It is with a great deal of pleasure that we now unveil the artwork for the second of the new Chivalry for Children (TM) Program t-shirts.  This design, created by noted artist and Templar historian Gordon Napier, uses the same elements as the C4C program logo, but renders them in a style with a more "medieval" feel to it. 

 

For more information on the work of Mr. Napier, please see his website: http://www.dashinvaine.co.uk/   

It is with a great deal of pride that we unveil the artwork for the new Chivalry for Children (TM) Program t-shirt designs.  This first design is now the logo of the program, and was created by noted author, Templar historian and grapic designer: S.A. Dafoe.

This year, I would like to commend to your consideration a new kind of Advent Calendar...a Templar Advent Calendar.

In this calendar there will still be candy and gifts to mark the holiday, the sweet anticipation of Christmas and it's joy; but instead of opening tiny windows to find gifts for ourselves, we open a window in the world with a small act of kindness we do for others. Perhaps one day we put a little extra in the Bell Ringer's pot, and the next we buy a can of food for the food bank. A donation here, an act of unconditional love there...as we write them down on our calendar, it will soon be decorated, not with glitter, candy and ribbon...but with the Gifts of the Spirit.

On Christmas Eve, when all is quiet, it will be the time to wrap our Advent Calendar as a gift and present it to...ourselves. For this is not the kind of gift we give someone else, but that we give to that indwelling spirit of Love that that resides in all of us.

I hope you will join me.

Bauceant

Ghost Templars in the Sky

Phillipe le Bel went riding out
One dark and stormy day,
With entourage and pursuivants
He rode along his way,
When all at once a ghostly force
Templars then he saw,
Charging through the darkened skies
And through the tempest's maw...

Beausceant a hey! Beausceant, awa'
Ghost Templars in the Sky!

Their Piebald standard flying and
Their helms of burnished steel,
Their swords were sharp and shiny and
Their anger he could feel,
A bolt of fear shot through him as
They thundered through the sky,
For he saw the Templars comin' hard
And he heard their mournful cry:

Beausceant a hey! Beausceant, awa'
Ghost Templars in the Sky!

His face is gaunt,
His eyes are blurred,
His tunic soaked with sweat,
The Templars ride to catch the King,
But they've not caught him yet,
For he's doomed to run forever,
From those Templars in the sky,
Boanerges' champions, as
They ride on hear their cry:

Beausceant a hey! Beausceant, awa'
Ghost Templars in the Sky!

(Filked with profound apologies to Stan Jones, and his cowboy classic: "Ghost Riders.")

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Desderata

Thru lightless landscapes I follow,
A whispered wraith,
Devoid of form, yet potent
It beguiles my dreams
With lurid, seductive fantasies
Haunting my days
With elusive promises,
Delphic and powerful it waits

Until...

In epiphany’s totured clarity,
I stand ensnared and enthralled,
Rapt in wordless wonder,
I am lost to reason, to life
In divine esctasy’s embrace
A mute, immobile monument, 
I stand..
A cenotaph to desire,
Condemned to linger,
In timeless esurience, 
I wait...
Amid a graveyard of dreams
Within a masoleum of memory.

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Wheel of Time

The sky is dark,
The wind growls cold,
in Autumn’s sway
The year grows old,
But seasons pass,
In turn so swift
That Winter makes way
for Springs bright gift.

HAPPY HALLOWE’EN


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