The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem welcomes as its Members men and women, lay and consecrated, who are eager to live the Christian faith to the full with a special commitment to the Holy Land.
The unifying core is the glorious mystery of Christ who died and rose again: from the time of the Empty Tomb, Jesus now reaches every man and woman in every place and time. The Empty Sepulchre for a Knight and a Dame represents the point that unites and invites them to look to that Land that welcomed the Lord’s earthly life and for which today they are called to support the “living stones,” namely that Patriarchal Church of Jerusalem, Mother Church of all Churches. St. Paul taught that we should show generous solicitude towards it (cf. Acts 11:27-30; 1Cor. 16:1-4; 2Cor. 8:3-4); a solicitude then entrusted by the Supreme Pontiffs specifically to the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, which makes it its own. For let it not be forgotten that the Knights and Dames place themselves in the ideal continuation of those men and women who followed the Master, listened to his teaching, offered him hospitality and followed him to the Cross; then, when risen, they assumed his mission as Koinonìa, that is, the Community of faith, or even Ekklesìa, that is, the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, definitively fulfilled at Pentecost by the gift of the Holy Spirit, and sent to preach the Gospel to all nations.
The attached document briefly addresses the most significant aspects of our formation.
