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so
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so
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ah brother martin
there's the man who did in four of the
certain sacraments
denied the miracle of the mass crippled
the pope raised the holy scriptures over
the authority of rome and the individual
conscience over mother church herself
i plead guilty to those charges and who
tried to make the church conform to him
because he could not conform to the
church and that
it doesn't matter why i did it only what
came out of it
doesn't it now
and do you also plead guilty to
abandoning we who got your reformation
for you i abandoned those who would
reform by force in the very name of the
prince of peace
only after that force had got you what
you wanted
i am
bleeding he has bled
and you're alive and well and cuddling
in the arms of your nun
now you even look like a butcher
oh
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now you must choose one of two ways
either to leave us now
or give up this world and devote
yourself entirely to god and our own
but i must add this
once you have committed yourself
you are not free for whatever reason to
throw off the yoke of a people
for you will have accepted it freely
while you were able to discover
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he whom it was your will to dress in the
garb of the order o lord
invest him also with eternal life
the lord divest you of the former man
and of all his works
the lord invest you with the new man
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foreign
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our
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my
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i brother market to make profession and
promise obedience to almighty god
to marry the sacred virgin
and to you my brother prior to this
cloister
in the name of the order of eramites of
saint augustine and his successors
to live without property and in chastity
according to the rule of our venerable
father augustine until death
lord jesus christ
our leader and our strength
by the fire of humility you have set
aside this servant martin
from the rest of mankind
we humbly pray that this fire will also
cut him up from carnal intercourse
and from the community of those things
done on earth by men
through the sanctity shed from heaven
upon
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in the year of our lord 1506
martin luther
like many another medieval monk
sought by the adoption of the cowl
to protect his immortal soul against the
attacks of demons fiends and devils
so terrifiedly real to the men of his
time
at this time of course we never even
heard of martin luther he was just
another monk
germany was carpeted with them
but this one
sought to outdo his brothers in
practicing the councils of perfection
hoping by mortification of the flesh and
the performance of good works
to subdue the first agonized murmurings
of doubt
what are the tools of good works
first to love lord god with all one soul
then once neighbor is oneself
then not to kill
not to commit adultery not to steal
not to covet not to bear false witness
to honor all men
to deny yourself in order to follow
christ
not to yield to anger not to nurse a
grudge
to keep death daily before your eyes to
know for certain that god sees you
everywhere
when evil thoughts come into your heart
to dash them at once on the love of
christ
to desire eternal life with all your
spiritual longing
to keep constant vigilance over the
actions of your life
to keep your mouth from evil in the
brave thought
to fear the day of judgment
to dread hell
to confess your past sins to god that
you may be steadfast against the desires
of the flesh to chastise the body to
love fasting to clothe the naked to
visit the sick to bury the dead
to prefer nothing to the love of christ
behold these are the tools of the
spiritual craft
if we employ these unceasingly and
render account of them on the day of
judgment
then we shall receive from the lord in
return that reward that he himself has
promised
i hath not seen nor ear heard what god
hath prepared for those that love
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my soul
i lost the body of a child
a child's body eyes of a child and at
the first sound of my own childish voice
i lost the body of a child
and i was afraid and i went back to find
it
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but i'm still afraid
i'm afraid and there's an end of it
but i mean
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continually
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for instance of the noise the prior dog
makes on a steel evening when he rolls
over on his side and licks his teeth
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i'm afraid of the darkness
and the hole in it
and i see it some time of every day and
some days more than once even
and there's no button to it there's no
button to my breath that i can't reach
it
why
why do you think
lost the body of a child
hanging on a mother's breast and close
to the big warm body of a man
and i can't find it
i confess to god blessed mary i holy
father augustine to all the saints and
all present that i've seen exceedingly
in thought word indeed by my own fault
i confess i didn't live myself for the
night office without the scapula and had
to return for it for this failure to
christ i abjectly seek forgiveness and
whatever punishment the brian community
is pleased to impose on me
i confess i didn't mean to have a candle
ready at the mars
twice in my sloth i've admitted to shave
and even excuse myself pretending to
believe my skin to be fatter than that
of my brothers
i confess i did ask for a bath
pretending to myself that it was
necessary for my health but as i lowered
my body into the tub it came to me that
it was an inordinate desire and that it
was my soul it was soiled
i am alone and against myself
i am a worm and no man
crush out the worminess in me stamp on
me
if my flesh would leak and dissolve and
i could live his bone
i were all bone
plucked bone and brain warm hair and a
bony heart
if i were all bone i could brandish
myself without terror without any terror
at all
i could be indestructible
let brother poor liners remember our
visit to our near sister house and
lifting his eyes repeatedly at a woman
in the town who dropped arms in his bag
i remember and i begged forgiveness then
let him remember also that though our
dear father augustine does not forbid us
to see women
he blames us if we should deserve them
i confess it while i was bottling wine i
said i confess that i have offended
grievously against humility sometimes
failing to be content with the meanest
and worst of everything i have declared
myself to myself lower and lower and
have less account than all other men but
i failed in my most in most heart to
believe it
for many weeks many weeks it seems to me
i was put to cleaning of the trees i did
it and i did it vigorously not tepidly
with all my poor strength without
whispering or objections to anyone
but although i fulfilled my task and i
did it well sometimes there were
murmurings in my heart
i pray that they would cease knowing
that god seeing my murmuring heart must
reject my work and it was as good as not
done
i sought out my master and he punished
me telling me to fast for two days i
fasted for three but even so i can't
tell if the murmurings are really gone
and i ask for your prayers
and i ask
for your prayers that i may be able to
go on fulfilling the same task
let brother martin remember all the
degrees of humility
and let him go on cleaning the latrines
indulgencium absolute cnm heteromycionem
pekkatorum nostrom
amen
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dominar
foreign
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me
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ah
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i am not
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he suffered that way for months his mind
desperately trying to avoid the nameless
horror that constantly had sailed it
any other man would have been done for
but not martin
he learned to protect his mind by
dropping his fearful murmurings out of
his head and into his bowels
meanwhile he buried himself in an orgy
of ritual and study preparing himself
for his first mass
imagine your father's here
my father hmm yes he asked to see you
but i told him it would be better to
wait until afterwards
what did he have to come for i should
have told him not to come
to the estranged father who didn't want
to be present when his son celebrated
his first mass
what
like you're running all over with sweat
again are you sick
how are you no
you let me wipe your face you have much
time you sure you're not sick
won't move that's all that's nothing out
of the way
could we be shaved yes before i went to
confession why do you think i should
shave again
a few overlooked little bristles won't
make much difference
any more than a few imaginary sins yeah
that's better
what do you mean imaginary sin
i mean there are plenty of priests with
dirty ears administering the sacraments
but this isn't the time to talk about
that come on martin you've got nothing
to be afraid of how do you know
you always talk as though lightning were
just about to strike behind tell me what
you mean
i
only meant the whole convert knows
you're always making up sins you've
never committed
what's the use of all this talk of
penitence if i can't feel it in the
moment you've confessed turn to the
altar you're reckoning for a priest
again
every time you break wind they say you
rush to a compressor you say that
it's a favorite joke
they say that with it martin
you're protected from many of the
world's evils in here we're expected to
master them not be obsessed by them
god leads us hope in his everlasting
mercy try to remember that what have i
gained from coming into the sacred order
am i not still the same i'm still
envious i'm still impatient i'm still
passionate how can you ask a question
like that i do ask it i'm asking you
what have i gained
and in any of this all we can ever learn
is how to
die that's no answer
it's the only one i can think of at the
moment
all you can teach me in this sacred
place is how to doubt
that's all you taught me
it's really all you taught
and all the while i'm living in the
devil's worm bag
it hurts me to see you like this
sucking up cares like a leech
you will be there beside me won't you
yes of course
and if anything goes wrong or you you
forget anything we'll see to it but you
won't you'll be all right don't make any
mistakes
what if i do just one mistake one word
one sin margin kneel down forgive me
brother vine the truth is this kneel
it's just this
all i can feel is god's hatred repeat
the apostles creed he's like a glutton
the way he gorges me he's a glutton he
gorges me and spits me out in lumps
after me
i believe in god the father almighty
maker of heaven and earth i'm a trough i
tell you he's swelling about in me all
the time and in jesus christ his only
son our lord and in jesus christ his
only son our laws conceived by the holy
ghost born of the virgin mary suffered
under pontius pilate was crucified dead
and buried he descended into heaven the
third day he rose again from the dead he
ascended into heaven and sitteth on the
right hand of god the father almighty
the mentor shall come to judge the quick
and the dead
and every sunrise sings a song of death
i believe
god
i believe in the holy ghost the holy
catholic church the communion of saints
the forgiveness of sins again
forgiveness of sins what will sin again
i believe in the forgiveness of sin do
you
hear you
then remember this
when we say in the apostles creed i
believe in the forgiveness of sins each
one of us must believe that his sins are
forgiven
i wish my bowels would open
i'm blocked up like an old crypt
try to remember that martin
yes i'll try
better get ready now
help you
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my father alone
no he's brought at least a
dozen friends i should say
a mother with him
yeah
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well i never thought he'd come
why didn't he tell me
well he's
here now anyway
he's uh
also given 20 guild into the chapter as
a present so he can't be too
disappointed with you 20 killed
it's a lot of money to my father
it's three times what it cost him to
send me to the university for a year
sweaty girl
he works in the mind you know yes you
told me
as tough as you can think of
thank you brother viper
for what
today would be an ordeal for any kind of
man
in a short while you'll be handling the
first time
the body and blood of christ
god bless you
somewhere
in the body of a child
satan foresaw in me what i'm suffering
now
that's why he prepares open pits for me
and all kinds of tricks to bring me down
so that i keep wondering if i'm the only
man living who's baited and surrounded
by dreams and afraid to move you're a
fool
really a fool god isn't angry with you
it's you who are angry with him
oh mary
mary
all i see of christ is a flame and
raging on a big ball
pray to your son ask him to steal his
anger
look upon him
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but not the partaking of thy body lord
jesus christ which i unworthy as i am
make bold to receive
turn against me into judgment and
damnation
but through thy loving kindness let it
safeguard me body and soul and bring me
healing
though who art god living and reigning
with god the father in the name the
unity of the holy spirit
world without end amen
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i will take the bread of heaven
and will call upon the name of the lord
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lord i am not worthy that thou should
enter beneath my roof but say only the
word and my soul shall be healed
lord i am not worthy that thou should
stand her beneath my roof but say only
the word and my soul shall be healed
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lord i am not worthy
that thou should enter beneath my roof
say only the word and my soul shall be
healed
the body of our lord jesus christ
preserve my soul
into everlasting life
amen
what
return shall i make
to the lord for all that he has given me
i will take the chalice of salvation
and will invoke the name of the lord
please
praised be the lord
when i invoke his name i shall be secure
from all my enemies
folly of our lord jesus christ
preserve
my soul into everlasting life
amen
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what about some more of this eh
i don't think you can get away with it
i'm getting my 20 guildens worth before
the days i'll go after all it's a proud
day for all of us it certainly is
forgive me i wasn't looking
don't give me that you monks don't miss
much
eyes like gimlet's
ears like open dre
tell me what's your opinion of brother
martin
he's a good devout monk
yes
yes well i suppose you can't say much
about each other
tell me would you say that in this
monastery or any monastery you like
you're strong as the weakest member of
the team no i don't think that's sir
well wouldn't you say
i don't mean this is any criticism of
mine but of one bad monk
one really monster-sized roaring great
of a monk if he got going really
going he could get the order such a
reputation it might even have to go into
liquidation
are you a learned man you know latin and
greek and hebrew only latin i'm afraid
very little greek really
martin knows latin and greek
halfway through hebrew too yes martin is
a brilliant man we're not always gifted
as his no
well what would be your opinion about
this
i think my opinion would be that the
church is bigger than those who are in
her don't let him get you into an
argument he'll argue about anything
especially if he doesn't know what he's
talking about i do know something about
it
i was merely asking a question you
shouldn't be asking such questions on a
day like today
it's a really once only occasion like a
wedding
or a funeral
by the way what's happened to the corpse
where's brother martin i expect he's
still in his cell
should have thought he had enough of
being on his own by now the boy's
probably a bit well you know anxious
about seeing you again too what's he got
to be anxious about well apart from
everything else
it's nearly three years since he last
saw you
there you are my boy we were wondering
what happened to you
come and sit down there's a good lad
your father and i have been punishing
the convent wine cellar i'm afraid
bit early in the day for me too eat for
yourself
i haven't even started
my dear boy are you all right you look
so pale brother martin
brother lazarus i should call you
i'm much better thank you
in shake have you
much better thank you father stomach
upset is that what it was
you look like death warmed up all right
have a little wine it'll make you feel
better
i know that milky look i've seen it too
many times a drop of wine i'll put the
color back in there you're all right
aren't you that vomit all over your cell
i expect
have to clean it up himself won't they
can't have your mother running in
getting down on her knees to mop it all
up i managed to clean it up all right
how are you father
me
i'm all right
i'm all right i don't try lupus is there
anything wrong with me
your old man's strong enough
we have to be strong
if we're not strong won't take any time
at all before we're knocked flat on our
backs
not on our backs and finished
and we can't afford to be finished as if
we're finished that's it
that's the end
your father's doing very well indeed
he's got his own investment in the mind
now he's beginning to work for himself
that's the way things are going
everywhere now
must be pleased one please make money
not pleased to break my back doing it
was mother
um
i'm sorry she couldn't come
but it's a
it's a bad journey as you know
so she sends her love
there's nothing wrong with just too much
work too many kids too wrong
still there's only one way of going up
you to old nick when he comes for you
just to show him your kids
one thing if you've been lucky and the
plague's kept away from you
you can pop it out
from under the counter at them
that to you
and you've done something for yourself
forever
forever and ever
amen
father
why do you hate me being here
what do you mean
i don't hate you being here
try to give me a straight answer if you
can i'd like to know
what you're talking about
don't know what you're talking about
i should like you to tell me
and don't say i could have been a lawyer
so you could have been
you could have been better than that
you could win a burger master you could
win a magistrate a chancellor
you could have anything
so what
i don't want to talk about certainly not
in front of complete strangers you're
drinking too much wine i could drink
this convent piss from now to gabriel's
horn i got a concert will blow next
thursday so what's the difference
this the wine you use in the mask
i'm asking a straight question now is
this the wine you use
yeah
have some
you know what to say
no what do they say
i tell you
read thou out and why now out
and all we shall remain so
my father didn't mean that
he's a very devout man i know
brother bynan will show you over the
content yes yes i'd like that if you're
finished that is oh yes i've had more
than enough things
right shall we go then brother
i'll come back for you shall i
hans you'll stay here
just did you lie
fine boy but i'll see you before i go
yes
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martin
i didn't mean to embarrass you
no it was my fault
not in front of everyone
i shouldn't have asked a question like
that
it's just that it was a shock to see you
so suddenly i
almost forgotten what your voice sounded
like
why did you get all
snarled up like that during the mass
you're disappointed
want to know young man like you just
don't forget their words i don't
understand what happened
i lifted up my head at the host and as i
was speaking the words i heard them as
if it were the first time
suddenly they struck at my life
i don't know
really don't
maybe your father and mother are wrong
after all and
god's right
whatever it is you had to find you could
only find it by becoming a mom
you don't believe that do you
no i don't
didn't say what you mean
anywhere
that's what you want
i say exactly what i mean
i think a man murders himself in these
places
i kill no one but myself
i don't care
gives me the shivers
that's why i couldn't bring your mother
if you want to know
the gospels are the only mother i've
ever had have you ever read in the
gospels have you read what's written in
there
thou shalt honor thy father and thy
mother
you're not understanding me because you
don't want to
oh that's fine talk
fine holy talk but it won't wash it
won't wash martin because you can't ever
however you try you can't ever get away
from your body
it's what you live in is all you have to
die in the body of your father and your
mother we are bodies about we're bound
together for all of us you're like any
man who was ever born into this world
but you'd like to pretend that it was
you made you
not the body of a woman and another man
churches kings and fathers
why did they ask so much and why do they
get so much more than they deserve
i think i deserve more than you've given
me
i've given you
i don't have to give you i am
that's all i need to give you that's all
you're going to get
you wanted me to be a lawyer learn latin
be a master of arts
all you want is me to justify you
well i can't and what's more i won't i
can't even justify myself
so just stop asking me what have i
accomplished what have i done for you
i've done for you all i'll ever do and
that's live and wait to die
why do you blame me for everything i
don't blame you i'm just not grateful
that's all
look
i'm not especially a good man i know but
i believe in god
i mean jesus christ his son but the
church will take care of me
and that i can make some sort of life
for myself with a little
joy in it somewhere
where's your joy
you wrote to me once when you were at
the university that only christ could
light up a place you live in
what's the point
what's the point of the place you live
in turns out to be a hovel
don't you think it might be better not
to be able to see at all
i'd rather be able to see
i see a young man learned and full of
life abusing his youth with fear and
humiliation
you think you're facing up to it in here
but you're not you're running away
you're running away and you can't help
it if it's so easy in here
why do you think the rest of the world
isn't knocking the gates down to get in
because they haven't given up that's why
well there it is you think i've given up
yes
i already
stand monk's wines given me a headache
i'm sorry
oh yes we're all sorry
what a good does any of us
i suppose fathers and sons always
disappoint each other i worked for you i
went without for you well
well
if i beat you fairly often pretty hard
sometimes it was no more than any other
boy was it
what do you think it is makes you
different
other men are all right
you're stubborn you were always stubborn
you've always had to resist haven't you
you disappointed me too
and not just a few times but at some
time of every day i ever remember
hearing or seeing you
but as you say maybe that was no more
than any other boy
but i loved you i loved you the best
i remember mother beating me once or
stealing a nut
and on that day it seemed to me that
the pain belonged to me and to no one
else
it went no further than my body between
my knees and my chin
but always before when you beat me for
something it seemed
we shared the pain you and i
and the rest of the world
anyway
i wanted your love more than anyone's
you never said so
you never even gave me that feeling
you were afraid weren't you
you know martin i think you were always
scared
ever since you could get off your knees
and walk
you were scared for the good reason that
that's what you most wanted to be
i'll tell you
i'll tell you a walk like that day that
day coming home from effort when the
thunderstorm broke
you were so scared you lay on the ground
and cried out to sedan
because you'd seen a bit of lightning
and thought you'd seen a vision i saw it
all right you went and asked her to save
you on condition you became a monk
i saw it
so it still sent iron
some time you should have another little
think about that heavenly vision that
wangled you away into the cloisters
i hope it was a vision
not some delusion or trick of the devil
i really hope so
because i couldn't bear to think of it
otherwise
sorry we had to
quarrel it shouldn't have turned out
like this at all today
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goodbye my
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yeah
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have a drink of holy wife
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my
so the praising ended
and the blasphemy began
though it was ten years before we began
to realize it
during those years our troubled young
priest became a brilliant theologian
he left the cloister to teach at the
university of wittenberg and his doubts
became academic controversy
brilliant stuff of that
then something happened
the consequences of which
none of us could have imagined
least of all marty
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oh
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so
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oh
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oh
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are you wondering who i am
or what i am
is there anyone here who hasn't heard of
me
i don't know why i'm here
no
good
but
just in case
just in case mine
it happens to be among you
one blind
maimed
who hadn't heard of me
i'd open his ears for him
and wash them out with sacred soap
but he and all of you may hear the good
news i bring you on this bright and
sunny day
i am
john cattle
dominican inquisitor sub commissioner to
the archbishop of mines
and what i bring you is indulgences
indulgences
made possible by the red blood of jesus
christ
and this red cross you see standing here
behind me
is the standard of those who carry them
what else do you see up here
why
the arms of his holiness
is all in it
oh leo the tenth
prince of the medici an old and noble
and charitable italian family
it's him who sent me
with indulgences for you
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look at them
all properly sealed
an indulgence in every envelope
and one of these can be used today now
before it's too late
look at them
take a good look there in the sin so big
that one of these letters can't remitted
i don't care what it is i can settle it
for you here and now
why
if anyone ever offered violence to the
blessed virgin mary mother of god
herself
he did only prayer
as long as he paid up all he could
he'd find himself forgiven
now and
how many mortal sins are committed by
you
by you
in a single day
just think for a moment
in one
single day of your life
can you find the answer
oh you say
not too many as one a day oh no very
well then
how many in a month
how many in six months
how many in a year
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how many in a whole lifetime
yes you needn't fidget and shuffle your
feet it doesn't bear thinking about it
try to count up
all the years of torment hiding up
so why won't you
or as little as a quarter of a florin
buy yourself one of these letters
so that in the hour of death
the gates of paradise be flung open to
you
and furthermore my friends
these letters are not only for the
living
but for the dead too
so don't hold back
think of your dear ones think of
yourselves
for twelve groats you can rescue your
father from agony and yourself from
certain disaster
so if you only have the coat on your
back
then strip it off
but remember
as soon as your money rattles in this
box and the cash spell rings
the soul flies out of purgatory and
stings
so come on then
get your money out
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well
all this was accepted practice we'd seen
it all our lives been going on since the
crusades
not perhaps in quite such a mercenary
fashion
but martin outraged at the mockery felt
obliged to warn us all of its spiritual
dangers
and many began to listen and to murmur
and so he posed a problem for his friend
and mentor johan von stupids vicar
general of the augustinian order
of whom he was to say
without him
i would have sunk into hell
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the birds always seem to fly away the
moment i come out here the birds
unfortunately have no faith perhaps it's
simply they don't like me
they hadn't learned yet that you mean
are you treating me to one of your
allegories you recognized it anyway and
i ought to ever since i came into the
cloister i became a craftsman allegory
maker myself
only last week i was lecturing on
galatians 3 verse 3 and i allegorized
going to the lavatory are you so foolish
that what she had begun in the spirit
she would now end in the flesh that's
right
but allegories aren't much help and
theology
except to decorate a house that's
already been built by argument
well it's a house you've been able to
unlock for a great many hours
i never dreamed when i first came here
to wittenberg that the university's
reputation would ever become what it has
in such a short time
and it's mostly due to you
if ever a man could get to heaven
through monkey that man would be me you
know quite well what i mean i'm talking
about your scholarship and what you
managed to do with it not your monthly
as you call it
the only wonder is you haven't killed
yourself with your prayers of watchings
all these trials and tribulations you go
through their
meat and drink to you
would you ever stop lecturing me about
this
of course not
why do you think you'll come here to see
me in the garden when you could be
inside working well if it'll please you
i have so little time what with my
lectures and study i'm scarcely able to
carry out even the basic requirements of
the rule
i'm delighted to hear it
you've always been obsessed with the
rule because it serves very nicely as a
protection for
what protection oh brother martin don't
pretend to look so innocent
protection against the demands of your
own instinct that's what
you see you think you admire authority
and you do
but unfortunately you can't submit to it
so what you do by your exaggerated
attention to the rule is to make that
authority ridiculous
and the reason you do that is because
you're determined to substitute for that
authority something else yourself
myself don't come along martin
i've been vicar general too long not to
made that little discovery
did you know that you could be
complaining about you
why what have i done preaching against
indulgences again oh there
well i was very mild
yes well i've heard your mildness in the
pulpit
now remember
the duke paid all the expenses of your
promotion
he was very cross when he spoke to me
he said you didn't made some reference
to the collection of holy relics in the
castle church
most of those are paid for by the sale
of indulgences as you know
did you say anything about them well
yes
but not about those in his castle church
i did make some point in passing about
someone who claimed to have a feather
from the wing of the angel gabriel oh
yes i heard about him and i just
finished off by saying how it is that
christ had 12 apostles and 18 of them
are buried in germany
anyway the duke is coming to hear your
next sermon for himself so try and keep
off the subject
it's all saints day soon remember
and all those relics will be out on show
for everyone to go cat
well the duke's a good fellow he's very
proud of his collection
doesn't help to be rude about it
what are you making fixes for
oh it's nothing just a slight discomfort
father
you can't strike bargains with god am i
right yes well that's all i've said
the lord our god reigns here no longer
he has resigned all power to the pope
i actually heard john tetzel say that
hear him write about him attack him
theologically intellectually
scholastically but
to the select few of your peers in latin
not from the pulpit to shake the faith
of the peasants and the shopkeepers and
the young knights
if you give the common man an idea that
will excuse his greed and his natural
resistance to authority take it and run
with it
i don't look to whom i speak
i'll leave you to deal with it you will
anyway
but try and be careful
remember
i agree with what you say
but the moment someone disagrees or
objects to what you're saying
that will be the moment when you'll have
to measure the strengths of your belief
father
i'm
never sure of the words
till i hear them out loud
perhaps that's the meaning of the word
the word is me and i am the word
anyway try and be a little prudent
but look at his mesmes
he never really gets into any serious
trouble but he still manages to make his
point people like erasmus get upset
because i talk of pigs and christ in the
same breath
well you may be right
erasmus is a fine scholar but there are
too many scholars who think they're
better because they insinuate in that in
what you're saying playing german
i don't forget
you began this affair in the name of our
lord jesus christ
you must do as god commands you of
course but remember
saint jerome once wrote about a
philosopher who destroyed his own eyes
so that it would give him more freedom
to study
take care of your eyes my son
and do something about those damn powers
i will
who knows if i break wind in wittenberg
they might smell it in rome
oh
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my text is from the epistle of paul the
apostle to the romans
chapter 1 verse 17
for therein is the righteousness of god
revealed from faith to faith
we are living in a dangerous time
you may not think so
but it could be that this is the most
dangerous time since the light first
broke upon the earth
we christians
seem to be wise outwardly and mad
inwardly
and in this jerusalem we have built
there are blasphemies flourishing that
make the pagan egyptians and romans no
worse than giggling children
a man is not a good christian because he
understands greek and hebrew
jerome knew five languages
but he's inferior to august and a new
only one
of course erasmus wouldn't agree with me
but then perhaps one day the lord will
open his eyes for him
but listen
a man without christ
becomes his own shell
shall we be content to be shells
shells filled with
small trinkets
and what are the trinkets
today is the eve of all saints
and the holy relics will be on show to
you all
to the hungry ones whose lives are made
satisfied by trinkets
by an imposing procession and the
dressings up of all kinds of dismal
things
you'll mumble for magic with lighted
candles to say to anthony for your
aerosyphilis to saint valentine for your
epilepsy to say to apollonia if you've
got the toothache and to say louis to
stop your beer from going south
and tomorrow you'll wait outside the
castle church so that you can get a
cheap rape glimpse of saint jerome's two
or four pieces each of saint chrysostom
and saint augustine and six of saint
bernard
the deacons will have to link hands to
hold you back while you struggle to gawk
at four hairs from our lady's head and
at her veil staying with her son's blood
you'll sleep outside in the street with
a garbage all night so that you can
stuff your eyes like roasting birds on a
scrap of swaddling clothes
at 11 pieces of wood from the original
crib
one wisp of straw from the manger and a
gold coin specially minted by the three
wise men for the occasion
your emptiness will be frothing over at
the sight of a strand of jesus beard
and one of the nails driven into his
hands
and at the remains of the low from the
last supper
shelves for shelves
empty things for empty men
now there are some who complain of these
things
but they write in latin for scholars
but now who'll speak out so that
everyone can understand
here it is
someone's got to build a cat
for you must be made to know
that there's no security
there's no security at all either in
indulgences
holy busy work
or anywhere in this world
it came to me
while i was in my tower
what they called the monk sweathouse
the jades the john whatever you're
pleased to call it
i was struggling with the text i've
given you for therein is the
righteousness of god revealed from faith
to faith
i say struggling because
it is as hard for me to do what i must
do
as it is for a man to truthfully call
his own mother a
and as i was sitting there
i seemed
to sense beneath me a large
rat
a heavy
wet plague rat
ready to slash at my private with its
death teeth
and i sat in my pain fumbling with the
scripture
until
like light itself the words emerged
the just shall live by faith
at that moment my pain vanished
the rat was gone
and i could see the waste of my life
till now
no man is just
because he does just works
the works are just if the man is just
if a man doesn't believe in christ not
only are his sins mortal but his good
works
this i know
reason is the devil's born of one
stinking goat called aristotle which
holds that good works make the good man
but the truth is
the just
shall live by faith alone
by faith
alone
i need no more than my sweet redeemer
jesus christ
and i shall go on praising him as long
as i have voice to see
and if anyone doesn't care to sing with
me then he can howl on his own
if we're going to be deserted
let's follow the deserted christ
in nominee patrice
it filiated spiritual sanctus
oh man
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we'd all been waiting there wondering
and guessing if you really meant what we
hoped he meant that somehow his fancy
new theology would help us to stop rome
from bleeding taxes out of us for the
use of our german land
we were just hoping then to the joy of
the common people and to young fellows
like myself seeking a cause as young men
do
he nailed his heresy to the door
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that single act started a conflagration
which could not be extinguished
whether he meant to or not he had given
us a weapon against the pope and we
began to use it
of course they didn't waste any time the
pope ordered martin to appear in
augsburg before his ambassador to
germany
cardinal de villa
easier
so i see
what do you mean
well you look so close
what's he got to say for himself
too much
i said to him if our lord the pope were
to offer you a good bishopric and a
plenary indulgence for repairing your
church you'll soon start singing a
different song
what did he say to that
yes me
well
you asked me how my mother's syphilis
was
it's a fair question in the
circumstances
you germans you're a crude lord
that's what i said to him
these italians i said they're different
they're not just learned they're subtle
experience antagonists you'll be flung
into the fire after five minutes and
you said
i've only been to italy once and they
didn't look very subtle to me they were
lifting their legs and street corners
like dogs
well i hope he didn't see any cardinals
at it knowing some of them is not
impossible
let's have a look at him
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so
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please stand up dr luther
so you're the one they call the
excessive doctor
you don't look excessive to me
you feel very obsessive
it's one of those words which can be
used like a harness on a man how do you
mean
i mean it has very little meaning
beyond introducing him
quite
there's never been any doubt in my mind
that you'll be misrepresented all round
and as you say introduced
well well well what a surprise you are
you know i was expecting to find some
daughtering old theologian with dust in
his ears who could be bullied into a
heart attack by tetzl here in 30 minutes
and there you are gay and sprightly as a
young boy
how old are you my son
34 most worthy father
tetzled he's a boy
and you'd never tell me
and how long have you been wearing your
doctor's ring
five years so you were only 29
but obviously everything i've heard
about you is true you really must be a
very remarkable young man i wouldn't
have believed there was one doctor in
the whole of germany under
50.
would you brother john
i hadn't thought of it here a minute
well to business
now i don't think this method did take
up very much of our time but before we
do start there is just one thing i would
like to say and that is that i was sorry
you decided to ask the duke for safe
conduct now that was hardly necessary my
son
and it was a little
well
distressing to feel that you have such
an opinion of us
such a lack of trust in your mother
church and in those who i can assure you
have your dearest interests at heart
i simply thought that considering the
present situation i dear dear son this
is such a ridiculous unnecessary
business for us all to be mixed up with
but it's such a tedious and upsetting
affair
and what purpose is that
your entire order in germany has been
brought into disgrace
i have my job to do
and believe me it isn't all honey being
an italian legate in your country
well you know how it is people are
inclined to resent you
nationalist feelings and all that which
i respect
but it does complicate one's task to the
point
when an issue such as this thrown in for
good measure makes the whole operation
absolutely impossible
you'll see what i mean
so you see my dear somewhat unless him
now what are we going to do
i am unhappy
is holding us that i'm happy
that you please unhappy
and you my dear son
you are very unhappy
first worthy father
in obedience to the summons of his papal
holiness
and in obedience to the orders of my
gracious lord duke frederick electorate
of saxony
i come before you as a submissive and
beautiful son of the holy catholic
church
and if i have been wrong
to submit to your instruction in the
truth
my dear son you've upset the whole of
germany with your dispute about
indulgences
i know you're a very landed doctor of
the holy scriptures and that you've
already aroused considerable support
among the peasants but if you wish to
remain a member of the church and to
find a gracious father in the pope you
had better listen
i have here in front of me three
propositions
which by the command of our holy father
pope leo the 10th i will put you now
first you must admit your faults and
retract all your errors and sounds
secondly you must promise to abstain
from propagating your opinions at all
times in the future
and thirdly
you must behave generally with greater
moderation
avoid anything which might cause offense
and grieve and disturb the church
may i see the pope's instruction no idea
sir you may not
all you have to do is to confess your
errors
and to keep a strict watch on your words
in the future
and once you've done that i've been
authorized by our most holy father to
put everything to rights again i
understand all that
but i'm asking you to tell me where i
have heard
if you insist
now just to begin with
here are two propositions which you
advance which you will have to retract
before anything else
first
you say that the treasure of indulgences
does not consist of the sufferings and
torments of our lord jesus christ which
is only a temporal item for sale
second
you claim that those who receive the
holy sacrament must have faith in the
grace that is presented to them
otherwise it is ineffective
enough
i rest my case entirely on holy
scripture the pope alone has power and
authority over all those things except
scripture including scripture
what do you mean
i mean that only the pope has the right
to interpret the meaning of scripture
the pope's judgment cannot err
whether it concerns the christian faith
or anything that has to do with the
salvation of the human race
there's nothing in the scripture that
says that the time will come
when you'll have to defend yourself
against the world
people like you always go too far
thank heaven
i give you a month brother martin to
roast yourself you've had your 30 pieces
of silver for the sake of christ why
don't you go and betray someone how dare
you texel
perhaps at the entrance of peace and
harmony you had better go for a walk
very well
in point of fact he gets 80 guild in the
month
plus expenses
what about his vow of poverty
like most brilliant men my son you have
an innocent spirit i've also learned
that he's managed to father two children
so there goes another vowel bang
most holy father
i honor the holy roman church and shall
go on doing so
i have sought truth
and everything i have said i still
believe to be right and true and
christian
but i am a man
and i may be
deceived so i am willing to receive
instruction when i have been mistaken
save your arrogance my son there'll be a
better place to use it i can have you
sent to rome and let any of your german
princes try to stop me
you'll find himself standing outside the
gates of heaven like a leper i repeat i
am here to reply to all the charges you
may bring against me
i am afraid you have misunderstood the
position
i am not here to enter into a
disputation with you
the roman church is the apex of the
world spiritual and temple
and it may constrain with its secular
arm any of those who once received the
faith and gone astray
surely i don't have to remind you that
he's not bound to use reason to fight
and destroy rebels
my son
it's late
you must retract
believe me i simply want to see this
matter ended as quickly as possible
some interests are furthered by finding
truth others by destroying it
i don't care what pleases or displeases
the pope he's a man
ah
is that all
he seems a good man his popes go
but that's not much for a world that
cries out for reformation
all right martin
i will argue with you
or rather i have put something to you
because there is something more than
your safety and your life involved
something more important than you and me
just talking together here in this room
it's fine for someone like you to
criticize and start tearing down
christendom but tell me this
what will you build in its place
an infected place is best scoured out
and so you pray for healthy tissue and
something
sturdy and clean for what was crumbling
and full of filth but my dear son don't
you see
you destroy the perfect unity of the
world
suppose you did get rid of the pope
what you suppose would become of you
i don't know exactly
you wouldn't know what to do because you
need him marty
that have always been popes and there
always will be even though they're
called something else
they'll have them for people like you
because you need him to fight
oh not because he's too big
but for your needs he's not big enough
why some poor deluded creature might
even come to you as a leader of their
revolution
but you don't want to break rules
you want to make them
i've read some of your sermons on faith
do you know all they say to me
no
they say i am a man struggling for
certainty
struggling insanely like a man in a fit
an animal trapped to the bone with doubt
forgive me
i'm tired after my journey i feel faint
but don't you see what could happen out
of all this
men could be cast out forever and left
to themselves helpless and frightened
that's what would become of them without
their mother church with all its
imperfections
peter's rock
without it they'd be helpless and
unprotected
allow them their sins my son their petty
indulgences
they're unimportant compared to the
comfort we receive
comfort
it doesn't concern me
we live in thick darkness and it grows
thicker
our men to find god if they're left to
themselves each man abandoned
and only known to himself
they'll have to try
i beg to be my son
i beg of you
retract
most worthy father i cannot
you don't kill
you'd better go and rest
naturally you'll be released from your
order
i uh
yes
as you say you're eminent
will you defer this matter to the pope
for his decision
for sure
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you know martin a time will come when a
man will no longer be able to say i
speak latin and i'm a christian and go
his way in peace in a catholic world
without frontiers but because of men
like you frontiers will come
barriers of all kinds between men
and there have been no end of them
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did he retract
no of course he didn't
that man hates himself
and if he goes to the stake tatsel you
shall have the pleasure of inscribing it
he could only love others
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i have been served with a piece of paper
let me tell you about it
it has come from a tree called rome
and it claims to excommunicate me dr
martin luther
these
lies rise up like fumes from the bug of
europe
because papal the cretals are the
devil's excretals i'll hold it up for
you to see properly
you see the signature
sign beneath the seal of the fisherman's
ring by one certain midden called
leo prince of the medici
and over an indulged jake's attendant to
satan himself
a glittering worm and excrement
known to you as his holiness the pope
you may know him as the head of the
church but he still may be
like a
fish at the head of a cat's dinner eyes
without sight clutched to a stick of
stuck bones
god has told me
there can be no dealings between this
cat's dinner and me
and as for this bowl it's going to roast
it's going to roast
so are the balls of the medicine
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oh god
oh my god
breathe into me
help me against the reason and wisdom of
the world you must there's only you to
do it
this cause is not mine but yours for
myself i have no reason to be dealing
with the great lords of this world
i want to be still in peace and alone
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god do you hear me
are you dead
no you can't die you can only hide
yourself can't you
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lord i'm afraid i'm a child the lost
body of a child
breathe into me
in the name of thy son jesus christ
give me life o lord
give me life
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your hunt one eck
interrogator to the archbishop of trial
his grace lord frederick duke of saxony
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his imperial majesty the emperor charles
the fifth
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uh
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by command of his imperial majesty this
plenary session of the diet held in the
city of burns in the year of our lord
1521
may now proceed
martin luther were brought here by his
imperial majesty so that you may answer
two questions
when i asked you yesterday if you would
publicly acknowledge being the author of
the book she agreed immediately that the
books were indeed your own is that right
when i asked you the second question you
asked if you might be allowed time in
which to consider it although such time
should have been quite unnecessary for
an experienced debater and distinguished
doctor of theology like yourself his
imperial majesty was graciously pleased
to grant your request
well you've had your time now a whole
day and a night
and so i will repeat the question to you
do you mean to defend all these books or
will you retract any of them
your serene majesty
most illustrious princes
and gracious lords
i appear before you by the mercy of god
and i beg that you will listen patiently
if through my ignorance i have not given
anyone his proper title or have offended
in any way against the etiquette of such
a place as this
i ask your pardon in advance for a man
who finds it hard to know his way
outside the few steps from wall to wall
of a monk's cell
i ask your serene majesty and your
gracious lordships to take note
that not all of my books are of the same
time
for instance in the first group
i have dealt quite simply with the
values of faith and morality
and even my enemies have agreed that all
this is quite harmless and can be read
without damaging the most fragile
christian
if i'm to begin by withdrawing these
books what should i be doing i should be
condemning those very things my friends
and enemies are agreed on
i have also written a second group of
books
and these all attacked the power of the
papacy
which has ravaged christendom
no one can deny this the evidence is
everywhere and everyone complains of it
and no one has suffered more from this
tyranny than the german people
they have been plundered without mercy
if i were to retract those books now i
should be issuing a license for more
tyranny
and it is too much to ask of me
i have also written a third kind of book
against certain private distinguished
and apparently highly established
individuals
they're all defenders of rome and
enemies to my religion
in these books it's possible that i have
been more violent than may seem
necessary or shall i say tasteful than
one who is after all a monk
but then i have never set out to be a
saint and i've not been defending my own
life but the teaching of christ
so again i am not free to retract
what i ask
by the mercy of god
is let someone expose my errors in the
light of the gospels
the moment this has been done i shall
ask you to let me be the first to pick
up my books and hurl them in the fire
that is all
martin you have never answered the
question put to you even if it were true
that some of your books are innocuous a
point which incidentally we do not
conceive we still ask that you cut out
those passages that are blasphemous that
you cut out the heresies or whatever
could be construed as heresy and in fact
that you delete any passage which might
be considered hurtful to the catholic
faith his sacred and imperial majesty is
more than prepared to believe if however
you persist in your attitude there can
be no question that all memory of you
will be blotted out and everything you
have written right or wrong will be
forgotten
you see martin like all heretics you
demand to be contradicted from the
scripture the simple fact is that if
anyone who questioned the common
understanding of the church on any
matter he liked to race had to be
answered irrefutably from the scripture
there would be nothing certain or
decided in christendom
what would the jews and turks and
farrison say if they heard us debating
whether what we have always believed
alone is the meaning of the gospels
don't throw doubt on the most holy
orthodox faith
the faith founded by the most perfect
legislator known to us
it is our heritage and we are forbidden
to dispute it by the laws of the emperor
and the party
i must therefore ask you again i demand
that you answer sincerely
frankly and unambiguously yes or no
will you or will you not retract your
books and the errors contained
since your serene majesty and your
lordships demand a simple answer you
shall have it without horns and without
teeth i must warn you before you reply
that this is no longer a matter between
yourself and your conscience i will put
it to you as bluntly as i can you refuse
to understand that common men want
common things
it's not your theology they want it's
the earthly property of mother church
not the sacraments dear martin the
silverware
that they mean to take by a force of
arms leaving in your startled hands like
so many empty sacks the spiritual
virtues with which you so foolishly
endow them i am appalled by this evil
and cynical view
the simple need of people is to find god
without paying rome for the privilege i
beg of you if you cannot see reality let
the accumulated wisdom of the church see
it for you we are at the brink of
violence and pillage and anarchy you can
stop that by retracting your heresies
and depriving this mob of its leader i
believe in the goodness of ordinary men
and i do not fear them
and unless i am shown by the testimony
of the scriptures for i don't believe in
quotes or counsels
unless i am refuted by scriptures and my
conscience is captured by god's own word
i cannot and will not recant since to
act against one's conscience is neither
safe nor honest
here i stand god help me
i can do no more
woman
oh
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um
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there was excitement that day
i tell you
you can't have ever known the kind of
thrill that monk set off amongst that
collection of all kinds of men gathered
together there
he fizzed like a hot spark in a trail of
gunpowder going off in us that dowdy
monkey went off in us and nothing could
stop it and it blew up and there was
nothing we could do any of us that was
it
neither the emperor nor the pope dared
to lay a hand on him
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something
had taken place
an event had occurred in the flesh in
the flesh and the breath like
even like when the weight of our lord's
body slumped on its wooden crotch piece
and the earth grew dark
that's the kind of thing i mean by
happen
i don't think
no i don't think even if i could speak
and write like him i could begin to give
you an idea what we thought of what we
might come to
i wanted to burst my ears with shouting
and draw my sword
no not droid i wanted to
pluck it as if it were a flower in my
blood and plunge it into whatever he
would have told me to
he encouraged us until we took up arms
and then he wrote an appeal for our
extermination
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a great fire is spreading which will
attack and lay waste the whole land
bringing murder and bloodshed like a
great disaster
the peasants are an open rebellion and
therefore outside the law of god
but you are ordained by god to keep the
peace
and you must not sleep
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wow
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that's better
now you even look like a butcher
god is the butcher
why don't you address your abuse to him
well never mind you're wearing his apron
all you've ever managed to do is convert
everything into stench and dying and
peril
but you could have done it martin you
could have brought freedom and order in
at one at the same time there's no such
thing as an orderly revolution
anywhere christians are called upon to
suffer not fight
weren't we all of us all of us redeemed
by christ's blood
wasn't he included when the scriptures
were being dictated
or was it just you who was made free you
and the princes you've taken up with
free
the princes blame me
you blame me
and the peasants blame me you put the
water in the wine didn't you
when i see chaos i see the devil's organ
and then i'm afraid
now that's enough you're breaking out
again oh wait aren't you leave me until
you're breaking out again you're canting
pig i can smell you from here
do you remember what christ said
i come not to bring peace but a sword i
come to set a man against his father up
to the ears in revelation aren't you
and god didn't god hear the children of
israel and didn't he deliver them out of
the land of pharaoh his time will come
too you're a canting pig aren't you well
didn't he don't hold your bible to my
head pig there's enough revelation of my
own in there and what i can see for
myself from here weigh your gospel
against that the world was conquered by
the word
man is maintained by the word word what
word
martin
do you know what most men believe in in
their hearts
they believe that christ was a man as we
are
but he was a prophet and a teacher
and that his supper was a plain meal
like their own if they're lucky enough
to get it
a plain meal of bread and wine with no
garnish and no word
and you help them to begin to believe it
leave me now
what's there to stay for
i've been close enough to you for too
long i even smell like you
i smell because of my own argument
i smell because i never stopped
disputing with him and i expect him to
keep his word
christ hear me
they deserve their deathly swarming
peasants
they kicked against authority they
bargained and plundered and all in your
name your name christ believe me
they were a mob
a mob
and if they had not been held down and
slaughtered there would have been a
thousand more tyrants instead of half a
dozen
i prayed for it
i demanded it
and i got it
uh
i i expect you must remember
i'm sure you must remember abraham
abraham was a an old man a very old man
indeed in fact he was a hundred years
old
when
what surely must have been a miracle
happened to a man of his years
a son was born to him
a son
isaac he called
and he loved isaac
well
he loved him with such
intensity one can only diminish it by
description
but to abraham his little son was a
miraculous thing
small incessant
animal
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astonishment
and in the child he sought the father
but then
one day god said to abraham
take your little son whom you love so
much
kill him
make a sacrifice of it
and in that moment everything inside
abraham seemed to shrivel once and for
all because it had seemed to him that
god had promised him life through his
son
but he
took the boy
prepared to kill him
strapping him down to the wood of the
burnt offering just as he'd been told to
do
and he spoke softly to the boy
raised the knife over his little naked
body
the boy struggling not to flange or
blink his eyes
never save in christ was there such
obedience as in that moment
and if god had blamed the boy would have
died then
but the angel intervened and the boy was
released
and abraham took him up in his arms
again
see in the teeth of life we seem to die
but god says no in the teeth of death
we live
if he butchers us
he makes us live
so take that thing away now drag it away
with you
all right martin
stay with your nun then
stay and stew with your nun most of the
others have
stew with her like a shuddering infant
in her bed
think you'll manage
at least my father will praise me for
that
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i brought you some more wine
it will help you to sleep
how is stop it he's all right
he's just coming he wouldn't let me help
him i think he's been sick
oh
poor old fellow
well after living all your life in a
monastery one stomach doesn't take too
easily to your kind of cooking you like
your food now don't make out you don't
i prefer it to fasting
oh there you are
i thought you'd fallen down the jake
right into the devil's loving arms
come and sit down
i must go to bed
good night dr starfix
good night my dear
thank you for the dinner
sorry i wasn't able to do justice to it
that's all right good night martin good
night katie
well you've never been so well looked
after yeah it's a shame everyone can't
marry a nun
they're fine cooks thrifty housekeepers
and splendid mothers
it seems to me there are three ways out
of despair
one is faith in christ the second is to
become enraged by the world and make its
nose bleed for it then the third is the
love of a woman
mind you they don't all necessarily work
at least only part of the time
wine
not much
i must go to bed myself
it will help you sleep
you're looking tired
oh
martin i can't get over being here again
this place
is full of men and now there's only you
you and katie
so still
i don't think i never realized how
eloquent monk's silence really was
as a voice
it's gone
my old friend you're unhappy i'm sorry
we monks were never much good to anyone
at least of all ourselves
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every one of us rolled up like a louse
in the almighty's overcoat
i've always had a way of putting
father you please with me
i please with you
my dear son i'm not anyone or anything
to be pleased with you anymore
every time you belch now the world stops
what it's doing and listen
i'm sorry martin i didn't mean to come
and see you after all this time and
start criticizing you're talking about
those damn peasants aren't you you think
i should have encouraged
i don't say that what do you say you
needn't have encouraged the princes
slaughtered those peasants and you got
them to do it and the peasants had just
caused martin they had hadn't they
i didn't say they hadn't well then
do you remember saying to me
remember you started all this in the
name of our lord jesus christ
well
father the world can't be ruled by a
rosary
it was a mob a mob and because it was a
mob it was against christ
you're leaving
no i'm not leaving a world
i have too much love for you
but we're not two protected monks
chattering under a pear tree in the
garden any longer
the world's changed
to begin with you made a thing called
germany
you've unleashed a language and taught
it to the germans and the rest of the
world will just have to get used to the
sound
taken christ away from the low mumblings
and
soft voices and jeweled gowns and the
tiaras
put him back where he belongs
in each man's soul
we owe so much to him
all i beg of you is
not to be too violent
in spite of everything
of everything you've said and shown as
the were men
some men who did live holy lives here
once don't
don't believe that you only you are
right
what else could i do john
what else could i do
when you were before the diet firms and
they put that question to you
why did you ask for that extra day to
think over your reply
i wasn't certain
were you afterwards
i listened for god's voice but all i
could hear was my own
were you sure
no
may god bless you
i hope you sleep better
good night
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oh lord i believe
i do believe
help my unbelief
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he was crying out in his sleep
he must have been dreaming again
aren't you coming to bed
i shan't belong kid he shall be long
right but try not to be too long you
look well
you don't look as well as you should
give him to me
all right
for five minutes
don't you been down here all night
thank you katie good night
keep him warm now
he's your son
don't worry i will
was the devil bothering you
huh
old nick
well
up you old nick
oh don't worry
one day you might even be glad of him
so long as you show him your little
backside
that's right
show him your little backside and let
him have it
try not to be afraid
the dark isn't quite as thick as all
that
a little while and you'll not see me
and then again a little then you shall
see
christ said that myself
i hope that'll be the way of it again
i hope so
let's just hope so shall we
let's just hope so
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