Posted on 01/14/2016 11:36:04 AM PST by ebb tide
GENEVA/VATICAN CITY, 11 January 2016 - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) have invited Lutheran churches and Catholic bishops’ conferences across the world to make use of a jointly-developed Common Prayer to prepare commemorations for the 500 years of the Reformation in 2017.
In a joint letter today to the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences and to LWF member church bishops, presidents and other leaders, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge and PCPCU President Kurt Cardinal Koch introduce the Common Prayer for Lutheran-Catholic common commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. The document is the first jointly developed liturgical order prepared by a liturgical task force of the Lutheran Catholic Commission on Unity of the LWF and PCPCU. It is based on the recent study report From Conflict to Communion: Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017, and is calling the Catholic and Lutheran communities for joint prayer in this commemoration.
The Common Prayer includes materials that can be adapted to local liturgical and musical traditions of churches in the two Christian traditions.
â€This common prayer marks a very special moment in our common journey from conflict to communion. We are grateful for being able to invite you to participate in this journey in witnessing to the grace of God in the world,†Junge and Koch write to the Lutheran and Catholic Church leaders.
The two leaders express gratitude for the many joint initiatives and commitment by Catholics and Lutherans in studying together the document From Conflict to Communion, in which the two church bodies describe together for the first time the history of the 16th century Reformation and its intentions. The report developed by the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity in 2013 has been widely distributed to Catholic and Lutheran communities. It is available in the four LWF’s official languages – English, French, German and Spanish – and has been translated into several other national and regional languages.
The Common Prayer is a practical guide to a process of worship for a joint Catholic-Lutheran commemoration of 500 years of the Reformation. It is structured around the themes of thanksgiving, repentance and commitment to common witness. The aim is to express the gifts of the Reformation and ask forgiveness for the division perpetuated by Christians from the two traditions.
â€It offers an opportunity to look back in thanksgiving and confession and look ahead, committing ourselves to common witness and continuing journey,†states the preface of the Common Prayer.
It offers suggestions of how Catholic and Lutherans should preside and read together at a common prayer service. Examples are provided of hymns and songs from a variety of multicultural contexts, as well as biblical and confessional readings that reflect mutual joy and repentance, and the desire to serve and witness to the world together.
In their joint letter, Junge and Koch remind the church leaders that the year 2017 also marks the 50 years of global ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans, which includes other major study processes and documents. For the LWF, the year coincides with its Twelfth Assembly, to be held in Windhoek, Namibia, under the theme â€Liberated by God’s Grace.â€
In October this year, the LWF and PCPCU will host a joint Ecumenical Commemoration event in Lund, Sweden, where the LWF was founded in 1947.
No true Lutheran says the rosary or the blasphemous Hail Mary.....
Those have left the Lutheran church by their actions Rome can have them
Catholics in their right mind should celebrate The error of their ways was exposed and a chance for making amendment was presented. The lesson sank in for some at least
Those have left the Lutheran church by their actions Rome can have them
WHICH Lutheran church are you talking about?
From Google:
Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine
Batak Christian Protestant Church (Indonesia)
Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras
Church of Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark)
Church of Norway (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway)
Church of Sweden
Church of Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland)
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY)
Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession in Poland
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
Evangelical Church in the Republic of Croatia
Evangelical Community Church-Lutheran
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
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Father Martin Luther, the defrocked and disgraced former priest, was, without doubt a good man with good intentions. I seriously doubt that he would be PROUD of splintering his beloved Catholic Church, in which he grew up.
I doubt if even you could tell me what theological or faith practices that these all have in common or even what differentiates them.
I think that Father Martin Luther would WEEP at what had happened to his Church, thanks to his heresies. Those were what started his "list" of Lutherans.
The Catholic Church had its beginnings in the first century Anno Domini and Luther lived in the sixteenth century. That same Catholic Church is where St. Peter was the FIRST pope. His remains lie in the Vatican on Vatican Hill in Rome.
FIFTEEN hundred years of Catholicism were given up because of Father Luther's pride and stubborness.
For him: what a shame and a waste.
Side note: I visited Father Luther's study in Wartburg Castle. I thought it was MOST interesting. There still is the famous "ink spot" where Luther threw a pot of ink at the Devil (who came to tempt him.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
Nonsense. There was nothing whatever worth celebrating. If you want to celebrate the chance for making amendment, then celebrate the Counter Reformation and great reforming saints like Ignatius of Loyola.
Luther’s theology came from the privy, and it shows.
Martin Luther was not the type of person who’d say, “On the one hand, this . . . on the other hand, that. Let me just clarify what I said so nobody will take offense.” If he had been, we might not have had a Reformation.
He often used hyperbole that made his opponents demonize him and sent his proponents scrambling to demonstrate from his other writings what he really meant. But his words never got lost in the white noise.
This is what he said: “God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.”
What on earth could he have meant by that? Is he saying, like many Christians believe today, that the Cross covers continued, willful sin that we refuse to surrender? No, he is not. How do I know this? By interpreting those words in the context of his whole theology. He said elsewhere: “If you do not give forth such proofs of faith [good works], it is certain that your faith is not right. Not that good works are commanded us by this Word; for where faith in the heart is right, there is no need of much commanding good works to be done; they follow of themselves. But the works of love are only an evidence of the existence of faith.” (Italics added.) Although Luther stressed that we are saved by faith alone, faith by its very nature produces good works. The idea that a person can be saved while continuing on exactly like before is a dangerous misunderstanding of both the Apostle Paul and Luther.
So what, then, did he mean? He is talking about the power of the Cross to forgive and heal all sin. Real sin, not just the imaginary kind where deep down we feel that we were justified.
http://graceandmiracles.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-did-martin-luther-tell-us-to-sin.html
Not my words, look it up.
I think Martin Luther may be in the depths of Hell even deeper than Muhammad’s foot stool there.
I suspect that arrogant, zealots like you and Dr. Thorne are the reason why Christianity is so divided.
I don’t give a darn what heretics “suspect” of me.
And I don’t care what a arrogant Traditionalist fanatic thinks of me.
But you can't stop me from praying for your conversion.
I think Luther may be in Purgatory instead. Luther never denied Christ’s Divinity. Though you’d probably say that Luther would likely have spent a LOT of time there.
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