We assembled in the field opposite the museum and outside the
reconstructed round house where we sang a final hymn “He who would
valiant be” which seemed appropriate for those who had been to the cave.
After a prayer, the Bishop gave us his blessing and we set off for home as
the evening sun shone on the hills.
Lesley-ann and Ashley delivered me to my door at about 10 to 8 before
returning to the rectory for a well-earned rest. It had been a long day but a
very enjoyable one.
Paula Fleetwood
“On The Jews and Their Lies”
The title is as shocking as is the identity of the author this sixteenth century
anti-Semitic polemic.
It is well to remember that those rightly venerated for their many guiding and
valued principles, can have feet of clay and aspects of their past which,
arguably, cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of history.
There is an uncomfortable twentieth century familiarity about the “seven
remedial actions” the author urges the populace to take against what he
describes as “a base, whoring people”:
1.
to burn down Jewish synagogues and schools and to warn people
against them;
2. to refuse to let Jews own houses among Christians;
3. for Jewish religious writings to be taken away;
4. for rabbis to be forbidden to preach;
5. to offer no protection to Jews on highways;
6. for usury to be prohibited and for all silver and gold to be removed,
put aside for safekeeping, and given back to Jews who truly
convert; and
7. to give young, strong Jews flail, axe, spade, and spindle, and let
them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow.
Is the mere passage of time enough to excuse Martin Luther for these
shocking words???
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