Christian Warriors’ Code of Conduct
7 Principles
1. Sincerity: Motivation is not to win points with God or Church or with one another, not to gain or exercise power but to serve because we love God and want to love Him more and more. The deep desire is to love God and grow.
2. Community: “We will never have it all together, but together we will have it all.” Not to see your fellow volunteers as competitors or enemies. See them as examples of Divine Love. “He gives us marvelous companions.” Respect God’s holy choice in you and in your brother.
3. Prayer: Is our foundation. You can’t do the work of the Lord without prayer. “If you don’t have time to pray, you don’t have time to volunteer.”
4. Adoration: A necessity: at least 2 holy hours a week, ideally adoration every day.
5. “The battle is Mine sayth the Lord.” Remember volunteer, it is not your battle, but the Lords. From the book of Sirach, “When you enter the Lord’s service, prepare yourself for battle.”
6. Love: Before we are volunteers, we are Catholics. To be a Catholic, you are called to be, and only be, a saint of love. St. Theresa catechesis, “At the end of your life, you will be judged on one thing, and one thing alone, love, love, love.”
Love all of our fellow Catholics; love your fellow volunteers double. Are you ready to lay down your life for your fellow volunteers? No greater love the volunteers have than to lay down his life for his fellow volunteer.
7. Glory: We are here only for the glory of God … to save souls for His glory. “In Him we live, we move, we breathe, and have our beginning.” We are not here to be honored, to grow in status, to be recognized, to gain power or to influence.
“In all our actions to please God, we shall find these marks that we may know whether they have been done truly for God alone.
First, if when your task is has not been successful, you are not disturbed, but remain as tranquil as if you had attained your goal.
Second, you rejoice in the good done by others, as if it had been done by yourself. The soul who seeks nothing but the divine will of God, cares not whether it is promoted by another or by oneself.
Third, is not to desire one task more than another, but to be content with whatever is given.
Fourth, in your good works you do not desire thanks or recognition, but to remain, even when maltreated, in the same tranquility of mind, satisfied that you have given joy to God.
Fifth, you shall leave your task at a moment’s notice into the care of another, disturbing not your peace. It is by these guidelines we are able to give peace to our soul and bring the most glory to God.” In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph, Consecration Preparation For the Triumphant Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Page 75.
Copyright © 2020, Father James Blount, SOLT. All Rights Reserved.
2. Community: “We will never have it all together, but together we will have it all.” Not to see your fellow volunteers as competitors or enemies. See them as examples of Divine Love. “He gives us marvelous companions.” Respect God’s holy choice in you and in your brother.
3. Prayer: Is our foundation. You can’t do the work of the Lord without prayer. “If you don’t have time to pray, you don’t have time to volunteer.”
4. Adoration: A necessity: at least 2 holy hours a week, ideally adoration every day.
5. “The battle is Mine sayth the Lord.” Remember volunteer, it is not your battle, but the Lords. From the book of Sirach, “When you enter the Lord’s service, prepare yourself for battle.”
6. Love: Before we are volunteers, we are Catholics. To be a Catholic, you are called to be, and only be, a saint of love. St. Theresa catechesis, “At the end of your life, you will be judged on one thing, and one thing alone, love, love, love.”
Love all of our fellow Catholics; love your fellow volunteers double. Are you ready to lay down your life for your fellow volunteers? No greater love the volunteers have than to lay down his life for his fellow volunteer.
7. Glory: We are here only for the glory of God … to save souls for His glory. “In Him we live, we move, we breathe, and have our beginning.” We are not here to be honored, to grow in status, to be recognized, to gain power or to influence.
“In all our actions to please God, we shall find these marks that we may know whether they have been done truly for God alone.
First, if when your task is has not been successful, you are not disturbed, but remain as tranquil as if you had attained your goal.
Second, you rejoice in the good done by others, as if it had been done by yourself. The soul who seeks nothing but the divine will of God, cares not whether it is promoted by another or by oneself.
Third, is not to desire one task more than another, but to be content with whatever is given.
Fourth, in your good works you do not desire thanks or recognition, but to remain, even when maltreated, in the same tranquility of mind, satisfied that you have given joy to God.
Fifth, you shall leave your task at a moment’s notice into the care of another, disturbing not your peace. It is by these guidelines we are able to give peace to our soul and bring the most glory to God.” In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph, Consecration Preparation For the Triumphant Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Page 75.
Copyright © 2020, Father James Blount, SOLT. All Rights Reserved.
7 Points of Reflection/Insights
If you are having trouble with the above 7 principle, perhaps one or more of these reflections/insights may be the issue.
1. Hidden Hunger: If you are volunteering for any other reason than God’s glory, it means your heart is not satisfied. Have you made Jesus the Lord of your life? Are you using volunteering for the wrong purposes? What you need is God’s love. Have you ever tasted or experienced God’s love? Not as a theory, not as a concept but as a reality?
2. Hidden Anger: You may need to forgive someone or yourself.
Forgiveness
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34
Forgiveness is a decision, not a feeling.
Say, “I forgive you, ________, in the Name of Jesus Christ, now and forever.”
Bless the person who hurt or offended you.
Say, “Lord Jesus, bless _________, richly, now and forever.”
Give thanks to God for allowing the wound.
Say, “I thank You, Lord, and I thank you, ________, for this wound, which I beg You, O Lord, to unite to Your most holy wounds for it by Your wounds that we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24
Praise God, who allowed it to happen because He loves you.
Say, “I praise You, Lord, and I glorify You for Your heavenly plan to save me and lead me to perfect joy! Thank you Lord!”
3. Hidden Sin: Do you need repentance or have hidden sin? Are you avoiding reality? Have you fully repented of all the sins of your life, even in your youth? Have you repented for hurting your fellow volunteers and made amends with them?
4. Prayer for volunteers: Are you praying for your work and your fellow volunteers? The work is holy and must be done in a holy way or else Satan will get in the middle of it and destroy it.
5. Humility: St. Paul regarded every other men/volunteer as better than himself. Never think you are better than anyone else.
6. Joy: Do you serve with joy? Does service make you smile or does it make you miserable? Joy is you are doing God’s will.
7. Generosity: Do you have a spirit of generosity? Are you coming to give or to receive?
1. Hidden Hunger: If you are volunteering for any other reason than God’s glory, it means your heart is not satisfied. Have you made Jesus the Lord of your life? Are you using volunteering for the wrong purposes? What you need is God’s love. Have you ever tasted or experienced God’s love? Not as a theory, not as a concept but as a reality?
2. Hidden Anger: You may need to forgive someone or yourself.
Forgiveness
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34
Forgiveness is a decision, not a feeling.
Say, “I forgive you, ________, in the Name of Jesus Christ, now and forever.”
Bless the person who hurt or offended you.
Say, “Lord Jesus, bless _________, richly, now and forever.”
Give thanks to God for allowing the wound.
Say, “I thank You, Lord, and I thank you, ________, for this wound, which I beg You, O Lord, to unite to Your most holy wounds for it by Your wounds that we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24
Praise God, who allowed it to happen because He loves you.
Say, “I praise You, Lord, and I glorify You for Your heavenly plan to save me and lead me to perfect joy! Thank you Lord!”
3. Hidden Sin: Do you need repentance or have hidden sin? Are you avoiding reality? Have you fully repented of all the sins of your life, even in your youth? Have you repented for hurting your fellow volunteers and made amends with them?
4. Prayer for volunteers: Are you praying for your work and your fellow volunteers? The work is holy and must be done in a holy way or else Satan will get in the middle of it and destroy it.
5. Humility: St. Paul regarded every other men/volunteer as better than himself. Never think you are better than anyone else.
6. Joy: Do you serve with joy? Does service make you smile or does it make you miserable? Joy is you are doing God’s will.
7. Generosity: Do you have a spirit of generosity? Are you coming to give or to receive?
5 Marks
“In all our actions to please God, we shall find these marks that we may know whether they have been done truly for God alone.
First, if when your task is has not been successful, you are not disturbed, but remain as tranquil as if you had attained your goal.
Second, you rejoice in the good done by others, as if it had been done by yourself. The soul who seeks nothing but the divine will of God, cares not whether it is promoted by another or by oneself.
Third, is not to desire one task more than another, but to be content with whatever is given.
Fourth, in your good works you do not desire thanks or recognition, but to remain, even when maltreated, in the same tranquility of mind, satisfied that you have given joy to God.
Fifth, you shall leave your task at a moment’s notice into the care of another, disturbing not your peace. It is by these guidelines we are able to give peace to our soul and bring the most glory to God.” In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph, Consecration Preparation For the Triumphant Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Page 75.
Copyright © 2020, Father James Blount, SOLT. All Rights Reserved.
First, if when your task is has not been successful, you are not disturbed, but remain as tranquil as if you had attained your goal.
Second, you rejoice in the good done by others, as if it had been done by yourself. The soul who seeks nothing but the divine will of God, cares not whether it is promoted by another or by oneself.
Third, is not to desire one task more than another, but to be content with whatever is given.
Fourth, in your good works you do not desire thanks or recognition, but to remain, even when maltreated, in the same tranquility of mind, satisfied that you have given joy to God.
Fifth, you shall leave your task at a moment’s notice into the care of another, disturbing not your peace. It is by these guidelines we are able to give peace to our soul and bring the most glory to God.” In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph, Consecration Preparation For the Triumphant Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Page 75.
Copyright © 2020, Father James Blount, SOLT. All Rights Reserved.