Elizabeth Lev gives a glowing account of running across modern-day knights:
Perhaps it has something to do with the King Arthur stories I read as a child, but I have always been fascinated with knights. The ideal of a noble and virtuous warrior, protective of the weak but deadly to enemies, seemed to be the perfect balance of manly qualities.
Through the years, I learned how faith inspired and upheld such men, whether the Knights of Malta -- hospitalers by day and Mediterranean SWAT team by night -- or the Templars, who had fought and died to protect the Christian faith.
But this week I had the pleasure of meeting modern knights, not armed with swords and shields, but employing the same bravery and virtue as they battle new threats in contemporary arenas. Like their predecessors of old they wear their deep love of the Gospel and their fervent commitment to the magisterium more proudly than any medal-of-honor or badge of distinction.
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Dear Ath,
For me the Knights need a lot more debunking of mythology to right the fabicated glamor (or enchanting) stories of knighthood that our shamelessness culture of death feeds us - this probably coming out of my intense study of Francis of Assisi's extreme desire to be a knight and then his conversion. Much like how Micheal O'Brien writes directly about our *culture of shamelessness and death without missing punches I think this kind of de-bunking is needed within the KoC. With the little that I have read on Supreme Knight Anderson, a professor and author, he sounds like just the guy to do this. (a must see video)
* culture of shamelessness is one where any and all Christian influence is trashed or dropped out and therefore, no matter how good the program, it is built entirely on a kind of romanticism that breeds shamelessness.
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