Interior of Hope

I look back once again
at the waning of the long night
and the receding of the darkness
falling quickly behind me
into the distant past
and look forward
upon yonder wide horizons
into my dream of happiness
rising to meet me
on my way
joyfully ahead
eastward into my soul
even amidst the barren landscape
strewn with empty shells
of forlorn and broken things
across the long march of exile time
with the unmade grace of kindly wings
that bear my thankfulness high
towards that great mountain within
and the summit of my remembrance
beneath a multitude of living lights
amidst the eternal blue of my native sky
at the abode of my heart
where I dwell with my eternal beloved
in love with my love
deep in the sanctuary of our faith
in friendships made forever
at peace with my peace
and in my every waking dream
when the night seems long
I look ahead once again
and walk the eastward way
deep into the breaking of dawn
away from the darkness of my past
forever, forever into the morn
far into the unfolding of my life.
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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.

#03 Advent 2008: On the Sails of Human Hope

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN, as we travel in time closer to Christmas day in this year of our Lord 2008, let us consider in our hearts and minds (in our heart-minds or in our souls) this Yuletide season the nature of human hope and its existence as well as its co-existence among individual as well as communal hearts of our suffering humanity respectively as a human virtue before the dawn of the first Christmas when at the Incarnation of our Lord and through His mighty and saving walk on this earth with all of mankind, our LORD God gave both our individual as well as our collective human hopes a supernatural character.

AS WE KNOW, through our collective meditations, the virtue of hope is distinct from the virtue of faith in that hope is something to be expressed and shared in common and in good will with and in God among both believing as well as awakening human hearts, all of them, without exception understood to be capable of a certain degree of hoping.

For all of us exist in time and dimensional space where unfolding before us, here in the Now, amidst the darkness of exile time is the promise itself of this particular virtue, vested in time, experienced in safety as the shared bubble of our human reality floating in the void and aligned towards the glory as well as the greater glory of our LORD God and one Creator.

Towards Christmas, let us recognize the commonality as well as the universality of the hopes of the shared life of our humanity so that by Christmas day we may rejoice at the great gift of God's own Peace made possible by the Incarnation of our Lord, Jesus Christ, on that day in our time and upon our poor world close to 2000 years ago.

Remembering, my constant friend and companion, that no one who must, by covenant with God, dwell within our nations, true to each its divine calling, of the one family of nations of poor mankind (Republic or otherwise, for a state is righteous in the order and magnitude that it fosters the people, maintains the one peace, advances the good as well as the common good and preserves the discipline of the national community) can stand taller than the calm of our native waters for above the coherent parity of our stillness there is only our peerless LORD, within us there is only the sacred abode of each of our individual heart of hearts, a sacred sanctuary within each of us that we share only with our LORD Who will not suffer to coerce our free choices and which can not be trespassed by men, angels or demons, beyond us is the void, behind us is the sink of oblivion, beneath us is hellfire and outside of us are the other wholes upon greater wholes constituting the one whole one of the governance of Divine Providence in all of creation, seen and unseen, all of whom abide by the same absolutes and align together for the same purpose and design; to prosper the peace and to foster the life of the human people which is the glory of God in our visible creation.

For as war does not exist in this, our paradigm - against us, this we shall most certainly defend, in time and dimensional space, in life and in eternity, with our lives width and breadth, by lines drawn by our noble military in time, outside of time and at the threshold of our souls, we shall press this fight eastwards as nations together - towards the shores of eternity, resting in each other's sufficiency and leaving all else with the one omnipotent and invincible defense of our one Almighty God, our first and our final defender, until the enemy of our peace is vanquished forever.

Thus, the only thing that we may be distinguished by among our common peers in common creation, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, is by our spirit of service - both by the magnitudes of our virtue as individual stars and the luminosity of our particular galaxies as nations competing in good works, one with another, for the benefit of the good, the common good and all towards the greater good of visible creation which is the glory of God, within and without, in the shared life of our humanity.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the Peace.

Sancta Sanctis!

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

Our Rosary of Hope

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN, this Rosary of Hope is meant to focus the longings of the heart with our Lady to the needful things in ourselves and in the world around us that we ought to care about. Those needful things we need to realize in the way of our prayer and then own in our souls by an act of our will to open the doors of our hope.

As we walk this world with our Lord, there are many things of beauty that are needful of our care and attention, these things that we need to realize as reflections of the one Beauty should populate the universe within our hearts, to make bloom with much flowers, the vast fields of the Kingdom of God within our souls.

This prayer came to me while I was weeping and hoping in front of our Lady for a need yet unfilled and is relatively new to myself as well - I know that the meditations contained herein still need much cultivation and though it is not my way to put something out that hasn't been thoroughly exercised in my heart of hearts, I take exception with this one for I want to share and learn this prayer with you, my dear Christian, and also, because today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

This Rosary of Hope is not meant to replace the four sets of mysteries that are the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious events in the life of our Savior with our Lady and require that each one of us have had some fruit from the meditation of those timeless and inexhaustible mysteries prior to this Rosary of Hope. For this particular Rosary with our Lady and Blessed Jacinta Marto, my dear Christian soul, is meant to bring those virtues and the present need that their fruits need to serve into the moment with each of us and our Lady with Blessed Jacinta Marto so that we may each come to attain and realize these fruits of good works required by grace of our Christian character and by our own acts of hope, and through the strength and fidelity of our Lord, take proper human stewardship of their reality in the universe within each ourselves, and together out into the tremendous world of our human hopes without, as each of us becomes fully gathered together in the Now.
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IF FAITH is what separates our reality from the one Divine reality,

HOPE is what separates our reality from other human realities.

And LOVE is what connects all these realities together.

THEREFORE observe and understand by thy sign of the Cross, my dear Christian soul, our Blessed Lord Crucified for our sakes'; the vertical beam of His Holy Cross, our happy faith, the horizontal beam of His Holy Cross, our holy hope and the Corpus of our Savior Himself being the infinite Love, broken for suffering humanity, bringing us all together in the unity of the Holy Spirit as the one great Covenant family of God, our Heavenly Father.

MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS - Sign slowly, purposefully, openly and clearly. Open your heart to God.
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And meditate with our Lady:

1st Our Father - Our one LORD, the ascendant unity of God.

Three Hail Mary's - The one triune Perfection - God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - being the primary reason for the ascendant unity of God - The one triune Perfection is a one ineffable Name - one Reality.

Glory Be - Glory to God - The Glory of God is the Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.
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1st Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Jesus Christ

AND IF I GO and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.

John 14: 3

Refer to entry: On the Peace of Jesus Christ

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the salvation of each of our souls through faith, hope and Christian charity.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our own souls.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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2nd Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Family

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of the family; the instrumentality of the love of parents, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and extended family members.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our own family.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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3rd Decade - Meditation on the Hope of Friends/Neighbors

The preservation of virtue. Mediate and pray for the needs of friends - including neighbors and our local neighborhood community, our workplace community and both the transient and permanent community of our Lord's poor entrusted to our care who are within our own sphere of influence.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our local community.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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4th Decade - Meditation on the Hope of our Nations

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of the national community - the state, the local regional community, the continental community and the one whole planetary community.

Take ownership. Resolve to become part of the hope that shall help fill this need and restore peace and good will to our nation.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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5th Decade - Meditation on the Hope of our Holy Mother Church

The preservation of virtue. Meditate and pray for the needs of our Holy Mother Church - the Church Militant, the Church Suffering in their proper relationships to the Church Triumphant as well as the Particular Church within one's locality - Meditate on the burden of our Holy Father Benedict XVI and pray for our pope - pray for our bishops, clergy, our apostolate, each other and all of Blessed Christendom that we may each grow closer and closer in the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ and through His Peace become a greater and greater blessing to our poor world, to the greater glory of God and the rejoicing of all of God's angels and saints.

Glory Be - Glory to God - Culmination of All Hope - rejoice and be joyful.

O my Jesus...Fatima Prayer - Pray this with Blessed Jacinta Marto - The Hope of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Hail Holy Queen/Salve Regina (sung in the heart) - Renew your Total Consecration, if applicable.

Let us pray:

O MY MOTHER MARY, I love you.
recall me to yourself today
under your most glorious service
as Queen of heaven and earth
and Queen of my heart with Jesus.

Grant me the strength of will
to serve you under your banner
with a heart that loves God alone
that perseveres in the way of virtue
and add to the good of the world.

Please help me deny myself today
enduring temptations bravely
and bearing trials for Jesus
denying evil an entrance
in my heart and in our world.

O that I may please Almighty God
and prosper God's own peace
in my heart and in our world
for love of all thy children
O Mother of suffering humanity!

Resolution: For all beautiful life; why one must stay the mountain path - and walk this world with Jesus Christ, today, this hour, this minute, this moment, Now.

Your Personal Prayers...

MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS - Sign slowly, purposefully, openly and clearly. Slowly rise from the deep.

Be thankful, strive to be joyous, one with another.

AMEN.
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Sancta Sanctis!

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

For further enrichment: A Meditation on Hope

On the Peace of Jesus Christ

"PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid."

John 14: 27
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OUR MOST LOVING JESUS, owing to the great and profound Christian mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God possesses a human soul and all human souls are capable of the virtue, hope.

And all hope is vested in exile time as a becoming, a sweet and joyful anticipation for all the saints of God as each of their own hopes in God wax gloriously or a growing sense of dread looming upon the souls of the willful and unrepentant as each of their own hopes in God wane
ignominiously.

Hope exerts a subtle and quiet presence in every calm moment in the now before each free and human choice is made and this virtue wax or wane in strength according to how much we share and express it, one with another, in good faith and common good will, primarily to our LORD and His unseen Church of the triumphant angels and saints who forever face the face of our LORD in the heaven of God's eternity, secondarily to the unseen necessitate Suffering Church in the void of the angels whose own hopes they have entrusted to those who obey and fear the LORD here on earth and thirdly to our own Militant Church here in exile time specifically as a calling to serve the needful elements of our Lord's poor communities among the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind.

All human souls are capable of hoping but the soul of our Savior owing to the Hypostatic Union of our Lord to the one Truth of the Godhead possesses a hope that encompasses and embraces all human hope - in fact, the hope of the Savior of mankind IS the fulfillment of all human hope.

Every true hope culminates in the glory of God which is it's natural terminus for the glory of God in all of creation, seen and unseen, IS the culmination of all hope and this fulfillment in Christ culminates the purpose of creation in the beginning as it originally was intended and therefore has the august and able power to bring us all into fruition at the new beginning at the end of all things - at the passing away of the heavens and the inhabited earth.

False hopes, they sink in the mire, carried by the descendant gravity of evil's consequence, they shall collapse with the turning into ashes of all evil things from within to become with Satan and the reprobates, that one singular regret of all of hell entire.

Our Lord while He walked this world with us possessed the vision of God in the entirety of His temporal servitude to mankind, our Lord could see as far into His soul with God or as near as He pleases and so it was not only at the Agony in the Garden that our Savior has had to face the truth about our sins and the one whole entirety it's consequences built up in the righteous wrath of the Father in eternity.

Our most loving, Jesus Christ, knew all of this from the time he was conceived but it was only in Gethsemane that our Savior has had to face it in that hour, when it's time had come.

God by His own nature does not possess hope, our LORD possesses in His most beneficent will the infinite power to deliver and to uphold, to strengthen and to fulfill in the Truth which is His Being. Our LORD is the provider of all human hope and this can now only become clearer to our souls who can now comprehend in Christ what the Father has revealed in the Holy Spirit through the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son.

The Peace of Jesus Christ is Christ's own hope here on earth, it is His own hope fulfilled and shared with us as our Savior's joy in His eternal vision of our own happiness with Him in the place He has gone ahead to prepare for us in the golden realms of the Father in heaven.

With us, who remain in God and in each other, our Lord's greeting of peace is ALREADY our own hopes fulfilled in and through Christ who IS our hope and when we say this to each other as one Church of the baptized and in good will with all of the righteous persons among the one family of the nations of mankind, we inherit through our Savior the power to give this hope unto others.

And we give this hope by becoming it, by being as our Father in Jesus Christ, by living to be one as God is one - and we shall do this with one love alone.

It is this upon this Peace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that the charism of the apostolate is founded for it is through this Peace that the one Solidarity shall fulfill it's gift - on behalf of Jesus Christ, our All - in the one, ineffable Name of the one Triune Perfection for our Holy Mother Church as a blessing unto all mankind.
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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.

AND IF I GO and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.

John 14: 3
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Heartsong

I AM the unsung song
that lives within a dream;
the seed within a soul.

Every infinite universe
embraced from within
the heart of God.

I am the road
not the destiny,
I am the journey
not the destination,
I am the dreaming
not the dream,
I am the becoming,
not the being,
I am the singing,
not the song,
I am the climb
not the peak,
I am what soars!

I begin with a praise -
I breathe the air,
and cry out loud:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I end with a praise -
I lift my head,
and bow my heart:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I am heartsong.
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