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Martin Luther, a monk who began the Protestant Reformation from the Catholic Church, is about to perform his first mass and is sick with nerves. He believes that he is a sinner and God is causing him physical pain to show his displeasure with Martin's spiritual doubt. Brother Weinand, member of the Roman Catholic Order of the Eremites of St. Augustine, comes to check in on Martin and inform him that his father, Hans Luther, is in attendance for Martin’s first mass. Hans has donated a large sum
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Brother Weinand: Brother Martin! Brother Martin!
Martin: Yes.
Brother Weinand: Your father’s here.
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Martin: 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.
Brother Weinand: (really angry now) You’re a fool. You’re really a fool. God isn’t angry with you, It’s you who are angry with Him.
Citation: John Osborne, Luther, Dramatic Publishing, 1961, pp. 25 - 33.
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