St. Martin’s Day

Writes Lutheran Pastor H.R. Curtis:

I should have written earlier — you needed a St. Martin’s Day article up today. That’s the proper thing to celebrate on Nov. 11. Soldier in imperialist army is generous to a beggar, has vision of Christ, is baptized, struggles through two more years of “peace time” service, but then when confronted with an imperial war assignment refuses saying, “I am a soldier of Christ. I cannot fight.” Later on he intercedes for the separation of Church and State by talking the Emperor out of assassinating some heretics (but another rotten bishop talks him back into it. The emperor, by the way was Magnus Maximus — how’s that for a government thugee name?

At any rate — in our family we celebrate St. Martin’s day with kids doing the traditional giving away of some toys and clothes to the needy and then grilled cheese sandwiches sliced in half — a la St. Martin’s cloak.  And then the Divine Service tonight will be his readings — we don’t observe the civil calendar in Church.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.