October 31
Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. It's celebrated primarily by Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, and United Methodist churches, along with various other mainstream Protestant traditions.
It honours October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther famously sent his 95 Theses challenging Catholic indulgences and unbiblical practices to Archbishop Albert of Brandenburg, and thus igniting a whole protest movement in his unversity town of Wittenberg in Germany.
Lutherans wear red on Reformation Day (and Reformation Sunday) to symbolize the Holy Spirit, zeal and fire, and the courage of Christian martyrs and reformers. Bible verses to read focus on key Protestant Reformation themes—such as justification by faith, grace alone, and the authority of Scripture.
Although Lutheranism is Protestant historically and structurally, its liturgy, sacramental view, and self-understanding often make it closer to Catholicism than to low-church or evangelical Protestantism. Luther himself called Psalm 118 his "own beloved Psalm" and his greatest comfort.
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It honours October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther famously sent his 95 Theses challenging Catholic indulgences and unbiblical practices to Archbishop Albert of Brandenburg, and thus igniting a whole protest movement in his unversity town of Wittenberg in Germany.
Lutherans wear red on Reformation Day (and Reformation Sunday) to symbolize the Holy Spirit, zeal and fire, and the courage of Christian martyrs and reformers. Bible verses to read focus on key Protestant Reformation themes—such as justification by faith, grace alone, and the authority of Scripture.
Although Lutheranism is Protestant historically and structurally, its liturgy, sacramental view, and self-understanding often make it closer to Catholicism than to low-church or evangelical Protestantism. Luther himself called Psalm 118 his "own beloved Psalm" and his greatest comfort.
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