Posted on 12/22/2014 6:17:46 AM PST by marshmallow
(LWI) – Rev. Martin Junge, General Secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) says relations between the Lutheran and Catholic churches have reached an epoch-making turning-point.
Speaking during a panel discussion, held 18 December, in the Lutheran church in Rome, Junge emphasized that the relationship between Lutherans and Catholics was being transformed “from conflict to communion.” Precisely in a world “in which religion and faith are regularly portrayed and perceived as trouble makers,” he said it was a phenomenal testimony that the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches continued to move “towards a profound communion that frees us to serve God and the world.”
Alongside Junge on the panel were, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) Kurt Cardinal Koch, the Catholic representative of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany Bishop Karl-Hinrich Manzke, and the chairperson of the Ecumenism Commission of the German Episcopal Conference Bishop Gerhard Feige.
Junge and Koch took the opportunity to announce plans for a common liturgical guide in connection with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, of which publication is scheduled for 2015. Looking towards 2017, the Lutheran - Roman Catholic material is intended to enable churches all over the world to review the 500 years of Reformation. The guide will follow on from the dialogue document From Conflict to Communion published by both partners in 2013, and transpose it into liturgical acts. The material will reflect the structure of this document with its triple form of penitence for the wounds mutually inflicted; joy at the insights and dimensions of the Reformation; and hope for unity.
The panel also discussed the question of what exactly was to be commemorated in 2017. “Not church division, nor the 500th anniversary of a church and certainly not any heroic actions,” Feige was.......
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LOL, Catholic church stopped any civil divorces lately? Thought not, we don't live in a theocracy. Changing divorce rates and lessening the number of abortions will come from changing hearts through the Gospel. Or is that an unknown concept since it isn't Tradition?
Sez who?
You?
Someone who follows Scripture. It really is that easy.
They say the same.
You simply have different understandings of it.
And when did you become omniscient?
Saith the Lord. Find any support in scripture for abortion? Find any support of normalizing homosexual relations? Better research the Catholic positions, you're going to be in communion with these folks.
They have a different take on Scripture.
Not that tough.
It’s the subject of the article. Lots of glad handing, common consent that repentance isn’t necessary, the LWF libs and your Pope. Hardly omniscience, reading the times. Something you Catholics best start doing before you are all the way down the road in the name of unity.
The Catholic Church has never recognized civil divorces. I advise you to study your enemy more before you further make a fool of yourself.
It resembles the Catholic view, so you all should get along fine. Enjoy that ride, not that tough, till the end.
Your opinion is synonymous with God's?
I'm conversing with God's anointed arbiter of Scriptural meaning?
It's an opinion.
Just like yours.
OK, I see now that you appear to believe everything you read. It explains your adherence to Luthers's heresies.
Because not recognizing them means they didn't occur. Head in the sand doctrine. One that you'll be paying for at the next year's synod.
I advise you to study your enemy more before you further make a fool of yourself.
First I don't consider Catholics enemies just because they are wrong on so many points of doctrine. No need to study, got beautiful instruction right here on the RelForum.
It isn't my opinion when it is drawn from God's Word, it is His.
I'm conversing with God's anointed arbiter of Scriptural meaning?
Just a Christian who can read aided by the Holy Spirit.
Recounted on these pages by Catholics.
Just stamping your feet and bad-mouthing your Pope on these pages won't stem the tide, no pun intended.
And when another reads the same Word and comes to a different understanding?
Who's right?
Just a Christian who can read aided by the Holy Spirit.
Is the Holy Spirit talking through you now?
It's an opinion.
Just like yours.
Luther was a Jew-hating drunk, who tried to change the Bible, and he called the Pope the anti-Christ. In that day and age better men lost their head for half of what the heretic Luther managed to do.
So why did you complain that the Catholic Church is not "stopping civil divorces lately"?
You appear to contradict yourself.
Does your sect try to stop abortion?
On abortion??? Really? Homosexual activity. If they read and get support for those activities, then they are apostate.
Is the Holy Spirit talking through you now?
No, I am not taking Catholic apostasy serious enough. I should be urging you to repent, that's the Spirit's message to sinners. I think of it as conversing with those with hardened hearts.
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