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NAME: Erhard Barclay AGE: 24 POSITION APPLIED: Chaplain RESIDENCE: Reinmar

"God, forgive me for I judged too quickly.. Canonist Orenians, blessed be until your last breath and after it..", Father Erhard signs the cross of Husariya, praying for the High Pontiff's health afterwards..

Erhard receives a letter from a specific bird, deciding to open it on his way from Blackvale, "Ah.. may God forgive me, and the Orenians who did this good act. Blessed be.."

Erhard widens his eyes, his cup of wine a few inches from his mouth as he glances at the man, "You're finally awake.."

"Leave it be, cousin. It is all flip-flop with them, you know it very well. Just pray that the darkness of their Crown will be enlightened with God's Light.", Father Erhard replies to his cousin's logical observation. @Borin

Ithrol nods upon hearing about the newborn child, praying for him not to experience the ruthless days of war.

Erhard prays to St. Ottomar!

"Do they actually believe they are right ?", Alfred remarks from the Seven Skies, shaking his head. "Do they actually believe they are right ?", Father Erhard remarks from his room in Reinmar, shaking his head. "Do they actually believe they are right ?", Bjornolf remarks from a specific place, shaking his head.

Alfred raises an eyebrow, having hard time thinking about the Order that was named after his own son, "Nico ?", he calls his son Nicolas, hoping to get to talk to him. @Burnsider

Father Erhard widens his eyes, swiftly going to his room to pack food and water which he will need for a journey, followed by his book of prayers. A quiet muttering of a prayer of Saint Wilfriche comes out of his room, marking the beginning of his new period of life.

"My cousin.. a Barclay, first of all..", in the middle of a cloudy night, a young priest Erhard thinks for a few moments while looking away and pausing his work, the top of the pencil tapping on the surface of his working desk. He loves his kin and God more than anything, being of well knowledge regarding the Church and Canonism, also surrounded by his other cleric cousins. "As always, Leopold never disappoints with his writings and wise quotes.", Erhard remarks with a firm nod to himself, returning swiftly to his side work..

COUNCIL ARCHIVES Of the Church of the Canon ☩ Assembled and published by Father Erhard Preserved and continued by Father Witmar Written on 26th of the Sun’s Smile, 1852 CONCILIUM ARKIVUS 1400’s 1500’s 1600’s 1700’s 1800’s 1900's 2000's *As new councils are announced, the archive will be updated

Alfred wipes a few tears..

One war veteran ponders for a few moments, those moments turning into hours as the Seven Skies don't know for time. He analyzes the skirm up and down, left and right, before coming to a conclusion, "T'is is non but only a propaganda. If I fought a chicken, and at the end the chicken was cooked and I only lost a finger, who do you think would come out victorious ?", he bluntly eyes one of his veteran friends, already aware of the answer.

Father Erhard nods to his cousin, a warm smile on his face as he looks at the thesis, "Selected words, fine wording, and perfect understanding of our faith. Good work, Ernst.."

Alfred Barclay, known as High Pontiff Tylos I cheers for his kin, proud to have served the one of a kind family. "It is indeed Your work, The Most Omnipotent..", the late Pontiff remarks..

Father Erhard, after a long day of studying in his room in Reinmar, decided to participate in the race. Username: rep2k Name: Erhard Barclay Dog name: Kimi Sled name: Ice Man Sledding prowess: Icy

"The righteous prevail, sinners sink down to the bottom of the Void, where no soul can hear them weep..", Father Erhard says quietly within the walls of the Basilica of St. Henrik, letting out a deep sigh while thinking about the schism that could have had a fatal ending.

Alfred smirks warmly from the Seven Skies, dropping a few grapes onto the Duke of Reinmar, "Johann.. congratulations.."

Pontifex Emeritus Alfred Barclay raises a glass of wine alongside his grandfather Anton Barclay, "Good to be dead, right- Alright alright, I was just joking.", he frowns as he gets hit with a walking stick by his grandfather.

Acolyte Erhard’s Thesis on Why go to church if God is in the soul Written on 7th of the Sigismund’s End, 1849 Today, many people, although they do not renounce their faith, although they acknowledge God, have nothing in common with church life, they believe that they have God in their souls, and that He should be sought right there, and not in a temple built by human hands. But why not exercise faith in practice, simply living by conscience, trying to keep the commandments, doing good deeds? Many believe that it is much more important to be a good person than to go to church regularly. What does it mean to be a good person? It’s just a relative term, all people are good. God created everything and everyone well, and man is the crown of creation, its most perfect part. Man can be like God, he is the image of God - every man! Regardless of whether he is aware of it or not, whether he is trying to find that image of God in himself and realize it, to get closer to God, to look like Him, to become born to Him. That is what the Lord expects of us - to become like Him. And in that sense - every man is good, and not only good, every man is beautiful, man is perfection. Someone can be, for example, an exceptional doctor and a vicious family man, unbearable in personal relationships. One can be ready to sacrifice oneself for one's homeland, and at the same time be cruel and ruthless towards the enemy. Is that a good man? Who is it good for? The Church does not call us to be good, moreover, the desire to "be good" is very dangerous. The desire to be good to every man is not love for man, but man-pleasing and hypocrisy. A person adapts to another, in order to leave an impression on him, and in that way he provokes a good opinion of himself, a lot of mental strength is lost, and that is a terrible thing. We are not called to be good, but holy, and that is a completely different measure of the human spirit. From the point of view of the philosophy that can fit into this story of ours, people can be divided into righteous and sinners. The righteous are those who consider themselves sinners, and the true sinners are those who consider themselves righteous and good people. That is why they do not even see their shortcomings, they do not feel how far they are from God, from love. Because we should always feel a great hunger for love. Very scary thinking and a very petty-bourgeois notion that it is enough to be a good man. But, thank God, He helps us to feel our shortcomings through some circumstances, when we see that we have no love for people, we can resist some temptations, falls - this is also God's grace, and thus the most important sin is recognized - and that is complacency, self-love. It is the opposite of love. Love is - dissatisfaction with oneself, awareness of one's own nothingness, and holy are the people who live their whole lives in the consciousness of their own nothingness, and because of that, God's greatness becomes available to them. We need to explain to ourselves what the Church is in general. This is the question of a worldly man when the Church is something incomprehensible, foreign, repulsive, far from his real life, and that is why he does not even enter it. The real answer is how no one could have answered better throughout the entire history of mankind: "The Church is the body and home of God" and adds "the pillar and confirmation of the truth". He further adds that we are all "limbs of the body", that is, parts of that organism, particles, cells, it can be said. There is already a very deep secret here, it can no longer be something repulsive - organism, body, blood, soul, functioning of the whole body and self-subordination, self-organization of those cells. We come to the question of the attitude towards faith in God, a worldly and ecclesiastical man. The Church is not only a legal institute and a social organization, but it is a mysterious phenomenon, a community of people, the Body and the House of God. "Man finds it hard to get what he wants because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give because He would give the best and man will not take it." If a man came to church only because someone advised him - you are bad, you are sick, come and everything will be fine in your life - it is deeply contrary to the canonist attitude towards life in general, such a model of accepting yourself and your place in life. Maybe he will stay with that, of course, unfortunately. Even with an atheist, who is a canonist in his essence and carries love and joy in himself - there is also a lack of understanding. It is an atheism of illusion. When you start talking to such a man, you realize that he is also a believing man, and that his life is essentially a church, that is, he is lovingly connected with other people. But he did not come up with the most important thought. He lives, obeying, not thinking, but his heart, intuition. Such people often suffer a lot in life, because they cannot accept many things, they try to separate light from darkness, wheat from weeds, love from hypocrisy and they cannot do that, very often feeling the futility of everything they do. Communion with God is inaccessible to them, and they do not have that fullness of existence. They have love as an activity, but love as the fullness of life is inaccessible to them. When you love yourself, it is not love, it is closing in on yourself, it is almost a disease. And that is why in our time, when many people think that it is possible to live without the Church, we see such a pandemic of psychological pathologies. Especially in states, where religion is completely clearly separated from the state, where the tradition of communion with people has been destroyed, where the life of the people has been disrupted, and people are divided into islands of individual lives. One should be responsible for oneself and for others. To be responsible for oneself only in front of oneself is - tragedy, because of which sooner or later we feel our limitations and incompleteness, our helplessness and some weakness. And every man feels the need for forgiveness, because everyone, no matter how beautiful he was, some thoughts arise in the secret parts of the soul, because man is not ideal. When you feel that an innocent God takes our guilt upon himself, what can appear but gratitude? Love is when a man is ashamed of himself and other people, he feels the evil they do as their own. He feels that another man has done something, but that also concerns me because I am also a man. That is the fullness of ecclesiology, that is life in the Church.

God, this day has come, and I really didn't expect it. Yet various, unexpected circumstances compel us to various, unexpected deeds. Before I start, everyone (almost everyone) knows me as a replica, rep2k, Serbian-Montenegrin nationalist or whatever name is already on the list. I’ve been together with LOTC community.. two years if I’m not mistaken, and I have to be honest, maybe the most beautiful two years so far. Scrolling through the list of Minecraft servers in 2019, I came across Lord of The Craft, a server that I thought at the time would be another in a series of those that killed the last atom of my life. However, here I am today, with a rather fine history and achievements, which others may not be proud of, but I definitely am. I've always been a fan of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the like, so this server attracted me without a shred of effort, although through a long game I realized that we sometimes overdo it with 'Welcome to Lord of the Craft, the world's # 1 Minecraft Roleplaying Server', but no I protest not in the least. A lot of situations on this server just brought me to the point of madness, anger and hatred, I even had two bans of a month each, believe it or not! But, no matter how many such moments I overcame easily, there were, of course, those days that I didn't want to end, and if I started writing about them now, there would be no end. I remember it all started in Haense (thank u @Miniguy15736), when I thought being Ragnar Lothbrok was what everyone was doing on the server, so I took his skin and played a furious Viking. But yes, I went through other nations, various communities and I really absorbed a lot of knowledge. I realized that not everything revolves around RP, nor does it revolve around OOC, but I guess that’s the nature of LOTC today. The 'death' of my first character, the famous Bjornolf Stjorn, left such an impression on me that I wanted to play more, more and more, so I have continued to this day. Surely my greatest achievement is when I became Pope, High Pontiff, call it what you will. It was a busy period, but as I said before, the fun and the euphoria that circulated around that important position overcame me. The only thing I failed to do was play an orc, and I’m really saddened, because who wouldn’t love to be as tall as Shaq, while having a green skin, hey! And so, this fulfilled period of my life, which I enjoyed on this server with all of you, is coming to an end, but for my own good. I found out about my parents ’possible divorce, last year of high school and commitments are still pressing on me day in and day out, and the day just came to say that enough is enough. It was nice, it really was, and I will say that as long as I have any contact with LOTC, but that's the way it is, and I know that 90% of this server will not pay attention to this post, but people who have been through a lot with me and the people who helped me will always be close to my heart, wherever they are now. And not to linger any longer, beware, Covid has not yet been conquered, we still have a long way to go. Don’t let toxicity overwhelm the beautiful moments. And please finish War Rules. Довиђења свима и пуно среће, жели вам rep2k (translate this if u wanna). Some screenshots I took out of many more:

Alfred smirks from the Skies, "Of course it's Kalden."

is the church shadow led by the barclays and you ?

SIXTH EDICT OF THE BARCLAY MAYORSHIP RELIGION INTOLERANCE EDICT Issued 13rd of the Horen’s Calling, 1842 RELIGION INTOLERANCE Canonism, a word that when mentioned awakens the best in people, a religion that is represented and spread in almost every area of Almaris. If it were not for faith, we would have no purpose to live, nor if it were not for God, we would be lost souls, wandering alone through gloomy paths that do not lead to His Way. Our country already has a well-spread culture and religion, which creates a harmony between the state and the church. However, various people, enemies of God, will try to manipulate our people who have God in their hearts, so this way the following will come into force: Any individual caught practicing any religion other than Canonism in public in any part of San Luciano will be deprived of their liberty. If an individual does not agree to repent to a bishop of the Church of the Canon, he will receive a fine of 150 minas, or public execution, depending on the person. Penned by, Lord Mayor of San Luciano