Feast Days
Feast of Corpus Christi (7th June)
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14th September)
Feast of Our Lady, Queen of Palestine (25th October)
Daily Prayer for Knights and Dames
I praise you Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, for having become, through your grace and benevolence, a Member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, which within the Church keeps alive the memory of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, your Son.
Thank you for granting me to be united in this way to his redemptive mystery and to take part in the life of the Church of the Holy Land.
Thank you for the knowledge of you that we have through Jesus, Creator and above all merciful Father.
Thank you for allowing Jesus the Redeemer to take upon himself also my yoke, my weariness, my fears, my cross, and my sins.
Thank you for the consolation of the Holy Spirit and for the opportunity to contribute to the service of Charity in the Holy Land, together with all those brothers and sisters with whom I am spiritually and associatively united in the same ideal.
Thank you Mary, given to me as a loving Mother under the title of Queen of Palestine, through her intercession grant peace and reconciliation to the land of Jesus.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Knight's Prayer / Dame's Prayer
O Lord, for Your five wounds that we carry on our insignia we pray: Give us the strength to love all whom Your Father has created and, more so, our enemies. Free our soul and heart from sin, from partiality, from egoism, and from fear so that we can be worthy of Your Sacrifice.
Let Your Spirit descend upon us all, the Knights and Dames of the Holy Sepulchre, so that it may render us as convinced and sincere ambassadors of peace and love among our brothers and sisters, and, especially among all those who think they do not believe in You.
Give us Faith to face all the pains of daily life and to deserve one day to approach, humbly but without fear Your presence. Amen
Prayer to Our Lady Queen of Palestine
We turn to you for your powerful intercession, heal hardened hearts. Bring justice and peace to the Holy Land. May Jerusalem be a beacon of unity among all people living in the Holy Land. May intolerance and suspicion vanish. May love eradicate fear. May all who do not believe in God be touched by your grace and reach fullness of faith, hope and love. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
Our Lady, Daughter and Queen of the Holy Land, Pray for us.
EOHSJ NZ: Prayer for Increase in New Members
Almighty and loving Father, who are the Lord of the Harvest and whose grace makes us fruitful in our works; call, we pray, many men and women to share in the work of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem throughout the world, and especially here in New Zealand.
Give us, also, the Knights and Dames of the Order, the grace to be powerful witnesses of your love and mercy, that we may help others to respond to your call.
We ask this through your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.
A Special Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land
Queen of peace,
Chosen daughter of a land still devastated by wars, hatred, violence.
We confidently address our plea to you:
Do not allow that Jesus' tears at the sight of the Holy City which did not understand the gift of peace, may once again, fall into indifference and political Calculation.
Look at the Afflictions of so many mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, victims of destructive energies that are blind and without a future.
Inspire ways of dialogue, a vigorous will in solving problems and a collaboration of certain hope.
Don’t . let us ever get used to oppression, to on sider the struggles as ‘inevitable', and the victims they produce as ‘collateral’.
Make sure that the logic of aggression does not prevail over good will and that the solution of many problems is not considered impossible.
Just like with your prayer in the midst of the Disciples on Pentecost, obtain from the Almighty, that situations, even if apparently insurmountable in the Holy Land, find ways of happy solution. Amen.