From the Large Catechism on the fourth commandment:

Learn, therefore, first, what is the honor towards parents required by this commandment
to wit, that they be held in distinction and esteem above all things, as the most precious
treasure on earth. Furthermore, that also in our words we observe modesty toward them,
do not accost them roughly, haughtily, and defiantly, but yield to them and be silent even
though they go too far. Thirdly, that we show them such honor also by works, that is, with
our body and possessions, that we serve them, help them, and provide for them when they
are old, sick, infirm, or poor, and all that not only gladly, but with humility and reverence,
as doing it before God. For he who knows how to regard them in his heart will not allow
them to suffer want or hunger, but will place them above him and at his side, and will share
with them whatever he has and possesses.

Secondly, notice how great, good, and holy a work is here assigned children, which is
alas! utterly neglected and disregarded, and no one perceives that God has commanded it
or that it is a holy, divine Word and doctrine. For if it had been regarded as such, every one
could have inferred that they must be holy men who live according to these words. Thus
there would have been no need of inventing monasticism nor spiritual orders, but every
child would have abided by this commandment, and could have directed his conscience to
God and said: "If I am to do good and holy works, I know of none better than to render all
honor and obedience to my parents, because God has Himself commanded it. For what
God commands must be much and far nobler than everything that we may devise ourselves,
and since there is no higher or better teacher to be found than God, there can be no better
doctrine, indeed, than He gives forth. Now, He teaches fully what we should do if we wish
to perform truly good works, and by commanding them, He shows that they please Him.
If, then, it is God who commands this, and who knows not how to appoint anything better,
I will never improve upon it."

From a simple way to pray:

His motives for doing what he does can only lie in his despising
God and his commandments. Consequently, he can justify robbing, cheating, or defrauding his neighbor. What are such
thoughts other than curses against God and man, a twofold
curse? Whoever harbors them condemns himself. Such people
are beggars and bunglers. Constant prayer is what Christ encourages in Luke chapter 11: to pray without ceasing. For a person
should constantly guard against sinning and being unjust, which
can happen when one fails to fear God and keep his commandments in mind, as Psalm 1 indicates: “Blessed is the one . . .
whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on
his law day and night.”
We must see to it that we do not lose the habit of prayer and
deceive ourselves into thinking that other kinds of things are
more important, when they are not. Then we might become
careless and lazy, cold and indifferent when it comes to praying.
The devil is neither lazy nor lax in our midst. Besides, our flesh is
not too eager and desirous but is disinclined to the spirit of prayer.
When through such recitation your heart has been aroused to its
need, kneel down or stand with folded hands and with your eyes
heavenward. Speak or think as briefly as you can, “Dear God,
heavenly Father, I am a poor, unworthy sinner, not entitled to
raise my eyes or hands in prayer to you, but I come because you
have commanded us all to pray. Because you also taught us when
and how to pray through your dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
you will hear us.
“Thus I come trusting your gracious promise and, in the name
of my Lord Jesus Christ, I pray with all your faithful Christians
on earth, as he has taught me:

The last written works of Martin Luther:

1. No one can understand Vergil's Bucolics unless he has been a
shepherd for five years. No one can understand Vergil's Georgics,
unless he has been a farmer for five years.

2. No one can understand Cicero's Letters (or so I teach), unless
he has busied himself in the affairs of some prominent state for
twenty years.

3. Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers
sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years
with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist,
Christ and the apostles.

Do not assail this divine Aeneid; nay, rather prostrate revere the
ground that it treads.


We are beggars: this is true.

What are Luther's "must reads"

I've only read the letter he wrote to his barber, and parts of the shorter catechism.

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>>25193707
The Essential Luther is quite good.

>>25195001
Here's how I would do it
>the small catechism
>the large catechism
>the smalcald articles
after that you can pick and choose what you like

>>25193712
I now understand the imbecility of character and self-destructive tendencies of the WASP

>>25195118
Jew detected

>There is one thing about which they boast and pride them selves beyond measure, and that is their descent from the foremost people on earth, from Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and from the twelve patriarchs, and thus from the holy people of Israel. St. Paul himself admits this when he says in Romans 9:5: Quorum patres, that is, “To them belong the patriarchs, and of their race is the Christ,” etc. And Christ himself declares in John 4:22, “Salvation is from the Jews. “ Therefore they boast of being the noblest, yes, the only noble people on earth. In comparison with them and in their eyes we Gentiles (Goyim) are not human; in fact we hardly deserve to be considered poor worms by them. For we are not of that high and noble blood, lineage, birth, and descent. This is their argument, and indeed I think it is the greatest and strongest reason for their pride and boasting.

>Therefore, God has to endure that in their synagogues, their prayers, songs, doctrines, and their whole life, they come and stand before him and plague him grievously (if I may speak of God in such a human fashion). Thus he must listen to their boasts and their praises to him for setting them apart from the Gentiles, for letting them be descended from the holy patriarchs, and for selecting them to be his holy and peculiar people, etc. And there is no limit and no end to this boasting about their descent and their physical birth from the fathers.

>And to fill the measure of their raving, mad, and stupid folly, they boast and they thank God, in the first place, because they were created as human beings and not as animals; in the second place. because they are Israelites and not Goyim (Gentiles); in the third place because they were created as males and not as females. They did not learn such tomfoolery from Israel but from the Goyim. For history records that the Greek Plato daily accorded God such praise and thanksgiving-if such arrogance and blasphemy may be termed praise of God. This man, too, praised his gods for these three items: that he was a human being and not an animal; a male and not a female; a Greek and not a non-Greek or barbarian. This is a fool’s boast, the gratitude of a barbarian who blasphemes God! Similarly, the Italians fancy themselves the only human beings; they imagine that all other people in the world are nonhumans, mere ducks or mice by comparison.

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>>25195132
>tomfoolery

>>25195132
>It's... LE JOOS
You are unserious people

>>25195171
>Even later, after he had been called and sanctified through God’s word and through faith, according to Genesis 15, Abraham did not boast of his birth or of his virtues. When he spoke with God (Genesis 18) he did not say: “Look how noble I am, born from Noah and the holy patriarchs, and descended from your holy nation,” nor did he say, “How pious and holy I am in comparison with other people! “ No, he said, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes” [Gen. 18:27]. This is, indeed, how a creature must speak to its Creator, not for getting what it is before him and how it is regarded by him. For that is what God said of Adam and of all his children (Genesis 3:19 ), “You are dust, and to dust you shall return,” as death itself persuades us visibly and experientially, to counteract, if need be, any such foolish, vain, and vexatious presumption.

>Now you can see what fine children of Abraham the Jews really are, how well they take after their father, yes, what a fine people of God they are. They boast before God of their physical birth and of the noble blood inherited from their fathers, despising all other people, although God regards them in all these respects as dust and ashes and damned by birth the same as all other heathen. And yet they give God the lie; they insist on being in the right, and with such blasphemous and damnable prayer they purpose to wrest God’s grace from him and to regain Jerusalem.

>Furthermore, even if the Jews were seven times blinder than they are if that were possible they would still have to see that Esau or Edom, as far as his physical birth is concerned, was as noble as Jacob, since he was not only the son of the same father, Isaac, and of the same mother, Rebekah, but he was also the firstborn; and primogeniture at that time conferred the highest nobility over against the other children. But what did his equal birth or even his primogeniture by virtue of which he was far nobler than Jacob benefit him? He was still not numbered among God’s people, although he called Abraham his grandfather and Sarah his grandmother just as Jacob did, indeed, as has already been said, even more validly than did Jacob. Conversely, Abraham himself as well as Sarah had to regard him as their grandson, the son of Isaac and Rebekah; they even had to regard him as the firstborn and the nobler, and Jacob as the lesser. But tell me, what good did his physical birth and his noble blood inherited from Abraham do him?

A Jew started seething before a Catholic in a Luther thread. Haha.

>>25195421
yeah you really showed em what's what

>>25195466
Thanks!

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Weird... this doesn't happen in my jew country... hasn't happened to me either, what with my being a jew and all. Puzzling indeed!

>>25195524
>Now let us see what Moses himself says about circumcision. In Deuteronomy 10:16 he says: "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn," etc. Dear Moses, what do you mean? Does it not suffice that they are circumcised physically? They are set apart from all other nations by this holy circumcision and made a holy people of God. And you rebuke them for stubbornness against God? You belittle their holy circumcision? You revile the holy, circumcised people of God? You should venture to talk like that today in their synagogues! If there were not stones conveniently near, they would resort to mud and dirt to drive you from their midst, even if you were worth ten Moseses.

>He also chides them in Leviticus 26:41, saying: ‘If then their uncircumcised heart is humbled," etc. Be careful, Moses! Do you know whom you are speaking to? You are talking to a noble, chosen, holy, circumcised people of God. And you dare to say that they have uncircumcised hearts? That is much worse than having a seven-times-uncircumcised flesh; for an uncircumcised heart can have no God. And to such the circumcision of the flesh is of no avail. Only a circumcised heart can produce a people of God, and it can do this even when physical circumcision is absent or is impossible, as it was for the children of Israel during their forty years in the wilderness.

>Thus Jeremiah also takes them to task, saying in chapter 4:4: "Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it. . . . "Jeremiah, you wretched heretic, you seducer and false prophet, how dare you tell that holy, circumcised people of God to circumcise themselves to the Lord? Do you mean to imply that they were hitherto circumcised physically to the devil, as if God did not esteem their holy, physical circumcision? And are you furthermore threatening them with God’s wrath, as an eternal fire, if they do not circumcise their hearts? But they do not mention such circumcision of the heart in their prayer, nor do they praise or thank God for it with as much as a single letter. And you dare to invalidate their holy circumcision of the flesh, making it liable to God’s wrath and the eternal fire? I advise you not to enter their synagogue; all devils might dismember and devour you there.

>>25195118
How on earth can you draw that conclusion? It's literally the most basic and universal advice that pretty much exists in all cultures.

>>25195543
It's because I'm bitter and resentful

>>25195659
Hope you get better and start appreciating your parents.