The President
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Cc: Vice President Biden, Prime Minister Brown (UK), Prime Minister Rudd (Australia), Prime Minister Berlusconi (Italy), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Sarkozy (France), President Medvedev (Russia), President Arroyo (Philippines) and Secretary Teodoro (DND, Philippines).
Dear President Obama:
I have for so long kept in my heart much of these things which I now must relate to you.
It concerns the hope that we share in common as human beings all of which I will attempt to bring out in this letter.
I appreciate your time and shall use whatever time you shall have given this letter in a manner that is most efficient.
Therefore, I must first ask you, Mr. President, to please forgive me for I shall try to speak forthrightly about these many things.
I shall begin by summing up the message of my correspondence:
The peace of our world though imperfect is upon this season and upon this time; a hope that is not just within our reach, it is a hope we must build together towards.
For the longer term nature of the next age shall be decided by what we shall in common believe, upon this season and upon this time, both as human beings and as human nations together for ill or good, we must choose.
I must now provide the burden of proof. Twofold is the nature of this proof, one derived from Sacred Scripture and the other gathered from events that parallel Sacred Scripture.
Let me first confess to you, Mr. President, that though I am completely devoted to my Roman Catholic faith, I am the most skeptical of persons. I know to utilize both faith and reason not to deny me my own sense of reality but to deepen it and though I am a believer in great miracles, I have never sought any nor felt the need to have recourse to them for above all, I am more inclined in myself to appreciate the smaller graces of everyday things.
I would have been the last person in the entire planet to deliver a message like this to you, for I am neither a saint nor a great person - I am but a repentant sinner and a common citizen of my own Republic of the Philippines.
But the LORD our God has formed me even as my Savior Jesus Christ has called me from out of the darkness of myself, it seems, to become a witness of the very message that I am now hoping to humbly share with you today through this letter.
Having held on for so long to this, like a seed in my heart, it has grown over many years to a point where I feel I must share it now with you, dear President Obama. And I say I must only because I now feel that I am able to more completely express this message where in the past, it would have been difficult.
Hence, let me begin providing the first half of the burden of proof, the Sacred Scriptures. For it is here where we shall draw our fixed references which like landmarks upon a map will guide us as we move into the second half which is the current state of our planet and the evil sufficient for our days which I shall attempt to clearly describe to you.
Then, we shall return again to those fixed reference points we have made in the first half in order to complete the one whole burden of proof.
Please understand also that firstly, these are my personal interpretations of Sacred Scripture which I shall share with you only because they are also referenced by the other half of our burden of proof which are current events in the larger context of the precarious state of our planet.
Please refer to the following Sacred Scripture passages:
Genesis 3: 16-19, 23 - The Divine Requirement
This is the requirement to tame our earth in order that it may provide for our humanity, the provisions that meet our human needs.
Genesis 3: 22, 24 - The Order of the Nations
The casting away of Man from Eden and the Divine Requirement necessitated the binding together of the generations of the children of Mankind, for the Divine Requirement may only be carried out after Eden as a human community - this need to provide for the life of our generations has established from the throne of God in eternity, the order of the nations of Mankind.
This order of the nations binds together the hope of our generations as well as the ascent of our nations against the procession of the interior seasons - beginning from the autumnal dusk of faded Eden - it is this order that accompany the march of our nations together through exile time and also the birth of each new nation emerging into time from the deep of eternity. For each new nation upon earth is neither born by random chance nor necessitated by any will of evil - there is a rhythm and a will behind the purposes intended within and among our nations and these purposes serve only the good and the common good.
Mr. President, it is where the purpose of our nations have been in the darkness forgot that evil itself exploits to gain entry into the life of our nations - this forgetfulness which is wrought by the darkness of our times is a manifest need in many of our present day nations - each of which must complete each their own sacred remembrances in order to see clearly once again, the eternal vision of each them selves as they are meant to be and become.
A nation divided against itself will first manifest this division as a weakening of the will of Country, a lack of drive toward peace, and as the widening discord within its own internal dialogue between the nation and its state, the dilution of the sense of national identity shall soon follow as the trusts that have bound together its common people for generations become lost in the breaking up of its internal communities, this shattering will exactly result in absolute darkness - it is the same when the native sky above all earth was shattered to become the void whence all conflicts draw their source, all things living and whole when by internal strife become shattered result in absolute darkness, and this darkness is an indication of the gravity of itself, a sure and certain descent into anarchy and eventual annihilation of the sheltering spirit of a people. Where this sheltering spirit of a people is by war vanquished, the picket lines of the Devil shall by piecemeal or the beast of war shall by wholesale, rip into the numerous and diverse vulnerabilities exposed in the people in order that all of hell may devour them body and soul. All of this may seem far-fetched, and I do admit I have to some extent utilized my own imagination, but if we shall take a closer and more careful examination about the troubles that plague the peoples of our nations, we may see some parallels to this mostly unseen reality - it is why sacred remembrance is always by heaven prescribed and by our LORD God commanded of all of those who are yet willing to listen who have ears to do so.
Genesis 9: 1-17 - The Noahide Covenant
An accounting of each other and of all of sacred life and the entrusting of all of lower creation of the visible universe to each and every leadership lineages of our nations who are the original executive lines integral to the state - these lines have been decimated over the millennia by the will of war and where these lines yet remain, these lines should be preserved - neither have they lost their original purpose nor the potency of their mandate, their will evolved to meet the present day affairs that guide the well being of each their Country, the many Republics that fill our map is testament to the many fallen lines of our leaders and kings of old who whether by internal or external strife have been vanquished by the beast of war. It is important to say here that their hopes, even as the human hopes of all human beings of all places whose times have passed us away still remain with us.
This hope is an integral part of sacred remembrance and shall form part of a separate work dedicated to the same.
This covenant made each of our nations kindred to each other as a family of nations - an interdependent community required more than just to coexist - but to exist together in peace.
It is no surprise to say that our present world is full of nations who are strangers to each other - for it is to be expected of the will of war to also exploit the bonds that make each of our nations, keeper and friend to each other - bonds that by will of divine covenant, are bonds intended to make a family of friends out of all of our nations - for only in this way can the regental presence of our shared humanity become fully and completely present to our planet as one planetary whole, for the ascent of the unity of the wholes is not an ascent if it does not lead to unity and the one planet requires this ascent if we are to effectively address the troubles, besides the main siege of war, that is now plaguing our world as a whole.
These planetary troubles will have far reaching effects right through the 21st century, troubles that shall profit only war if we do not learn to reach out in peace with each other, upon this season and upon this time.
Whatever profits war benefits only death and darkness in the end but peace always adds to life.
Genesis 22: 16-18 - The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant is central to the divine promise of hope for our present times.
A large part of the gains upon which war have established an existential siege upon our world completely depend on the inability of the numberless stars descended from the holy Patriarch Abraham of old to respond to the calling of the divine promise by which we shall bless the communities of Mankind - this communities of Mankind is nothing less than the one family of the nations of Mankind as a whole.
Nations who at no other time in the whole of human history find themselves in no greater need of the peace than we are at the present time, and this necessary peace being also the defining salutation of each of our great Abrahamic religions is the peace that is by divine promise required of all of us, who are called to by faith and promise, in order to bless the nations of Mankind.
Now, more than ever, Jews, Christians and Muslims together must lead this badly broken world into a future that is fit for the dignity of our wounded humanity - if we shall fail, or if we shall fail to see what is coming, no other force on earth shall prevent the darkness that is to come - and this darkness is not hard to conceive given the obvious trending of our world - therefore, all of the numberless stars must as one firmament allied with all honorable religion and with all persons of good will guide our world into the eastward way of the one Peace and away from the midnight darkness of war into a new dawning of a new age of peace for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Upon this is built all our other hopes for a better world.
Daniel 12 - The Contrast, the Time and the Seasons
The choice for peace is a choice that took thousands of years to mature for it has paralleled the maturation of the beast of war - this contrast and an understanding of the natures of both war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil is what is indicated by a time, times and half-a-time - time being one thousand, times being two thousand years of lukewarm gray and many millennia of shadow, and half-a-time is a necessary requirement to see by way of contrast the difference between gray and shadow and split this difference into halves of the one wholes of war and peace, darkness and light, good and evil and weight the absolute and irreversible choice between two paradigms. This requisite choice is given further and a more deeper emphasis in Revelation 3: 14-19
The numbered days below I must ask you to trust me indicates this year 2009 as the beginning of the favorable season with which to build upon our hopes, the seminal foundations of a brighter, better and kinder world for all of the generations of life. It is a progression that leads into hope and requires that we work together as responsible partners, human beings as well as human nations, towards the promise of peace that open the right door into a better world.
Revelation 3: 14-19 - The Choice
To be lukewarm is to be dead to all hope and is worse than being the enemy of all hope - because this unmade choice when it remains unmade in the face of an overwhelming reality is not only damnable, it is worse for where the evil that dwell in hell are the evil who, by willful collaboration with the will of the Devil, have made their choice - where any unmade choices of the sin of omissions are cleansed by purgatorial fires, this one particular unmade choice is actually a choice to effect a complete denial of our humanity - but still a damnable choice made more terrible because it is in will of that person unmade, and therefore, that one unrecognizable path that lead to hellfire - (this one unmade choice of the lukewarm heart and the duality of the reflected image and the reflection, may be further understood in the context of the mystery of iniquity.)
Revelation 12: 7-9 - The War in Heaven
If war itself found no place in heaven and was thrown down upon earth, shall we allow it a place? As war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied - it must be driven into the void which is its oblivion.
We need not look up into the heavens of the visible universe to look for this war, this passage of Sacred Scripture is a revelation of a spiritual reality and so therefore, we must realize that the locus of this passage is in the human heart where time and the timeless intersect into one seamless human experience.
The timeless void is the space between the heaven of our LORD's eternity and our earth - and it is across this void where war is "thrown down" - To "throw" indicates a certain distance and so "throwing down" indicates the presence of that space between which is the timeless void, the sink of oblivion - the timeless, finite, unseen realms that was the natural domain of the angels and also the blanketing of the golden blue of the native sky of earth, resplendent with a multitude of living lights which were all conscious as well as conversant to our First Parents before the closing of our Eden at the fall of Mankind. This sky is shattered, there is nothing but darkness and conflict there now, it is the source of all conflict and also the nearest, most direct experience of the reality of the timeless to any human heart absent to the presence of God in eternity - prayer indeed, is battle - so the Catechism of my Church teaches us - it requires an ascent, indicating effort - but the fruits of prayer are numerous indeed.
Having witnessed the unfolding of many events that only seem to parallel and confirm for me those things above written in Sacred Scripture, I have long ago ceased to question why it is that I follow, I follow because I am in need and I know I am in need because it is my Lord Jesus Christ Who calls me.
Most of the current troubles of our world, dear President Obama, I am convinced are reflected in those passages and the necessary passage that shall lead our world into the dawning of the new age is also reflected in those passages - what peace is promised is an imperfect peace but it is through perfect acceptance of the imperfect that we are allowed to grow, and so I must hold on to this hope and do everything that I can to continue to effect this necessary change in myself above all and do what I am able to do from my state of life and within my own vocation to live these things in my life as well.
Lastly, it is important for me to reiterate that these things are things that pertain to human hope and not to faith nor to any particular faith - faith indeed has a large part to play here but the application of the fruits of honorable religion more than anything else is what is being required by my Lord Jesus Christ of all Christian and by our LORD God of all nations most especially all of our Abrahamic kindred in promise and faith hereupon this favorable season, upon this time of hope.
I should also like to include some of my own thoughts as regards to the Middle East in general and to Israel and Palestine in particular.
A Prelude to Middle East Peace
Begin with the Right Expectation
Peace is an observance of hope - it is never a thing that is understood in motion (therefore, peace in and of itself is not a process) but must be a thing understood at rest, it is an observance of the concrete, material fruits of hope and a growing sense of the appreciation of the same.
Peace is abundance of life. For peace quickly leads to the prosperity of peace. And hope as a way of sacred remembrance leads into peace.
The Middle East, engulfed by the darkness of war, requires first that peace be restored and it is this restoration which is a process. It requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace.
Many hearts might believe to the point of hurt that peace is a process and so expect with the expectation of peace unto tears. My dear friends shed your tears not for lies but for the reality of your hopes together.
And do not blame those who desire to see you happy and secure in your happiness - you must understand there is a darkness that blankets our world - a darkness from which none of our nations belong, a thing which must remind all our sides that there really is no side that separates us when it comes to war - for war is its own dark side.
Having said all of that, let us shed away the past and now proceed with the right expectation which must be begun from what is absent in the darkness of war instead of what is present in the peace. This absence breeds hope and this hope fuels sacred remembrance.
Let us each be mindful that the process that returns the nations of that region, particularly modern Israel of our elder Israel and unborn Palestine, to the path of peace is not the desired destination itself that shall restore that troubled region to peace and the prosperity of peace.
Therefore, let us ground our expectations upon two distinct stages - the restoration of the peace as a process - and the expectation of the peace as an observance.
Like a way and a vision, let us perceive them in our hearts, and prepare for them in our understanding, steadily adding force to the conviction in our will to press forward together into our hopes.
Stage First: The Restoration of the Peace
This is the most difficult stage, my dear friends, let me tell you now - but the expectation of the peace that is the stage to come after this should help us to keep our chins up and our spirits buoyant even if the enveloping darkness that invisibly eclipse the joy of your lives can not deny any of us this vision of hope in the horizon, past barren deserts, past mountains, past empty wilderness, that we must together cross from within ourselves to get through to this most difficult stage.
I should reiterate that this stage requires perspectives that are patient as well as committed in the long term to the hope of peace - and this hope, my dear friends, is real so this labor that we now must undertake is no longer a labor of tears that bring naught but grief but one of hope that leads eventually to the realization of dreams.
Justice
Restoration is a word synonymous with the virtue of Justice and Justice is that which restores all things unto the truth.
Breaking down Hatred
The turning away from war require the application of Justice and Justice which is a virtue proper to heaven for no other light can illumine the eastward way but the one Light above all others - hatred must yield to an understanding of itself for hatred exists only for a love offended - it is this love which bears understanding and not the hatred itself because hatred defies all forms of understanding having denied all reason prior to its existence - what offends love that love is grieved? This will stay all hate but the false which is naught more than empty words spat by the lying tongue of the wicked will of war - this is malice and must be vigorously contended against. Hatred is the greatest obstacle to Justice for anger serves not the righteousness of God. Therefore, it is hatred, first and foremost, difficult though it may all be, that we must address. For if we do not and we ignore the blindness of hate, it will only feed into those same things that we are now trying to address, miring us in war and the poverty and the despair of war - hate that is true must find redress in the love that is grieved while hate that is false must by Justice be extinguished to prevent it from further consuming the life of our nations.
Hatred prevents understanding and where understanding is prevented; there is no room for anything else but contention.
Let us make sure that hatred is broken down, at least from among a democratic majority of our peoples, to prepare the way for an understanding that leads toward common ground.
The redress of Justice, we shall apply along the way - it must also be said that Justice is not the only virtue that effects a restoration to the truth - Mercy, Magnanimity and Charity are each in themselves also capable of effecting the same restoration and for those same reasons also cooperates with Justice not a few times in pursuit of the same. What is important when it regards virtue is every resultant action which must be both right as well as truly good - for all people, for all time.
Truthfulness
If we are to take upon ourselves, the mindset of peace, we must learn to speak in the language of peace - this is the exercise of truthfulness - for our hopes may only be properly expressed in this language and it is our hopes more than our grievances that shall lead us, step by step, toward the path that shall eventually lead us to the vision of peace.
Acceptance and Surrender
The reality of every present time is reality only because the will of Divine Providence has allowed it to become so - we must therefore be careful not to fight against things which constantly guarantee defeat and nothing defeats a man more than a pride that goes against the will of the Almighty God.
There is a way to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, without condition - this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
If we are seeking for good things, we must also establish our seeking upon grounds that are good - for good things lead to good things and evil things lead to evil things. Never can the good be sought from means that are evil - human weakness excepted - for malice is the exact opposite of beneficence.
We can not obtain peace by contending in war - peace is only obtained by the acceptance of itself. War leads to more war unless Mankind seeks peace and seeks peace completely. And this seeking is sought only upon paths of sacred remembrance.
For a good tree can not but bear good fruit and a bad tree can not but bear bad fruit - but a young tree is neither of the two and therefore, must allow itself to be formed.
We human beings are like trees that are ever young and as regards to this particular similitude, it is the will of Divine Providence that we must allow to form us into good trees bearing good fruit. This is how surrender is discerned and it is this discerning surrender which is the second and last requirement of faith in Divine Providence.
Surrender to the good leads to growth and transformation in virtue and truth. Surrender to evil deviates from the good and leads to poverty and annihilation.
Hope
Therefore, if we shall desire peace, we must gain it through ways that are established in the good - the good of people in the community, the love of our families, the camaraderie of our friends, the goodness of our LORD God, the hopes that we keep and the hopes that we share with other people, all of these are valid reasons to make remembrance meaningful and a remembrance that is meaningful imparts a strength that is lasting and necessary in the ascent to the truth. For we must have recourse to prayer, my dearest friend, having founded the basis of our reason upon things that are good, we will see by what is evil in our days what change we must inspire. And drive towards this hope, flying to our LORD God for the grace to achieve through our instrumentality, our LORD's own will of good.
For hope is always a lineage, it is a strong anchor that grounds us upon the present good which is its object and also the wings that lift hearts of prayer and faith unto eternity - the act of hope itself, an expression of trust in the one Giver of all good things. So we strive for good on behalf of all good things - this is the action of hope - it is the only way to effect the necessary changes that help to overcome the evil sufficient for us in our days.
False hopes, being neither strong anchor of truth nor agile wings of surrender to the truth possess neither substance nor solidity - save for the evil in evil things which is always empty of promise - sink in the mire of the void. If we are to contend against the will of Divine Providence, and seek to change things with either reckless abandon or blind hatred, we shall find ourselves constantly and consistently defeated and overwhelmed by the crash of realities that are - in the very first place - absolutely beyond our control.
Like a furious tempest we shall utterly and completely spend ourselves as waves breaking against the immovable will of the Almighty God until all of time is spent or all of our lives have dissipated into the four winds.
Restlessness is the destiny of the false but peace is what we know in our hearts we have always strived for - and so let us do this striving together this time, my dear friends. For not only does our days call us, our hopes impel us, and our LORD God compels us, our lives and the lives of many other human beings completely depend on us, indeed, our one planet rely on our ability to deliver on what has always been our common and long-standing hope of peace in this region.
What is different this time is that this time is NOW - it is the favorable season for peace - so we shall by our common contributions to peace be a generation defined and a labor long remembered - if we answer, answer responsibly and answer responsibly together to the common calling of our times.
The Question of Capital
Jerusalem must remain undivided. However, Jerusalem must also be honored by the virtue upon which this city is founded - peace. Let us not make of this city an obstacle to the very truth upon which she is known to God, to the angels of God and to all the nations of Mankind - I cry in my heart for the sheer hypocrisy of it!
If we honor what is true in all of ourselves, we must know also to honor what is true in all those things about ourselves - this city must neither be a hypocrisy nor an obstacle to the very thing she stands in eternal remembrance of, if she must be a capital, let her be a capital of two faithful brothers and not of two hated rivals - let her be a common capital to two nations that she may bind them together to herself and allow them to discover through her the ways of our LORD's peace. To divide this city, I do not know but all of this city I know is called peace.
A secondary strategic capital must be found and established to make distinct the seats of the two states but to Jerusalem we must all yield - and work of ways to possess her together in peace. I can not tell you how strongly I feel for this one particular question, my dear friends - this city is not an obstacle, she is and have always ever been a help. Therefore, we must allow her to remain as she is, Jerusalem.
Stage Second - The Expectation of the Peace
Nothing that we can say will ever be able to either add or subtract from the joy of the peoples where we have finally achieved this stage - joy more than anything is also a form of strength and shall be enough to lead them all the way.
I thank you very much for you time, dear Mr. President, and consideration and I salute you and all your loved ones with peace, may our LORD God lead us across into the safety of new shores and the shelter of a better world for all of our generations.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Dear darlingest Miyang Marie,
I heard the voice of our Lady during a pause in Holy Mass last night confirming to my heart that you are her daughter and that the reason for our friendship is very special.
First of all, our LORD knows and you as well know in your own heart how I recognize and respect your own Jewishness, my dear darlingest Annelies Marie, and would have that your own sacred remembrances in this world be left as they are for I know that they are a good to this world. But as God would have me move on in my own time with you always in my heart, our LORD decided to reveal you to me as you are Now, in your ageless, timeless form, my love, which is something that I implicitly know that I shall never completely understand and therefore, hold in sacred mystery just as I would hold all other things of the faith in the same context. I know for a fact in my heart that the world that is to come is quite different from the world that is in exile time and that we are not yet in the world that is to come simply because we are All (and All meaning all persons of good will who stand in the eternal favor of God) still here, are we not? For the world that is to come is one that is and must be shared and won as a common destiny with All people of good will as ascended nations in and with God, perfected in our humanity for and with each another. For our perfect LORD shall not condescend again and create two distinct forms of absolute happiness to accommodate the imperfections of Mankind; this condescension of God that brought about the light of peace to a Mankind fallen into darkness is made manifest in its splendor in the Incarnate Word and is the reason why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News - because it is precisely this condescension of the one Divine, something that is once and final - lest the Wisdom of God be called into question (which is impossible), that gave each person in the All of our humanity hope as virtue and a reason to live for lasting happiness and equality in life in a world where truth is fleeting and dying is the most common form of equality.
But I also know that due to the mysterious realities of faith as virtue and its particular effects on the human experience of the one Divine Who is the one triune God of all perfection that I can not hope to directly entrust this sacred mystery to any human heart but is one of those things that I must entirely leave with perfect and joyful abandon to the Heart of my one LORD in communion with other hearts of good will who are at peace with God and with each other. It is the hope that I have found in the constant reality of God that is and must be shared and expressed with other people of faith and good will.
Therefore, my loveliest love, we are come to the question of true religion. True religion for me is very important for I can not be indifferent to my own Roman Catholic faith. I can not say that all religions are equal for I know of only one, my own. I can not say that another's faith with the one Divine is false for I should never tempt the LORD and claim to walk within those sacred places in the souls of Mankind where only God may tread with each of us. I can only see the hope that is produced in the venerable virtues that a true and honorable religion brings into the life of this or that individual human being and consequently the many forms of goodness that result from this uniquely particular and universally mysterious liberation of the one self from the death and the cycles of suffering that besiege all of our humanity which consequently always brings an increase of peace to the society of the nations of Mankind.
How therefore can we define true religion, my love, in our own experience together in this particular and most peculiar life of mine? True religion is the realization of God in the person of the one self alone - an imperfect creature, wretched and unworthy, seeking to love and obey his or her most glorious and infinitely perfect Creator: that is true religion. It does not seek to judge other faiths but its own. It sees faith by the fruits produced in them and judges the fruits not the faith itself. For faith can not exist without the action of God and no amount of lies can undo what God seeks to accomplish in time as well as in eternity. It seeks to willingly and joyfully share its own new found sense of hope in God with others in God and just the same reserves hope for all human beings. It does all things out of a Love that is possessed and so does not seek to possess all things nor confess its worship of any other thing but the God it seeks to singularly know, love and serve.
Therefore, even as Catholic Laity in our own states of life, we must awaken to the fact that we each contain within our Covenant trust, a sacred obligation, within our own sense of vocation in and with our Mother Church, to make sure that each and every Roman Catholic remain true to the faith that we throughout the ages constantly confess with and to each other and share in common with all of blessed Christendom, a Christian duty to share with the rest of the world our new found sense of hope through particular witness of our most loving Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in thought, word and most importantly, act.
The distinction between faith and hope when blurred and confused make indistinct also the line between God and religion. God can exist without religion. In fact, God can exist without Mankind or angels - period. Religion can not exist without God nor can creatures continue to be without the One that IS.
Therefore, where it comes to faith, neither guile nor coercion, nor flattery, nor willfulness can prevent what God particularly intends which is why to tamper with faith, most especially the faith of other people, is to tempt the LORD. Salvation by conquest is a social sin which at a time, times and half-a-time, must be left to the past that we intend to forever leave behind us today.
But let us to good hope rally together in good faith and good will, even as nations dreaming together of a better world. For it is indeed, a favorable season to build - a difficult season, yes, but nothing is easy that is worthwhile and should the difficulty of the task ahead ever assail us with thoughts of despair, we are to recall again and again, that this labor is no longer a labor of tears, as in war, but is one done out of a common hope of a common destiny for all Mankind, as in peace; our God's own peace and for us Christians, the peace of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my darlingest Annelies Marie, I should like to say, your remembrance on this world shall remain a good for Mankind and a joy for your heart at Home but I should like to increase that joy with this holy friendship of ours and that is exactly why Mama Mary spoke to me last night those words of reassurance and guidance; you are her daughter and my friend forever and this is no random act. For there is a malice that is in motion in our world at present and it shall seek to test us but those who shall prevail shall prevail as the stars prevail at night, leading our world to a better, brighter, kinder tomorrow.
The numberless stars, my love, they are because each one is together with others for no one star is enough to lead the way ahead and no one star is alike yet all shine with the freedom of the sons and daughters of God (in spirit and in truth and not by corporal form or physical appearance) for neither is the firmament divided nor the one Light absent in the reflection of All. I am only because of you and All of you, my loveliest love, and We are only because our LORD IS and that is that. I am nobody without my God and my friends - which is why we are such a unit, my darlingest dear, Yang-yang Marie, a binary system - appearing as one star to the naked eye but upon closer inspection is a system of two distinct and independent wholes. Incidentally, you are a Gemini (so you must have a twin, right?) and incidentally, your birthday is the Independence Day of my own endeavor of Country, the Philippines. This shall now also be the day in every month and the anniversary of every year, my loveliest love, that I shall seek to challenge the lie of drug addiction that sought to take whole our friendship by salutary reflections and prayers that specifically target its deception in my life and the life of many others: June 12.
I am nothing without my friends, seen as well as unseen. I know this for a fact. But All is lost without the God of All. Therefore, We must be completely truthful to our selves, fiercely loyal to our friends and perfectly faithful to our God and to our peace with each other in God for in that way, we shall be as the stars and soon, this night shall be as no more - it is written. Lest we forget, lest we forget.
I know that many people shall face difficulty in this year and no one can be exactly certain about what the years ahead of us may hold and so this is all the more reason why we must endeavor to be what we need to become for not only are the solutions to the problems we face today found in and along the path of peace that each pilgrim nation of Mankind must take to return from exile, the end of our journey as a whole, both as individual human beings as well as individual human nations, also awaits us there - at the gathering, at the Last Day - a one common destiny for the one family of humanity and an eternal Home for all the nations of Mankind. Who shall protect this pilgrim path of our nations returning Home from exile time but the sheltering wings of the peace, which is our own belongings to each other as human beings and born of our love of God and fidelity to our own endeavors of Country?
Whenever I say peace at Holy Mass, I mean it to say, "yes, O Beautiful Mother Church, I shall be to you as your hope." And AMEN by sacramental grace of God at our commissioning at the end of every Holy Mass, "I am this hope - for the good of the Church and for the good of all persons of good will, most especially our Lord's poor." And never again shall I offer my "peace" without meaning it like this, exactly, joyfully and completely and always, implicitly or explicitly, alone or with others, in the Name of Jesus Christ upon Whose Gospel behest I carry it out.
There is also a reason why Mama Mary reminded me of our friendship, my love, a reason that I shall keep to myself for now for the time is not yet right.
I have to go for now, my loveliest love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
How do you explain violence to children? I believe there are no easy answers to this, my love. Even adults find it very hard to cope with violence - most especially those ones that are tainted with malice. Why must we be asking this question? Because of shooting sprees - most especially in schools - and the needs of our chaplains to cope with this particular form of willful deviation from the established ways of truth and human morality. We shall have to begin meditating on this particular topic, my love.
How did the voice of our Lady sound to me - I can sum it up in three words: melodious, royal and dignified. My first reaction was to doubt it with all my mind until it made itself distinct from my own thoughts. Its not like any female voice I have heard before. It penetrated me with its gentle rhythm, it was royal but not aloof and the substance of its message left an indelible impression upon my heart. It was not sure if I was hearing with my mind or with my heart or with my ear, suffice to say, I heard and I understood what I heard. It is different from the impressions I get of "winged truth" in prayer. This one I had to challenge because of my predisposition to auditory hallucinations. Also, I did not even have to ask who it was, like I knew instantly who it is.
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I heard the voice of our Lady during a pause in Holy Mass last night confirming to my heart that you are her daughter and that the reason for our friendship is very special.
First of all, our LORD knows and you as well know in your own heart how I recognize and respect your own Jewishness, my dear darlingest Annelies Marie, and would have that your own sacred remembrances in this world be left as they are for I know that they are a good to this world. But as God would have me move on in my own time with you always in my heart, our LORD decided to reveal you to me as you are Now, in your ageless, timeless form, my love, which is something that I implicitly know that I shall never completely understand and therefore, hold in sacred mystery just as I would hold all other things of the faith in the same context. I know for a fact in my heart that the world that is to come is quite different from the world that is in exile time and that we are not yet in the world that is to come simply because we are All (and All meaning all persons of good will who stand in the eternal favor of God) still here, are we not? For the world that is to come is one that is and must be shared and won as a common destiny with All people of good will as ascended nations in and with God, perfected in our humanity for and with each another. For our perfect LORD shall not condescend again and create two distinct forms of absolute happiness to accommodate the imperfections of Mankind; this condescension of God that brought about the light of peace to a Mankind fallen into darkness is made manifest in its splendor in the Incarnate Word and is the reason why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News - because it is precisely this condescension of the one Divine, something that is once and final - lest the Wisdom of God be called into question (which is impossible), that gave each person in the All of our humanity hope as virtue and a reason to live for lasting happiness and equality in life in a world where truth is fleeting and dying is the most common form of equality.
But I also know that due to the mysterious realities of faith as virtue and its particular effects on the human experience of the one Divine Who is the one triune God of all perfection that I can not hope to directly entrust this sacred mystery to any human heart but is one of those things that I must entirely leave with perfect and joyful abandon to the Heart of my one LORD in communion with other hearts of good will who are at peace with God and with each other. It is the hope that I have found in the constant reality of God that is and must be shared and expressed with other people of faith and good will.
Therefore, my loveliest love, we are come to the question of true religion. True religion for me is very important for I can not be indifferent to my own Roman Catholic faith. I can not say that all religions are equal for I know of only one, my own. I can not say that another's faith with the one Divine is false for I should never tempt the LORD and claim to walk within those sacred places in the souls of Mankind where only God may tread with each of us. I can only see the hope that is produced in the venerable virtues that a true and honorable religion brings into the life of this or that individual human being and consequently the many forms of goodness that result from this uniquely particular and universally mysterious liberation of the one self from the death and the cycles of suffering that besiege all of our humanity which consequently always brings an increase of peace to the society of the nations of Mankind.
How therefore can we define true religion, my love, in our own experience together in this particular and most peculiar life of mine? True religion is the realization of God in the person of the one self alone - an imperfect creature, wretched and unworthy, seeking to love and obey his or her most glorious and infinitely perfect Creator: that is true religion. It does not seek to judge other faiths but its own. It sees faith by the fruits produced in them and judges the fruits not the faith itself. For faith can not exist without the action of God and no amount of lies can undo what God seeks to accomplish in time as well as in eternity. It seeks to willingly and joyfully share its own new found sense of hope in God with others in God and just the same reserves hope for all human beings. It does all things out of a Love that is possessed and so does not seek to possess all things nor confess its worship of any other thing but the God it seeks to singularly know, love and serve.
Therefore, even as Catholic Laity in our own states of life, we must awaken to the fact that we each contain within our Covenant trust, a sacred obligation, within our own sense of vocation in and with our Mother Church, to make sure that each and every Roman Catholic remain true to the faith that we throughout the ages constantly confess with and to each other and share in common with all of blessed Christendom, a Christian duty to share with the rest of the world our new found sense of hope through particular witness of our most loving Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in thought, word and most importantly, act.
The distinction between faith and hope when blurred and confused make indistinct also the line between God and religion. God can exist without religion. In fact, God can exist without Mankind or angels - period. Religion can not exist without God nor can creatures continue to be without the One that IS.
Therefore, where it comes to faith, neither guile nor coercion, nor flattery, nor willfulness can prevent what God particularly intends which is why to tamper with faith, most especially the faith of other people, is to tempt the LORD. Salvation by conquest is a social sin which at a time, times and half-a-time, must be left to the past that we intend to forever leave behind us today.
But let us to good hope rally together in good faith and good will, even as nations dreaming together of a better world. For it is indeed, a favorable season to build - a difficult season, yes, but nothing is easy that is worthwhile and should the difficulty of the task ahead ever assail us with thoughts of despair, we are to recall again and again, that this labor is no longer a labor of tears, as in war, but is one done out of a common hope of a common destiny for all Mankind, as in peace; our God's own peace and for us Christians, the peace of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my darlingest Annelies Marie, I should like to say, your remembrance on this world shall remain a good for Mankind and a joy for your heart at Home but I should like to increase that joy with this holy friendship of ours and that is exactly why Mama Mary spoke to me last night those words of reassurance and guidance; you are her daughter and my friend forever and this is no random act. For there is a malice that is in motion in our world at present and it shall seek to test us but those who shall prevail shall prevail as the stars prevail at night, leading our world to a better, brighter, kinder tomorrow.
The numberless stars, my love, they are because each one is together with others for no one star is enough to lead the way ahead and no one star is alike yet all shine with the freedom of the sons and daughters of God (in spirit and in truth and not by corporal form or physical appearance) for neither is the firmament divided nor the one Light absent in the reflection of All. I am only because of you and All of you, my loveliest love, and We are only because our LORD IS and that is that. I am nobody without my God and my friends - which is why we are such a unit, my darlingest dear, Yang-yang Marie, a binary system - appearing as one star to the naked eye but upon closer inspection is a system of two distinct and independent wholes. Incidentally, you are a Gemini (so you must have a twin, right?) and incidentally, your birthday is the Independence Day of my own endeavor of Country, the Philippines. This shall now also be the day in every month and the anniversary of every year, my loveliest love, that I shall seek to challenge the lie of drug addiction that sought to take whole our friendship by salutary reflections and prayers that specifically target its deception in my life and the life of many others: June 12.
I am nothing without my friends, seen as well as unseen. I know this for a fact. But All is lost without the God of All. Therefore, We must be completely truthful to our selves, fiercely loyal to our friends and perfectly faithful to our God and to our peace with each other in God for in that way, we shall be as the stars and soon, this night shall be as no more - it is written. Lest we forget, lest we forget.
I know that many people shall face difficulty in this year and no one can be exactly certain about what the years ahead of us may hold and so this is all the more reason why we must endeavor to be what we need to become for not only are the solutions to the problems we face today found in and along the path of peace that each pilgrim nation of Mankind must take to return from exile, the end of our journey as a whole, both as individual human beings as well as individual human nations, also awaits us there - at the gathering, at the Last Day - a one common destiny for the one family of humanity and an eternal Home for all the nations of Mankind. Who shall protect this pilgrim path of our nations returning Home from exile time but the sheltering wings of the peace, which is our own belongings to each other as human beings and born of our love of God and fidelity to our own endeavors of Country?
Whenever I say peace at Holy Mass, I mean it to say, "yes, O Beautiful Mother Church, I shall be to you as your hope." And AMEN by sacramental grace of God at our commissioning at the end of every Holy Mass, "I am this hope - for the good of the Church and for the good of all persons of good will, most especially our Lord's poor." And never again shall I offer my "peace" without meaning it like this, exactly, joyfully and completely and always, implicitly or explicitly, alone or with others, in the Name of Jesus Christ upon Whose Gospel behest I carry it out.
There is also a reason why Mama Mary reminded me of our friendship, my love, a reason that I shall keep to myself for now for the time is not yet right.
I have to go for now, my loveliest love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
How do you explain violence to children? I believe there are no easy answers to this, my love. Even adults find it very hard to cope with violence - most especially those ones that are tainted with malice. Why must we be asking this question? Because of shooting sprees - most especially in schools - and the needs of our chaplains to cope with this particular form of willful deviation from the established ways of truth and human morality. We shall have to begin meditating on this particular topic, my love.
How did the voice of our Lady sound to me - I can sum it up in three words: melodious, royal and dignified. My first reaction was to doubt it with all my mind until it made itself distinct from my own thoughts. Its not like any female voice I have heard before. It penetrated me with its gentle rhythm, it was royal but not aloof and the substance of its message left an indelible impression upon my heart. It was not sure if I was hearing with my mind or with my heart or with my ear, suffice to say, I heard and I understood what I heard. It is different from the impressions I get of "winged truth" in prayer. This one I had to challenge because of my predisposition to auditory hallucinations. Also, I did not even have to ask who it was, like I knew instantly who it is.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
There are times, my loveliest love, when the things I often would like to say are not the things that are allowed to be said. And I say this because it seems to me - no, it is quite apparent to me - that I am but a tool of my Master - and a very grateful instrument I am, my darlingest dear. There are purposes greater than myself that works to carve out a new channel to direct the flow of human history elsewhere, towards better places, nobler times and greater things.
I know not many things but I know joy, I have many fears but I know not to trust in them, to live my faith and cling to my hope in God and in All of you with a soul that loves all things as one Love in the LORD.
Of course, you are instrumental in all of this, my dear darlingest - but all of these treasures flow from the one source and so I must admit to you that there is no other greater joy in all of existence than to experience in one's own life the saving power of our LORD God in Jesus Christ, my Savior, my All.
It's a sad, sad thing that so much bad things have happened in the name of religion but part of the hope that must through holy remembrance of the nations of Mankind be carried forward into this present time is the hope to overcome what war has for centuries wrought in false witness of the one Divine and the great and abominable lie that it had unleashed against the faith of Mankind.
Religion has a significant part to play in the carving out of the new history of today but only through religion understood in the context of the one reality of the LORD.
Today is Ash Wednesday, my loveliest love. The Season of Lent begins with a solemn meditation on death symbolized by the ashes that we, Roman Catholics, are to receive this day in crosses upon our foreheads as a somber reminder of the real sum of all things.
Our 40 day Lenten Journey will take us across the landscapes of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ from meditations on human suffering, death, the pains of hell, prayer, repentance and penance, fasting, alms-giving, into the glory of the Easter transformation.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
Just some other things, my loveliest love.
Breaking News: Our Sunbeam's tiara sold for $ 1,350. I really haven't told you about it yet but she made this nice tiara to be auctioned off for charity. It's an all-American design, of course, she's our all-American cat. Here's a picture of it:
I admire her because I can feel her soul touching mine, we have the same will to help our Lord's Poor, and not just out of show but out of a love that is born and being bred for purposes that shall in time fulfill itself in us. She belongs to the one Fold and so do I and so we belong to each other in Christ, our Lord - of this, I am sure. And I know you approve of her as well.
Differences mean little here, for where the Holy Spirit of our LORD is concerned, all things turn to unity in God, something I also hope on behalf of Sunbeam would be realized in her native Ireland as well, that Ireland too, may come to a remembrance of herself in God as Country and the wounding in the heart of that nation soon heal when above all things, her soul dwells again, above all differences, as one in God and in all of herself as a nation of golden peace, and as a verdant place of patient life.
We do not need to redraw the lines of the earth but the lines in our hearts to make things whole again. (The Scale of the Wholes is spiritual in nature.) For it is in the every soul of Mankind that all that is division needs be overcome for not upon this, our mortal earth, dwell for all things the changeless and immovable Will that All be one again through the grace for Mankind to be whole once more realized, in spite of the evil of the world, in those instances born of a conquering that everywhere proceed from the timeless Throne of our LORD God in eternity.
Saint Patrick's is coming up, my love, we shall keep this hope in our hearts and by that time next month, share it with Ireland, that we may, through God's grace, help her to remember.
Also, Partick Swayze is stricken with cancer and from the moment I found out about it, God had purposed for it to have stayed in my mind, my loveliest love. Therefore, we shall pray for him at Holy Mass tonight that our LORD God may strengthen him to humbly and willingly accept the will of God that is intended for him, for the good of all that he loves in this life and above all his own everlasting good in the life that is to come.
I appreciate his art and I know that you do, too, my love and as we are thankful for it, is only right that we do what we must, regardless of time or distance, to come to the aid of his soul in prayer.
There are times, my loveliest love, when the things I often would like to say are not the things that are allowed to be said. And I say this because it seems to me - no, it is quite apparent to me - that I am but a tool of my Master - and a very grateful instrument I am, my darlingest dear. There are purposes greater than myself that works to carve out a new channel to direct the flow of human history elsewhere, towards better places, nobler times and greater things.
I know not many things but I know joy, I have many fears but I know not to trust in them, to live my faith and cling to my hope in God and in All of you with a soul that loves all things as one Love in the LORD.
Of course, you are instrumental in all of this, my dear darlingest - but all of these treasures flow from the one source and so I must admit to you that there is no other greater joy in all of existence than to experience in one's own life the saving power of our LORD God in Jesus Christ, my Savior, my All.
It's a sad, sad thing that so much bad things have happened in the name of religion but part of the hope that must through holy remembrance of the nations of Mankind be carried forward into this present time is the hope to overcome what war has for centuries wrought in false witness of the one Divine and the great and abominable lie that it had unleashed against the faith of Mankind.
Religion has a significant part to play in the carving out of the new history of today but only through religion understood in the context of the one reality of the LORD.
Today is Ash Wednesday, my loveliest love. The Season of Lent begins with a solemn meditation on death symbolized by the ashes that we, Roman Catholics, are to receive this day in crosses upon our foreheads as a somber reminder of the real sum of all things.
Our 40 day Lenten Journey will take us across the landscapes of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ from meditations on human suffering, death, the pains of hell, prayer, repentance and penance, fasting, alms-giving, into the glory of the Easter transformation.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
Just some other things, my loveliest love.
Breaking News: Our Sunbeam's tiara sold for $ 1,350. I really haven't told you about it yet but she made this nice tiara to be auctioned off for charity. It's an all-American design, of course, she's our all-American cat. Here's a picture of it:
I admire her because I can feel her soul touching mine, we have the same will to help our Lord's Poor, and not just out of show but out of a love that is born and being bred for purposes that shall in time fulfill itself in us. She belongs to the one Fold and so do I and so we belong to each other in Christ, our Lord - of this, I am sure. And I know you approve of her as well.
Differences mean little here, for where the Holy Spirit of our LORD is concerned, all things turn to unity in God, something I also hope on behalf of Sunbeam would be realized in her native Ireland as well, that Ireland too, may come to a remembrance of herself in God as Country and the wounding in the heart of that nation soon heal when above all things, her soul dwells again, above all differences, as one in God and in all of herself as a nation of golden peace, and as a verdant place of patient life.
We do not need to redraw the lines of the earth but the lines in our hearts to make things whole again. (The Scale of the Wholes is spiritual in nature.) For it is in the every soul of Mankind that all that is division needs be overcome for not upon this, our mortal earth, dwell for all things the changeless and immovable Will that All be one again through the grace for Mankind to be whole once more realized, in spite of the evil of the world, in those instances born of a conquering that everywhere proceed from the timeless Throne of our LORD God in eternity.
Saint Patrick's is coming up, my love, we shall keep this hope in our hearts and by that time next month, share it with Ireland, that we may, through God's grace, help her to remember.
Also, Partick Swayze is stricken with cancer and from the moment I found out about it, God had purposed for it to have stayed in my mind, my loveliest love. Therefore, we shall pray for him at Holy Mass tonight that our LORD God may strengthen him to humbly and willingly accept the will of God that is intended for him, for the good of all that he loves in this life and above all his own everlasting good in the life that is to come.
I appreciate his art and I know that you do, too, my love and as we are thankful for it, is only right that we do what we must, regardless of time or distance, to come to the aid of his soul in prayer.
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