{"id":774,"date":"2011-05-03T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/05\/because-christ-is-a-warrior-then-so-am-i\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T03:39:21","slug":"because-christ-is-a-warrior-then-so-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/05\/because-christ-is-a-warrior-then-so-am-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Christ is a Warrior (Then, So Am I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2011\/05\/Christ-_as_warrior_unknow-artist.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11668\" title=\"Christ _as_warrior_unknow artist\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2011\/05\/Christ-_as_warrior_unknow-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalis.com\/20110503\/today.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2014Feast of Sts. Philip and James, Apostles<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hi, remember me? I\u2019m the guy who said <em><a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/because-christ-is-royal-and-then-so-am.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christ is a Royal (Then, So Am I)<\/a>.<\/em> Now I have to write another post with a similar title because I observed that many of the same folks who weren\u2019t interested in the Royal Wedding last week also seem to be conflicted about the actions of S.E.A.L. Team Six a mere forty-eight hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019ll be starting a whole new series of blog posts around this theme of who Jesus Christ is, and how it relates to YIMCatholic. Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/book-review-who-is-jesus-christ-by-eric.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric Sammons<\/a> already wrote a book about this, but that only covers Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.<br>\n<a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br>\nBut you see, the Catholic Church is Jesus Christ, and if you are a part of His Church, then as members of His Mystical Body, you too are just what St. Teresa of Avila, aka \u201cBig Terry,\u201d says you are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christ has no body but yours,<br>\nNo hands, no feet on earth but yours,<br>\nYours are the eyes with which he looks<br>\nCompassion on this world,<br>\nYours are the feet with which he walks to do good,<br>\nYours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.<br>\nYours are the hands, yours are the feet,<br>\nYours are the eyes, you are his body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-R-flTMrKi-4\/TcCcIIGaa1I\/AAAAAAAABqw\/RfnlnSpzVvQ\/s1600\/therese_as_St.+Joan.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-R-flTMrKi-4\/TcCcIIGaa1I\/AAAAAAAABqw\/RfnlnSpzVvQ\/s200\/therese_as_St.+Joan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">St.Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux<br>\nas St. Joan of Arc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you think Frank has gone a little batty with the assertion that the Church is Christ, then look at our blog patron\u2019s statement that is right there in paragraph <em>795<\/em> of the Catechism as well,<\/p>\n<p><em>About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they\u2019re just one thing, and we shouldn\u2019t complicate the matter.<\/em> \u2014St. Joan of Arc<\/p>\n<p>This assertion, then, has ramifications for each and every one of us regarding our earthly vocations. I\u2019ve seen many who have written posts after the death of Osama Bin Laden with plenty of Bible quotations that play up the docile, meek, and seemingly pacifistic side of Christianity. I can just as easily break out scripture references that proclaim <a href=\"http:\/\/biblez.com\/search.php?q=The+Lord+is+a+warrior\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Our Lord as a warrior, or that liken Him to one.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Bible is like an encyclopedia, than G.K. Chesterton\u2019s point is well made:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For it is the test of a good encyclopedia that it does two rather different things at once. The man consulting it finds the thing he wants; he also finds how many thousand things there are that he does not want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm, there G.K.C. goes again, knocking the cover off the ball. Perhaps he is also talking about the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Or the<a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/because-of-marine-in-charge-of-justice.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church<\/a>. Because as important as the imagery is along the spectrum between the end points of pacifism and just war, it\u2019s also important that we remember that the Church is composed of living, breathing, members of the Mystical Body of Christ. And these members cross the broad spectrum of all mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Like last week, some of them are actual Royals in addition to being in the royal priesthood that Christians all belong to. And like the week before, <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/because-beggar-just-might-be-angel.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some of them are homeless<\/a>. And this week, we must remember that some of the members of Christ\u2019s body are soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.<\/p>\n<p>Christ, then, in the form of the Church, continues to achieve His earthly mission to bring all people to salvation through the agency of many human beings, whom He created. And some of His children are called to the professional vocation of warrior. As the Holy Spirit spoke through King David in Psalm 144,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, <a href=\"http:\/\/drb.scripturetext.com\/psalms\/144.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and my fingers to war.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David seemed pretty thankful in the opening line of that Psalm, didn\u2019t he? Here is what the Catechism has to say on the duties and responsibilities of the faithful who fill this role,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2310 \u2014Public authorities, in this case, have the right and duty to impose on citizens the obligations necessary for national defense. Those who are sworn to serve their country in the armed forces are servants of the security and freedom of nations. If they carry out their duty honorably, they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GutmyoTmjdc\/TcCiC8rPrXI\/AAAAAAAABrA\/gXy2ekElebI\/s1600\/S.E.A.L.+Team+VI+Patch.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GutmyoTmjdc\/TcCiC8rPrXI\/AAAAAAAABrA\/gXy2ekElebI\/s200\/S.E.A.L.+Team+VI+Patch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And that is exactly what the members of S.E.A.L. Team Six did this past weekend. It\u2019s what they, and all the other members of the armed forces, have been doing, and will continue to do, as long as our country is in existence.\u00a0Were they Christians? I don\u2019t know. Were any of them Catholics? I have no idea. But do we need people like them doing what they do? Think about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll wrap this post up with another paragraph from the CCC (emphasis mine) and another quote from St. Joan,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>2005<\/strong> Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith. We cannot therefore <strong>rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved.<\/strong> However, according to the Lord\u2019s words \u201cThus you will know them by their fruits\u201d- reflection on God\u2019s blessings in our life and in the lives of the saints offers us a guarantee that <strong>grace is at work in us<\/strong> and spurs us on to an ever greater faith and an attitude of trustful poverty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A pleasing illustration of this attitude is found in the reply of St. Joan of Arc to a question posed as a trap by her ecclesiastical judges:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAsked if she knew that she was in God\u2019s grace, she replied: \u2018If I am not, may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there.'\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is my prayer as well, so help me God.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/em> Father Steve Grunow of <em>Word on Fire<\/em> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordonfire.org\/WoF-Blog\/WoF-Blog\/May-2011\/Current-Events-Death-of-a-Terrorist.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Death of a Terrorist<\/a>. Also, a primer on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.com\/library\/Just_War_Doctrine_1.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Just War Doctrine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-5135217038299178951?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Feast of Sts. Philip and James, Apostles Hi, remember me? I\u2019m the guy who said Christ is a Royal (Then, So Am I). 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