Not sure what to do (Sigma Chi Ritual)

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

Brother, slow your roll.

#1 - I don't know where your advisor came up with the story about releasing fake rituals for parents to read. He obviously needs to go through Cornerstone Mentoring or Horizons training, again. HQ does not release "fake rituals" to confuse the matter more. I think the opinion of HQ is that there are more important things to worry about than wondering if someone has read a fake ritual or not.

#2 - Agree. I don't like someone disrespecting Sigma Chi, either. However, I doubt that if someone read our ritual, they would stop respecting us. Like everyone else's ritual, ours has a deep, personal meaning to us. If our ritual ended up in someone else's hands and they read it, it would still have a deep meaning to me.

#3 - I would bet money that not one active poster on here would attempt to read the Sigma Chi ritual (unless they are already a Sig). They have their own secret rituals and respect the secrecy of ours.

Our ritual and our Creed are guides for everyday. Something to remember.

When the Theta Tau (TX State) chapter was installed, I was married to the President (Consul) of the petitioning local. They did not have a house, so the ritual equipment for installation was stored in our apartment. Some soon-to-be Sigs expressed dismay that I might chose to go try and read their ritual, look at their ritual items, etc. I informed them that I had my own ritual, thank-you-very-much. Even so, I burst out into tears when Grand Consul Keith Sorensen handed the charter to my husband - I knew how much it meant to him, even if I didn't know the particulars of the initiation he had gone through.

The written ritual would mean nothing to me - and actually, it isn't really alive even for Sigma Chi members until it is explained and LIVED. What makes ritual important is not the secrecy, nor the words that may or may not be written down; it is its implementation in the lives of those who vow to follow its precepts. To the op, who I realize is probably long-gone, I'd say worry more about living your ritual than in trying to defend it from outsiders who at best will have only a hollow representation of what is, I imagine, a deep, rich, meaningful legacy from the founders. (Team Caldwell!)