John Ronge; The Holy Coat of Treves; New German-Catholic ChurchAnonymous
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John Ronge; The Holy Coat of Treves; New German-Catholic Church
Anonymous
Dom (Trier, Germany); German Catholicism; Holy Coat
The following is the order of Church-service for the Church in
Breslau.--1. Introductory Hymn. 2. Confession of sins (Confiteor). Lord
pity us, &c. Glory be to God, &c. 4. The prayers of the Collect. 5. The
Epistle. 6. The Gospel. 7. The Sermon, with the usual prayers, with a
verse of a hymn before and after. 8. Instead of the Canon of the Mass, a
passage from the Passion and the Sacrament. 9. Holy, holy, holy, &c.
O, Lamb of God, &c. 10. Lord's Prayer. 11. Concluding Hymn. 12.
Benediction. It has also been resolved that part of the Sabbath
afternoon be devoted to catechizing, as is now common in many Protestant
churches in Germany and Switzerland. The only point of difference, so
far as we are aware, among the different communities, is on the doctrine
of tradition; some proposing to abolish it altogether, while others wish
to retain it so far as in accordance with the Bible--though to maintain
a subordinate place. An intimation has been published, stating that
representatives from all the churches--now about 18 in number--are
to meet in Leipsic at Easter, to make arrangements for the authorized
constitution of the new Church. Meanwhile Ronge has prepared the draft
of a new liturgy.
The community at _Elberfeld_, in separating from the Church of Rome,
expresses itself as follows:--
"In the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen! We,
the undersigned citizens of Elber-feld, belonged, up to this period, to
the Roman Catholic Church, and had, for a long period, been aware with
increasing force, of the errors and abuses which cling to it in its most
inward principles, and have assumed the ascendancy in its latest phases.
The more we have striven to become acquainted with the true doctrine of
Jesus in the Gospel, which is the alone source of revealed truth, the
more deeply have we been penetrated with the conviction, that Christ is
the only mediator between God and man, and that the doctrine with regard
to the Pope and the one infallible Church, has no foundation in the
word of God, and weakens the merits of Christ; that the doctrines of the
Romish Church of the Holy Sacrament--of the priesthood and its relation
to the people, is false, and deprives believers of their choicest
privileges. The more clear this conviction has gradually grown upon us,
the more oppressive do we feel the chains by which we are bound, and the
more are we in our consciences hindered from belonging to a Church whose
most important doctrines we can no longer reconcile with the Gospel,
from adhering to a faith which we cannot openly avow as becomes the
disciples of the Lord. Herewith was connected the pain of having no
worship of God corresponding with our altered religious views. Then came
forth from the darkness, whose shadows settled more and more thickly
over us, a light which, in our extremity, we view as the morning-dawn of
hope, and as announcing to us the good favour of God. Events, to which
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