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The Twelve•Christ built the church on a relationship among twelve men with Peter as the leader of those twelve.
He could have built His Church on a marriage between a man and a woman…
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…
But he built the Church on twelve men
Was it a terrible accident? An oversight awaiting the wisdom of the
sexual revolution to correct our Lord’s cultural bias?
The Rabbi and His Men
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.
“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
Minyan- Jewish public prayer
needed a quorum of ten adult men
Jews praying at Wailing Wall
Our elder brothers at the Wailing Wall
Muslim men praying in the Caucasus
Men at Prayer…
Not Just Christians
The right to pray must sometimes be defended with arms
The Fraternal Group as Protectors
The knights: the Christian answer to the male warrior cults
Men will always bond to fight. The purpose of honor codes (like the Samurai) is to harness
the fighting instinct for the good
Roman Phalanx-the military formation which built an empire
Hoplites-the military basis of Greek citizenship
Militia –the citizen protective agreement at the heart of American Democracy
The Founding Fathers
A Sacred Covenant
The Sacrifice That Seals Covenant
Bunker Hill, June, 1775
August 29, 1944: US troops marching into liberated Paris
To dishonor the soldier is to wound the nation
No community can exist without respect for authority and the
willingness of the adult males to die for the group
Men form groups to protect,
provide, and perform
Coach Vince Lombardi
Coach Knute Rockne
Our games tell a primitive story
The Four Hoursemen at Notre Dame’s Field
Knute Rockne Training
“I have fought the good fight”
A tough love for a great mission
Coach Bobby Knight
Athletics teach and celebrate skills,
habits, and virtues necessary to the
development, maintenance, and protection of the
RepublicPat Tillman, 1976-2004
Men must fight in a dangerous world
Men must work in a dangerous world
So we must pray
So we must work
So we must protect
Fallujah - U.S. Marines pray over a fellow Marine killed while fighting insurgent strongholds. (Photo by Murad Sezer, April 8, 2004.)
We must pray as we protect
We must not
just learn to fight but we must
learn why we
fight
This Apostolic Bond is Instituted by
Christ
The Circumcision by Mizzola
God’s covenant with the Jews is sealed with the shedding of every male’s blood
Rembrandt, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Abraham will be spared the
sacrifice of his son; Christ’s
Father will not.
Gustave Dore, The Finding of Moses
When the tyrant fears a
people, he will kill their
males
It happened at the birth of Moses…and at the birth of Jesus
Gustave Dore, The Massacre of the Innocents
At the passover it was the tyrant who paid...God’s people were set free but a male lamb had to be sacrificed in the place of Israel’s
first born.
Grunewald, The Crucifixion
The ultimate sacrifice of the first-born Son
“Love one another as the Father has loved me”-The priesthood as a masculine
public communion of sacrificial love.
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
One for all ...
…and all for one
The Trinity
The twelve sent out