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Some Reflections About Reformation Day, by Luis E. Lugo – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Some Reflections About Reformation Day, by Luis E. Lugo

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By Luis E. Lugo, he Catholic Thing, October 31, 2024

Luis E. Lugo is a retired college professor and foundation executive who writes from Rockford, Michigan.

Note: Be sure to tune in tonight – Thursday, October 31st  at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse – and the last for Synod Central – on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the conclusion of the second Synod on Synodality and other developments in the Universal Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

 

On this day, the 31st of October, All Hallows’ Eve, many of our Protestant brothers and sisters celebrate Reformation Day – the momentous day in 1517 when the Augustinian friar Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

The date always brings to mind my return to the Catholic Church some thirty years ago. Major factors in that homecoming were nagging questions about the proper relationship between Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture. (Another was a growing hunger for the Eucharist, which was less a matter of the head than of the heart; as Pascal said, the heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.)

I’ll always be grateful for those evangelical Protestant churches that nurtured me in the faith for so many years, including instilling the sound practice of daily Bible reading. …

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