reformation Sunday rolls around.
If there’s any liturgical color associated with that day it should be black.
No Catholic in his right mind should celebrate it. At all.
I am sure we do. As the Keillor piece says, I grew up singing in a way that made my choir teacher very happy in school.
We don’t do chanting very well though.
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An old friend and I went to the Holy Land in 2011 with Steve and Janet Ray. We were priviledged to go to where Jesus transfigured Himself. It was MOST moving.
It should be black, associated with death. I look at Luther in those terms. He sounded the death knell in his "creation" of Protestantism. Non-Catholics are NOT "protesting" anymore but the name lingers on and on and on.
The Episcopalians began their slide (my opinion only) with female priests and now allow same-gender marriage. What's next? I shudder to think.
A few practice sessions, with the best and loudest voices up front and you will chant like a proverbian Gregorian monk!
The Reformation was a tragedy. If there is to be a common prayer, it should be one of penance and celebrated with black vestments.
Not the LCMS. But a giant step toward the apostate one world religion Catholics, used to be Lutherans. Who joins next?
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