The Monk in Chainmail; The Scholar in a Flak Vest

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The Monk in Chainmail; The Scholar in a Flak Vest

Marie-Julie Jahenny, Breton mystic, prophetess and stigmatist: 

The Coming Catholic Monarch will be French; known only to God (a man after His own heart), following the pattern of the exiled hero king, possibly of Bourbon blood, possibly Capetian, Carolingian or Merovingian, the anonymous royal (the King David archetype); he is the Last Holy Roman Emperor, fulfilling the duties of Charlemagne (the sleeping king who wakes at the last day), rightful king of both the western (Frankish/Roman Catholic) and eastern (Byzantine/Orthodox) empires. 

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Fortitude & the Grail Knights

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Fortitude & the Grail Knights

Courage is not the same as bravery, for courage comes from the same Latin root which deals with “heart”, hence Richard the Lionheart, “Coeur de Lion”; courage is heart, and oft bravery is coupled with recklessness, for only the Fool can set off on the journey which leads to his annihilation and sublimation into the high(est) form (fool-initiate-knight-king-hero).

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Sacramentum Militaire: On Roman Catholic Masculinity

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Sacramentum Militaire: On Roman Catholic Masculinity

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.
- CS Lewis

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Becoming Law & Order

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Becoming Law & Order

Overture: the scene opens on a frigid mud encrusted battleground; the valley floor is strewn with the mangled dead, limbs pointing up at a pale cloudless sky; the valley is named “the 20th century” and two hills littered with the emaciated bodies of a million heroes bare mildew smothered signs reading “Church” and “State”. A sleeping hero among the bodies begins to stir.

Do you understand?

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