The ASEAN Neighborhood

It takes a community to raise a child - a family to nurture its life and a family of friends to fulfill its promise of living life.

And so it its the same with our emerging nations and in the ASEAN fold, we shall call this community, our ASEAN Neighborhood.
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Our ASEAN is a neighborhood; we are by our individual lineages of sacred life and trust of Country, a synergy of the noble ideals that we collectively aspire for as nations distinct and honored from among the one family of the nations of Mankind.

We are a community of nations - human nations, but much more than this, we shall be a family of friends - from always to always.

Each ASEAN nation is like a house and the life of our nations make of it a home (away from Home) for all of the generations of our peoples.

Each of our ASEAN homes is a shelter of Country, each with its own particular set of house rules that make up its written Constitution or Ideal of State.

This Ideal of State maintains within each particular form of Country the necessary paternal ideal (which is a derivative form of the creative ideal) that work to define for each our nation our particular will of government that the lineage of our generations, each in its own present turn, continually entrusts to the sovereign mandate of each of our responsible states.

Each state is a specific guardian to a particular vision of Country of which singular will of mission it is to form the sheltering wings of the peace which prospers the life of our societies and preserve the order of our generations (unto the last of our generations at the Last Day).

Each ASEAN home maintains a family store and this family store is the common market which is particular to the physical geography of each our sovereign endeavors of Country within the ASEAN Neighborhood which is the temporal and material resources of our inhabited earth.

And our ASEAN Neighborhood is the collective endeavor to enrich this common market that each of our nations may then work to fulfill its native promise of living life as a whole within the ASEAN whole being able as well as enabled to bring adequate shelter, sustaining nurture and increasing prosperity which is meaningful and sustainable peace unto all our generations of life within each nation of our one ASEAN fold.

Thereby, we may now state the persistent mission of our ASEAN Neighborhood: That we, as our ASEAN, by our collective strength of endeavor of Country may continually and consistently work to add to the life, the good and the common good of each ASEAN nation-state in the context of the life, the good and the common good of the other greater wholes of our one family of the nations of Mankind (in a constant labor of human hope as we each journey alone together - in time and dimensional space - here upon our one planetary home, this, our one inhabited earth).
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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 End of Days

There are some people in our needful world, Beloved of God, consumed with so much worry about the end of things, who forget to even begin in themselves that necessary journey upon which the purpose of all these things in all of creation are intended by the timeless LORD of all time; that journey which all human beings and all human nations are in the course of our hope in exile time intrinsically called by a desire that runs from deep within, beckoning us to Itself like a shedding away of the darkness.

This world will end, O ye nations - that is a scientific fact. This whole visible universe shall in time exhaust the very purpose for its being - but the business of life and the living of its reason to be, it shall continue - and continue in ways often profoundly mysterious even to the deepest eye of faith, but continue it will, my love, not because things have an end but because life's reason for being is an endless truth - for the glory of God is eternal.

So it is the business of beginnings that all human hope is intended and not the despair of things that are not given to it's virtue - indeed, no man nor angel knows the precise time of those things that are neither in themselves native to either our respective stations in the universal order of life nor to the individual will that is possessed by the intelligence that is seated from within each our being - for only God knows the precise hour of the Last Day.

It is the lack of this knowledge in each of us and in all of us that work to advance the greater sweep of those higher purposes of creation that all good things know to trust and fulfill.

Must this be a cause for despair?

Life is activity, my love - and this activity transcends the corruption that rots away at the evil in evil things. Hope is an inherently human virtue, therefore, let us now begin to live by its works - knowing enough of what precious promise there is within each individual human being to begin to see what great potential for good we each possess as individual human persons but above all as each individual human nations - beyond our differences and despite any difficulties - of the one family of the nations of Mankind.

Not by tyranny of War nor the acceptance of the will of war can we ever begin to appreciate all of this for the desire of War are not these things.

If we love what we do as imperfect human beings, even the act of loving itself, this love shall seek to perfectly define us and if we allow for this love to perfectly define us, we shall begin to mature in time and within the order of God's grace in the age of our virtues to even approach the true promise of the creatures that we were intended by God right from the very beginning, and in eternity become perfected in our shared humanity as human beings, in complete possession of ourselves - and of our names - and being given to our timeless and ageless belongings to each other - from always to always - as ascended nations - to work the works of God with the angels of God forever.
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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.

Jerusalem, Remebered

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

should the City of our LORD's Peace

be a hindrance to it?

If the ageless realms

of the unseen reality had a center,

it would be in thee, O Jerusalem.

O City beholden of old,

hearken to thy own virtue!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

arise in God, arise in God,

why should War ever be found

laying its filthy hand on thee?

O my dear people - come,

and know this, here and now -

the rightful ownership of this city

may sometimes elude us, in exile time,

but this is only because of intentions,

born of a will and a purpose divine,

higher and more kinder than our own,

being embraced by the substance of things

outside the scope of our understanding:

The protection of the peace

and the common defense of this city,

where there is any question,

belong to the common good will

of both the nation of elder Israel

and the emerging Palestinian nation:

Jews, Christians and Muslims together.

For my dear people,

it is here in our Jerusalem

where these - two nations of old,

brought together by a promise not forgot,

shall learn the ways of God's Peace

and shall put behind them

the darkness of the midnight past

forever.

So pray, my dear people,

arise in God, arise in God - and -

always keep true to each other's good

all ye numberless Stars of old!

And ponder this in thy hearts -

wrestling with a new sense of hope

born of things rekindled

deep in the faith of thy soul

and ask of our LORD to bless us

and all of the generations of life

with a sustainable, meaningful peace.

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Therefore, on the Question of Capital, as regards to modern Israel and unborn Palestine:

Establish the Primary Capital in Jerusalem and establish a Secondary Capital City in Tel Aviv and Gaza City respectively - the things of the receding past do not apply to the landscape of the new reality we are trying to obtain for our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, at this present time and far into the new.

The military and political value of keeping a concentration of national identity and seat of state within the geographical boundary of a Capital City does not continue to hold in keeping with the common good of the nation 1) where our population centers are becoming aware of their own sense of individual or particular as well as common national belonging and 2) it becomes an impediment to the obtaining of the true purpose of Country which is the peace that prospers the people.

You shall be - in the course of our hope - as a light unto each other, O modern Israel of our elder Israel and our unborn Palestine or the darkness will continue to reign to the everlasting regret of all.

Peace unto our Jerusalem - is - peace unto Israel and peace unto Palestine, one peace.

Let it be so, O my people, let it be so.

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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest

Adoration to Jesus Christ

Peace to all men of good will.

Easter 2009: God of my Heart

Beloved of God, the Lenten season that culminates in the Easter Triduum at Holy Week reaches its summit today, Easter Sunday 2009, and I am so grateful to God and to all of you for having taken this journey together as a Church.

My friends, I am of the conviction that the fruit of many good things depend on our being able to continue with our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, this journey of hope we have taken together; a journey that was begun at the blossoming of our lives during that first Easter morning.

These days used to pass me by like the wind, O precious Christian soul, but verily, these last 40 days have taken on a substance and a weight that I can no longer ignore in my life.

For I have now begun to discover that there is no other place in our hearts like Easter! There - here - where our Lord Jesus Christ is risen, once and forevermore - and for all humankind as a whole.

It is to that timeless place in our hearts with our most loving Jesus that we return in our liturgy and in our souls this day - alone yet together in God from always to always.

Lastly, for those who pray our Rosary of hope: This prayer, God of my Heart, is the prayer that is meant to be said with our Blessed Jacinta, our beloved Flower of Fatima, at the end of every meditation:

God of my Heart:

O my Jesus, zealous for souls,
thirsting for the love of Mankind!

Come, be Thou the God of my heart
and accomplish in me Thy will of peace.

A Very Happy Easter to all of Blessed Christendom.

Indeed, it is time for us, as one family of nations, to build a better, brighter, kinder place - a home away from Home - for all the generations of life.

We have so much to do, my friends, this time as nations dreaming together - each our particular endeavor of Country as an ark like the labor entrusted to our patriarch Noah of old, an Ark of Country, a vessel of sacred life to take all the generations of life across the midnight darkness of exile time unto the golden shores of forever at the Last Day.
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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.

The One Triune Perfection

I behold, in the eye of my heart, one God alone yet the Love in my heart knows I am beheld by Persons three - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, most - if not all - of my expressions of the one Divine reality reflect this mystery in my life: a one, triune Perfection.
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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.

An Accounting of Time

Our dearest Starshine;

Let me teach you
the way in which thy heart
does perceive the idea of numbers
and the concept of its operation
in those realms where
the mathematics of physicality
and the limits of its reality
in terms temporal
and in measures finite
does never and shall never agree
with the reality of things within.

Because the substance of thy soul
is the abode of the timeless
that in terms eternal
and in measures infinite
are an accounting of thy heart
that amidst thy comings and goings
perceive things as they are
like a vision of love forever
in moments standing still
and not as they seem to be
amidst the darkness of things
that appear and disappear
in the rise and fall
of the tides of exile time.

One is not the beginning
for one is time neither begun
nor is one perceived to have an end
because one is an infinity
and two is not two things together
but two things that become one
for three are not three things apart
but two things made one whole one
by the love that visits
each our longing for itself.

And so when you shall perceive
each of thy friendships, dear Starshine,
among all truly human relationships
you shall think only of one.

And when you shall seek to perceive
each our own expressions of hope
in the sharing and the bearing of sacred life
you shall think only of two.

And when you shall seek to perceive
those things born to thy own heart's longing
and felt through the beauty of remembrances
awakening to thy slow awakening dream
you shall think only of three.

And ever be aware that the medium
of thy constant reality from within
is an emerging continuum of gratitude
spread as luminous stars upon thy spirit
bursting with the joy of living life
born from things that cleave as truth
unto that vast universe in thy soul
that make you think of the many
but return you always to one.

Time is not distance for time is distant
only to those with distant hearts.

Nor is distance a hindrance to our hearts
that in the timeless, beholds and is beheld.

Peace, I salute you.
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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 ICRC Hostage Crisis

THOSE LEADERS of men and of Mankind who willingly choose to be led by the good in good things but most especially those leaders who allow themselves to be freely subdued by the evil in evil things, understand this Covenant of the LORD that have existed since the founding of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind and begun at the time of the holy patriarch Noah; that our Almighty God requires from each of thee an accounting of the people to the very last hairs on their heads.

Indeed, all of the harm that evil things have sought to inflict upon the good ultimately returns a thousandfold upon their heads. But why, in this day and age, should the good of this world ever again be like sheep to the slaughter?

Let those who do not gather with us know that we are come to a timeless understanding of the one peace. Let those who scatter realize that what war does to one, war does to all.

Because for as long as there is evil in this world and for as long as there exists a need for good, this, our common hope, the hope of our nations, springs eternal.

Now, the three ICRC workers, Mary Jean Lacaba of the Philippines, Andreas Notter of Switzerland and Eugenio Vagni of Italy, those teachers of our children and all those innocents taken against their will, we say our peace upon them - we will become their hope.

We hold those who have unjustly taken them and restrained their will of good for the common people responsible before God for each their lives and the safety of each their one whole being.

We will never forget, we will never forget any and all malicious harm inflicted upon the life of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind nor shall we abandon our friends, in time, across dimensional space and into eternity.

Let it be known now that were these human beings members of the Red Crescent, Red Crystal, Magen David Adom or any other foundation or institution of Mankind devoted to the cause of sacred life and to the advancement of good things, it shall be the same unto them because to all of them belong our peace because it is to each other that we shall forever belong: one House with many rooms; one God over all our nations; one peace over and upon the one Covenant family of the nations of Mankind; one promise of an eternal Home shining amidst the timeless universe of our true human habitation, one true destiny of an everlasting realm of new beginnings for the one human race.

By the way you shall treat the least of the least of the all of us, most especially those whose hearts are those hearts of good will for the common people, you shall make, in the eyes of all of heaven and before our God, your one absolute choice as to where your ultimate allegiance lie and this shall also dictate the way in which you shall attain what timeless things shall be for your own soul.

We say peace to all hearts of common good will but to evil, the void, hellfire and oblivion.

For the LORD rewards virtue for good and punishes evil by itself.

So let it be known, let it be known to thee.
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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.

Breaking Free

This work is dedicated to addicts and alcoholics who are suffering:

THIS ADDICTION
has power over me no more.

It has power only over those
who believe in the lie.

This addiction has lied to me,
my family, and my friends,
right from the very beginning.

It has nearly destroyed me.

It has harmed those
whom I hold dear to my heart
who hold me dear to theirs.

Therefore, I no longer believe in the lie.
I can neither trust nor tolerate it:

I cast it away from myself!

The first choice is the wrong choice.

All the choices after that
is the choice of the addiction.

Therefore ---

The next choice I must make
is the one choice I must take
toward the road to freedom.

All the choices after this
are steps that take me there,
far away from here,
far away from the addiction,
far away from the lie
that sought to extinguish
my promise and my life.

The road exists even should I fall
because the road exists for me.

The road exists so long as I believe
that time will take me there
and truth will set me free.

So help me God,
So help me God.
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So, my friends, let us together say:

V R S N S M V - S M Q L I V B meaning "Vade retro Satana! Nunquam suade mihi vana! Sunt mala quae libas. Ipse venena bibas!"

Begone Satan! Never tempt me with your vanities! What you offer me is evil. Drink the poison yourself!

- from the Saint Benedict Medal

The Electorate and the Force of Free Choice

ALL THINGS THAT ARE OF TIMELESS WORTH do not come to any soul by chance, it must be a thing seized like a freedom won and all things won must first be a victory chosen and a path realized by it towards a destiny that is right - for that soul and for each that soul alone.

And if good things do happen to our shared humanity, it must be understood, that these things were also won for us by other souls, daring with our hopes together along paths that through virtue and the art of its grace ascend to make us kindred to each other in being and through our patient keeping of the common human good, with each other, rise above and beyond the nature of those unnatural things that divide and deceive the one family of Mankind.

Indeed, we can not be, as human beings, happy bereft of the choices necessary to make us free and the Liberty to allow for our freedoms to mature and these choices, by and large, do not fall to our laps by random chance.

It is also as such in the life of our nations.

Now, let us, as a free and enabled electorate, consider in the context of all of this, the act of voting itself. For it is quite important that it be further understood and remembered by all our democratic societies that there is a three-fold significance in the one seamless vote.

For contained within the act of voting itself, to begin with, without neither name nor proposition being put down on the ballot itself is (1) the consent of the governed to be governed; the act of choosing the name or proposition itself to put down on the ballot symbolic of (2) that citizen's choice to willingly participate in the democratic life of the one Republic whole and the choice itself of who is to represent that individual in the Republic forum or what proposition the quorum of the people makes specific and explicit to the state as its public mandate, (3) a peaceful exercise of force against the tyranny of evil things that make captive the life and the Liberty of the nation.

Because who or what we vote for in the life of our one Republic whole proceeds from the act of the vote itself, it is vital that each the hearts of our citizens understand and apply themselves to the three-fold significance of these things that happen in the space of that one seamless vote, that one very important choice; that the will of the electorate may be so enabled and the hope of this nation thus, preserved that the peace of our one Republic is both strengthened and assured by the force of our free choice; its promise of Country kept by the keeping of each our sacred trust, under the eternal vigilance of the one Almighty, for our own good, for our own common good and for the life and the Liberty of the generations to come.

Indeed, where the genuine commonweal of Country is, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, a matter of sacred and public trust, nobody who is a citizen exercising his or her legal right to vote and to responsibly participate in those honorable democratic traditions that guarantee the continuity of our necessary governance in the state really lose out who as part of the electorate exercise the force of a free and enabled choice in any election when these are things considered in the greater context of the life of the one Republic whole. 

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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.