This is my initial submission to the Bishop-Ulama community
consultation process - Konsult Mindanaw - in direct support of the unyielding efforts of our one Filipino nation to restore a lasting and meaningful peace upon our beloved brother and sister compatriots in Mindanao.---<--@There were, upon their Website contact form, asked these four questions:
1.What does peace mean to you? What is your vision of a peaceful Mindanao? What conditions/situations make up your peaceful Mindanao?My vision of Peace is Now!
My dear people of Mindanao of the one Republic of the Philippines, we do not have to wait for peace to arrive for peace is the original state of our
LORD's creation.
We only have to turn away from this midnight darkness of war and restore ourselves to a common
understanding of the peace.
We must not despair but have recourse to the memory of our own selves and of each other and recognize in each other in God that all things upon earth shall most certainly pass away but our friendships we shall keep forever.
And so let us be to each other,
keeper and friend.For we must indeed return to our original belongings to each other and build together upon our hope, through faith in God and trust in Country, the strong foundations of a better, brighter and kinder future for our youth and for all of the generations to come.
We shall build together a community of hope, upon the promise of peace made by the Almighty God to our Father Abraham of old that we, the numberless stars, shall bless the communities of Mankind, we shall establish our sacred trust, to bear with each other as human beings and to work together towards the realization of our one common vision of a free and human society that is Godly, kindly and fair.
And this, from all things false and dark, we shall defend.
Towards this end, I am devoting a new Charter for a new City in Mindanao.
2. The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are taking steps to help us attain peace in Mindanao. What do you think of the GRP-MILF Peace Process? What do you feel about it? Why? What are your recommendations on the peace talks between the
GRP and the MILF? (content, process, scope, transparency, etc.)There must be a common ground between the two and let this common ground be not founded upon the emptiness of barren things born out of the desolation of war but upon the promise of good things born out of a longing for peace.
There must be both remembrance and presence:
Peace is not the absence of conflict. For the peace that we human beings must learn to perfectly accept is an imperfect peace.
Peace is an observance of hope. Hope which is the beginning of human
understanding, a lineage of strength that extends across the generations and a virtue that lends its light to our shared humanity.
Peace allows the labors of Country to prosper the life of the people.
It preserves the civil order and upholds the public good and provides strong shelter to the generations of life.
Peace is the empowering wings of human community, it provides the necessary ground upon which are built, the prosperity of
families, tribes and nations.
Upon the maintenance of peace depends the rise and fall of all human
civilizations.
It is the diametric opposite of war, existing not to contend against war but to serve and defend all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind from all things dark and false.
3. What other steps, activities or programs should be undertaken to achieve peace in Mindanao? Include the role of academe, civil society organizations, National and Local Government Units.The
establishment of
Miyangersjia, a new
Abrahamic city, to initiate a new culture of hope in Mindanao and to link all communities together who are desirous of peace into one freedom, one lineage of strength.
4. What can you personally offer, commit or even sacrifice in order to have meaning peace in Mindanao? How do you intend to bring it to reality?Myself and my city,
Miyangersjia - which means
"Friendship". And it shall be so, my dear Filipino nation, for we must move forward and away from this long night.
Towards this end, I shall remain in touch with the
Konsult Mindanaw process and the Bishop-
Ulama Conference until peace is restored upon the people in our beloved Mindanao.
An additional Question that was not asked in the Konsult Mindanaw contact form - 5. Like stars are made to shine all the more beautifully in the night, peace is made all the more meaningful when it is realized in contrast with War - so what is War?War is a deviation from the ascendant path of peace. It is a failure to remember the observance of peace.
War is a scattering spirit and a darkness that eclipse our sacred remembrance; it is the scourge of all human nations.
Here is an example of the spirit of War:
A Bombing in Cotabato -I do not know which group of which persons perpetrated this crime but one thing I do recognize is the dark spirit of war that delights in the promotion of these false things that in the end shall consume the very humanity of those who
willfully collaborate with the
principalities* of hell.
This is the ultimate form of adultery.*fallen angels who were originally placed by God in the care of our human communities - now they only exist to destroy the same communities they were intended by our LORD to serve and preserve. These fallen angels are the main adversaries of our nations and in
collaboration with Satan and the other ranks of fallen angels work to sow division, discord, dilution and dissolution among the communities of Mankind.
This kind of thing shall not find a place in our
Miyangersjia - for as War was from heaven thrown down - in our
Miyangersjia, here upon this earth, the spirit of War will soon find that is shall likewise be denied.
For it is not
praiseworthy to attack holy places and people in worship - not even in the slightest degree - it is abominable! It is like attacking the wounded and the vulnerable. It is one of the main reasons for the raising of the
AHG (
Abrahamic Home Guard as Charter provision for the Common Defense).
Because more than anything else, I am personally convinced, it is honorable religion - above all, our three, great
Abrahamic faiths - that calls us back into our shared humanity. For among all the other human callings, it must be honorable religion that leads us to become more and more ourselves, to become more and more as human beings to each other.
I know this from my own experience of God in
Christianity and I see it everywhere there are people of good will.
Hence, my dear friends, to our necessary conclusion:Therefore, it is the
responsibility of all the communities of Mankind to battle against things that scatter, against those things that are dark and false, in order that all our nations may return to the one gathering of peace, our one path of common destiny.
For it is only through peace and its truthful observance that we are, as citizens of this earth, each commonly called to the gathering together of all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind in exile time,
to give respite to our failing world.Peace, I salute you. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!
---<--@Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.Sancta Sanctis!Glory to God in the highestAdoration to Jesus ChristPeace to men of good will.
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