Brothers and Sisters, I was in Rome two weeks ago and I sat down with one of the wisest Templar sages that I know of. Dr. Stelio Venceslai is a Professor in Italy and runs growing and active Italian Templar Priory. [IMG]i57.tinypic/1zmfj9y.jpg[/IMG] I quote Professor Stelio often: A man is not a Templar until he is a Templar in his heart. Not when he is Knighted, not when he puts on the pure white mantle, but when he understands in his heart that only by living the Templar virtues and making them part of his life has he realized what it truly is to be a Templar. Its easy to say the words, its hard to live the life. Its not natural to live the life of a Templar. Its natural to seek revenge, to get mad and yell, to be impatient, to lie to avoid trouble, to live for monetary gain. Its unnatural and difficult to take the virtues of the Templars to heart and live them out: Honesty, Loyalty, Perseverance, Charity, Humility, Courage, and Honor. Professor Stelio told me that the secret to his successful and growing Templar Priory in Rome is the: Moral Magisterium [IMG]i58.tinypic/73i88p.png[/IMG] So what is his secret? He started me down the path of understanding the Moral Magisterium so lets go down this path together and understand this together. The Moral Magisterium is how Templars can change the world through living to a higher morality, a higher ethic. To make the Templar virtues real in our life. Then we live these virtues in our life and affect our sphere of influence. Each man has a sphere of influence, our families, our friends, neighbors, the people we work with. As the Templars grow in numbers, they grown in influence and slowly change the world. Professor Stelio said that some Templar Orders are like a Ferrari with no engine. They are a good show and flashy. They look great but after the pomp and ceremony, they are empty. It doesnt take long before someone tries to start the engine and learns the truth. There is nothing there after the knighting and the donning of the white mantle. This is when the Moral Magisterium comes in. This is when we learn to actually be Templars. This is when we take the Templar Virtues to heart. This is when we learn to control our behaviors and motives. This is when we choose to live the Moral Magisterium. This is when we become Templars in our heart. The Moral Magisterium is the narrow gate or path that the Bible talks about: Matthew 7:13 - 14: 13Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. [IMG]i57.tinypic/icvj20.jpg[/IMG] The Moral Magisterium is the road less traveled that Poet Robert Frost so vividly described: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. But Professor Stelio did not fully flesh out the Moral Magisterium. He did not describe all of what it is. He left that to us. He said now it is your turn to discover the Moral Magisterium and to define it. Brothers and Sisters, please help us discover what this Moral Magisterium is together. Please tell me what it means to you?
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:29:38 +0000
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