Jan Huss on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary
“… and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.” (Quoting Sirach 24)
“Although the words of this epistle primarily relate to the uncreated Wisdom, they also secondarily relate to the glorious Virgin Mary.” (In die Assumptionis B. Virginis, early 1400s)
Martin Luther
Today the festival of our dear lady, the mother of God, is observed to celebrate her death and departure above. There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know. And since the Holy Spirit has told us nothing about it, we can make of it no article of faith. It is enough to know that she lives in Christ. (Martin Luther, Weimar edition of 1522 Sermon on the Feast of the Assumption)
Heinrich Bullinger
Elijah was transported body and soul in a chariot of fire; he was not buried in any Church bearing his name, but mounted up to heaven, so that . . . we might know what immortality and recompense God prepares for his faithful prophets and for his most outstanding and incomparable creatures. . . . It is for this reason, we believe, that the pure and immaculate embodiment of the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, that is to say her saintly body, was carried up to heaven by the angels. (De Origine Erroris 1568)
Ulrich Zwingli
“I firmly trust that Mary is exalted by God above all creatures of blessed men or angels in eternal bliss.”
27 Qu. in Gottfried Wilhelm Locher, Zwingli’s Thought: New Perspectives (Leiden: Brill, 1981), 88. (Preached on Feast of the Assumption)
Martin Bucer
“No Christian doubts that the most worthy Mother of the Lord lives with her beloved Son in heavenly joy.”
29 M. Bucer, qu. in R. Bäumer and L. Scheffczyk (eds.), Marienlexikon, vol III (St Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1991), 200.
John Wycliffe
“Even fellow pilgrims upon earth, moved by brotherly love, help one another in the time of need, but the blessed Virgin in heaven beholds our necessities, and is still fuller of love, still richer in compassion: and all the more faithfully does she care for our needs, as she knows that she has attained to so high honor in order that she might become the refuge of sinners.” (Sermon on the Assumption)
Jean Gagny (Mid 1500s Prominent Reformer)
“I will also explain how this is the story of the virgin & mother Mary.
A sign appeared in heaven. I say this sign is the Virgin Mary, of whom Isaiah the Prophet of the Lord once said, a Virgin will conceive and bear a son.”
The Feast of the Assumption of Mary continues to be observed in Lutheran/Heavily Protestant Churches in the official Feast Days of these locations and years.
Weissenburg 1528
Dessau 1532
Nordlingen 1538
Brandenburg 1540
Palatinate-Neuberg 1543
Scwabisch Hall 1543
Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach 1548
Hohenlohe 1553
Nuremberg 1543
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THE WOMAN OF REVELATION 12: MARY OR ANOTHER?
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