To the Numberless Stars
of the one Firmament -
To the one Solidarity
and all the Preservators
of the Path -
All persons of good will -
Entrusted to our keeping
by our precious Starshine,
the youth of our nations,
most especially those
who suffer much affliction
being in their hearts oppressed
by the curse of War
is an account of their souls,
an unfolding record of their life,
their "Arcs in the Sky".
This they entrust
in faith and confidence
to the unity of our peace
that we may from their voices
perceive what hope there is
and learn from each their life
to deepen our sense of remembrance
that we may better serve
together in our labors
to advance the cause of our hope
towards the promise of peace
and the prosperity of the peace
for every nation of our one family
of the nations of Mankind
that promise of old unto which
we each in our times
chose to forever belong
for God and Country
in time and in eternity.
Know to keep it now,
my beloved friends and companions,
and in our faithful keeping
may we be blessed by our LORD
with an abiding awareness
of the near-infinite potential
of each individual human life
above all our beloved Starshine
who deserve in their own time
a better place in which
to play, to laugh, to learn
to grow, make friends, and to live
that freedom which is their right
as the young and as the youth
far away from war
and the darkness of war.
That awareness which is written
in our sacred wisdoms
that whoever saves one life
saves the world entire -
let also it be, my dear friends,
an awareness true in our hearts
for our precious Starshine.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Path
IN THE SAME WAY that a tree upon our world is possessed of life, so are we.
In the same way there is a breathing that breathes in the birds in the sky, in the animals upon the land, and in the fishes in the sea, so are we likewise possessed by the same living that make us all peers to sacred life.
For as all things alive in all of creation, seen and unseen, are all things immersed in the unseen waters of an everlasting substance, so are we.
But much more than those green things that grow upon our earth and greater still than the animals that fill our world with motion, we are because to our reason is granted the names and the knowledge of all these things, that they may share our voice, and the faith to apply our hearts to the keeping of our Creator's creative ideal in each our souls that we may by our lives' width and breadth, render sacred service to all of life's longing for itself and preserve our LORD's peace upon the inhabited earth which is the glory of God in all things that make us common servants to our one LORD.
And being equal in the dignity of this free and willing service to our one LORD and to our God's visible creation therefore, friends to each other.
Where we are called as human beings, one with another, to aspire to bring this hope of one Peace unto each of our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, and common good will unto all of sacred life, we are made to be companions to each other, kindred in God and kindred in Country, being recast as the numberless Stars of the one firmament.
In our one Solidarity, this is known as the Path; the way of the Preservator.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
In the same way there is a breathing that breathes in the birds in the sky, in the animals upon the land, and in the fishes in the sea, so are we likewise possessed by the same living that make us all peers to sacred life.
For as all things alive in all of creation, seen and unseen, are all things immersed in the unseen waters of an everlasting substance, so are we.
But much more than those green things that grow upon our earth and greater still than the animals that fill our world with motion, we are because to our reason is granted the names and the knowledge of all these things, that they may share our voice, and the faith to apply our hearts to the keeping of our Creator's creative ideal in each our souls that we may by our lives' width and breadth, render sacred service to all of life's longing for itself and preserve our LORD's peace upon the inhabited earth which is the glory of God in all things that make us common servants to our one LORD.
And being equal in the dignity of this free and willing service to our one LORD and to our God's visible creation therefore, friends to each other.
Where we are called as human beings, one with another, to aspire to bring this hope of one Peace unto each of our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, and common good will unto all of sacred life, we are made to be companions to each other, kindred in God and kindred in Country, being recast as the numberless Stars of the one firmament.
In our one Solidarity, this is known as the Path; the way of the Preservator.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter 2009: God of my Heart
Beloved of God, the Lenten season that culminates in the Easter Triduum at Holy Week reaches its summit today, Easter Sunday 2009, and I am so grateful to God and to all of you for having taken this journey together as a Church.
My friends, I am of the conviction that the fruit of many good things depend on our being able to continue with our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, this journey of hope we have taken together; a journey that was begun at the blossoming of our lives during that first Easter morning.
These days used to pass me by like the wind, O precious Christian soul, but verily, these last 40 days have taken on a substance and a weight that I can no longer ignore in my life.
For I have now begun to discover that there is no other place in our hearts like Easter! There - here - where our Lord Jesus Christ is risen, once and forevermore - and for all humankind as a whole.
It is to that timeless place in our hearts with our most loving Jesus that we return in our liturgy and in our souls this day - alone yet together in God from always to always.
Lastly, for those who pray our Rosary of hope: This prayer, God of my Heart, is the prayer that is meant to be said with our Blessed Jacinta, our beloved Flower of Fatima, at the end of every meditation:
God of my Heart:
O my Jesus, zealous for souls,
thirsting for the love of Mankind!
Come, be Thou the God of my heart
and accomplish in me Thy will of peace.
A Very Happy Easter to all of Blessed Christendom.
Indeed, it is time for us, as one family of nations, to build a better, brighter, kinder place - a home away from Home - for all the generations of life.
We have so much to do, my friends, this time as nations dreaming together - each our particular endeavor of Country as an ark like the labor entrusted to our patriarch Noah of old, an Ark of Country, a vessel of sacred life to take all the generations of life across the midnight darkness of exile time unto the golden shores of forever at the Last Day.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
My friends, I am of the conviction that the fruit of many good things depend on our being able to continue with our nations, of the one family of the nations of Mankind, this journey of hope we have taken together; a journey that was begun at the blossoming of our lives during that first Easter morning.
These days used to pass me by like the wind, O precious Christian soul, but verily, these last 40 days have taken on a substance and a weight that I can no longer ignore in my life.
For I have now begun to discover that there is no other place in our hearts like Easter! There - here - where our Lord Jesus Christ is risen, once and forevermore - and for all humankind as a whole.
It is to that timeless place in our hearts with our most loving Jesus that we return in our liturgy and in our souls this day - alone yet together in God from always to always.
Lastly, for those who pray our Rosary of hope: This prayer, God of my Heart, is the prayer that is meant to be said with our Blessed Jacinta, our beloved Flower of Fatima, at the end of every meditation:
God of my Heart:
O my Jesus, zealous for souls,
thirsting for the love of Mankind!
Come, be Thou the God of my heart
and accomplish in me Thy will of peace.
A Very Happy Easter to all of Blessed Christendom.
Indeed, it is time for us, as one family of nations, to build a better, brighter, kinder place - a home away from Home - for all the generations of life.
We have so much to do, my friends, this time as nations dreaming together - each our particular endeavor of Country as an ark like the labor entrusted to our patriarch Noah of old, an Ark of Country, a vessel of sacred life to take all the generations of life across the midnight darkness of exile time unto the golden shores of forever at the Last Day.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
The One Triune Perfection
I behold, in the eye of my heart, one God alone yet the love in my heart knows I am beheld by Persons three.
Therefore, most - if not all - of my expressions of the one Divine reality reflect this mystery in my life: a one, triune Perfection.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
Therefore, most - if not all - of my expressions of the one Divine reality reflect this mystery in my life: a one, triune Perfection.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Ash Wednesday 2009
TODAY is Ash Wednesday.
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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.
We will enter into this Season of Lent with one hope of life together, my beloved friends and constant companions, all my brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord, prayerfully and willingly, bearing patiently with each other the crosses of our daily human living that we may also be able to look forward to the experience from within our souls with God and with each other the one great cycle of all creation at the Easter transformation.
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.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to all men of good will.
---<--@
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.
We will enter into this Season of Lent with one hope of life together, my beloved friends and constant companions, all my brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord, prayerfully and willingly, bearing patiently with each other the crosses of our daily human living that we may also be able to look forward to the experience from within our souls with God and with each other the one great cycle of all creation at the Easter transformation.
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.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to all men of good will.
Monday, February 23, 2009
On Prayer
MATERIAL THINKING is static and physical but spiritual things are dynamic, fluid, and always in motion.
The smallest of good, when done with love in the heart, is a truth worthy of praise. What material thinking shall often dispel as insignificant, may be the very thing that gives it thought.
For the Spirit of the LORD is nearer to us than our thoughts, and more present to us than the absence that we feel in the depth of our hearts.
Spiritual things are manifest in the heart that is at work in God for purposes that fulfill the truth in our being human and therefore, whether in great leaps or small steps, advance the cause of creation and the divine purposes for which our Mankind is upon this inhabited earth intended.
Prayer breaks us free from the rut of material thinking.
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AS A RULE, my precious Starshine, prayer is always more than the sum of all that we can see with our unseeing eyes.
A soul in prayer is a heart present to its thought, a walk across the vast, empty deserts within, a reaching out to places beyond self, a looking above from within, it is silence contemplating Silence - alone with the Alone, it is a growing, persevering, often times frustrating work born of great necessity, out of thy love of God.
Prayer is an ascent to the timeless, anchored upon ageless truth, of all the things we love and of the Love that all created things hope for, most especially by the truth of thy heart of love, and of thy faith yearning to God in prayer.
The way to God is a crooked line, for we are all but human, but the way of prayer makes this way certain; that the soul that perseveres in prayer shall indeed profit from the LORD that rewards all things, great and small, known and known to God alone, done out of love and fear of the one common Creator of all common creation, seen and unseen.
It is not only important that we pray, and persevere in this way, my love, in private, above all in community with each other, it is simply necessary for human happiness and the well-being of the still small truth that lives, like a mustard seed, inside of every self, for all things true and everlasting depend on a heart of prayer.
Prayer is spiritual, therefore, there are seasons within the soul that range from sweet to dry or empty but never must thy heart stay still, you must gather when it needs gathering and to know also when to look beyond these seasons, you must be vigilant, pressing on till you reach the heart of God to lay your hopes in the LORD - so prayer may be long or it may be short but it must always be timeless, its substance is the motion that lives like a love longing for Itself.
And when the Silence shall to your bowed heart speak, it shall do so swift as light, being spoken without words and instantly manifest to your soul as winged truth - then you shall seek to forget all other things but God and God alone.
And in God you shall range far, self cognizant of self, intimate with the Intimate, to dwell in holy remembrance of all things.
For far may your wandering heart be but to love and in Love you shall forever remain when you shall in prayer persevere.
So do so, dearest Starshine, and say Amen. Know for thy own self why the heart that believes believes only because it prays.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
The smallest of good, when done with love in the heart, is a truth worthy of praise. What material thinking shall often dispel as insignificant, may be the very thing that gives it thought.
For the Spirit of the LORD is nearer to us than our thoughts, and more present to us than the absence that we feel in the depth of our hearts.
Spiritual things are manifest in the heart that is at work in God for purposes that fulfill the truth in our being human and therefore, whether in great leaps or small steps, advance the cause of creation and the divine purposes for which our Mankind is upon this inhabited earth intended.
Prayer breaks us free from the rut of material thinking.
---<--@
AS A RULE, my precious Starshine, prayer is always more than the sum of all that we can see with our unseeing eyes.
A soul in prayer is a heart present to its thought, a walk across the vast, empty deserts within, a reaching out to places beyond self, a looking above from within, it is silence contemplating Silence - alone with the Alone, it is a growing, persevering, often times frustrating work born of great necessity, out of thy love of God.
Prayer is an ascent to the timeless, anchored upon ageless truth, of all the things we love and of the Love that all created things hope for, most especially by the truth of thy heart of love, and of thy faith yearning to God in prayer.
The way to God is a crooked line, for we are all but human, but the way of prayer makes this way certain; that the soul that perseveres in prayer shall indeed profit from the LORD that rewards all things, great and small, known and known to God alone, done out of love and fear of the one common Creator of all common creation, seen and unseen.
It is not only important that we pray, and persevere in this way, my love, in private, above all in community with each other, it is simply necessary for human happiness and the well-being of the still small truth that lives, like a mustard seed, inside of every self, for all things true and everlasting depend on a heart of prayer.
Prayer is spiritual, therefore, there are seasons within the soul that range from sweet to dry or empty but never must thy heart stay still, you must gather when it needs gathering and to know also when to look beyond these seasons, you must be vigilant, pressing on till you reach the heart of God to lay your hopes in the LORD - so prayer may be long or it may be short but it must always be timeless, its substance is the motion that lives like a love longing for Itself.
And when the Silence shall to your bowed heart speak, it shall do so swift as light, being spoken without words and instantly manifest to your soul as winged truth - then you shall seek to forget all other things but God and God alone.
And in God you shall range far, self cognizant of self, intimate with the Intimate, to dwell in holy remembrance of all things.
For far may your wandering heart be but to love and in Love you shall forever remain when you shall in prayer persevere.
So do so, dearest Starshine, and say Amen. Know for thy own self why the heart that believes believes only because it prays.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Organizational Structure of the one Solidarity
A VERY BASIC OUTLINE:
I. The First Magnitude Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ and the First Magnitude Contemplative Order of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity.
"That the Eucharistic Reign of Christ be in every Christian heart so that all of mankind may know through the Hope of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity, that the Peace of Christ is but one Peace for all the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind."
1st Magnitude, Council-elect, male or female, have further undertaken a solemn vow to practice Christian poverty, thus completing the Evangelical Counsels.
II. The Council of the Immaculate Conception or the one Council
All Preservators of all National Wings, all of whom have undertaken a solemn vow to practice Christian obedience to the one Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, our Holy Father Benedict XVI and his one whole apostolic lineage in particular and all Bishops in communion with the Supreme Pontiff in general.
III. The System of Common Needs - The Social Missions of the one Solidarity
Except for the one Chaplaincy, all stability and military force missions are only undertaken by the one Majority (or its equivalent international chapters) and if within the context of the Philippine Republic and this particular endeavor of Country always in support of our Constitution and under the aegis of the legitimate Philippine state.
IV. Junior Stars or JStars
The Youth Arm of the one Solidarity, our precious Starshine. Members from Baptism - 16 years old: aspiring (eager for our charism and willing to officially enter into our apostolate), able (conversant - cor ad cor loquitur - with the three minimums) and Roman Catholic (loyalty to the one triune Perfection and to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ on earth, our Holy Mother Church).
Starshine refers to all of the youth (of all nations) in general Abrahamic but to all of our Christian youth in particular.
V. Structure of Organization within the one Solidarity
National Wing of the Particular Church
Vicariate or Provincial Brigade
Diocesan Squadron
The Diocesan Squadron is the Basic Service Arm of the one Solidarity.
All Regular, Ecumenical, Abrahamic, and Inter-Faith Squadrons are Service Squadrons.
All Support Squadrons move towards becoming Regular Squadrons.
All Regular (Roman Catholic) Squadrons serve the good of our Support Squadrons as well as help advance all of our social missions undertaken with other Regular Squadrons or shoulder to shoulder with constituent Squadrons composed of Ecumenical (Christian), Abrahamic (Islamic or Judaic), and Inter-Faith (all other honorable religions aligned with the one Peace).
Support Squadrons are composed of these following Irregular Flights:
Sobriety - for recovering alcoholics
Recovery - for recovering addicts
Freedom - for recovering victims of pornography and destructive gambling
Awakening - for awakening homosexuals who want to live the experience of full communion with Holy Mother Church. The one Solidarity across all its National Wings shall implement an "Openly Gay, Openly Chaste Policy." Much of the upcoming Squadron guidelines shall be taken from entry: On Homophobia.
Promise - for single mothers and unborn children
Destiny - for troubled marriages
Sanctuary - for the persecuted
Except for Sanctuary which is the direct responsibility of the National Wing, all Irregular Flights are the direct responsibility of their Diocesan Squadron and its complement of Service Squadrons and their resources in particular and the National Wings and their resources in general.
The guidelines that shall govern each specific Support Squadron and their respective Irregular Flights are to follow.
Ecumenical, Abrahamic and Inter-Faith Squadrons are led by honorary Preservators of the appropriate Magnitude rank drawn from their own ranks. The guidelines as regards to this are to follow.
The Parish Flight is the Basic Community Whole within the one Solidarity.
The one Family or the Domestic Church is the Structure within the Parish Flight.
The JStar Troop is the component Youth element of every Parish Flight.
VI. The Order of the Peace or the Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ
The quality of the one Order shall be perceived by observance of two things and two things alone: loyalty to the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist (commission) and to the Vicar of Christ on earth (mission).
1st Magnitude - shed away all political affiliations and earthly ambitions
2nd Magnitude - undertake solemn vow to practice Christian chastity as an Evangelical Counsel
3rd Magnitude - acquire the spirituality of Ascendant Concentration
4th Magnitude - acquire the spirituality of our Holy Father Dominic
All active, regular ranks of the apostolate - undertake to practice our Regular Observance
An active, regular member is male or female, practicing Lay Roman Catholic, 16+ years of age and are either in a single or married state.
VII. Mass Attendance and the Order of the Peace
40 Consecutive or 52 Cummulative Sunday Masses = + 1 Magnitude rank
Ascent to each of the four Magnitudes is by free consent.
VIII. Hierarchy of Official Responsibilities within the Order of the Peace
Preservator
Vice-Preservator
Eucharistic Adjutant
Secretary
Conservator (Treasurer)
Sergeant (Catechist, Support, Counselor, Clerk, Social Missions Instructor, Teacher)
National Wing - no lower than 1st Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 1st Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 2nd Magnitude
Vicariate or Provincial Brigade - no lower than 2nd Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 2nd Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 3rd Magnitude +
Diocesan Squadron - no lower than 3nd Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 3nd Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 4rd Magnitude
Parish Flight - no lower than 3rd Magnitude Preservator, 4th Magnitude Sergeants
All Preservators and Vice-Preservators of all Magnitude ranks serve for life.
All Official Responsibilities except for Preservator and Vice-Preservator are at-will.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fatima, Pray for us.
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
I. The First Magnitude Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ and the First Magnitude Contemplative Order of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity.
"That the Eucharistic Reign of Christ be in every Christian heart so that all of mankind may know through the Hope of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity, that the Peace of Christ is but one Peace for all the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind."
1st Magnitude, Council-elect, male or female, have further undertaken a solemn vow to practice Christian poverty, thus completing the Evangelical Counsels.
II. The Council of the Immaculate Conception or the one Council
All Preservators of all National Wings, all of whom have undertaken a solemn vow to practice Christian obedience to the one Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, our Holy Father Benedict XVI and his one whole apostolic lineage in particular and all Bishops in communion with the Supreme Pontiff in general.
III. The System of Common Needs - The Social Missions of the one Solidarity
Except for the one Chaplaincy, all stability and military force missions are only undertaken by the one Majority (or its equivalent international chapters) and if within the context of the Philippine Republic and this particular endeavor of Country always in support of our Constitution and under the aegis of the legitimate Philippine state.
IV. Junior Stars or JStars
The Youth Arm of the one Solidarity, our precious Starshine. Members from Baptism - 16 years old: aspiring (eager for our charism and willing to officially enter into our apostolate), able (conversant - cor ad cor loquitur - with the three minimums) and Roman Catholic (loyalty to the one triune Perfection and to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ on earth, our Holy Mother Church).
Starshine refers to all of the youth (of all nations) in general Abrahamic but to all of our Christian youth in particular.
V. Structure of Organization within the one Solidarity
National Wing of the Particular Church
Vicariate or Provincial Brigade
Diocesan Squadron
The Diocesan Squadron is the Basic Service Arm of the one Solidarity.
All Regular, Ecumenical, Abrahamic, and Inter-Faith Squadrons are Service Squadrons.
All Support Squadrons move towards becoming Regular Squadrons.
All Regular (Roman Catholic) Squadrons serve the good of our Support Squadrons as well as help advance all of our social missions undertaken with other Regular Squadrons or shoulder to shoulder with constituent Squadrons composed of Ecumenical (Christian), Abrahamic (Islamic or Judaic), and Inter-Faith (all other honorable religions aligned with the one Peace).
Support Squadrons are composed of these following Irregular Flights:
Sobriety - for recovering alcoholics
Recovery - for recovering addicts
Freedom - for recovering victims of pornography and destructive gambling
Awakening - for awakening homosexuals who want to live the experience of full communion with Holy Mother Church. The one Solidarity across all its National Wings shall implement an "Openly Gay, Openly Chaste Policy." Much of the upcoming Squadron guidelines shall be taken from entry: On Homophobia.
Promise - for single mothers and unborn children
Destiny - for troubled marriages
Sanctuary - for the persecuted
Except for Sanctuary which is the direct responsibility of the National Wing, all Irregular Flights are the direct responsibility of their Diocesan Squadron and its complement of Service Squadrons and their resources in particular and the National Wings and their resources in general.
The guidelines that shall govern each specific Support Squadron and their respective Irregular Flights are to follow.
Ecumenical, Abrahamic and Inter-Faith Squadrons are led by honorary Preservators of the appropriate Magnitude rank drawn from their own ranks. The guidelines as regards to this are to follow.
The Parish Flight is the Basic Community Whole within the one Solidarity.
The one Family or the Domestic Church is the Structure within the Parish Flight.
The JStar Troop is the component Youth element of every Parish Flight.
VI. The Order of the Peace or the Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ
The quality of the one Order shall be perceived by observance of two things and two things alone: loyalty to the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist (commission) and to the Vicar of Christ on earth (mission).
1st Magnitude - shed away all political affiliations and earthly ambitions
2nd Magnitude - undertake solemn vow to practice Christian chastity as an Evangelical Counsel
3rd Magnitude - acquire the spirituality of Ascendant Concentration
4th Magnitude - acquire the spirituality of our Holy Father Dominic
All active, regular ranks of the apostolate - undertake to practice our Regular Observance
An active, regular member is male or female, practicing Lay Roman Catholic, 16+ years of age and are either in a single or married state.
VII. Mass Attendance and the Order of the Peace
40 Consecutive or 52 Cummulative Sunday Masses = + 1 Magnitude rank
Ascent to each of the four Magnitudes is by free consent.
VIII. Hierarchy of Official Responsibilities within the Order of the Peace
Preservator
Vice-Preservator
Eucharistic Adjutant
Secretary
Conservator (Treasurer)
Sergeant (Catechist, Support, Counselor, Clerk, Social Missions Instructor, Teacher)
National Wing - no lower than 1st Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 1st Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 2nd Magnitude
Vicariate or Provincial Brigade - no lower than 2nd Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 2nd Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 3rd Magnitude +
Diocesan Squadron - no lower than 3nd Magnitude (senior) Preservator, 3nd Magnitude Vice-Preservator, all others 4rd Magnitude
Parish Flight - no lower than 3rd Magnitude Preservator, 4th Magnitude Sergeants
All Preservators and Vice-Preservators of all Magnitude ranks serve for life.
All Official Responsibilities except for Preservator and Vice-Preservator are at-will.
---<--@
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
Sancta Sanctis!
Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fatima, Pray for us.
Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
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