One of the reasons Holy Scripture is so relevant is that its core subjects have not changed even one single whit. Prime Subject One: “For I the Lord do not change”( Malachi 3:6), and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) Prime Subject Two: While it is true that today we have electricity, computers, automobiles, and rocket ships, all those who use these have not changed since we were run out of the Garden because of our deepest nature, which always leads to error and death. None of that has changed since the forbidden fruit…

_______________________________________________ A wonderful time of fun, fellowship, and fabulous food was shared by all who attended the Priory Holiday Celebration at Dixie Crossroads on 28 December! And we’re starting the new year off with the Priory bi-annual Spiritual Retreat sponsored by the Commandery of The Holy Trinity and led by Rev. Glenn Galtere this Saturday, 11 January, at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton Catholic Church in Port St. Lucie. The Temple Church Spring 2025 Convent & Investiture You certainly don’t want to miss the upcoming Temple Church Spring 2025 Convent & Investiture (C&I) 28 February – 2 March 2025! It is…

2025 is our year, Brothers and Sisters of the Templi Hierosolymitan (which is, as you know well, Latin for “Temple of Jerusalem”). How do I know that 2025 is the Year of the Templar? It is an easy deduction which I will share herewith: 2025 is the Year of the Templar because we, the Brothers and Sisters of the Priory of The Temple Church, are united together for one reason and for a singular purpose. It is the same one reason and singular purpose for which our Templar forefathers pledged their being: To advance the Kingdom of God on this…

Outside the Temple Mount, the winds howled, carrying with the tempest rare flakes of stinging snow. But inside the mount, deep within one of its many labyrinthine appendices, was a wooden enclosure that held the spartan chamber of Templar Marshall Constant Hugh and his young Page, Thomas Bright. “Up with you now, lad. We go forth from here immediately!” Marshall Hugh commanded, wrapping his well-worn white mantle over his wool-lined leather greatcoat. The Page stalled, having already settled beneath the hay wrapped in his own wool blanket. The pause was long enough to be noticed by his Knight, who simply…

Each person’s marriage is very different than everybody else’s. After having been married for more than 32 years and observing many other married couples during my lifespan, that fact remains evident. So, trying to “judge” who is doing it “right” or “better” or “wrong” is a total waste of time. Every couple merges their lives in completely different ways with vastly dissimilar expectations as each union is balanced by God. Thus, as I relate the following marriage experience, let me be clear: while Claudia and I consider our relationship the “norm,” most other marriage couples probably would not agree that…

As a career NASA Space Life Sciences Engineer, I realized that there are many potential lessons to be learned directly and personally about human physiology when immersed in an alien environment. Sure, we can call it an “off-nominal” environment or an “other-than-one-Earth-normal” environment. But let’s just call it what it is – an environment where humans cannot survive unless they bring their own life support system. Like I said, an alien environment. And it was in one of these alien environments that I discovered that I was a nitrogen canary. Long before the days when there were such things as…

  Life is truly fascinating. The infamous “they” are quite fond of assuring us that “things happen in threes.” Bad things. Good things. Strange things. Unexpected things. And so it happens that in the past three weeks, I have crossed paths with three CIA agents. For real. But, of course, I can neither confirm nor deny that this ever really happened…. One of my God given talents is to befriend strangers and listen to their life stories. Hollywood lore would have us believe that all three of these spies will now have to kill me simply because they shared their…

PUBLIC NOTICE OF GOOD CHEER AND CELEBRATION TO THE LIMITS OF FLORIDA LAW Temple Church Holiday Celebration – 28 December 11AM-3PM! Dixie Crossroads, Titusville. Please RSVP soon! Another announcement will be sent ASAP. Please plan to bring your more than extraordinary good time plans with you and unpack them immediately on arrival!     In our mostly pagan culture, I am amused by the number of times I see the word “FAITH” tossed out as an empty aphorism, or a commercial product expressed as a standalone token – the “feeling” of “FAITH” just represented as the single word FAITH. Period….

SAVE THE DATE! February 28 – March 2, 2025 Hurricane Milton swept through Florida in mid-October and forced us to have to move our Convent and Investiture to another date.  After much deliberation by Temple Church’s Executive Committee, the date of the Spring 2025 C&I has been set and subsequently approved by our Grand leadership. It is now pinned on the GPUSA calendar. It will be held on the weekend of February 28 through March 2. The really great news is that hardly anything has changed! All of the places we had scheduled for the 12 October C&I are the…

SAVE THE DATE! February 28 – March 2, 2025 Hurricane Milton swept through Florida in mid-October and forced us to have to move our Convent and Investiture to another date.  After much deliberation by Temple Church’s Executive Committee, the date of the Spring 2025 C&I has been set and subsequently approved by our Grand leadership. It is now pinned on the GPUSA calendar. It will be held on the weekend of February 28 through March 2. The really great news is that hardly anything has changed! All of the places we had scheduled for the 12 October C&I are the…