The mass is the foundation of the papacy.
2. abomination of the fair.
3. great abuse and desecration of the Mass.
4. 5. from the angle fair.
6. from the canon.
7. where the jewelry and clothing etc., which is needed in the papacy at mass, come from.
The mass is the greatest service and good work in the papacy.
9. from the first fair.
10. what belongs to a papist measurement.
11. ignorance of the measuring monkeys.
12. whether the mass is a sacrifice.
13. the mass is the biggest service in the whales.
14. where the fair got its name.
15. abomination of the fair.
1. the foundation of the Pabstium.
(Cordatus No. 620.)
The papacy is founded in two ways: Through the service of God, whom they invoke and preach; secondly, through the mass, which all the
Treasures of the world together and gives your pope. The mass is the rock of the papists in spirit and in flesh. In spirit it has already fallen. God will destroy it also in the flesh and will destroy the rock of the flesh.
destroy. If our Lord God lets me die of breath [i.e. of a natural death], he does the papists a great mischievousness that they have not burned him who thus brought them to nothing.
2. abomination of the fair.
(Cordatus No. 619.)
No tongue can express the abomination of the Mass, no heart can properly sit it, and it would not have been surprising if God had corrupted the whole world for its sake, as [the devil] has certainly corrupted a great part of it through the trade of the Mass; but when he shall come with that fire [of Judgment Day], he will give him the due reward.
3. great abuse and desecration of the Mass.
Doctor Martin Luther told of a horrible profanation and desecration of the mass, which happened in Jtalia, where two mass ministers stand at the same time over an altar against each other and say mass: One turns towards the exit, the other towards the descent of the sun; the one reads the Gospel on this side, the other on the other side; they are finished in their craft, seek only their enjoyment and the dear penny, consider the Mass neither a sacrifice nor a sacrament, only they impudently look at its benefit; consider it a handling and a trade. The pope has seen and heard all these monstrous monstrosities, but has paid no attention to them, has let them happen; he must be either a gross ass or a devil in the flesh: an ass that he has not understood such errors; a devil that he has caused and defended such abominations.
4th angle fair.
The angular mass has deceived and seduced many saints, from the time of Gregory, over eight hundred years, and John Huss has also been caught with the make-up. I am surprised, said M. D., how God has delivered me from this idolatry and pulled me out of it. Then Phil. Mel.: Three years ago
If a Moor 1) had been here for years, he would have indicated for certain and said that no private and special mass was held in Asia. And I believe, said D. M. Luther, that in Armenia, Ethiopia, Moorland, India and the countries towards the east there are still many Christians, but in Asia Minor they are all under the Turk.
5. a different from the angle fair.
(Lauterbach, Oct. 13, 1538, p. 149 f.)
Afterwards, he spoke of the private mass and its superstitions, which were held in such high esteem that I would not have believed that only something of it would come to an end when I first wrote of the abdication of the mass. The Mass is the greatest acquisition and foundation of the pope. There was such a hearing of the Mass that if, for example, lords and mighty men had not heard the Mass in the morning, they had to have a dry Mass, all the prayers, the Epistle, the Gospel, the Canon and the consecrated host from the ciborium with the chalice, D. Basil replied: In France the prestige of the pope was not so great as it had been among the Germans, only the mass was still in bloom there, but in such a way that everyone daily devoutly heard one mass, after which they despised all other masses and passed by without reverence, and the king of France always gave a crown to the one who said it. Luther replied, "It is nevertheless very pleasing. For it seemed impossible to me in the beginning that the Mass should fall, which was founded in so many places and hearts. If the sacrament is done under both forms, the mass will not stand for long. Therefore, I would like to know if it is true that the bishop of Cologne allowed both forms. He is otherwise a good epicure; he believes as much as the See of Rome.
6. from the Canon.
The Canon in the Mass is cobbled together from many lies and is broken. The Greeks do not have it. I, said D. M. Luther, since
1) Franciscus. Cf. Walch, old edition, vol. XXI, 406, no. 454.
I was in Jtalia, 1) saw that those in Milan had no such Canonem. And when I wanted to say mass in that place, they said to me: Nos sumus Ambrosiani: We are Am.
brosian; which also thus happened and is true.
It is said that the Milanese disagreed with each other and quarreled whether they should accept Ambrosii's or Gregory's book in their church; they asked God to show them by a miracle. When they had placed both books in the church at night, they found Ambrosii's book on the high altar completely unbroken, but Gregory's book was torn into pieces and scattered from time to time. They interpreted this to mean that Ambrose should remain on the altar in Milan and Gregory should be scattered throughout the world. So the people of Milan hold it differently than the Roman church.
7) Where the jewelry and clothing etc. that are used in the monastery come from.
The vestments, ornaments and clothing used at mass and other ceremonies in the priesthood are taken partly from Moses and partly from the pagans. For since the priests saw that the people were drawn to the market or playhouses by public spectacles and had a desire to do so, and that the churches remained desolate and empty as a result, they were moved and induced to set up and use such spectacles and jugglery in the church as well, so that the children and unlearned people would be moved and provoked to go to church all the better and watch such jugglery and folly. Just look at what they did on Easter evening for children's play and bragging. That pleased everyone, and would have been fine in part, if superstition had not been added to it.
(This paragraph in Lauterbach, July 27, 1538, p. 103.)
He told a story about when he was a young monk in Erfurt and went terminiren [begging] in a village,
1) In 1510, when Luther was on his way back from Rome to Germany. Cf. Walch, old edition, vol. XX, 2227, § 71, where Luther reports the same.
and when he was ready to celebrate Mass, the sexton began to sing to the lute: Kyrie eleison, and the Patrem. Then I had to sing the mass, although I could hardly contain myself from laughing, because I was not used to such organs. I had to direct my Gloria in excelsis after his Kyrie.
8. the mass in the papacy the greatest service and good work.
(Lauterbach, Dec. 5, 1538, p. 186.)
On December 5, he said much about the exceedingly pernicious error of one's own righteousness, which has drawn even the best people away from the truth of God. The Jews performed their sacrifices ex opere operato, that they should be a propitiation and satisfaction, and that they should, as it were, throw a morsel to the enraged Cerberus [hound of hell]; since Christ alone is the right morsel, and all their sacrifices are åõ÷áñéóôé [thank-offerings] and a
Thanksgiving should have been. The papists' error of the sacrifice of the Mass ex opere operato, where an ignorant priest who does not understand Latin makes atonement for sins on behalf of others, is of this kind. Then Luther began to say many things about the abomination of the Mass, which imprisoned all people, both those who said it and those who were present. If a priest was put away from saying mass, it was his highest punishment, because saying mass was their one and only thing [fac totum]. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Mass is not abolished so quickly in England, because it has a great appearance.
9. from the first meffe.
(Lauterbach, Dec. 5, 1538, p. 186.)
The first mass carried a lot of money, it was the right money network with sacrifices and gift. Then they put the Horas Canonicas with torches to the bridegroom. There the young lord had to have the first dance with his mother, if she was still alive, with great weeping of the spectators, as [when] Christ danced with his mother. When I held my first mass in Erfurt, I almost died because there was no faith, but I only looked at the worthiness of my person, so that I would not miss something and thereby sin.
10. what belongs to a papist mass.
To the papist mass must belong the character, the mark that one was smeared and consecrated, and an altar stone. If one was only a priest and could say mass for the dead, that could feed him, because it was a rich fair that carried much profit. But if one had a mass for the Virgin Mary, he was well off.
11. ignorance of the measuring monkeys.
(Lauterbach, Dec. 18, 1538, p. 193.)
There was talk about the mass priests of the Italians and France, who were completely clumsy and unlearned, because they were completely uneducated, did not understand Latin and lived only from the continuation of the masses. They far surpass our German priests in ignorance. How many sacraments are there? Three. Which ones? The sprinkler, the censer and the crucifix. The one can be enough for you. If someone was ordained and could say three Masses, it was enough: 1) The Requiem [for the dead], 2) of the Blessed Virgin, for all Sundays, 3) of the Trinity or of the Holy Cross etc. Great was the blindness, unfortunately, and if the days had not been shortened, we would all have become senseless. But I fear it will be worse after us, because of the great contempt of the Word. For princes and cities take little notice of the holy religion, let everything go, punish no evil. Very dangerous times will follow. In short, the world is a strange lot. May our Lord God put an end to it.
12. whether the mass is a sacrifice.
(The first paragraph Cordatus No. 537.)
At the Diet of Augsburg, the papists insisted that we should agree that the Mass was a sacrifice of praise, so that they might make do with the word sacrifice, and they were disgraced. But I would have gladly conceded this, if they also wanted to allow each communicant to sacrifice.
The mass must be aborted, primarily for two reasons: The first, so also
reason can judge that it is shameful handling and dishonest enjoyment to sell a mass for a penny or eight pennies. The other is judged by the spirit, namely, that it is an abominable idolatry, that with it the whole Christ is destroyed and buried, because they want to do enough for sin with it, just for the sake of the work, if only that was done.
These two abuses cannot excuse them at all, that is certain; although all universities have conspired, consented and sworn together to defend and preserve this abomination. For this reason, we cannot easily come to terms with the papists, nor can we agree with them; for if they were to drop and abolish the private and anglican mass, they would have to restitute and restore everything that they have lied about, stolen, and snatched away from princes, lords, and the people with the mass.
There has not been a prince in the papacy who said, "My endowment is to be made for the sake of poor virgins, to endow them honestly, but only for the forgiveness of sins; for thus read and testify all the letters and seals of princes. I would rather let no peasant give anything to the priests, monks, and the spiritless; indeed, I would much rather suffer Turks and Tarterns than that the mass should remain. But the world is blind, it looks askance, 1) when one takes a monastery; since it, the world, eats nothing more, 2) than the drunkenness given to the sows.
The Mass is a twofold impiety and abomination: first, it is a theological blasphemy; second, it is a political sin, namely, a fraud and theft.
13. the mass is the biggest service among the whales.
(Lauterbach, Feb. 2, 1538, p. 19.')
Doctor Schneidewein said: That the Italians were Lutherans in many ways and that they easily assaulted him. If you had not attacked the mass, there would be a great coincidence in Italy. But to reject the mass is in their ears the greatest abomination, because they are so attached to
1) So Stangwald instead of: "stale".
2) So Stangwald instead of: "is".
The people are attached to this service, that whoever has heard a mass on one day is without danger and cannot sin. Therefore, the greatest sins and murders happen after they have heard the mass. That is why, after hearing the mass, they let out their long-cherished hatred and resentment in murder. For someone who, after two years of hatred and resentment, could not meet his enemy with [all] reenactments, seized him in the church under the Mass, killed him, and fled. After that, Luther said: "The book of the abbatial Mass is quite harsh, written against the blasphemous adversaries. It is not for the beginners, they are annoyed by it. For whoever should have taken the mass from me twenty years ago should also have come [together] with me in great numbers, for I revered it with all my heart.
hearts. And yet, the foundation of the Mass and the entire papacy is nothing other than acquisition and profit.
14. where the fair got its name.
Missa, the Mass, comes from the Ebraic word Maosim, which means gathered alms, donation or tax, for the sake of the priests or poor people.
15. abomination of the fair.
(Cordatus No. 37.)
Just as no one can say how ungodly a desecration of the sanctuary the mass is, so no one can say how much money it has lost and how much money has been lost through it.