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With the universal Christian church, the Lutherans confess and respond to the love of the Triune God: the Father, Creator of all that exists, Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in there ultimate victory over death and the devil; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God’s Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal and coeternal, one God. We as a congregation take our name from this mystery of Who God is and we aspire to be of one mind and being, just as our God is one.
Being “Lutheran” means being truly catholic and truly evangelical—we honor and keep the Bible-based Tradition of worship of the early Christian church and we nourish a trusting knowledge of God that is grounded in the Good News of salvation, forgiveness, and wholeness in Christ as found in Holy Scripture alone.
Lutheranism, simplified:
The Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther and other reformers that inspired the reformation of the Catholic Church in the 16th century can be summarized in three short phrases: Grace alone. Faith alone. Scripture alone.
Grace alone: God loves everyone in the world, even though we are sinful, offending God and harming each other, and thus not deserving of God’s love. He sent Jesus, His Son, to love the unlovable and save the ungodly. Even when we forget or reject God and don’t seek Him, God lovingly reaches out to us.
Scripture alone: The bible is God’s infallible Word in which God reveals His Law and Gospel. The Law shows us our error and need for God’s help and presence in our lives. The Gospel tells the Good News that God offers forgiveness and new Life in Jesus Christ. It is the sole rule and norm for Christian teaching.
Faith alone: By His suffering and death, as the substitute for all the people of all time, Jesus purchased and won forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who hear this Good News and believe and trust in Jesus have the eternal life that He offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through Him.
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"Most high, omnipotent, good Lord, grant your people grace to renounce gladly the vanities of this world; that, following the way of blessed Francis, we may for love of you delight in your whole creation with perfectness of joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."Today the Church remembers Francis of Assisi, deacon and renewer of the Church, who died this day in 1226.
Born in Italy in 1181, Saint Francis abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christ after hearing the voice of God, who commanded him to rebuild the Church and live in poverty. Francis is famous for his generosity, his love of the poor and outcast, and his care for creation and animals. The Lutheran confessions refer to him specifically, along with Saints Anthony, Bernard, and Dominic as “holy fathers” (Ap 5.3.90).
He is best remembered for his preaching our fellowship with the rest of the creation (the hymn "All Creatures of our God and King" is a paraphrase of a prayer of his). He was however also an early reformer, who advocated simple living for followers of Jesus.
Coming from a successful merchant family, he gave away his wealth and embraced poverty to be close to the poor. He founded an order of poor monks, now known as the Franciscans, after him.
Francis reminded his brother and sister monks and nuns that “a shepherd should smell like his sheep." He's remembered for other endearing quirks like accepting the invitation of wealthy people to dine with them, but sprinkling a little sawdust on his meal to stay humble even at the table of the rich. It is said during his life he received a strange gift known as the stigmata— that so great was his love for the Lord and his willingness to suffer for love of neighbor that the wounds of Christ appeared on his hands and feet as a sign.
“Most high, omnipotent, good Lord, grant thy people grace to renounce gladly the vanities of this world; that, following the way of blessed Francis, we may for love of thee delight in thy whole creation with perfectness of joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
Today the Church remembers Jerome, translator and teacher.
Jerome was born in Dalmatia in the 340s and died in Bethlehem on September 30, in 419 or 420.
He is best known for translating the Bible into the language ordinary people could read. At this time, the declining decades of the Roman Empire, the ordinary language was Latin. Jerome's version of the Bible is known as the Vulgate (the word is related to “vulgar” because it was a translation into the ordinary language that everyone could understand).
Jerome is considered the most learned of the Latin Church Fathers, being fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with knowledge of Aramaic, Arabic, and Syriac.
In addition, he made available to westerners other Greek texts. Jerome had a dream in which he was criticized for being a Ciceronian, which he interpreted to mean he should read Christian material, not the Classics, so he changed his focus. [Cicero was a Roman orator and statesman contemporary with Julius and Augustus Caesar.]
“Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ" - Jerome
“O God, who gave your priest Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
![Today the Church remembers Jerome, translator and teacher.
Jerome was born in Dalmatia in the 340s and died in Bethlehem on September 30, in 419 or 420.
He is best known for translating the Bible into the language ordinary people could read. At this time, the declining decades of the Roman Empire, the ordinary language was Latin. Jeromes version of the Bible is known as the Vulgate (the word is related to “vulgar” because it was a translation into the ordinary language that everyone could understand).
Jerome is considered the most learned of the Latin Church Fathers, being fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with knowledge of Aramaic, Arabic, and Syriac.
In addition, he made available to westerners other Greek texts. Jerome had a dream in which he was criticized for being a Ciceronian, which he interpreted to mean he should read Christian material, not the Classics, so he changed his focus. [Cicero was a Roman orator and statesman contemporary with Julius and Augustus Caesar.]
“Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ - Jerome
“O God, who gave your priest Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.”](https://scontent-hou1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/309906517_466701908815169_823425960632720747_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=fvwYPXAyaIYAX_lHleh&_nc_oc=AQkMdgBmg3KZUq0Br-YgV79fPqo2ZeGTtBjryGkZW9luTLtUhWDU0wOGgL418oIxjhE&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.xx&edm=AO-AMGsEAAAA&oh=00_AT9GsKcBx6AehA0g29E-zU5NdsF0efS-TVUT_mSKjfFixA&oe=6341E638)
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