[Magdalen] Five Hundred Years

[Marion Thompson]

My understanding is that what Luther intended was to clear the path 
between the individual and God,  getting rid of indulgences and all the 
stuff that kept people under the thumb of the Church and not in direct 
relationsship with God.  It is not his fault that the whole thing became 
a runaway train.  Much of his theology is admirable, I think.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/15/2017 11:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> November 1, 1517 - November 1,  2017 - All Saints Day.
>   
> It will soon be this great anniversary commemorating Martin Luther's
> posting of the theses at the Wittenberg Castle Chapel in Germany.
>   
> I have mixed emotions regarding this event, but am convinced that
> some kind of upheaval was inevitable to set the medieval church
> in a different direction.
>   
> How well the Protestant Reformation did that is debatable, and,  indeed,
> has been endlessly argued ever since 1517.
>   
> For me it marks the Solemn High Mass on November 1, 1962 at
> Saint Paul's on-the-Hill (now sadly closed) that began my four year
> association with that Anglocatholic parish where I  first sang
> plainchant and classical polyphony.
>   
> I had previously attended the Easter Vigil at Nashotah Theological
> Seminary (about 60 miles from the UW-Madison Campus) where the
> fully solemn liturgy simply stupefied me, and caused me to be
> convinced that this was the way Christian worship ought to be.
>   
> Time, too, for my annual rant about keeping All Saints Day and
> All Souls Day separate.
>   
>   
> David Strang.
>