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At the battle of Dorylaeum, the crusaders kept up their spirits with an inspiring, if ambiguous, battle cry:
"Stand fast together, trusting in Christ and the victory of the Holy Cross. Today may we all gain much booty.''The Battle cry of the Templars was
"Beau-Séant!" which was the motto they bore on their banner. It meant roughly "
Be glorious!''The Templars adopted the line from the psalms
'Not unto us o Lord, but to thy name goes the glory' as their battle cry.
'Vive Dieu, Saint Amour' ( God lives, Saint Love)
("Long Live God's Holy Love!" - one of the popular battle-cries of the Knights Templar)
Soon the Grand Master sent a large force of Crusaders to the battle, to engage the Polish knights who were waiting on the other side. Trumpets sounded. Cheers rose. And the Polish knights waited for the savage charge of the Crusaders who came over a slight rise waving their banners and singing
"Christ has risen" as they came against the "Pagans
For the Crusaders, the Battle of Arsuf had now entered a critical stage. Garnier de Nablus pleaded with Richard to be allowed to attack. He refused, ordering the Master to maintain position. This was more than the Hospitaller could endure. He charged into the Saracen ranks
with a cry of St. George!, followed quickly by the rest of his knights. Moved by this example, the French followed.
Knights of St. John Songs
SONGS
CONSECRATION PRAYER SONG
CHRISTUS VINCIT - CHRIST CONQUERS
CHRISTUS REGNAT - CHRIST IS KING
CHRISTUS IMPERAT - CHRIST IS OUR RULER
OPENING ODE
To be sung at the opening of all meetings and initiations
Tune: Adeste Fideles
I. For God and our Country
Gather we together
Let us ever resound
To sing His praise
Shoulder to shoulder
Face the roughest weather
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
We’ll win the day.
II. When God’s bidding calls us
Never will we falter
E’en though He requires us
Our life to pay
Like ancient Crusader
We’ll fight for His alter
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
Our battle cry, “God wills it”
We’ll win the day.
CLOSING ODE
AIR - Star Spangled Banner
a. Our labour and toil
For the ev’ning is done
Oh may it bear fruit
With the help of God’s blessing
Now let us achieve
What’s nobly begun
Our best brain and brawn
To the contest addressing
Like the Great Constantine
We choose the same sign
The Cross of Our Saviour
To be our ensign
The banner of Jesus
Forever we wave
It makes us victorious
E’en in the grave
b. When life’ work is done
And we sink to our rest
The greater the toil
The sweeter the slumber
A life noble spent
Is the only test
Let us merit the Crown
By good deeds without number
With the Cross at our head
By His Sacrament fed
We fear not to join
The ranks of the Dead
The banner of Jesus
Forever we wave
It makes us victorious
E’en in the grave
SONG IN HONOUR OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
1. God called great prophets to foretell
The coming of His Son
The greatest called before his birth,
Was John, the chosen one.
2. John searched the solitude for Christ
And knew Him when He came
He showed the world the Lamb of God
And hailed Him in our name.
3. That lonely voice cried out the truth
Derided and denied
As witness to the law of God
His mighty martyr died.
4. We praise You Trinity in One
The light of the unknown ways
The hope of all who search for you
Whose love fills our days.
Amen.
THE HYMN BEFORE AND AFTER THE GOSPEL
1. Give me thy Grace, light up my soul
God in my heart and on my lips
Grace to pronounce the words of God
As in the sacred book I read.
2. The seed of Sacred word O Lord
Fall on my ears as fertile ground
Blessed are those who hear the words
And Keep it firmly in their hearts
TITLE HYMN NUMBER OF THE LAGOS GRAND ANTHEM, AND SOME COMMANDERIES/LAUX ANTHEMS
GRAND - All People That on Earth - CHB 1
447, YABA - We Stand for God - CHB 153
474 ADO-EKITI - Rock of Ages - CHB 106
485 ILORIN - Hail Holy Joseph - CHB 233
496 AKURE - All the Earth - CHB 2
557 AKOWONJO - All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name - SDHB 24 **
573 IBADAN - Come Sound His Praise - CHB 5
** SDHB (St. Dominic’s Hymn Book)
SONG FOR SOCIAL OCCASSIONS
THAT GIVE EXPRESSION TO OUR EXPECTATIONS
IN THE KNIGHTHOOD OF THE KSJI
Knights of St. John, I will be until I die
Knights of St. John, I will be until I die
Those already in, do your best to uphold it
Those who are not yet in, do your best to join us
Among the Knights were to be found famous warriors from every nation in Europe, each grouped with his fellow-countrymen in a kind of regiment, known as a Tongue, because all of a Tongue used the same speech, the English Tongue, the Spanish Tongue, the Italian Tongue, and so on. Every Knight was bound to dedicate his whole life to the Order; he was, as it were, a kind of warrior monk, who must at any moment be ready to spring to his post when the battle-cry of the Order was raised,
"Our Lady and St. John!"Tannenberg, 1410, the Grand Master wore gilt armour and a white cloak. Trumpets and drums were used and the usual battle-cry or field-word was
"Gott Mit Uns".