Posted on 08/24/2014 4:45:06 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
Father Martin Luther was an amazing man.
I had a chance some years ago to visit the famous castle where he threw his ink jar at Satan...and duly saw the ink stain on the wall.
I will go with Thetans before all this man made bull.
But the key difference is that Luther did not consider her to be a co redemptrix.
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Neither do Catholics.
The fact that the RC Church gives Mary the title, ‘Mother of God’ makes Protestants believe that it considers Mary to be divine.
That misunderstanding will never be resolved.
There is a Jewish perspective to Mary but I shall hold my own council on it.
you guys are something else. back luther when you like him, and anathematize him when you don’t.
you guys are the very same that will start talking about his later years to discredit him.
you can’t use your own prior discredited source to then back up your points.
Thankfully, God used dear Luther to recover His Gospel of Grace!
For this, every true believer should be thankful for Luther... And overlook his many failures.
Martin Luther was a heretic and a tool of Satan.
Bingo--or as Luther would have put it, "Volltreffer!"
“Martin Luther was a heretic and a tool of Satan”.
True.
Prior to Vatican I, many Lutheran synods had a greater focus on St. Mary. After the new dogma of the immaculate conception, most down played Mary
You could not have put it better. Hillaire Belloc refers to the evils of Protestantism that unlike other heresies spawned a “cluster of heresies.”
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
Martin Luther was a heretic and a tool of Satan.....
Now how do you know that? What doctrine points a finger at him as being from satan?
How do you know that Luther was not an instrument of God’s will to redirect the church?
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