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| Pope Saint Paul VI - This papal tiara is nicknamed "the artillery shell," his sanctified and sanctifying hands are in the orans (silent praying) pose. A reader wondered about the "angel pose" among the ELDONUTs. Decades ago, a Lutheran layman came back from an Episcopal wedding, complaining that the groomsmen had to walk in and stand using the angel pose. He hated how prissy it looked. How did this get into Lutherdom? The Ft. Wayne and St. Louis seminary graduates are brainwashed in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. They despise Luther's Biblical doctrine and fuss over how to barbeque the incense. Most of all, they love to parade in their expensive costumes. Their services, as Chemnitz wrote in Examination of the Council of Trent, is either a tragedy or a comedy.  |
Book of Concord, Formula of Concord, Article 10, Adiaphora -
Likewise, the article concerning Christian liberty also is here at stake, which the Holy Ghost through the mouth of the holy apostle so earnestly charged His Church to preserve, as we have just heard. For as soon as this is weakened and the ordinances of men [human traditions] are forced upon the Church with coercion, as though it were wrong and a sin to omit them, the way is already prepared for idolatry, and by this means ordinances of men [human traditions] are afterwards multiplied and regarded as a divine worship, not only equal to the ordinances of God, but are even placed above them.
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| Who stole my stole? Pope Francis, SJ, was photographed wearing Pope Paul VI's stole. |
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| ELDONUTs - note the bishop's mitre (fish-hat). No tiara? Not yet. |
16 Moreover, by such [untimely] yielding and conformity in external things, where there has not been previously Christian union in doctrine, idolaters are confirmed in their idolatry; on the other hand, the true believers are grieved, offended, and weakened in their faith [their faith is grievously shaken, and made to totter as though by a battering-ram]; both of which every Christian for the sake of his soul’s welfare and salvation is bound to avoid, as it is written: Woe unto the world because of offenses! Also: Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea [Matt. 18:6, 7 .
