Human Community in the Context of the Global Financial Crisis

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, let us perceive Country as an undertaking, an endeavor of each of our nations and their responsible states to perfect as much as we can, in exile time, the synthesis of those who govern (the state) and those who give consent to be governed (the nation).
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COUNTRY therefore transcends static definition but is an action defined by its function or purpose and determined by its fruit. Country is more a verb than a noun, an action that is a hope that is anchored in the deep of eternity (whose locus in this reality is that timeless intersection within the human heart of the finite and the infinite) and is a lineage in time that extends from one generation to the next. In each person can be perceived a microcosm of Country and as a matter of fact, the entire visible universe can be reflected in a single Man. Therefore, all of Man's vulnerabilities and weaknesses as well as our human strengths and virtues are also inherited by the systems and constructs that we co-create in exile time with Divine Providence out of the reality of God in our hearts.

Division has always been a weakness of our one human race. But these weaknesses can also be turned into strengths, if we can find the strength left in our humanity to overcome them.

I for one, just like my darlingest Annelies Marie, do believe in the goodness and nascent ability of our shared humanity.

These times are most certainly difficult but the best guarantee that we now immediately possess amidst the global financial crisis is each other in the strength of human hope and the shelter of our human communities; individuals reaching out to their neighbors, communities with their local communities, nations with other nations.

For the strength of human community have always been founded upon our wholes, upon truths, pristine and undivided by difference, untrammeled by war.

We must be careful not to drift apart. Or to exclude from our midst the needs of other human beings most especially those who are least among ourselves.

For peace is our original estate, a one whole and indivisible truth, sufficient upon itself, cleaving upon other greater truths, excluding nothing from itself, ascendant in its order, united in its purpose.

But the will of war is a lie which is descendant in its gravity, it pulls downward into a spiral of discord, disorder, division, dilution, dissolution and ultimately, annihilation.

The fact that the difficulty we are now experiencing is global in nature is commensurate with the hope that we must now as one planetary whole realize. But we must do this in a way that preserves the status quo order of our nations and not invite further darkness upon our poor world.

Our history proves that difficulties often time allow our humanity to discover new things, I personally believe - and I pray - that once we have again found ourselves anew, prosperity is sure to follow. But it will surely take some time, given the scope of this necessary undertaking, and the best shelter that we have in this storm at this time or at any other time is our true belongings with each other.

So let us with charity reach far out across and above the things that divide us and try to discover for ourselves what we need to find in each other as individual human beings as well as individual human nations in order for us to become better human beings and concomitantly leave for others a better world for all human beings.

I have always believed that we either live in extraordinary times full of ordinary people or we are all extraordinary people living in ordinary times. But whatever the circumstance, my beloved friend and constant companion, what really matters is that we see to it that we all come out of this together, as one.
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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.