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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
We are peacemakers but we are also army of Christ
From the foundation of the earth, God had already made an appointment at Calvary for salvation of all.
Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...
They're here, though; not a creature failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.
The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.
Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who'd be next?
Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.
In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.
What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord
and shotgun do your stuff
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.
A Franciscan Benediction
[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.
My enemies are legion.
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.
Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.
You [priests] are called 'another Christ.'
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout.
Obedience is the Christian's crown.
Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.
Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.
We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
A student Christian fellowship whose members roamed the corriders ... looking for likely converts (the afraid, the alone, the abandoned) and those who needed to use the bible to fill in the spaces where their personalitites should have been.
Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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The last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.
all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ ...
In his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very lightest of hearts. MR
An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
We are a band of brothers. United in love for our common Savior, joined in his common cause of prayer for both friends and enemies, we find our affections kindled and our hearts warmed toward one another.
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)
Soldier= sacrifice on the altar of power
O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.
There is no Clan in the forest so true or so brave. I respect and admire the other Clans, but my heart is here, with ThunderClan- the Clan of heroes, the Clan of compassion, the Clan of destiny.
Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained
Vicars of vacillation ...
A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land
Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
Arthur spake, 'Behold, for these have sworn To wage my wars, and worship me their King; The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And we that fight for our fair father Christ,
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
congress of angels.
Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day.
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
The grace of service is heart of belonging.
The martyrdom of me.
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.
A high church for the true mediocre.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross)
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war.
It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?
Jesus, what kind of fucking church is this?
I shall always be a priest of love.
Christ who is your life,' (Col 3:4): This identification reflects the relentless Christological focus of Colossians.
Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.
God is always with the strongest battalions.
This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.
Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left ...
The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.
As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.
Centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey ...
If you are a Christian, especially if you are unhappy or frustrated, remind yourself frequently of the purple wedge in which you live.
Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.
Is this all we've got now? No priests to say yes son, your suffering meant something, no kings on the battlefield to say yes soldier, your suffering meant something.