Epistle Sermon on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Martin Luther, Church Postil (1544) — Ephesians 4:22–28 Translated by John Nicholas Lenker (1909) 1. Here again is an admonition for Christians to follow up their faith by good works and a new life, for though they have forgiveness of sins through baptism, the old Adam still…
Eucharistic Meditation
But see how beautifully [king David] can speak! “I am,” he says, “the Lord’s sheep; He feeds me in a green pasture.” For a natural sheep nothing can be better than when its shepherd feeds it in pleasant green pastures and near fresh water. Where that happens to it, it feels that no one on…
Eucharistic Meditation
According to its substance, therefore, the mass is nothing but the aforesaid words of Christ: “Take and eat, etc.”, as if he were saying: “Behold, O sinful and condemned man, out of the pure and unmerited love with which I love you, and by the will of the Father of mercies, apart from any merit…
How to sing the faith, and how not
Have I told you lately that I'm no great fan of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'? What strikes me about that, and some other famous and very popular hymns by Cecil Alexander, is that they were written to help her young godchildren to understand the Creed. A laudable goal indeed. Setting anything to rhyme, rhythm…
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