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THE
ORDER of Leadership:
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LEAD
courageously by doing what is right.
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ENACT
justice
on behalf of others.
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ACCEPT
responsibility for our words, decisions and actions.
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DELIVER
our best in everything we do.
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 EMBRACE
and
encourage
others
through friendship.
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RETURN
good for evil.
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SERVE
everyone with love that engenders respect.
GUIDING
MAXIM:
"Lead,
Provide, Protect,
with Love that engenders Respect
for God through Christ"
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Knights
were made by other Knights:
"The role of the Squires during the Middle Ages was an important step to achieving the status of a Knight. The Medieval Squire was a
servant to a knight... Squires
had already served 7 years in the role of a page before moving to the role of a Squire at
the age of 14 years
old.
As a page he was viewed as a boy,... Squires were
viewed as young men
that had reached the age of puberty, their first
step towards
manhood.
...The word Squire is derived from ...words ...which originally meant 'shield bearer'...meaning
apprentice
of a knight." They became a knight at the age of 21 with
all its rights, privileges, responsibilities and duties.
source:
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/squires.htm |
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Description
of a Squire:
"a noble man who loves the order of chivalry
and will be a knight to have first a master who is a knight, for thus it is a discovenable* thing that a squire should learn the order and
nobility from any other man than a knight.
So very high and honored is the order of chivalry
that a squire should suffer himself not only to learn to ...serve a
knight, that he go with him to tourneys and battles; but it is necessary that he beholds the
school of the order of knighthood." source:
Medieval writer Ramon Lull (1235 – 1315)
*Discovenable - a choice to make an effort to learn |
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In the stories, "not one instance is to be found in which a
squire becomes a knight, without some reference to his religious
faith. If he be dubbed (a knight) in the battle-field, he
swears to defend the right, and maintain all the statutes of the noble
order of Chivalry, upon the cross of his sword; he calls heaven to
witness his vow, and the saints (community of knights) to help him
in its execution." source:
The history of
Chivalry (PDF), Henry Colburn, 1830 |
