On the Call of Citizenship

TO ALL MY FILIPINO COMPATRIOTS,
all my honored companions in God and Country,
the body politic of our faithful Republic
upon whom rests the hopes of our nation,
my Abrahamic peace be upon us all:
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A CITIZEN IS NOT A PERSON. Every one of us who can read and understand these words that I write is born a human being and must therefore be recognized as one and readily accorded the universal dignity that is proper to all human beings.

If one would apply even a few moments of one's day to consistently meditate a little deeper on our being human, one would learn to quietly and with increasing degrees of loving appreciation, constantly apprehend that our being human itself, both our body and soul together, is a gift of the one common Creator of all common creation, our one LORD.

And that in this universal gift of humanity that we are all given to share in each ourselves with one another through God, is the image and the likeness of our Creator that is indeed found and truly present in each and every one of us.

And out of the universal gift of our shared humanity, the grace of our LORD God calls each and every one of us every moment of every day to apply our near infinite human potential through our willing cooperation into paths that glorify the creative ideal that embodies the perfect magnanimity of the glorious and beneficent nature of our one and only Creator.

To the degree that we are obedient in the faith that reveals to us the path that our hearts must follow unto God by the living waters of His Word, our LORD allows us to grow in and through His grace according to the seed of the truths that our LORD have willed to entrust to us in the garden of the Eden that survives within our heart of hearts.

Now, along the way of this path, in the journey that we each must make as exile children of this world, are different awakenings - milestones, if you will, that realize in each of ourselves, an awareness; a calling towards a particular beginning which is one among the many beginnings that each of us shall surely be asked to embark upon in our encounters with our LORD before our LORD calls us to our life's completion into Himself and the golden vision of God in eternity that we shall share in holy communion with the elect of our LORD across the void of time; beyond the illusion of death which is the veil of shadow and tears that covers this exile universe with tears that keep us salty and shadow that vindicates our faith in life and the everliving God of all the living and the everliving in, with, for and through Him.

However, if we are reticent in accepting even the truth of our shared humanity and continually deny ourselves it's inherent duties common as well as individual by our relentless willful turning away from our one and only Creator, we will have come to terms not in the illusion of death and the void of exile time but in death and void itself and because of the very nature of our shared humanity, create for ourselves in spite of our good LORD and the pleading of our souls, the hellfire that awaits - an everlasting death in the grip of the everlasting crush of the fiery darkness that shall forever torment those who choose to suffer to stay in the void with Satan and his rebellion after the true purpose of exile time has been consummated.

In the depths of this hellfire, I tell you, my precious friend and companion, one shall barely be recognizable as once a human being with a soul meant to be beautiful as the holy angels of our LORD, a fate no human being of good will should ever desire for another. For to desire hellfire on another human being is contemptuous of life, judging another without hope, this is the embodiment of the hypocrisy of those who say peace but believe in war, who say they serve and defend sacred life but believe in the abomination that creates the desolation.

But before we fly off on a tangent, we shall now return our meditation on the topic at hand: One of the awakening calls which the grace of our LORD through Divine Providence shall bestow upon our hearts is the call of the state; the state which is the necessary structure of Country
that lawfully govern the synergies that animate the peace and the economies that direct the common good towards the will of the nation or "the people".

This call is the call of the citizen.

Because our citizenship call, my honorable Filipino compatriot, is a call of blood and fire, it is a sacred covenant between ourselves written not just with ink and paper but with the blood and fire of virtue and selfless service.

Therefore, this sacred covenant must be substantiated by our free and meaningful participation in our common endeavor of Country; we must in a labor of community live in exile time to harness and unite the synergy of our generations, binding us to our hopes as a nation in time and in eternity and consummating our lives in compact, one with another, as a community of the one indivisible peace, marching together across the desolation of this midnight world, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, towards the Last Day and the shores of forever.

Furthermore, it must also behoove us as a Republic citizen-state, my honorable compatriots, to make sure that honorary Filipino citizenship is made free and available to all those foreign born non-residents who have so honorably and willingly served this Filipino nation for more than 5 consecutive years who wish it; all those human beings who live in their hearts to be as one, true citizens of our one planetary whole, who have selflessly devoted their lives' width and breadth to share with us, the one Filipino people, the cause of our hope in God and in Country - missionaries, social workers, ambassadors, teachers of honorable religion and all persons of proven good will.
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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.

LET US THEN TAKE OWNERSHIP
of the status quo
and instead of feeding
into wars's evil ambition
the near limitless
potential of our own souls
let us apply ourselves
under the eternal vigilance
of our one Almighty God
to the labor of each Country
by our absolute turning away
from the descendant gravity
of war's evil ambition
into the ascendant direction
of the one whole peace
and build upon our civilization
the sheltering wings of
the one, indivisible peace
that prosper the life
of our shared humanity.
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