Monat: Dezember2024

Travelling Poem of St Columba, and the victory which ensued

The background of this hymn was a great battle had ensued to protect Columba’s copy of the Psalter. After the King of Ireland had decreed that Columba should return the copy he had made (without permission) to St Finnian, this caused the rival Royals of O’Neil (of which Columba belonged to this Royal family) to […]

The Universal and the Particular in Christian Political Life: Secular and Sacred Reflections on Christian Nationalism

Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. This is superlatively true for Christians, as they live consciously and conscientiously in two kingdoms, one earthy and the other heavenly, serving a divine king and, under him, also an earthly one. The kingdom of God directs our sights to the universal relationship in Christ while leaving us separately embodied in particular families and communities—the one does not supplant these others—which both require and merit devotion and self-sacrifice. This tension between love of one’s own and the uniquely Christian universal love can be seen in the currently employed and contentiously scrutinized term Christian nationalism. Though seemingly an oxymoron, it recognizes and makes sense of the necessary coincidence of our inescapable particularity with our participation in and dependence on larger realities.

Templar Did Not Have A Vow Of Poverty

Contrary to the destructive propaganda of egalitarianism, marxism, and socialism, the Templar Did Not Have A Vow Of Poverty. While it claims to make everyone feel better to say there were no true Sovereign representatives in the past, that is purely satanic, destructive, and not of God. Enemies of Christendom have sought to re-write what […]

Continuity of the Brunswick Templar, the Sovereign Protection

Continuity of the Brunswick Templar Introduction: The Significance of the 1321 Agreement The 1321 Agreement between Duke Otto of Brunswick, a former Templar commander, and the Order of St. John (Hospitallers) stands as a cornerstone document in the history of the Templar Order in Europe. This agreement not only outlines the transfer of key Templar […]