Heil! Pardon, dearest Spalatin, the brevity of this writing. I am about to travel with the Visitation. Our dearest father,D.Martin, had sometimes in a sermon earnestly
admonished for the sake of the public honor and Christian propriety that someone should not immediately within two or three months after the death of a spouse, as several were doing at that time, enter into another marriage. We,as often as it came to us, gladly observe this propriety and admonish that others should follow it but yet several cases
can occur when something different is advisable in cases of necessity,poverty,conscience and in these we permit what God permits. However, where there must be consideration of offense ,so that nothing is taken away from the public honoring, that some of the ostentation of a wedding celebration is omitted yet not everything. This is not a rigid determination, as one says, yet, as I have said, we are rather concerned for the sake of honoring marriage for many reasons as you very well know.That this should be a matter specified by law we do not propose. The rest I commend to your discretion. Wittenberg on the Monday after Reminiscere (10 March)1533.
No comments:
Post a Comment