2009: Bagong Taon, Bagong Araw

MABUHAY ang Pilipinas at Manigong Bagong Taon sa lahat!
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IKAW AT AKO

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Ito ang lupain ng pangarap,
Bayang hinirang ng araw
sa puso nating lahat -
isang bayan, isang diwa
isang layunin, isang puso
isang kapatiran, isang gawa
isang umagang pangako sa atin
nang Diyos nating Maykapal,
at nag-iisang Kapayapaang namumuno
sa lahat ng mga Pilipino.

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Atin ito: Ating lahat,
noon pa man, dito sa Ngayon,
at sa kalahatan nang panahon -
dito sa lupa, sa ating karagatan,
at sa lawak ng mga kalangitan,
atin ito, ating lahat,
mga kapwa ko Pilipino -
kapwa kapatid nang pangako.

Pilipinas, ano ito?
Atin ito: Tayo ito - ikaw at ako,
ngayon at magpakailanman:
Bayang dakila, inang kandungan,
tahanan ng ating mga bayani -
puno nang kabutihang loob
at pananampalayaya sa Diyos.

Matamis ang magsilbi
sa malaya mong mga kalupunan.
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Haiku #189: Real x

Real.

God knows when and where
to deliver who He loves
who loves Him justly...

And God's grace, It comes -
if we hold out against sin
to make real, our hopes.

Be mindful
of your heart.
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Haiku #188: Blank x

Blank.

My steadfast Miyang,
ever so patient with me -
one time, wasn't here...

And so I feared much,
my heart can not stand absence
of the ones I love -

God stretched me,
to love more.
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On a Time. Times and Half-a-Time

BELOVED OF GOD, recall to mind that passage in Holy Scripture in Daniel 12 about a time, times and half-a-time and be mindful hitherto of the passing of our history in the last 2000 years.

For a time, times and half-a-time represents an individual choice that is to be made: time and times representing the one whole history of our salvation as it is witnessed by both heaven and earth in the first and second millennia; a history writ in both war and peace, good and evil, darkness and light - a record penned in gray upon the souls of poor mankind; a muted passing away of the great tides of our generations that for all of those two thousand years were witnessed in shadow by a lukewarm humanity.

And half-a-time represents the cleaving asunder of those two halves to form a one whole, absolute and irreversible choice of heart and mind. For there can neither be any more hearts that are to remain lukewarm nor should there be any more hopes that in the living remain in shadow at the passing away of the last. We are to understand here and now, at the turning of the new, what light and what darkness, what peace and what war, what good and what evil is to be had by each of our lives lived in golden light of the truth or in vile cover of the darkness; one war or one peace, life and the everlasting good or death and the undoing of all hope.

And I would that none of us choose falsely nor take things as regards to the universal dignity of the human person and the inviolable sanctity of every human life lightly. For these are the things that represent for this one inhabited earth, the responsible stewardship of all life on this one planet in our visible universe; these are the things that directly concern the most infinite glory of the one Creator of all creation, seen and unseen. Be ever mindful that all true lineages of hope have as their proper terminus, the glory of the one, peerless God of all creation, seen and unseen.

Therefore, after the half-a-time choice, upon the completion of our every remembrances of the peace, when the doors of the Now in each of our hearts are shut, nothing of the past darkness must carry over into the present - for we must each completely secure the sacred grounds of our souls - and then learn from the waning tides of our midnight past, my beloved friend and honored companion - lest, our ancient enemy - the Dragon, the ancient Serpent of our faded Eden with and through the great and terrible scourge of our one family of nations which is the beast of war gain another substantial foothold in the new age we are trying to forge for our poor world.

And I also would that none of us be lukewarm: For to suffer hellfire for not having made this choice, here and Now, while it is being offered - even while It is speaking to each of us in our hearts not yet hardened to It's beckoning - is a suffering infinitely more unbearable than the suffering of those reprobate human souls who have willfully chosen to drink from the same cup of sin as Satan and all his fallen hosts.

For to remain lukewarm is to be spat out of the reality of all human hope and to suffer without understanding the crushing despair of an everlasting oblivion.

Therefore, I enjoin each of us to ponder deeply what is being spoken to our interior self and arise to our LORD in prayer, when this choice is presented to each our faith, hardening not our hearts to the quickening call that shall bring the realization of these things to rise upon the horizons of our souls, enabling our minds to perceive with understanding the steps that must be taken to heed the beckoning of the light and make the necessary steps - even despite of our selves and in spite of the dizzying events of the ever-changing world around our souls - to trust to our hope and cling to God and to each other in God, without ever looking back.

And turn to our good God eastwards, towards the dawn, each of us walking with our LORD at the pace of our own being alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate, yet all of us soldiering on together as nations and as human beings - shoulder to shoulder, to allow the terrible darkness of the midnight past to fade away forever behind us.

And in our bearing of our LORD's good graces patiently, ever as we walk with our one Beautiful from soul to soul, let us never be found to be without forbearance, remembering always that our LORD calls each of us at different times of the day.

So let us be glad - being always, always thankful to our good LORD - for verily, my beloved friend and constant companion, on the year of our LORD 2009 - unto the passing into the new, at the 1335th day - come a favorable season for our building on the peace of each of our lives and through our lives, call down the one peace of heaven upon our poor world so desperately in need of respite and repair; one peace upon our suffering humanity whose universal spirit has become so torn, divided and weary; and one peace upon each of our nations who have become so alienated to its own hope.

And let us remember to rest in each our sufficiency and to be at peace, my beloved friend and constant companion. For verily, time is a flow not for the enemies of sacred life and true liberty exists not for the darkness but for the light.

O numberless stars of our Father Abraham, stand fast together in the faith that justified our Father Abraham; a faith in the one, highest of Truth unseen, remaining true to each our lineages, for we shall do this labor of hope both as individuals and as individual nations together this time - all of us allied to the all in us.

All towards a better world for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of 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.

Again, let us please refer to entry: Eastward Dawning 2009
And for further enrichment, most especially to all of my Roman Catholic brethren and sisters, please refer to entry: A Remembrance of Fatima
For more about Angels (as the Archangel Michael in Daniel 12 is an angel), please refer to entry: The Angels
For more about Human Beings (as I am and you are a human being), please refer to entry: Mankind, Our Humanity, Human Excellence, Our First Parents

AS I WITH YOU am also possessed with my own hope for myself and for others, I am a human being and part of this world - so let us harken to the quickening light, a peer to our peers, a friend to our friends and a companion to our companions - let us follow now our one LORD as keepers together, one to another - at a time, times and half-a-time.

Eastward Dawning 2009

A SIMPLE MEDITATION, Beloved of God, that I enjoin us, each and every one, to achieve together at the threshold of the year of our LORD, 2009, is to await with glad expectation, in the silence of our hearts - alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate - that daybreak twilight leading up to the bright new morning of the first day of the rest of our lives - at a time, times and half-a-time.

This would be the first dawn of the 1st of January 2009 - so please observe the last few dawnings of the last few days of this year as an exercise in preparation for this great dawning in our heart of hearts, my beloved friend and precious companion.

For I enjoin us all, from wherever we are and as whoever we are - at a time, times and half-a-time - to observe together, with much prayer and vigilance of heart, during that one complete rotation of our one planet, our one whole collective turning away from the midnight darkness of the past into the labor of hope that we shall all be committed to God and to each other to work and to strive for - for greater peace in our world, length to our days, substance to our hearts and blessings to the generations to come - all towards a better world for all men, women and children of all of the nations of the one family of the nations of 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.

CHRISTMAS 2008: On Holy Remembrance and the Most Holy Trinity

MY DEAR CHRISTIAN SOUL, bearing into thy mind that our God is pure Spirit, all of our understanding of our one LORD must be imbued with a continuity of action that is proper to the creative ideal that our Creator is a continuous Creator; that our one LORD and Holy Sustainer of all universes within and without, as we attempt to apprehend the actions of the will of Divine Providence in exile time, is a verb that shall always, always, escape our understanding and never a noun to be fully understood by man or angel.

It is God that possesses us, and not the other way around.

And our one LORD shall always be infinitely more that our understanding of our one LORD, for in the new heaven and the new earth to come when our universe is restored to the presence of our LORD as the perfected reality of our human habitation, our learning shall be forever, our happiness is an always being fulfilled, our souls immersed in the direct presence of our Creator. For fully conscious and golden was the blue of our native skies in Eden before the fall of our first parents.

Therefore, the sacred revelation of the Most Holy Trinity which is central to our Christian faith is as our LORD opening up His Heart to gather into Himself, the exile children of mankind - for our LORD indeed is one God in eternity. It is as our Lord Jesus Christ described it - as a mother hen gathers up her chicks - we are ALL - remember, one Peace - caught up in exile time, ascending to the Love that exists in the Holy Spirit between the most intimate embrace of the Father and the Son - one God, from always to always - a one, triune Perfection. Verily, my beloved friend and constant companion, the Holy Spirit of our LORD is truly present within the hearts of ALL good men and women - for our Peace, yours and mine, is to all men of good will.

For the most Holy Trinity is the primary principle behind the ascendant unity of our LORD - a one Reality which can not be separated from Itself.

This apprehension of the creative ideal is requisite foundation especially for those who desire to belong to the work of the one Solidarity for this establishes for the Christian mind and heart, the necessary meditation that builds into the first of the three minimums.

Hence, never judge anyone without hope. For as you judge, thou shalt be judged.

We shall let our one LORD breathe freely amongst us.

For indeed, we are loved - ALL of us. Next year, we shall all - including myself, of course - and with my darlingest Annelies Marie, begin a work of hope - to transform our world and our lives into instruments of God's peace - for the good of all of suffering humanity - past, present and future.
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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.

Merry Christmas and Cheers to a great New Year 2009 to all of the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind!

#04 Advent 2008: Peace to All Men of Good Will

PEACE TO ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL.

Beloved friends and constant companions -
our poor world is needful of much repair:

Dark indeed are the times, terrible the past -
but we shall begin a labor of hope next year,
so let us rest in each of our sufficiency,
each of us bears a unique identity,
for each of our soul is distinct -
do not forget to pray - but do it with thy heart
more than anything else -
and from the secret of your own self within
discover the silence in you
that speaks with winged words,
and with bowed hearts,
be still and listen for truth that is more meaning than words
for things more substance than mass and space.

Persevere, persevere, persevere - pray.

You are what is your truth within -
so know your own soul - fill it with beauty,
fill it with hope, fill it with life,
fill it with light, and be thankful always,
store up your treasures in your heart of hearts
observing in all good things, great and small,
the movements of a greater and more wonderful design.

All things that come to existence,
is as a rising and falling from waters within -
for all things begin and end in the spirit,
be like this rising and falling, breathe in thy heart,
a breathing that is like a returning to God always.

Persevere, persevere, persevere - pray.

So will you know yourself - imperfectly, in exile time,
ever as you are in the remembrance of our LORD in eternity.

But as we travel together,
the horizons of our souls open up to new things,
so no one who yet exist in time
should stop in the act of their breathing within -
so pray - alone or with others, pray - near or far of mind or heart,
pray - at home, pray, while walking, pray - at work, pray -
when you become aware that your heart is not with God, pray -
and be joyful - for joy is the essence of prayer.

Wonder about the universe, wonder about great things,
wonder about noble things, wonder about the golden realms
of our LORD's heaven in eternity - and be joyful, be glad, be good -
for truly, truly, we are loved -
next year we shall begin a labor of hope.

Rest in your sufficiency.

Be at peace.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sancti!

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

In Defense of Beauty: Striving of the Heart

OBSERVE, O SOUL, how thy women soften the hardness of a strange and unwelcoming world - at the autumnal dusk of our Faded Eden, when the beginnings of our exile humanity first began to strike out into the vast and unknown lands of an uninhabited earth, O where was Beauty then, O ye Men, but with thy faithful helpers? As the light that drive thy soul onward, is the truth revealed by the one Unseen, the love that leads your weary spirit back to its rest is founded in thy Women.

BEHOLD, there is no true striving without thy Women! For whom do you strive, O Men, but for the love that you confess - to the beauty that possess you, to the flower that enrich you, to the fragrance that arrests your soul, to the abundance that multiplies your lives together: The companion that completes the you in you. What community endures without Women? For all things become barren where there is no love for beauty and no respect for beautiful things. For whom do you strive, O Men, for the desolation? Strive not for war, if you are wise, turn your hearts towards each other in peace.

And respect your Women, treat them the way angels will treat them, observe them, the way they are - beautiful for being faithful to their own expression - especially widows and young children, the unborn in the womb of a mother, for you will not see beauty if you become ignorant of its primary bearer in this world - a helper that is to you, your own faithful companion in this life - your wife, O Man, your Woman.

For whom then do you strive together, O you Men, but for each other?

But for whom then do you strive in your heart of hearts alone but for the faithful image of the one that reflects for you in your love for each other, the reality of the one Beautiful in thy heart of hearts?

Ponder all of these, my precious friend and constant companion, and seek for an understanding of the truth - arise with thy prayers to the LORD and then believe with strength of faith:

Make peace with thy Women and remain true - forever.

My salutations to the one honorable Ummah of Islam.

For all our beautiful, our Women, who make beautiful our all - in remembrance of thy peace and in respect of your own true reflection in the communities of our nations of the one family of the nations of mankind - among the numberless stars of our Father Abraham.
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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.

To the one African Union

ANY ISSUE that involve the desecration of the one peace of our nations and the profanation of the dignity of the human person whether by enemies, foreign or domestic, shall carry with it escalating costs that shall directly tax the strength of the greater wholes.

THESE SEEDS OF INSTABILITY, in the context of our rapidly globalizing world, when allowed to linger on the ground of our nations shall eventually take its root and choke with weeds the labor of its host Country, miring that nation in poverty. And this infestation, in the course of time, may only spread to the other greater wholes until it shall be as a massive toll on your own strength, African Union.

Therefore, as regards issues that involve the desecration of the one peace of our nations and the profanation of the dignity of the human person, the more you are indecisive, the longer that inaction is allowed to paralyze your sense of continental responsibility, the heavier the price you shall have to pay when those same untoward circumstances whose consequences were left to chance have matured into greater evils that can not longer be avoided because they have now arrived to directly threaten the sovereign authority of the continental whole that you represent.

Please bear all of that in mind as we now speak in specific about the growing plight of the Zimbabwean people.

I am from a nation colonized by a foreign power for longer than Zimbabwe was a nation and even I cringe at the accusations that the intransigent tyrant of that nation, Robert Mugabe, blindly and witlessly hefts around about the British wanting to invade or about Europe wanting manipulate that nation of Zimbabwe that he himself seems so hell-bent on utterly annihilating by his unbelievable hardness of heart. I believe I speak at the level of an emerging nation whose own colonial past gives me an even perspective with Robert Mugabe and in another world, this would have been common ground between us, but I utterly abhor that man for all the suffering he is causing his own people.

And yet he still retains the audacity to blame the British, the Americans, the Europeans, who else is immune where nothing is sacred to this man and this lie shall only fester until this evil upon your continent spreads out of bounds of Zimbabwe and into other African nations.

But I do not judge that man without hope, Robert Mugabe himself said that only God can remove him, and I hope for his own sake that he was speaking of God not in the way that he speaks about the British, or the Americans, or the Europeans, for that truth is an inevitable reality in the course of time.

It is the hope of the one Zimbabwean people, those nameless who suffer, that I seek to recognize, comfort and uphold.

And I would that you shall ponder these things and observe the unfolding of the events.

I write this because I care about some things that I know you also care about - African Union - which is the building of a better world.
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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.

Haiku #187: Serendipity x

Serendipity.

If one is grateful,
being mindful of good things -
the soul is deepened...

And so we begin
to perceive the hidden things
that make life worthwhile.

We begin
to see grace.
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Haiku #186: More x

More.

From this moment on
my darlingest Annelies,
our haiku titles -

Shall feature one word
but not just one syllable,
to broaden our scope.

For our One
Song Meow.
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Haiku #185: Stuck x

Stuck.

There are times in life
when it seems nothing is right
because its all wrong...

But its not all wrong
when each moment is begun
with hope in the wing.

Never dwell
on the past.
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On being Strong

To all our younger generations, our precious Starshine -

STRIVE.

Strength is primarily expressed in the masculine.

Strength is fidelity to the truth; a measure of its brightness.

It is the noble glow of its own conviction; the ascendant magnitude of our every embrace of all those living and everliving things that belong to the timelessness of our souls.

Strength is secure in its patience being sure of the reality of itself; born of the light that understands the exactness of its own truth.

It is not harsh and uncertain of its own reality; born not of the lie that in the darkness understands not itself.

Strength is certain in its meekness. It is a temper of the will that neither rises nor falls but is even and steadfast against the assault of false things.

It is not a hardness that hides its unfamiliarity to its own virtue; being established not by ignorance of the value of the beautiful things it exists to serve and to keep.

It is not coldness. It is not distance. It is not decrease.

It is warmth. It is presence. It is increase.
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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 being Beautiful

To all our younger generations, our precious Starshine -

DO NOT DESPAIR.

Beauty is primarily expressed in the feminine.

It is a state. You were born in it. For you are thus, and so with all beautiful things must strive to return to our LORD with it, being as you are - in the way that you are constantly remembered by our God in eternity.

Beauty is joyful. Eternally youthful. It is not a feeling. It is never passing.

Beauty is chaste. It can be claimed only by Love. It is not carnal. Invincible against lust.

Beauty is free -

You do not have to strive to be beautiful, precious Starshine, for Beauty is somewhere you may always return to, in your heart of hearts, a sufficiency that you share with the one Beautiful.

Nor must must others approve of your being yourself - for as flowers must bloom in their own time, so will you - therefore, establish your roots in the timeless image and likeness within thyself and strive everyday to reach out into the outside world that needs so much of what you have to offer.
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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 one Army

To the noble military in general, the one Chaplaincy of all the honorable military arms in particular and the one Army in specific;

TO EVERY BATTLE belong an outcome but to war belong no outcome, therefore, my beloved friend and companion, the spirit of war is indeed a terrible scourge.
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I. The Soul of Army

A world without conflict is either a lie or the truth; this is a paradigm of which there can be no middle ground.

And the Army exists to draw the line against the lie.

For while there is yet conflict, the Army exists in defense of a world without war.

Every soldier that stands the Army line with sacred honor and vigilance of heart stands on behalf of this truth.

It is by virtue of their sacrifice that our liberty is preserved.

And by this liberty is sustained, the hope of every nation.
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II. The Will of the Noble Military

The military always strives to be superior in its preparation against the enemy.

Thus, in preparation;

The military that understands itself to be superior or inferior to the enemy understands neither the enemy nor itself.

The military that aims to be at par with the enemy establishes itself in the way of defeat.

But the military that understands itself as either superior or inferior to the enemy establishes itself in the way of victory.

For the military that understands itself knows the way forward and the will that moves forward in time and dimensional space is the will of the noble military.
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III. The one Enemy: The Timeless War in Time

Time is purpose, this is evident in the history of our world, and this purpose is not human.

Therefore, things that exist in time must evolve in time, and evolve both in the seen and unseen realities that react in time according to a purpose hidden from the overt reality of our everyday world.

Conflicts evolve in time, animated by a center of gravity that finds its locus in the unseen; an absolute reality that fights against the truth of our own existence, an enveloping darkness that whispers lies against the peace of our nations, a spirit directed against the shared life of our humanity.

This evolution of conflict in time leads towards its ambition, an ambition kept away from the piercing light of the truth for thousands of years now within reach of the horizons of human souls as time imperceptibly ascends towards the one Light that reveals all things that whispers its lie in darkness as well as all things that turn away from the truth of Its one Light.

Thus, it is a certain becoming in the course of time that these things become clear as they present themselves to the will of each human being and what is presented to our will as regards to the evolution of conflict is nothing less than the evolution of a beast which is the paradigm of war; a devourer of peoples, an idol of death and an abomination against God and the sacred life of all creation; a lie whose one ambition is to give birth to the desolation among our nations that it shall call "peace".
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IV. The one Army: The Eternal Army in Time

In view of all of this, let us now shift our focus to concerns that are local to our visible world, concerns that concern the noble military in time and dimensional space in general, and those concerns that concern the one Army in specific.

Gathering from the immaterial Soul of Army, as conflicts evolve in time and dimensional space, the one Army must evolve along a clear and distinct line that is parallel in its course from the evolution of war.

For war which is the ultimate enemy of God, the angelic hosts of God, and every nation of the one nations of mankind, and the one Army - every Army that stands true to the spirit of its original commission and worthy of its one mission - must never be confused.

For as light is not the darkness, their nature and purpose in time and dimensional space is in diametric opposition to each other.
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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.

Some Thoughts on Health Care

I JUST CAUGHT A PROGRAM on cable last night - I think it was Michael Moore's - about the health care system in the US. Now, given the political leanings of Mr. Moore, I would usually take these things in stride but I have seen another episode which was a feature on a current affairs program (I could not remember now which one, I think its 60 minutes) that highlighted the same problems - that the US health care system is broken. But I did not know how broken until I heard the nameless voices of those of whom this system's brokenness had become a burden and a scourge.

Since our own Country, my fellow Filipino compatriot, one of many emerging nation-states (as I do not like the word "third world" as if there were other shared human realities than this one inhabited earth - among the one family of nations, there are emerging (young) nation-states, maturing (intermediate) nation-states and there are elder (shepherd) nation-states; a perfected or ascended nation-state only exists in eternity), is thinking of introducing, or have already introduced a formal health care program for our citizens, it would behoove this generation of Filipinos to learn from the mistakes of the American experiment and also sympathize with the plight of her orphaned people - hoping, constantly hoping for better days for all the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind.

Heath is not a product. Industry may use human labor or man hours in cost accounting but the human being itself can not be considered material. The common market is not the steward of either the state or the nation; that would put material things in control of human destiny - an insufferable tyranny that shall ultimately suffocate and destroy those freedoms that guarantee the pursuit of human happiness - for all people - for all times. Even those with currency and influence enough to be covered by this entirely market-driven health care system must know, here and now, that this kind of system will not recognize their own humanity should the tables of a fickle world be turned against their fortune and/or the vitality of their lives be overthrown by the uncertainties of our poor world.

Health is a right - it is without exception a God-given right of all human persons, and is a right entrusted to the care and concern of the human community - both the nation and its honorable state - to which that person belongs to as an integral part of that national community's particular endeavor of Country.

It is vital that we learn our lessons here as well. For a nation-state, true to her divine calling, has no other greater treasure than the life of her people.
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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.

Please refer to entry: Some Thoughts: Universal Healthcare

Impatient

THERE IS A SENSE
of wide-eyed anticipation
which is a marvelous work, indeed,
wrought by our peerless LORD
to excite upon hearts of good will
a wonder of good things to come -
a wonder of good things
so infinitely unimaginable
yet always within
immediate grasp of our joy.

It lends to the soul
an almost impatient feeling
that stays at the limits
of one's awareness
and amidst the noise of
our necessary labors
and the sufferings of
this necessary life
is ever present, ever vigilant,
ever ready to take wing
to lend its refreshing certainty
and add buoyancy to our hope.

How marvelous, indeed,
my constant friend and companion
are the works of our LORD:
Alleluia! Amen to God, Alleluia!
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My Miyang.

Away From the Darkness x

I REACHED OUT TO YOU
my darlingest Annelies Marie
through purposes, it seems,
infinitely greater than our own.

And through that long darkness
with tears that for many nights
in my searching for peace
sought for the answers
relentlessly and intensely
through what sweetness perceived
in the promise of thy song
smothered or so it seemed
among those horrors conceived

amidst the prison of my own despair.

O my love, my darlingest -
what my soul did perceive
those many nights of waiting
of those images of you
of thy own hopes
and the truth of thy being
abused, hated, rejected, and condemned;
staring, hollow, sunken, and dirty;
hairless, emaciated, weeping and lonely;
feverish, starving, sick and dying of typhus
were reasons enough not to live.

Yet, by sure grace of God,
came a slow and certain
awakening to the answers
that through those years
became the everliving lights
of the reality of my own hope

begun by thy beacon

that eventually led me out
of the darkest night of my life
and into those numberless stars
that led from one to another
in a gathering together as one firmament
of the wide expanse of our LORD's own
golden and infinite realm of Eternity.

And so Now
you are to me as my friend
as I am to you, your own;
you are to me, my love,
my darlingest Annelies Marie,
from always to always
the Starlight Smile that makes life
ever so beautiful again
and the evergreen companion
that makes the promise of new life
bloom with so much blossoming
in my own soul.

Thank you, my darligest Annelies Marie,
thank God for the grace of you, my love.

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

I love you, my Miyang.
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Haiku #184: Mass x

Mass.

How brief the moment
when we shall in remembrance
together worship -

The LORD of all things,
and at the day of His Peace,
partake at His Feast -

The Substance
of our own.
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