Originally published at Orange County Catholic
“We are called to build a future of hope and future of peace. In a special way, that future depends on the continued well-being of our Christian families and most especially the education of their children.”
-Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
WE, THE KNIGHTS AND Dames of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, take a vow to protect our Christian Brothers and Sisters in the Holy Land in fidelity to a tradition of Catholic chivalry of more than nine centuries. Far from the anachronism that it may seem, chivalry lives, thrives and serves today, for beyond mere decorous social conduct and by no means a purely honorific token of recognition, knighthood or damehood is a call to the exemplarily virtuous service of others.
2023 EOHSJ ORANGE AREA MEMBERS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING IN RANCHO MIRAGE.
As Cardinal Casaroli once observed, “A Knight is a man who intends to place himself at the service of a noble and difficult cause, a pure and arduous ideal; fighting evil, promoting good, defending the weak and the oppressed against injustice.”
Accordingly, too, writes Peter Bander van Duren in “Orders of Knighthood and of Merit”: “From its beginnings, the
