[CharlesOConnell]

I have a lot of personal affection for Father Luther. His ‘A Mighty Fortress Is Our God’ (Ein Fest Burg) was originally composed in a lilting, dancing free rhythm, that I saw in the hymnal at St. John’s Sacramento (where the biggest organ pipes are 21 feet high, below the range of human hearing). I have a lot of affection for Sebastian Bach who, in his classes as a Latin and humanities instructor at Tomaskirke Leipzig, was actively concerned for his students’ salvation. My granddaughter who attends a Lutheran church has discussed her faith with me, and I’m getting her a Lutheran Rosary, that may or may not include the prayers to Mary that Father Martin said. But Father Martin showed some psychological problems that have probably relegated him to a spiritual backwater.

[ebb tide]

I’ve never heard of a rosary that does not include prayers to the Blessed Mother.

What exactly is a Lutheran rosary?

[MinuteGal]

I hope those who follow these things will keep us informed of any role if any the (conservative) Lutheran Church Missouri Synod will be playing in all the above ecumenical goings-on.

One of the many reasons for my loving and respecting the LCMS apart from its conservatism and traditionalism is that we have the BEST HYMNS, many of them written by Dr. Martin Luther, himself!

Leni