Knight's Path

There are many values that this Order promotes: maintaining the Spanish historical legacy, respect for one's neighbour and family, justice, honour and loyalty. Also generosity, piety, courage, bravery, protection of the weak and the helpless. And one more, which I would like to highlight in particular: solidarity. It costs little.

Nothing would please me more than for the Knights who in the future enter this humble Order to do so conscious of what unites us and from moderation, simplicity, honesty and tolerance of differences of any kind.

Let us be Custodian Knights, at all times and places.

By Myriam Garrido

Towards the construction of the Kingdom.

Every Order of Chivalry suggests courage, quest and ideals. It aims to contribute to fulfilling the dreams of humanity. Human beings, as sons and daughters of God, long for something great. We imagine the creation of a world of harmony and that spirit moves us to join a chivalric order. Arthur and the Round Table, the kingdom of Camelot. Jesus showed, with his words and deeds, what this new world consists of and the efforts that we must be willing to make to achieve it.

In the past 2000 years of history, in the Christian era, the world has experienced great development. But God's wish that His will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven has not yet been fulfilled. Every Knight yearns to help create the Kingdom, a kingdom of liberty, equality and fraternity. Every Knight must ceaselessly seek the mystical Grail, which is to understand, live and serve from true love. The blessings of Genesis, "Be fruitful, multiply and subdue the earth," can only be understood in this light. Every Knight prays to be imbued with true love and thus be able to bring harmony to human society.

The Knight sees the Order as a stepping stone to becoming the son or daughter that God has longed for since the beginning of time. He awaits encouragement, offers his commitment and sees signs that we are entering a new era. The Knight is aware that his perseverance, his clarity and his broad-mindedness are essential to fulfill his mission. For his country, for the world and for God.



By Enrique Miguel Sanchez Motos

I can say that it has been an honour to be given the opportunity to express words that come from the heart, and that will remain written forever, as a Spaniard and a Christian, and thinking from within my soul, as if someone from above dictated them. Words that will remain forever, as in this very important book of the Order of the Knights Custodians of Calatrava la Vieja.

We live in a time of continuous movement, which often leads to activism, with the easy risk of doing for the sake of doing. We have to resist this temptation to seek sedatives of doing. We strive for many things, but only one thing is necessary, to be before doing. It is not good to be without knowing where we come from, and without doing the little things with love. If we really want to give the world back its Christian roots, if we want to recover that Christianity that is slowly disappearing from our world, it is necessary that we consecrate our hearts to Christ our God and to Mary. To do and to be, knowing where we come from. Let us move forward firmly in these times of difficulty, of anxiety, of persecution, and let it become a reality that more and more hearts are consecrated to Christ and Mary. It will be the sign that the restoration of Christian culture, the return of Christianity, is beginning. And we must ask our God for a heart of flesh, as opposed to a heart of stone. It is in the culture of life where we are playing a lot. And that we must start from the base of our own family, from our jobs, from our friends and wherever we go through this life, in which we are passing through, and that from our way of living and working we must carry out this line.

I want to contribute to the Salvation of all our brothers, to save everyone from the slavery of not being oneself, to have the freedom to fight for those values that today have been left behind, that are not given importance, such as respect for one's neighbor, for family, justice, fighting for SPAIN, for your country, this great nation that has risen from all adversities, in which we have won all the battles, fought for the greatest thing, honor, which should be the main motto, and that is not only having more and being more powerful, but giving importance to loyalty, to value, to courage, to generosity, to the protection of the dejected, discouraged or disheartened. And that can only be achieved with the help of GOD.

Good can advance, but for good to advance what is needed is a royal will, perhaps more than in other times, because when the sense of good, of truth, has been lost, then it is harder, more demanding to promote good, and in many cases this also implies greater incomprehension of the society in which we live, but we have to continue forward and fight for good, because good is taking important steps.

That all the above in summary, it will be an HONOR to belong to this order and to be a KNIGHT CUSTODIAN, that being named Knight of the Order of Calatrava la Vieja is a way, a union that unifies all these criteria to be carried out on the battlefield, which is the world that surrounds us, all that work, that union and strength of all the men and women who form this order, with faith and the help of Christ, we can build a better society, a society with values, of moral plenitude, with help to others to carry that cross that we all carry on our backs and make it less heavy.

Everything is for GOD, for our brothers, for the good of Spain and of good Spaniards.

By Jose Galiano Moreno

What is an order of chivalry for you?

When I think about what an order of chivalry is or what I consider to be, I inevitably think of three ideas: the Middle Ages, religious congregation and Islam. In the Middle Ages, orders of chivalry represented the union between chivalric ethics and the principles and values of the monk. Belonging to an order was considered a strong sacred bond. The knight's fidelity had to respond to religious norms and values. The vow of chastity, poverty and obedience, which governed the monastic orders, was initially applied to the military orders. Over time, the orders of chivalry were organized around a powerful lord, to protect and safeguard his interests. They therefore had a defensive and military function, especially from Islam. (Paradoxically, this threat continues to be latent today, perhaps in a more subtle but no less dangerous way.) They also had a social character, with which they shared not only the military tasks themselves, but also courtly duties such as hunting, eating or leisure.

Why do I want to join a knightly order?

There are two points of reference that have marked and serve as a guide in my life. On the spiritual level, the Catholic faith, I believe in God the Father Almighty, my creator and the creator of all things; on the civil and social level, the point of reference is the love for my country, for its customs, values and traditions. Both points of reference find an ideal fusion in the order of chivalry, because belonging to the order allows me to defend and practice both ideals. It is the principles of the Catholic faith that guide my steps in the defense of my country, the responsibility of every good Spaniard. I must not and cannot passively observe how this society, barren in values, destroys our own identity, our traditions, our ideals and ultimately our beloved country for which so many Spaniards throughout history have given their lives. I think of the new generations, of my children, and I see it as my duty to preserve and enhance for them my beloved Spain, a country that today is bleeding to death in absurd separatism, crazed populism and a rabid anticlericalism that, under an absolute moral relativism, disguises the imposition of the most absurd and destructive principles under the guise of false tolerance. The order allows me, from the role I play in society, as a mother in the private sphere and a teacher in the workplace, to defend and contribute to the enhancement of Spain and at the same time to be a living witness of Christ on Earth.

By Maria Lourdes Marin Garcia-Cervigon