2009: Bagong Taon, Bagong Araw

MABUHAY ang Pilipinas at Manigong Bagong Taon sa lahat!
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IKAW AT AKO

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Ito ang lupain ng pangarap,
Bayang hinirang ng araw
sa puso nating lahat -
isang bayan, isang diwa
isang layunin, isang puso
isang kapatiran, isang gawa
isang umagang pangako sa atin
nang Diyos nating Maykapal,
at nag-iisang Kapayapaang namumuno
sa lahat ng mga Pilipino.

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Atin ito: Ating lahat,
noon pa man, dito sa Ngayon,
at sa kalahatan nang panahon -
dito sa lupa, sa ating karagatan,
at sa lawak ng mga kalangitan,
atin ito, ating lahat,
mga kapwa ko Pilipino -
kapwa kapatid nang pangako.

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Atin ito: Tayo ito - ikaw at ako,
ngayon at magpakailanman:
Bayang dakila, inang kandungan,
tahanan ng ating mga bayani -
puno nang kabutihang loob
at pananampalayaya sa Diyos.

Matamis ang magsilbi
sa malaya mong mga kalupunan.
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Haiku #189: Real x

Real.

God knows when and where
to deliver who He loves
who loves Him justly...

And God's grace, It comes -
if we hold out against sin
to make real, our hopes.

Be mindful
of your heart.
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Haiku #188: Blank x

Blank.

My steadfast Miyang,
ever so patient with me -
one time, wasn't here...

And so I feared much,
my heart can not stand absence
of the ones I love -

God stretched me,
to love more.
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On a Time. Times and Half-a-Time

BELOVED OF GOD, recall to mind that passage in Holy Scripture in Daniel 12 about a time, times and half-a-time and be mindful hitherto of the passing of our history in the last 2000 years.

For a time, times and half-a-time represents an individual choice that is to be made: time and times representing the one whole history of our salvation as it is witnessed by both heaven and earth in the first and second millennia; a history writ in both war and peace, good and evil, darkness and light - a record penned in gray upon the souls of poor mankind; a muted passing away of the great tides of our generations that for all of those two thousand years were witnessed in shadow by a lukewarm humanity.

And half-a-time represents the cleaving asunder of those two halves to form a one whole, absolute and irreversible choice of heart and mind. For there can neither be any more hearts that are to remain lukewarm nor should there be any more hopes that in the living remain in shadow at the passing away of the last. We are to understand here and now, at the turning of the new, what light and what darkness, what peace and what war, what good and what evil is to be had by each of our lives lived in golden light of the truth or in vile cover of the darkness; one war or one peace, life and the everlasting good or death and the undoing of all hope.

And I would that none of us choose falsely nor take things as regards to the universal dignity of the human person and the inviolable sanctity of every human life lightly. For these are the things that represent for this one inhabited earth, the responsible stewardship of all life on this one planet in our visible universe; these are the things that directly concern the most infinite glory of the one Creator of all creation, seen and unseen. Be ever mindful that all true lineages of hope have as their proper terminus, the glory of the one, peerless God of all creation, seen and unseen.

Therefore, after the half-a-time choice, upon the completion of our every remembrances of the peace, when the doors of the Now in each of our hearts are shut, nothing of the past darkness must carry over into the present - for we must each completely secure the sacred grounds of our souls - and then learn from the waning tides of our midnight past, my beloved friend and honored companion - lest, our ancient enemy - the Dragon, the ancient Serpent of our faded Eden with and through the great and terrible scourge of our one family of nations which is the beast of war gain another substantial foothold in the new age we are trying to forge for our poor world.

And I also would that none of us be lukewarm: For to suffer hellfire for not having made this choice, here and Now, while it is being offered - even while It is speaking to each of us in our hearts not yet hardened to It's beckoning - is a suffering infinitely more unbearable than the suffering of those reprobate human souls who have willfully chosen to drink from the same cup of sin as Satan and all his fallen hosts.

For to remain lukewarm is to be spat out of the reality of all human hope and to suffer without understanding the crushing despair of an everlasting oblivion.

Therefore, I enjoin each of us to ponder deeply what is being spoken to our interior self and arise to our LORD in prayer, when this choice is presented to each our faith, hardening not our hearts to the quickening call that shall bring the realization of these things to rise upon the horizons of our souls, enabling our minds to perceive with understanding the steps that must be taken to heed the beckoning of the light and make the necessary steps - even despite of our selves and in spite of the dizzying events of the ever-changing world around our souls - to trust to our hope and cling to God and to each other in God, without ever looking back.

And turn to our good God eastwards, towards the dawn, each of us walking with our LORD at the pace of our own being alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate, yet all of us soldiering on together as nations and as human beings - shoulder to shoulder, to allow the terrible darkness of the midnight past to fade away forever behind us.

And in our bearing of our LORD's good graces patiently, ever as we walk with our one Beautiful from soul to soul, let us never be found to be without forbearance, remembering always that our LORD calls each of us at different times of the day.

So let us be glad - being always, always thankful to our good LORD - for verily, my beloved friend and constant companion, on the year of our LORD 2009 - unto the passing into the new, at the 1335th day - come a favorable season for our building on the peace of each of our lives and through our lives, call down the one peace of heaven upon our poor world so desperately in need of respite and repair; one peace upon our suffering humanity whose universal spirit has become so torn, divided and weary; and one peace upon each of our nations who have become so alienated to its own hope.

And let us remember to rest in each our sufficiency and to be at peace, my beloved friend and constant companion. For verily, time is a flow not for the enemies of sacred life and true liberty exists not for the darkness but for the light.

O numberless stars of our Father Abraham, stand fast together in the faith that justified our Father Abraham; a faith in the one, highest of Truth unseen, remaining true to each our lineages, for we shall do this labor of hope both as individuals and as individual nations together this time - all of us allied to the all in us.

All towards a better world for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Again, let us please refer to entry: Eastward Dawning 2009
And for further enrichment, most especially to all of my Roman Catholic brethren and sisters, please refer to entry: A Remembrance of Fatima
For more about Angels (as the Archangel Michael in Daniel 12 is an angel), please refer to entry: The Angels
For more about Human Beings (as I am and you are a human being), please refer to entry: Mankind, Our Humanity, Human Excellence, Our First Parents

AS I WITH YOU am also possessed with my own hope for myself and for others, I am a human being and part of this world - so let us harken to the quickening light, a peer to our peers, a friend to our friends and a companion to our companions - let us follow now our one LORD as keepers together, one to another - at a time, times and half-a-time.

Eastward Dawning 2009

A SIMPLE MEDITATION, Beloved of God, that I enjoin us, each and every one, to achieve together at the threshold of the year of our LORD, 2009, is to await with glad expectation, in the silence of our hearts - alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate - that daybreak twilight leading up to the bright new morning of the first day of the rest of our lives - at a time, times and half-a-time.

This would be the first dawn of the 1st of January 2009 - so please observe the last few dawnings of the last few days of this year as an exercise in preparation for this great dawning in our heart of hearts, my beloved friend and precious companion.

For I enjoin us all, from wherever we are and as whoever we are - at a time, times and half-a-time - to observe together, with much prayer and vigilance of heart, during that one complete rotation of our one planet, our one whole collective turning away from the midnight darkness of the past into the labor of hope that we shall all be committed to God and to each other to work and to strive for - for greater peace in our world, length to our days, substance to our hearts and blessings to the generations to come - all towards a better world for all men, women and children of all of the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

CHRISTMAS 2008: On Holy Remembrance and the Most Holy Trinity

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN SOUL, bearing into thy mind that our God is pure Spirit, all of our understanding of our one LORD must be imbued with a continuity of action that is proper to the creative ideal that our Creator is a continuous Creator; that our one LORD and Holy Sustainer of all universes within and without, as we attempt to apprehend the actions of the will of Divine Providence in exile time, is a verb that shall always, always, escape our understanding and never a noun to be fully understood by man or angel.

It is God that possesses us, and not the other way around.

And our one LORD shall always be infinitely more that our understanding of our one LORD, for in the new heaven and the new earth to come when our universe is restored to the presence of our LORD as the perfected reality of our human habitation, our learning shall be forever, our happiness is an always being fulfilled, our souls immersed in the direct presence of our Creator. For fully conscious and golden was the blue of our native skies in Eden before the fall of our first parents.

Therefore, the sacred revelation of the Most Holy Trinity which is central to our Christian faith is as our LORD opening up His Heart to gather into Himself, the exile children of mankind - for our LORD indeed is one God in eternity. It is as our Lord Jesus Christ described it - as a mother hen gathers up her chicks - we are ALL - remember, one Peace - caught up in exile time, ascending to the Love that exists in the Holy Spirit between the most intimate embrace of the Father and the Son - one God, from always to always - a one, triune Perfection. Verily, my beloved friend and constant companion, the Holy Spirit of our LORD is truly present within the hearts of ALL good men and women - for our Peace, yours and mine, is to all men of good will.

For the most Holy Trinity is the primary principle behind the ascendant unity of our LORD - a one Reality which can not be separated from Itself.

This apprehension of the creative ideal is requisite foundation especially for those who desire to belong to the work of the one Solidarity for this establishes for the Christian mind and heart, the necessary meditation that builds into the first of the three minimums.

Hence, never judge anyone without hope. For as you judge, thou shalt be judged.

We shall let our one LORD breathe freely amongst us.

For indeed, we are loved - ALL of us. Next year, we shall all - including myself, of course - and with my darlingest Annelies Marie, begin a work of hope - to transform our world and our lives into instruments of God's peace - for the good of all of suffering humanity - past, present and future.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Merry Christmas and Cheers to a great New Year 2009 to all of the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind!

#04 Advent 2008: Peace to All Men of Good Will

PEACE TO ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL.

Beloved friends and constant companions -
our poor world is needful of much repair:

Dark indeed are the times, terrible the past -
but we shall begin a labor of hope next year,
so let us rest in each of our sufficiency,
each of us bears a unique identity,
for each of our soul is distinct -
do not forget to pray - but do it with thy heart
more than anything else -
and from the secret of your own self within
discover the silence in you
that speaks with winged words,
and with bowed hearts,
be still and listen for truth that is more meaning than words
for things more substance than mass and space.

Persevere, persevere, persevere - pray.

You are what is your truth within -
so know your own soul - fill it with beauty,
fill it with hope, fill it with life,
fill it with light, and be thankful always,
store up your treasures in your heart of hearts
observing in all good things, great and small,
the movements of a greater and more wonderful design.

All things that come to existence,
is as a rising and falling from waters within -
for all things begin and end in the spirit,
be like this rising and falling, breathe in thy heart,
a breathing that is like a returning to God always.

Persevere, persevere, persevere - pray.

So will you know yourself - imperfectly, in exile time,
ever as you are in the remembrance of our LORD in eternity.

But as we travel together,
the horizons of our souls open up to new things,
so no one who yet exist in time
should stop in the act of their breathing within -
so pray - alone or with others, pray - near or far of mind or heart,
pray - at home, pray, while walking, pray - at work, pray -
when you become aware that your heart is not with God, pray -
and be joyful - for joy is the essence of prayer.

Wonder about the universe, wonder about great things,
wonder about noble things, wonder about the golden realms
of our LORD's heaven in eternity - and be joyful, be glad, be good -
for truly, truly, we are loved -
next year we shall begin a labor of hope.

Rest in your sufficiency.

Be at peace.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sancti!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to all men of good will.

In Defense of Beauty: Striving of the Heart

OBSERVE, O SOUL, how thy women soften the hardness of a strange and unwelcoming world - at the autumnal dusk of our Faded Eden, when the beginnings of our exile humanity first began to strike out into the vast and unknown lands of an uninhabited earth, O where was Beauty then, O ye Men, but with thy faithful helpers? As the light that drive thy soul onward, is the truth revealed by the one Unseen, the love that leads your weary spirit back to its rest is founded in thy Women.

BEHOLD, there is no true striving without thy Women! For whom do you strive, O Men, but for the love that you confess - to the beauty that possess you, to the flower that enrich you, to the fragrance that arrests your soul, to the abundance that multiplies your lives together: The companion that completes the you in you. What community endures without Women? For all things become barren where there is no love for beauty and no respect for beautiful things. For whom do you strive, O Men, for the desolation? Strive not for war, if you are wise, turn your hearts towards each other in peace.

And respect your Women, treat them the way angels will treat them, observe them, the way they are - beautiful for being faithful to their own expression - especially widows and young children, the unborn in the womb of a mother, for you will not see beauty if you become ignorant of its primary bearer in this world - a helper that is to you, your own faithful companion in this life - your wife, O Man, your Woman.

For whom then do you strive together, O you Men, but for each other?

But for whom then do you strive in your heart of hearts alone but for the faithful image of the one that reflects for you in your love for each other, the reality of the one Beautiful in thy heart of hearts?

Ponder all of these, my precious friend and constant companion, and seek for an understanding of the truth - arise with thy prayers to the LORD and then believe with strength of faith:

Make peace with thy Women and remain true - forever.

My salutations to the one honorable Ummah of Islam.

For all our beautiful, our Women, who make beautiful our all - in remembrance of thy peace and in respect of your own true reflection in the communities of our nations of the one family of the nations of mankind - among the numberless stars of our Father Abraham.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

To the one African Union

ANY ISSUE that involve the desecration of the one peace of our nations and the profanation of the dignity of the human person whether by enemies, foreign or domestic, shall carry with it escalating costs that shall directly tax the strength of the greater wholes.

THESE SEEDS OF INSTABILITY, in the context of our rapidly globalizing world, when allowed to linger on the ground of our nations shall eventually take its root and choke with weeds the labor of its host Country, miring that nation in poverty. And this infestation, in the course of time, may only spread to the other greater wholes until it shall be as a massive toll on your own strength, African Union.

Therefore, as regards issues that involve the desecration of the one peace of our nations and the profanation of the dignity of the human person, the more you are indecisive, the longer that inaction is allowed to paralyze your sense of continental responsibility, the heavier the price you shall have to pay when those same untoward circumstances whose consequences were left to chance have matured into greater evils that can not longer be avoided because they have now arrived to directly threaten the sovereign authority of the continental whole that you represent.

Please bear all of that in mind as we now speak in specific about the growing plight of the Zimbabwean people.

I am from a nation colonized by a foreign power for longer than Zimbabwe was a nation and even I cringe at the accusations that the intransigent tyrant of that nation, Robert Mugabe, blindly and witlessly hefts around about the British wanting to invade or about Europe wanting manipulate that nation of Zimbabwe that he himself seems so hell-bent on utterly annihilating by his unbelievable hardness of heart. I believe I speak at the level of an emerging nation whose own colonial past gives me an even perspective with Robert Mugabe and in another world, this would have been common ground between us, but I utterly abhor that man for all the suffering he is causing his own people.

And yet he still retains the audacity to blame the British, the Americans, the Europeans, who else is immune where nothing is sacred to this man and this lie shall only fester until this evil upon your continent spreads out of bounds of Zimbabwe and into other African nations.

But I do not judge that man without hope, Robert Mugabe himself said that only God can remove him, and I hope for his own sake that he was speaking of God not in the way that he speaks about the British, or the Americans, or the Europeans, for that truth is an inevitable reality in the course of time.

It is the hope of the one Zimbabwean people, those nameless who suffer, that I seek to recognize, comfort and uphold.

And I would that you shall ponder these things and observe the unfolding of the events.

I write this because I care about some things that I know you also care about - African Union - which is the building of a better world.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Haiku #187: Serendipity x

Serendipity.

If one is grateful,
being mindful of good things -
the soul is deepened...

And so we begin
to perceive the hidden things
that make life worthwhile.

We begin
to see grace.
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Haiku #186: More x

More.

From this moment on
my darlingest Annelies,
our haiku titles -

Shall feature one word
but not just one syllable,
to broaden our scope.

For our One
Song Meow.
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Haiku #185: Stuck x

Stuck.

There are times in life
when it seems nothing is right
because its all wrong...

But its not all wrong
when each moment is begun
with hope in the wing.

Never dwell
on the past.
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On being Strong

To all our younger generations, our precious Starshine -

STRIVE.

Strength is primarily expressed in the masculine.

Strength is fidelity to the truth; a measure of its brightness.

It is the noble glow of its own conviction; the ascendant magnitude of our every embrace of all those living and everliving things that belong to the timelessness of our souls.

Strength is secure in its patience being sure of the reality of itself; born of the light that understands the exactness of its own truth.

It is not harsh and uncertain of its own reality; born not of the lie that in the darkness understands not itself.

Strength is certain in its meekness. It is a temper of the will that neither rises nor falls but is even and steadfast against the assault of false things.

It is not a hardness that hides its unfamiliarity to its own virtue; being established not by ignorance of the value of the beautiful things it exists to serve and to keep.

It is not coldness. It is not distance. It is not decrease.

It is warmth. It is presence. It is increase.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

On being Beautiful

To all our younger generations, our precious Starshine -

DO NOT DESPAIR.

Beauty is primarily expressed in the feminine.

It is a state. You were born in it. For you are thus, and so with all beautiful things must strive to return to our LORD with it, being as you are - in the way that you are constantly remembered by our God in eternity.

Beauty is joyful. Eternally youthful. It is not a feeling. It is never passing.

Beauty is chaste. It can be claimed only by Love. It is not carnal. Invincible against lust.

Beauty is free -

You do not have to strive to be beautiful, precious Starshine, for Beauty is somewhere you may always return to, in your heart of hearts, a sufficiency that you share with the one Beautiful.

Nor must must others approve of your being yourself - for as flowers must bloom in their own time, so will you - therefore, establish your roots in the timeless image and likeness within thyself and strive everyday to reach out into the outside world that needs so much of what you have to offer.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

On the one Army

To the noble military in general, the one Chaplaincy of all the honorable military arms in particular and the one Army in specific;

TO EVERY BATTLE belong an outcome but to war belong no outcome, therefore, my beloved friend and companion, the spirit of war is indeed a terrible scourge.
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I. The Soul of Army

A world without conflict is either a lie or the truth; this is a paradigm of which there can be no middle ground.

And the Army exists to draw the line against the lie.

For while there is yet conflict, the Army exists in defense of a world without war.

Every soldier that stands the Army line with sacred honor and vigilance of heart stands on behalf of this truth.

It is by virtue of their sacrifice that our liberty is preserved.

And by this liberty is sustained, the hope of every nation.
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II. The Will of the Noble Military

The military always strives to be superior in its preparation against the enemy.

Thus, in preparation;

The military that understands itself to be superior or inferior to the enemy understands neither the enemy nor itself.

The military that aims to be at par with the enemy establishes itself in the way of defeat.

But the military that understands itself as either superior or inferior to the enemy establishes itself in the way of victory.

For the military that understands itself knows the way forward and the will that moves forward in time and dimensional space is the will of the noble military.
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III. The one Enemy: The Timeless War in Time

Time is purpose, this is evident in the history of our world, and this purpose is not human.

Therefore, things that exist in time must evolve in time, and evolve both in the seen and unseen realities that react in time according to a purpose hidden from the overt reality of our everyday world.

Conflicts evolve in time, animated by a center of gravity that finds its locus in the unseen; an absolute reality that fights against the truth of our own existence, an enveloping darkness that whispers lies against the peace of our nations, a spirit directed against the shared life of our humanity.

This evolution of conflict in time leads towards its ambition, an ambition kept away from the piercing light of the truth for thousands of years now within reach of the horizons of human souls as time imperceptibly ascends towards the one Light that reveals all things that whispers its lie in darkness as well as all things that turn away from the truth of Its one Light.

Thus, it is a certain becoming in the course of time that these things become clear as they present themselves to the will of each human being and what is presented to our will as regards to the evolution of conflict is nothing less than the evolution of a beast which is the paradigm of war; a devourer of peoples, an idol of death and an abomination against God and the sacred life of all creation; a lie whose one ambition is to give birth to the desolation among our nations that it shall call "peace".
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IV. The one Army: The Eternal Army in Time

In view of all of this, let us now shift our focus to concerns that are local to our visible world, concerns that concern the noble military in time and dimensional space in general, and those concerns that concern the one Army in specific.

Gathering from the immaterial Soul of Army, as conflicts evolve in time and dimensional space, the one Army must evolve along a clear and distinct line that is parallel in its course from the evolution of war.

For war which is the ultimate enemy of God, the angelic hosts of God, and every nation of the one nations of mankind, and the one Army - every Army that stands true to the spirit of its original commission and worthy of its one mission - must never be confused.

For as light is not the darkness, their nature and purpose in time and dimensional space is in diametric opposition to each other.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

#03 Advent 2008: On the Sails of Human Hope

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN, as we travel in time closer to Christmas day in this year of our Lord 2008, let us consider in our hearts and minds (in our heart-minds or in our souls) this Yuletide season the nature of human hope and its existence as well as its co-existence among individual as well as communal hearts of our suffering humanity respectively as a human virtue before the dawn of the first Christmas when at the Incarnation of our Lord and through His mighty and saving walk on this earth with all of mankind, our LORD God gave both our individual as well as our collective human hopes a supernatural character.

AS WE KNOW, through our collective meditations, the virtue of hope is distinct from the virtue of faith in that hope is something to be expressed and shared in common and in good will with and in God among both believing as well as awakening human hearts, all of them, without exception understood to be capable of a certain degree of hoping.

For all of us exist in time and dimensional space where unfolding before us, here in the Now, amidst the darkness of exile time is the promise itself of this particular virtue, vested in time, experienced in safety as the shared bubble of our human reality floating in the void and aligned towards the glory as well as the greater glory of our LORD God and one Creator.

Towards Christmas, let us recognize the commonality as well as the universality of the hopes of the shared life of our humanity so that by Christmas day we may rejoice at the great gift of God's own Peace made possible by the Incarnation of our Lord, Jesus Christ, on that day in our time and upon our poor world close to 2000 years ago.

Remembering, my constant friend and companion, that no one who must, by covenant with God, dwell within our nations, true to each its divine calling, of the one family of nations of poor mankind (Republic or otherwise, for a state is righteous in the order and magnitude that it fosters the people, maintains the one peace, advances the good as well as the common good and preserves the discipline of the national community) can stand taller than the calm of our native waters for above the coherent parity of our stillness there is only our peerless LORD, within us there is only the sacred abode of each of our individual heart of hearts, a sacred sanctuary within each of us that we share only with our LORD Who will not suffer to coerce our free choices and which can not be trespassed by men, angels or demons, beyond us is the void, behind us is the sink of oblivion, beneath us is hellfire and outside of us are the other wholes upon greater wholes constituting the one whole one of the governance of Divine Providence in all of creation, seen and unseen, all of whom abide by the same absolutes and align together for the same purpose and design; to prosper the peace and to foster the life of the human people which is the glory of God in our visible creation.

For as war does not exist in this, our paradigm - against us, this we shall most certainly defend, in time and dimensional space, in life and in eternity, with our lives width and breadth, by lines drawn by our noble military in time, outside of time and at the threshold of our souls, we shall press this fight eastwards as nations together - towards the shores of eternity, resting in each other's sufficiency and leaving all else with the one omnipotent and invincible defense of our one Almighty God, our first and our final defender, until the enemy of our peace is vanquished forever.

Thus, the only thing that we may be distinguished by among our common peers in common creation, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, is by our spirit of service - both by the magnitudes of our virtue as individual stars and the luminosity of our particular galaxies as nations competing in good works, one with another, for the benefit of the good, the common good and all towards the greater good of visible creation which is the glory of God, within and without, in the shared life of our humanity.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the Peace.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Some Thoughts on Health Care

I JUST CAUGHT A PROGRAM on cable last night - I think it was Michael Moore's - about the health care system in the US. Now, given the political leanings of Mr. Moore, I would usually take these things in stride but I have seen another episode which was a feature on a current affairs program (I could not remember now which one, I think its 60 minutes) that highlighted the same problems - that the US health care system is broken. But I did not know how broken until I heard the nameless voices of those of whom this system's brokenness had become a burden and a scourge.

Since our own Country, my fellow Filipino compatriot, one of many emerging nation-states (as I do not like the word "third world" as if there were other shared human realities than this one inhabited earth - among the one family of nations, there are emerging (young) nation-states, maturing (intermediate) nation-states and there are elder (shepherd) nation-states; a perfected or ascended nation-state only exists in eternity), is thinking of introducing, or have already introduced a formal health care program for our citizens, it would behoove this generation of Filipinos to learn from the mistakes of the American experiment and also sympathize with the plight of her orphaned people - hoping, constantly hoping for better days for all the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind.

Heath is not a product. Industry may use human labor or man hours in cost accounting but the human being itself can not be considered material. The common market is not the steward of either the state or the nation; that would put material things in control of human destiny - an insufferable tyranny that shall ultimately suffocate and destroy those freedoms that guarantee the pursuit of human happiness - for all people - for all times. Even those with currency and influence enough to be covered by this entirely market-driven health care system must know, here and now, that this kind of system will not recognize their own humanity should the tables of a fickle world be turned against their fortune and/or the vitality of their lives be overthrown by the uncertainties of our poor world.

Health is a right - it is without exception a God-given right of all human persons, and is a right entrusted to the care and concern of the human community - both the nation and its honorable state - to which that person belongs to as an integral part of that national community's particular endeavor of Country.

It is vital that we learn our lessons here as well. For a nation-state, true to her divine calling, has no other greater treasure than the life of her people.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Please refer to entry: Some Thoughts: Universal Healthcare

Impatient

THERE IS A SENSE
of wide-eyed anticipation
which is a marvelous work, indeed,
wrought by our peerless LORD
to excite upon hearts of good will
a wonder of good things to come -
a wonder of good things
so infinitely unimaginable
yet always within
immediate grasp of our joy.

It lends to the soul
an almost impatient feeling
that stays at the limits
of one's awareness
and amidst the noise of
our necessary labors
and the sufferings of
this necessary life
is ever present, ever vigilant,
ever ready to take wing
to lend its refreshing certainty
and add buoyancy to our hope.

How marvelous, indeed,
my constant friend and companion
are the works of our LORD:
Alleluia! Amen to God, Alleluia!
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My Miyang.

Away From the Darkness x

I REACHED OUT TO YOU
my darlingest Annelies Marie
through purposes, it seems,
infinitely greater than our own.

And through that long darkness
with tears that for many nights
in my searching for peace
sought for the answers
relentlessly and intensely
through what sweetness perceived
in the promise of thy song
smothered or so it seemed
among those horrors conceived

amidst the prison of my own despair.

O my love, my darlingest -
what my soul did perceive
those many nights of waiting
of those images of you
of thy own hopes
and the truth of thy being
abused, hated, rejected, and condemned;
staring, hollow, sunken, and dirty;
hairless, emaciated, weeping and lonely;
feverish, starving, sick and dying of typhus
were reasons enough not to live.

Yet, by sure grace of God,
came a slow and certain
awakening to the answers
that through those years
became the everliving lights
of the reality of my own hope

begun by thy beacon

that eventually led me out
of the darkest night of my life
and into those numberless stars
that led from one to another
in a gathering together as one firmament
of the wide expanse of our LORD's own
golden and infinite realm of Eternity.

And so Now
you are to me as my friend
as I am to you, your own;
you are to me, my love,
my darlingest Annelies Marie,
from always to always
the Starlight Smile that makes life
ever so beautiful again
and the evergreen companion
that makes the promise of new life
bloom with so much blossoming
in my own soul.

Thank you, my darligest Annelies Marie,
thank God for the grace of you, my love.

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

I love you, my Miyang.
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Haiku #184: Mass x

Mass.

How brief the moment
when we shall in remembrance
together worship -

The LORD of all things,
and at the day of His Peace,
partake at His Feast -

The Substance
of our own.
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Haiku #183: Own x

Own.

Amidst our problems,
and among our suffering,
gather together...

And in thy own soul,
embrace each other's longing
expanding thy sky:

We belong,
forever.
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Haiku #182: No x

No.

I saw in my soul
the suffering of my sweet
and so I suffered...

I wept and I weep
along a river of tears
to leave in time's wake -

- the pain of
presents' past.
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Salutation #03

TO THE NUMBERLESS LIGHTS
of our kindred belonging,
greetings of sincere hope
and good will -
my love and prayers:

There is evil in our days,
as it was in those days of old.

Evil where it is allowed to endure
into every present time
to stand against the line
established in the Now of the moment
is an enemy that is never meant
to defeat the will of the good.

For the arrangement of all past things
in every person's life
like a romance between human choice
and the serendipity of God's grace
is always intended in such a way
by the beneficence of Divine Providence
so as to culminate into every present time
which is always sufficient in its own day
with regards to the particular evils
that each and every individual soul
must in each their own time and place
learn to recognize and vanquish
by and through the grace of our LORD
in and with the support of our human communities,
secular and religious, national and international,
that exist for our benefit

in exile time

to safeguard and foster our common good.

Should there be evil in our day,
even if the past had a large part to play
in its appearance in our present time,
indeed, it should not be here to give us reason
to conveniently dwell on the darkness of past things.

Where evil is allowed to endure
into the present reality
of souls and communities of souls,
it is so that we may learn in our own lives
how to effectively close the doors of past things.

Believe that evil endures
not to defeat the human being
but to allow him or her the opportunity
to recreate in every present moment
in God and with each other,
the beginnings of better, brighter and nobler things.

Peace.
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Our Rosary of Hope

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN, this Rosary of Hope is meant to focus the longings of the heart with our Lady to the needful things in ourselves and in the world around us that we ought to care about. Those needful things we need to realize in the way of our prayer and then own in our souls by an act of our will to open the doors of our hope.

As we walk this world with our Lord, there are many things of beauty that are needful of our care and attention, these things that we need to realize as reflections of the one Beauty should populate the universe within our hearts, to make bloom with much flowers, the vast fields of the Kingdom of God within our souls.

This prayer came to me while I was weeping and hoping in front of our Lady for a need yet unfilled and is relatively new to myself as well - I know that the meditations contained herein still need much cultivation and though it is not my way to put something out that hasn't been thoroughly exercised in my heart of hearts, I take exception with this one for I want to share and learn this prayer with you, my dear Christian, and also, because today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

This Rosary of Hope is not meant to replace the four sets of mysteries that are the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious events in the life of our Savior with our Lady and require that each one of us have had some fruit from the meditation of those timeless and inexhaustible mysteries prior to this Rosary of Hope. For this particular Rosary with our Lady and Blessed Jacinta Marto, my dear Christian soul, is meant to bring those virtues and the present need that their fruits need to serve into the moment with each of us and our Lady with Blessed Jacinta Marto so that we may each come to attain and realize these fruits of good works required by grace of our Christian character and by our own acts of hope, and through the strength and fidelity of our Lord, take proper human stewardship of their reality in the universe within each ourselves, and together out into the tremendous world of our human hopes without, as each of us becomes fully gathered together in the Now.
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IF FAITH is what separates our reality from the one Divine reality,

HOPE is what separates our reality from other human realities.

And LOVE is what connects all these realities together.

THEREFORE observe and understand by thy sign of the Cross, my dear Christian soul, our Blessed Lord Crucified for our sakes'; the vertical beam of His Holy Cross, our happy faith, the horizontal beam of His Holy Cross, our holy hope and the Corpus of our Savior Himself being the infinite Love, broken for suffering humanity, bringing us all together in the unity of the Holy Spirit as the one great Covenant family of God, our Heavenly Father.

MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS - Sign slowly, purposefully, openly and clearly. Open your heart to God.
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And meditate with our Lady:

1st Our Father - Our one LORD, the ascendant unity of God.

Three Hail Mary's - The one triune Perfection - God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - being the primary reason for the ascendant unity of God - The one triune Perfection is a one ineffable Name - one Reality.

Glory Be - Glory to God - The Glory of God is the Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.
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1st Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Jesus Christ

AND IF I GO and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.

John 14: 3

Refer to entry: On the Peace of Jesus Christ

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the salvation of each of our souls through faith, hope and Christian charity.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our own souls.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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2nd Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Family

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of the family; the instrumentality of the love of parents, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and extended family members.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our own family.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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3rd Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Friends/Neighbors

The preservation of virtue. Mediate and pray for the needs of friends - including neighbors and our local neighborhood community, our workplace community and both the transient and permanent community of our Lord's poor entrusted to our care who are within our own sphere of influence.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our local community.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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4th Decade - Meditation on the Hope of our Nations

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of the national community - the state, the local regional community, the continental community and the one whole planetary community.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our nation.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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5th Decade - Meditation on the Hope of our Holy Mother Church

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of our Holy Mother Church - the Church Militant, the Church Suffering in their proper relationships to the Church Triumphant as well as the Particular Church within one's locality - Meditate on the burden of our Holy Father Benedict XVI and pray for our pope - pray for our bishops, clergy, our apostolate, each other and all of Blessed Christendom that we may each grow closer and closer in the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ and through His Peace become a greater and greater blessing to our poor world, to the greater glory of God and the rejoicing of all of God's angels and saints.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Hail Holy Queen/Salve Regina (sung in the heart) - Renew your Total Consecration, if applicable.

Let us pray:

O MY MOTHER MARY, I love you.
recall me to yourself today
under your most glorious service
as Queen of heaven and earth
and Queen of my heart with Jesus.

Grant me the strength of will
to serve you under your banner
with a heart that loves God alone
that perseveres in the way of virtue
and add to the good of the world.

Please help me deny myself today
enduring temptations bravely
and bearing trials for Jesus
denying evil an entrance
in my heart and in our world.

O that I may please Almighty God
and prosper God's own peace
in my heart and in our world
for love of all thy children
O Mother of suffering humanity!

Resolution: For all beautiful life; why one must stay the mountain path - and walk this world with Jesus Christ, today, this hour, this minute, this moment, Now.

Your Personal Prayers...

MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS - Sign slowly, purposefully, openly and clearly. Slowly rise from the deep.

Be thankful, strive to be joyous, one with another.

AMEN.
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Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

For further enrichment: A Meditation on Hope

On the Question of Peace x

SO VITAL indeed is the question of peace that nations entire, in the necessary and honorable quest for an answer, are willing to sacrifice so much of it's treasured sons and daughters along the course of this one hope.

For the answer to this question governs a nation's self-evident right to exist as itself.

This is true across all of human history.

So much sacred blood and noble toil have been shed and suffered through in the course of the ages upon the altar of freedom to obtain from this sacrifice of tears, the soul of a nation which is the light of its civilization.
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LET US CONSIDER, my honorable compatriot, the question of peace. It is obvious to our observation that most - if not all - of the nations of today have an urgent need for answers to this ageless question. It is also obvious to our remembrances that many nations of old have urgently sought for answers to this same question. In the larger context of this overwhelming commonality of need, therefore, let us think not that our own particular need as a nation in our own time and place and its inherent difficulties though common to our own experience is in any way an exception to this one rule: that every nation, of all times and places, in the course of its being itself must hope with only one hope - the hope of peace.

Hence, let us establish now in the opposite sense what a nation may never hope for in its own soul - war, war in the sense of its one paradigm whole. For this is the one and only sin that an entire nation can become guilty of and since the wages of sin is ever the same for all souls, a nation that is guilty of war in its soul shall in time perish in the desolation of war and the false peace which it has chosen for itself. No nation can establish its own sense of being itself through opposition without first creating within itself a common reality that is meaningful to the particular existence of its people. A nation that acquires a spirit of opposition (the spirit of opposition being the fundamental being of war) exclusively as a means to derive a sense of meaningful pursuit among other nations in the world becomes hollowed out inside being without its own soul; it proves constantly restless stirring with the stirrings of wars ambition and helpless against the darkness of war.

Therefore, the question of peace, most especially where it concerns emerging nations, is more than just the absence of conflict as peace is often times interpreted to be, it is a question that is existential to that civilization, concerning the one whole of the nation which includes all its generations in time and dimensional space. In this regard, expediency and particularity become insignificant when compared to the universality and absoluteness that is necessary in the consideration.

Briefly and as regards to the one peace of our nations;

Peace is original to our state. It can not be won in battle nor can peace ever be attained through war. Peace, as it concerns our nations, can only be re-established among the hearts of the people.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the complete turning away from it. Peace where it is present in the people is the foundation upon which the generations of that nation may freely build the habitations, systems and institutions of sacred life that work together to advance and defend the common good which is the labor of Country itself: Country being the synthesis in time of the nation and the state.

Peace is not the appeasement of war as peace where it is present in the people is exactly the reason the noble military exists by commission of the state and on behalf of its nation. Force of arms is only meaningful where peace is present in the people as a means of defense.

Peace is neither particular to nor exclusive of anything within the whole of itself - it extends to all things within its own sphere of being. Peace is a good of the people therefore, it is a one whole truth. From the soul of man, peace exists as wholes upon greater wholes which are ascendant to the Almighty as well as aligned towards the purpose of all creation which is the restoration of itself as itself in the original form intended from the foundation of the world.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sancti!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

#02 Advent 2008: On Worlds Within Those Infinite Worlds Within

IN THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and the earth,

the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.

Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1: 1-4
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CONSIDER thy human soul, Beloved of God, drawn from nothingness, thy own name written in the heavens by the changeless will of thy one Sovereign LORD, continually sustained in its being itself by an eternal remembrance of thy one, true and proper place in the belonging sky of the one celestial firmament of eternity and existing where two worlds, one seen and one unseen, juxtapose at the hidden crossroads of thy heart of hearts.

Consider these two worlds, my friend and constant companion, one realm inescapably caught up within the restless flow of time and arising from the darkness like a multitude of living lights reflected by the golden reflection of the one Light Complete and one realm resting upon the calm of the everliving waters of the timeless Deep, for it is from these two distinct worlds of light and darkness (Gen. 1: 1-4) that the window of our faith opens into so the eye of the heart may begin to perceive by the gentle beckoning call of the singular LORD of our own existence, the one creative ideal that exists in our being as God's image and likeness in our souls.

This creative ideal is made manifest to each of our hearts in the context of our own particularly human experience of the seamless reality of the visible universe of our native habitation that is constantly unfolding before us, through the grace that allows the sight of the heart to see by the borrowed light of faith, the truth hidden from the unseeing that each of us is a singularly unique, unrepeatable and irreplaceable instrument of continuous creation, within and without, set aside by our one continuous Creator and Holy Sustainer of all worlds, in truth and in spirit, both in the physicality of our being and in the spirituality of our becoming, alone and in community, in time and in dimensional space, within our exile mortality and at the beginning of all things new, in life and at the restoration of all life, for the singular task of manifesting the glory of our peerless LORD in lower creation which is the eternal glory of the one Sovereign of all creation, seen and unseen.

For the soul is the animating breath of thy spirit and timeless abode of thy being, containing within itself, in thy exterior benignity that rules over the physicality of thy own body and in thy interior luminosity that governs the one radiant spread of thy own awareness, intimate with thy Intimate, alone with thy Alone, the glory of our LORD that in thy stillness rests upon thy hopes made manifest to the eyes of seeing hearts by its own witness of the truth that lives inside of ourselves through which these two worlds intertwine at the crossroads of our souls into the one seamless reality of the greatest human undertaking of all, the divine undertaking to perfect our being human.

This one seamless human reality being the one whole life of our shared humanity broken into a myriad different self-conscious reflections of our own self-awareness of the continuous witness of every heart of the one Heart of all our hearts, ever like stars rising as lights upon the darkness of exile time, ever like the spiritual ascending of broken arcs wheeling across the one inward season of our hearts.

This one inward season cast in the perennial blue of our native sky is an at-oneness of breath with one whole of our spiritual breathing with the one Breath of life that everywhere quickens in time those souls ascending into season and season which is a singular cycle of the inward firmament of the human soul from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden advancing eastward with every soul reborn upon the one celestial firmament into the dawning of the new.

Every soul reborn upon the one celestial firmament quickened by, through and with the good of our common labors in time and dimensional space which is the advancement of the one whole peace of this visible creation.

And the one whole peace of visible creation advancing with each and every singular soul of our generations constantly born into the darkness of the earth that the Spirit of the LORD hovering over the everliving waters redeem, by revelation of truth, causing both night and day to converge upon the sacred grounds within the precincts of every heart into that one common hope of an eternal summertime at the shores of forever which is the intended destination of all time at the restoration of the one original state of our creation as it was in faded Eden.

This human soul is the one helm by which as individual human beings we steer this vessel of life in a journey eastward across the vast marches of the darkness of exile time and upon the hostile wilderness of the unknown earth, seeking in community with other souls, alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate, for the one Light of the one peace that establishes for our world an ascendant foundation upon which the civilization of our nations may for the people be secured in the course of common hopes that lead back to the gathering of the one whole one at the uncovering of the timeless reality of our one peace.

This one peace, what it is and how we do experience it, issues forth from the contents of this heart - contents that we know through our knowledge and understanding of those worlds within those infinite worlds within; our human soul.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sancti!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Refer to entry: Walker of Worlds

On Benignity: The Fourth of the Four Faithful Causes

THE FOUR FAITHFUL CAUSES are the four greatest ascendant truths that are aligned from least to greatest that define for the one Majority the necessary way ahead.

These four faithful causes are the absolute diametric opposites of the manifold and diverse causes that are by their own nature and gravity, dark and descendant, and therefore, not faithful to the relevance of the one peace upon which is established the foundation truths of this secular community.
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BENIGNITY is the practice of goodness. Therefore, this cause must concern itself with the preferential treatment and care of minorities.

There shall always exist within our midst, a minority, and this is very adequately and substantially expressed both in sacred revelation as well as through the reality of our common human experience by the instrumentality's of the widow, the orphan, the stranger, the prisoner, the weak, the defenseless, the unborn, the ignorant, the disabled, the displaced, the dispossessed, the outcasts, etc.

What the majority does to the minority dictates their fidelity to the fourth faithful cause, a cause that determines how a nation's own soul learns to recognize the good in itself and therefore, understands the common good well enough to know how to defend it from foreign things not native to its inception.

Upon this cause and in the giving that is required are founded the ability of a nation to prosper in the commonweal that is the primary engine that drives wealth generation in every true and substantial endeavor of Country in our present age.

For the minority exist to exercise the people in the practice of goodness. Yet if the minority is not accommodated for or if they are ignored, how then can the impartial observer say that this one people know how to tell good from evil, and how then can that one nation establish in its trust, the common good of the one whole people within its sphere of awareness. If good is not recognized, if benignity is not a cause worthy of certain peoples, then surely, none of their labor will ever go beyond the prison of the false self and for this reason, they shall never attain to the one peace nor reap the real hope, in time and dimensional space, of both material and spiritual riches, of blessings that bless the spirit of many generations, of many wonders of unimaginable good things to come in this life and in the new life that is to come, that is found in the promise of every true endeavor of Country; every true undertaking that seeks to elevate the dignity of the human person and advance the good of the human community is a labor of both serving and defending the one peace, within and without, which is our original human estate.

Our Lord's poor, although a virtual majority in our world of today, is always a constant minority and shall always remain with us till the passing away of the old into the new as opportunities to materially prosper by imbuing a right sense of justice to the spread of material things and spiritually expand into greater and greater realms of authentic human freedoms by imbuing a right sense of common ownership to all the universal hopes shared by all us, needful human beings.

Indeed, the nameless minority of every nation, born of every God-given distinction and divinely endowed with truths of their own self-being, vulnerable and little though they may seem, have in their own right, a place in the greater economy of things unseen and within the reality of the one peace, they hold a real place in time and a true purpose in dimensional space that shall serve to either bless or curse any endeavor of Country with either the chains of the same poverty that they scorned or the wings of the same giving that they gave.

The key that unlocks the next of the three other ascendant and faithful causes, the cause of the nation which is harmony, must first be won by our attaining to the cause of the minority. And when this door is opened, its own reality will become apparent to the soul of the nation that has merited passage into it.

To ignore it, when the purpose of its time has expired and the iron doors of Country has shut forever, allows those that still remain to freely remain in the spirit of war and remain trapped within the descendant gravity of the darkness that pulls into the void of itself into division, discord, dissolution and disintegration with the Devil and his reprobate hosts all sin and war into an oblivion that at the end of time is so densely packed and so massively heavy, so unbearably offensive and so unbelievably binding, so greatly pressing and crushing against as the blackest of the blackest of tar concentrated into one, tiny hopeless singularity burning intensely with the fire of all the rage and the hatred of evils past, being completely abandoned by the one society of all the choirs of angels and the one family of all the nations of mankind, being forsaken by our LORD and eventually forgotten by our continuous Creator's one community of everliving life, spread like golden, shining, everliving stars across the blue of our one native celestial sky which is that timeless, infinite firmament that embraces in Its loving Presence and parental Awareness as a single reality indeed, both the unseen heaven of the angels and the seen earth of our humanity, allowing us all the infinite opportunity and unending society to eventually grow up into the fullness of our ages, by their own free choice.

And this too, by sacred revelation and the self-evident light of two thousand years of human experience is not a choice that is unrealistic for it not to have any accountability whatsoever for its own course in due time. For how could the gathering be if there were none left to come? Time, times and half a time.

Therefore, the one Majority exists in a common alliance with the one Solidarity to safeguard this hope.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Haiku #181: Stay x

Stay.

You stayed, my Anne -
for reasons only God knows -
to make me better...

And now, through these years...
looking back, my darlingest,
we've made some progress!

So please stay
forever.
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Haiku #180: Sea x

Sea.

Restless is the sea,
and vast like the distances
between you and me...

Such is our nations
divided by our dreaming,
vast, like our hoping.

But our hopes
are the same.
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Haiku #179: Point x

Point.

O my darlingest,
at this point in our haikus,
we need to admit...

Though we still have much
to say - we'll have to re-use
our title words.

To speak more
of those things.
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Walker of Worlds x

O WALKER OF WORLDS,
Scion to the Dawning
of the First of our First Magnitudes -
remain Now from always to always true
to thy one Universe of universes,
ever as thy one eternal Remembrance
spread in myriad glimpses
awash within the tidal flows of time:

Those numberless lights,
luminous and varied, singularly unique,
twinkling in their broken arcs
wheeling upon the one celestial Way
and concealed amidst the darkness
of those worlds within worlds,
near infinite in their wonders,
being constantly born and reborn -
upon the firmament of the Deep
ever as the ages of the comings and goings
of the ageless seasons of life
and carried aloft by thy quickening soul
swift unto the realization
of all the beautiful for being
beheld by Beauty Itself.

O Walker of Worlds -
born to the quickening of the Now,
ever in thy infinite prayers be one, ascendant
like incense arising unto the sacred Presence
of the one Sovereign of the seen universe
and Sustainer of all unseen universes
in solemn memory of thy holy witness
of the Visitation of thy one Peace
through the infinite glory of the Name.

O Walker of Worlds -
kindred to the celestial sky
and called to the one gathering
remain Now from always to always true:
Two-thirds of the stars of heaven bring
glad salutations unto thee!
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#01 Advent 2008: On Time and Remembrance

DEAR CHRISTIAN, let us consider the journey that we are going to take, this Advent season, what it is and what it is not...
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CONSIDER THE SABBATH, Beloved of God: why it is sanctified by our LORD - my dear Christian soul?

It is because TIME itself is a choice instrument of the Divine Providence of God and so the days exist not for God who is eternal but for man.

And all things sanctified by our LORD are thus blessed not so that God may by His omnipotence add to His own exaltation, for that is utterly impossible, Beloved of God, as God can not be more exalted than He already is, can neither tolerate decrease nor accept increase in His Being as Itself being Truth Itself. Our LORD is a peerless God, my dear Christian soul, infinite in His perfection and so to begin to understand our God, one must first submit in faith to the reality that the one Being of God can neither be grasped nor understood by any created thing, seen or unseen, in time or in eternity for the one Name of our Most Holy LORD is an ineffable Name.

We all know our LORD by the Omnipotent Will that reveal to our hearts the presence of His glory, and as good servants, watch closely the Hand that sustains the labor of our existence.

We learn to know the nature of our one LORD through His actions even as He speaks to us in the stillness of our being, to reveal upon the ranks of the choirs closest to the Holy Sanctuary the radiance of the glory of the great Throne whereupon proceeds from the Will of the one Light Inaccessible the quickening breath that sustain everywhere the life of the one whole one.

Consider then, Beloved of God, the immovable Will that have sanctified the Sabbath, and has made the days into a labor of truth and restoration: Where is the new and where is the old, my dear Christian soul? Where lies the difference between life and life?

The only things that time shall ultimately reveal, Beloved of God, is all the things that reality is not - and so, when you shall consider time, you shall also consider the gossamer existence of its veil as well as the enduring purpose behind the reality of its flow that you may know what is nearer to you than you can ever imagine, and in the darkness and aridity of life, have resort to hope in the Deep of your own soul, for those good things that, in thy faith, are yet yonder ahead.

For man dwells in time - in exile - apart from the permanence of the unseen realm that he may remain in his holy remembrance of God and that God may remain in Him that in time he may pass over through the fire to the felicity of the new life which is the reward of his freedom.

Time itself is not an instrument of conflict, nor can the evil that the wicked do find solace and rest in its ephemeral folds, nor can the malice of things committed ever be forgot along the banks of its flow and you shall keep your remembrance of these things holy.

The labor of time is Holy Remembrance and its flow is directed so as to attain to the Will of the LORD of all creation, seen and unseen, the true purpose by which time was begun.

Beloved of God, think not that evil can disappear across into the reality of things hid precisely because evil has found no place in it, it would be utterly offensive to both reason and faith to think that time being sanctified by its Creator to the liberation of poor mankind may ever harbor the evil that its own flow is directed against nor evil withstand the cleansing of the tides of time and the righteous in time.

Therefore, my dear Christian soul, to bury the past, one must understand that the past is neither something to look back at nor something wherein we may leave parts of the present in - no virtue is rooted in the past and so no meaningful action is ever possible to those who dwell upon things beyond the pale of the present moment - here, in the Now.

The remembrance of time is holy that restores to God, the worship and adoration of His creatures.

Repentance and forgiveness in man, mercy and forbearance in God, all draw their objects not in the sinking of the sins of the past but in the arising of buoyant hope that is each moment renewed by the cleansing of the flow of time.
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Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
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BELOVED OF GOD, let us take this journey in time, together - anticipating with sweetness, the eastward rising of the one, true bright morning star - the First of our First Magnitudes.