Apostolic Fraternity

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Apostolic Fraternity
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The Twelve

• Christ built the church on a relationship among
  twelve men with Peter as the leader of those
  twelve.

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He could have built His Church on a marriage
between a man and a woman
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He had a pretty good woman available who was
brave enough, smart enough and holy enough if He
wanted her as one of the original apostles
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But he built the Church on twelve men
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Was it a terrible accident? An oversight
awaiting the wisdom of the sexual revolution to
correct our Lords cultural bias?
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The Rabbi and His Men
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The oral tradition-A man speaking to other men.
The word shapes the group. Speaking as agon.
The communion and the contest of the masculine
oral tradition.
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All free men, wherever they may live, are
citizens of Berlin. And, therefore, as a free
man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein
Berliner. John Kennedy, West of the Wall, 1963
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Minyan- Jewish public prayer needed a quorum of
ten adult men
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Jews praying at Wailing Wall
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Our elder brothers at the Wailing Wall
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The head man at prayer
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Men at Prayer
Not Just Christians
Muslim men praying in the Caucasus
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The right to pray must sometimes be defended with
arms
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The Fraternal Group as Protectors
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The knights the Christian answer to the male
warrior cults
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Men will always bond to fight. The purpose of
honor codes (like the Samurai) is to harness the
fighting instinct for the good
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Roman Phalanx-the military formation which built
an empire
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Hoplites-the military basis of Greek citizenship
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Militia the citizen protective agreement at the
heart of American Democracy
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The Founding Fathers
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A Sacred Covenant
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The Sacrifice That Seals Covenant
Bunker Hill, June, 1775
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To dishonor the soldier is to wound the nation
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No community can exist without respect for
authority and the willingness of the adult males
to die for the group
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Men form groups to protect, provide, and perform
Coach Vince Lombardi
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Our games tell a primitive story
Coach Knute Rockne
The Four Hoursemen at Notre Dames Field
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I have fought the good fight
Knute Rockne Training
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A tough love for a great mission
Coach Bobby Knight
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Athletics teach and celebrate skills, habits, and
virtues necessary to the development,
maintenance, and protection of the Republic
Pat Tillman, 1976-2004
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Men must fight in a dangerous world
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Men must work in a dangerous world
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So we must pray
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So we must work
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So we must protect
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We must pray as we protect
Fallujah - U.S. Marines pray over a fellow Marine
killed while fighting insurgent strongholds.
(Photo by Murad Sezer, April 8, 2004.)
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We must not just learn to fight but we must learn
why we fight
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This Apostolic Bond is Instituted by Christ
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Gods covenant with the Jews is sealed with the
shedding of every males blood
The Circumcision by Mizzola
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Abraham will be spared the sacrifice of his son
Christs Father will not.
Rembrandt, The Sacrifice of Isaac
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When the tyrant fears a people, he will kill
their males
Gustave Dore, The Finding of Moses
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It happened at the birth of Mosesand at the
birth of Jesus
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Gustave Dore, The Massacre of the Innocents
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At the passover it was the tyrant who
paid...Gods people were set free but a male lamb
had to be sacrificed in the place of Israels
first born.
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The ultimate sacrifice of the first-born Son
Grunewald, The Crucifixion
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Love one another as the Father has loved me-The
priesthood as a masculine public communion of
sacrificial love.
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A new public bond of men integrated into the bond
of the Trinity as a sign for all men that
brotherhood is possible in union with Christ
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One for all ...
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and all for one
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The Trinity
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The twelve sent out