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[F]inally a letter is received. The letter isn’t for a transfer to another Lutheran congregation but for a “peaceful release.” What you had known to be true was finally revealed. The individual or family left the church for another confession.
Read MoreHere it is to be noted that no man is to place his trust and confidence in the Mother of God or her merit. For such confidence befits God alone as the only lofty divine service. Rather, that one is to glorify and thank God through her and through the grace that is given to her, and not otherwise to praise and love her than as she who obtained such goods from God out of utter grace, without merit, as she herself confesses in the Magnificat.
Read MoreOne of the blessings of daily Matins is the exposure we have to the Psalms. For in Matins, we not only read them and quote verses from them - we sing them in their entirely, causing us to meditate upon them, and even embed portions of them in memory. They consequently begin to shape our piety, and even our language.
Read MoreIt’s imperative for the Church to be aware of the diametrical opposition of the Bible to feminism , and to see pronoun usage as having been a feminist tool in the service of social engineering.
Read MoreProvocative titles for blog articles are en vogue. If it doesn’t shock grandma or sound like the devil said it apparently it’s not worth reading.
Read MoreTo prohibit marriage, and to burden the divine order of priests with perpetual celibacy, they have had neither authority nor right [they have done out of malice, without any honest reason], but have acted like antichristian, tyrannical, desperate scoundrels…
Read MoreNote: This post was originally published on November 9, 2018. ~ Ed.
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Read MoreNote: This was originally published on November 25, 2018. ~ Ed.
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