The Filipino Identity and the Kingship of Christ (II)
Part III: Hispanidad
The Social Kingship of Christ can be simply defined as the ordering of all aspects of society according to the laws of Almighty God as believed and taught by the Catholic Church, in order that Mankind may all the more readily achieve the ultimate purpose of his life: to know, love and serve Almighty God in this life and be happy with him in the next in Paradise. Although the application of such a concept is more or less identical in each country, it varies in its specificities in accordance with the talents and demeanor of each people. Therefore, each nation in Christendom, that great union of all Catholic nations in the world, had a different calling to contribute to the glory of God and the salvation of souls. According to Dr. Correa de Oliveira in his Vocations of the European Peoples:
«Every Catholic people has the obligation to be faithful to the principles of our Holy Faith, and to profess it without stain of error. This is basic. However, two peoples –the Spanish and the Portuguese– took this fidelity to its final consequences. There is a type of fidelity that is characterized by establishing the greatest posible separation between good and evil, so as to promote good and abhor evil».
The Spaniard is therefore a warrior for Christ, for ever since the foundation of his country, he had dedicated his life to war for God’s sake. His first opponent was the Moor who had conquered his original home in Iberia, and though it took a grueling process of more than 7 and a half centuries, he eventually prevailed. He then set out to new and different lands, to conquer more souls for his Lord Jesus Christ that they may be rescued from the darkness of paganism. Yet these new lands did not become colonies of Spain, in the same sense that many countries in Africa and Asia would be colonies of other European powers, but instead were incorporated as part of Spain itself. To be more accurate though, they became other Spains. If the phrase «Out of Many, one» can be applied to the nature of the United States of America, then the phrase «One, yet many» can be applied to Hispanidad. Although all peoples of Hispanidad share one common Inicioland, yet it is indeed a union of many diverse peoples with their own laws and traditions that enable them to be distinguished one from another. Nevertheless, just as the different members of the human body are united as one organism, so the bond between these many peoples cannot be broken, and consequently they cannot properly function independently of each other.
Hispanidad therefore is composed of different Kingdoms, each with its own government, all of which were nevertheless under one crown. These governments were grouped together into Councils, who each had authority in their own dominions that was second to none but the King himself. For Spanish America and the Philippines, such a Council was established in the year 1524, known as the Council of the Indies. Thus, these territories were placed on the same legal footing as the Spanish Kingdoms in Iberia.
Elijah Francis Morales,
Círculo Carlista Felipe II de Manila
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