On the 2008 Olympics

OUR DREAMS of human strength, beauty, and grace are more than wishful thinking; they have about them the flavor of haunting memories of an earthly paradise, of a man and a woman not as they should be, but as they were.

Please Refer to Entry: Our First Parents
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"CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS."

These three Latin words mean "Swifter, Higher, Stronger."

This is the Olympic Motto.

My precious friend, there are problems in the third Christian millennium which no one nation on our one home planet may ignore and we shall trust in the Beneficent Providence of our Almighty God and the collective wisdom of our common humanity that in time, decisively and soon, these problems will be universally addressed.

The 19th century was for chemistry, the 20th century was for physics, the 21st century is for biology, for our own sake's as human beings we must forge at this present time, accords and measures - in our hearts and in our time - that will assure us of a future that is cognizant of our own humanity and build these shelters of Country today that we may never use because they are specifically meant to house our future generations.

However, let us also honor the meticulous efforts of those individual Chinese who most sincerely desire to afford for our one family of the nations of mankind a wonderful experience of the Olympic games from 8pm of August 8 until August 24, 2008 in their capital city of Beijing, China, our one Mother Asia, our one Planet Earth.

Indeed, there is a time for every season under heaven.

Time for good play, good cheer and above all good sportsmanship (fair dinkum!) but let not our memory waver nor forget in congruence to the remembrance of Almighty God that there are existing world problems all around us that it may temper our sobriety about the disparities in human society and give us greater resolve to help those people who are in common need of common alms in our own nations as a whole, in our own regional wholes, in our own continental wholes, here in our one planetary whole.

Go Beijing! Go Team Philippines! Go the Olympics!

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