Voice of Thunder

TAKE-HOME PAY

Now, that you are in the next world,

What did you bring home?

Hoping, you joined the place of the justified;

You know your true home,

For having revered it for all time,

For having it in front of your foreseeing eyes.

Hoping, you were not deceived or deceiving

While you were still breathing.

Hoping, you did not fall

Into a grievous - uncontrite transgression

When you were given

Life's fathomless possession.

Now, that you arrived in the afterlife,

What was your earned income?

Trust, you did not see the ugliness

Of laziness, greediness and loftiness,

Damaging gratifications of hideous temptations,

Deadly leprosy of hidden jealousy,

The unsightliness of superfluity,

The repulsiveness of impurity,

Quarrel and irascibility.

Hoping that you had loved the unlovable

Until you found them likeable.

Now that you are in the next world

Hope that you have seen your soul pristine

With your True Liberator's Face within...

For all time praying and hoping

You found your true home.

And, you my earthly brother

Do you possess the longing

To be nearest to Him and His Sacred Mother?

Do you wish the same for your own brother?

Is there enough grain?

(More poems may be viewed at christianpoetry.org)

 (Excerpts)

... It is a truistic statement - it should be a self-evident truth, G.K. Chesterton reasserted, that the Church, which is divinely founded is "more immortally important than the State." In other words, authentic believers are first God's servants and cannot under any circumstances compromise their faith or sacrifice their religious values to political doctrine and power. There are no political or social absolutes and for this reason, separation between civil institutions or laws and religious life represents a clearly paralogistic argument and conclusion; it is wholly incongruous and illogical since propositionally the secular or worldly conception considered alone is completely and inescapably false. Politics, as Solzhenitsyn (among many others) reaffirms, must in due course be subordinated to superior spiritual and moral concerns, regarding the quest for unchanging truth and the spiritual improvement of the individual human soul as taking priority over the correct formation and organizing of social institutions. That is, moral bases of political life are essential in guaranteeing beneficial prospects for the future. When moral standards are not applied to political realm, the result is a perilous combination of evil and good, right and wrong, which in consequence opens a door for the definite victory of absolute evil in society (e.g. Solzhenitsyn). For there is no subject which does not have religious implications; all subjects speak of values and ends, as well as means... 

...Moral obligations are reliable and trustworthy only if they are founded on unalterable divine decrees or divine will. To establish as a criterion of public morality any notional whim that involves decision based on a personal preference or partiality; a decision that entails excludability of the rights of the voiceless and defenseless is to open the gateway to oppression of functionalism and all kinds of murderous inanities... The faithful standard of an enlightened, humanized society and government is the unswerving protection of the innocent and defenseless. To be effective, leaders must unreservedly obey divine -  unchangeable commands, for only then, they can procure civic and political trustworthiness. The right to life, exemplarily, is a pre-eminent right that is of inestimable importance, without which drafting and formulating other rights is ridiculously illogical and self-contradictory... The existing human rights have been not only created by fallible minds, but rights are always related to other rights and their conceptualizations. If related rights are not clearly, fully or adequately conceptually construed, then the right in question - the statements conveying the fundamental character of this right is also incorrectly defined. If for instance, the concept of freedom is defined incorrectly, then the rights related to exercising that freedom will be also fallaciously defined; they become misleading and deceptive without the idea of freedom based on Immutable Truth (Immutable Love), that is, based on divinely defined ordinances... The founding fathers who established the fundamental system of law created the existing social and political confusional state of affairs by setting forth the notion of rights, yet at the same time, they wished to make claims to absolute principles. Absolute principles indwell the territory stationed superior to existing conditions determined by human reasoning or qualifications - they are above the human realm. Rights will be not only less or more defective depending on specific cases or circumstances but are also self-referential and can be solely self-serving... In order to secure the claims to just laws, the founders of the Constitution needed to abandon the idea of rights in favor of obligations, since again, obligations are permanent, universal and unconditioned; they are "coextensive with eternal destiny." The certitude that a human being possesses an eternal destiny necessitates the obligation of deference or due respect for the uniqueness and irreplaceableness of each human life from the very first moment of its incipient preborn existence... 

...Jesus in His revelations to Saint Faustina explicates that human transgressions do not hurt Him as unbearably as human mistrustfulness in His infinite love... and mercy...

(Recommended: "The Gaping Door..." Dorothy K. Kardas)