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The Fall of the Pygmies: The Elite and the People

Will the US Republican Party one day be renamed ‘The Constitutional Party’? After all, the US Constitution opens with the words: ‘We, the People…’. Sadly, in European countries it is unlikely that the people will ever be commemorated constitutionally, at least under the present millennial ruling class. For now, Europe, that is, the feudal EU and its vassals like the UK, are run by the unelected grand-daughter of a Nazi officer and all her inherently racist and unelected commissars and minions who condemn the rest of the world as a jungle, whereas they themselves alone live in a civilised ‘garden’: yes, the garden where the twin seeds of Communism and Fascism were sown and grew up and where nearly two million babies are burned in incinerators every year.

In France the Sun-King President ignores the results of the recent elections, where his Party came third, but continues as a dictator in his Elysian Palace just as before, ignoring the people. In the UK a Party, for which only one fifth of the electorate voted, also rules as a dictatorship, imprisoning the free, still delusionally imagining that their British Establishment controls an Empire – on which in fact the sun set for ever in Suez in 1956. The Nordic countries whose elites have bound themselves hand and foot to the now redundant NATO are isolated. Italy is ‘governed’ by Meloni, captive to the equally redundant and perverted EU elite. Alone in Europe, in courageous Hungary and Slovakia, whose leader the elite tried to assassinate, are the people represented.

Of course, the US Establishment has already tried to assassinate Trump twice (and to imprison him on 34 charges) and so far he has done nothing. They know that as a narcissist he will want revenge. They tremble. They may try assassination again, as they did to President Kennedy, as they try to do to any President who may end lucrative arms contracts. As the President-elect smiles with another Kennedy, son and nephew of the assassinated, the repercussions of his victory are already visible – and so far he has only given rhetoric. In the US the Democrats who hate each other have begun their blame game. The foolishness of choosing figureheads who have dementia or are plainly stupid, in order better to pull their strings, is now clear. Abroad the situation is far worse.

As a result of Biden’s defeat, it only took a day to see the collapse of the German puppet government of Scholz, its thirst for revenge for German defeats in Russia since 1914 ever strong. It is doubtful if the desire for elections among the sad and impoverished German people can be delayed until next September. The collapse is due of course to the state of the German economy, disastrously cut off from cheap Russian energy, and therefore bankrupt like all the other Western European economies, and due to the wasteful sending of even more money to Kiev, which has lost the US war against Russia. The invasion of Russia through the NATO Kursk plan is ending in NATO scrap metal, just as predicted. Why support a regime, created by the CIA, which the CIA has now abandoned?

On 7 May 2024 the dictator – he is no longer a legal President, as he cancelled elections and sent the opposition to the prisons of his dreaded SBU secret police – Zelensky was nearly assassinated. This was by his Ukrainian bodyguards, which is why his new bodyguards are all American or else, according to some, British. The man is living on borrowed time, as he and his General Syrsky are so hated. Unwilling Ukrainian troops surrender and other Ukrainians give abundant details of military targets to Russians. These are the partisans, who would long ago have negotiated with the Russians and come to an agreement, saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men, and so creating a grave demographic crisis for the Ukraine for generations to come.

The European elite is in panic, as Biden’s misconceived war is over, like the regime-changed Biden himself. He and his racist European war criminal vassals have killed a million Ukrainian men. As the cowardly and parasitic European elite has been abandoned, it has lost the reason for its existence. Their hubristic attempt to destroy and dismember Russia, effecting regime-change in Moscow, failed totally, making President Putin even more popular, and also forcing Moscow to ally for ever with China, speeding the BRICS process and making the multipolar world real. Trump will waste no more on the Ukraine. He does not need an excuse, he can walk away, blaming the Biden regime, which, as far as he is concerned, in any case stole his election in 2020 through electoral fraud.

In response to abandonment by the US, the European elite will now call for ‘more Europe’, in other words, more of the same disastrous recipe for the destruction of national sovereignty, which has baked their poisoned cake. Any attempt, especially by the sexually perverted elites in France and Germany who have pulled the EU strings from the outset, will be dismissed in Eastern Europe. ‘More Europe’ is the way to lose them entirely. It will be dismissed in EU Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and elsewhere, countries whose puppet rulers once agreed to Brussels, let alone in Non-EU countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and even Albania. The future is ex-EU, if the EU survives anywhere.

After Biden’s defeat, the European ruling class scurried to meet at NATO and EU meetings. They know that Trump knows that they opposed him, none more so than the discredited UK Starmer, whose Foreign Minister Lammy openly insulted Trump, calling him a Neo-Nazi. Trump knows his enemies, even though now they hurry like a pack of dogs to lick up to him because he can feed them with titbits – or not. In Kiev the loser Zelensky still insults all his allies who do not give him even more hundreds of billions and arms, while he continues to persecute the Church. In Israel the Defence Minister, Gallant, was sacked immediately after Biden’s defeat – he was too much of a pragmatist who knows that Israel has lost. However, Biden, Starmer and the others are all complicit in Israeli genocide.

Even worse, they are all war criminals, responsible with the oligarchs in Kiev for the genocide of the people of the Ukraine. The Western Establishment has failed to weaken Russia. As for Western (Trumpian or other) fantasies about peace in the Ukraine, these are delusional. All peace plans, or rather fantasies, of the West are dialogues with itself, not with Russia. Russia does not need to dialogue – it is victorious. The West cannot give Kiev any more arms – it has none – and there are ever fewer Ukrainians willing to die for the US. There will be no ‘stalemates’ or ‘frozen conflicts’ in the Ukraine. President Putin is clear. The Russian part of the Ukraine will become Russia again while the rest becomes a sovereign, independent New Ukraine, free of the NATO and EU puppeteers.

The racist Western elite speaks of the existential defeat of the West and the defeat of Europe, after its defeat in the Ukraine by the victorious ‘Asiatic’ and ‘Mongol’ hordes as per Kiev’s Nazi propaganda. This is nonsense. This is only the defeat of a certain idea, THEIR IDEA of the West and THEIR IDEA of Europe, and of course the defeat and end of their power, overpaid jobs and millennial delusions. Those ideas certainly have been defeated and they have lost power. Time is up for the reckless Western elites who bet all their money at the casino table on ‘victory’ in the Ukraine. The time has come for the peoples of Europe to start governing themselves, tasting freedom, sending their parasitic elites into exile or to prison, as many of these war criminals so richly deserve.

This is what explains the ever-increasing authoritarianism of the ‘Fascist Liberalism’ of the modern West, the imposition of the Woke by bullying. Authoritarianism is always the death-rattle before the end. Thus, the Soviet Union became more and more authoritarian in the 70s and 80s because it knew that it was over. Thus, the European Union and NATO are doing the same. They too are over. And, as puppets, the European media, just like the media in the Soviet Union, applauds this authoritarianism. Sadly, this authoritarianism is echoed in Church affairs. All that happens then is that people turn their backs on the Church administration. Church bureaucrats suspend, punish or ‘defrock’ pastors and they become more popular and the bureaucrats less popular.

On a Church level, it may also mean that the faithful will begin to take over from the corrupt politicians. We remember the old Greek and Russian (all three of the Russian ones) jurisdictions, built on snobbery and which so despised ordinary, simple, but pious people, ‘the Soviet mob’, as one of their bishop-snobs called them. Of course, there were tragedies because the sociopathic elites would persecute, suspend and put on trial the good pastors who opposed them. This they did with St John of Shanghai in 1964 and then they disposed of the empathetic Ukrainian Metr Hilarion (Kapral). However, the Church will never be built on snobbery, but on the people. The upper-class ‘bishops’, monocles in their eyes, like Papist cardinals or slave-owning Anglican lords, will lose.

They have lost Western Europe to the ‘peasant’ immigrant masses of Romania, Moldova, Greece, Cyprus, to the sacrificial lamb of Ukrainians and those of the Russian Lands. This is why aristocratic Russian emigres were unable to found anything in Western Europe – they would not let the faithful participate – ‘they are not intellectuals like us’. In North America, a new Church did come into being, as it was the Church of poor Carpatho-Russian immigrants. All Churches are built on the people, on the masses, not on the imitation of elitist Roman Catholicism, a religious institution founded on the desire to replace Christ with an Emperor, or on Anglicanism, a religious institution founded on the personal lust and greed of a murderous renegade-King and his rapacious cronies.

The icons in our churches weep myrrh and exude Carpathian fragrance; the victory belongs to the simple people and to the people’s pastors and archpastors. The shepherds follow Christ, not the protocols of spiritual pygmies, elitist ideologues, racist and class spite, the intellectual fantasies of narcissistic and effeminate parasites, who seek only wealth and power, despising and mocking pastors and people. Their days, like the days of the clique in Kiev, are numbered. Their days, like those of von der Leyen, Starmer, Macron and Scholz and all the others, are numbered. They all dug ever deeper holes for themselves to commit suicide in. Now are the pygmies, who lorded it for so long, fallen, as Christ promised: ‘Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth’.

 

 

 

 

In the Week of St Gregory Palamas

Gregory Palamas was born in Constantinople in about 1296, where his father was a courtier of Emperor Andronikos II. When Gregory was still a child, his father died and the Emperor took part in the education of the orphan. He hoped that the gifted boy would devote himself to imperial service. Instead, he chose monastic life on Mt Athos and the Christian tradition of unceasing prayer, known in Greek as ‘hesychasm’.

Gregory received a good education and even studied the pagan Greek Aristotle, but in 1316 he left to become an Athonite monk. In 1326, aged thirty, because of the threat of Turkish attacks he and others took refuge in Thessaloniki where he was ordained priest. Spending his time in prayerful service to the people, he also founded a small community of hermits near Thessaloniki in Veria. The cave where he lived and prayed can still be visited.

Later Fr Gregory served for a short time as Abbot of Esphigmenou on Mt Athos. Here he was asked by monks to defend the tradition of unceasing prayer from the attacks of a Catholic-trained Greek called Barlaam. Gregory wrote a number of works in defence and stood up for the practice of unceasing prayer at six different Councils in Constantinople. Like all later Greek Catholics, Barlaam asserted that it was impossible to determine from whom the Holy Spirit proceeds and Gregory naturally viewed Barlaam’s argument as agnostic. In his response titled ‘Apodictic Treatises’, Gregory proved that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, but not from the Son.

In response to Barlaam’s attacks, Gregory wrote nine treatises entitled ‘Triads in Defence of Those Who Practise Hesychia’ (Unceasing Prayer). The first Triad was written in the second half of the 1330s and was based on discussions between Gregory and Barlaam. Gregory’s teaching was affirmed by monks of Mount Athos, who met in a Council in 1340–1. In early 1341, the monasteries composed ‘The Tome of the Holy Mountain’. This was a presentation of Gregory’s teaching and it became a textbook of Christian theology.

As an apostate Orthodox without spiritual experience, Barlaam viewed any claim of the real and conscious experience of God ‘as a heresy’. He also rejected the Christian teaching on the uncreated nature of the Divine Light, the experience of which is the result of unceasing prayer. Deprived of the Holy Spirit, he regarded that experience as ‘heretical and blasphemous’. The Divine Light was maintained by Christians to be identical to the Light seen by Christ’s disciples at the Transfiguration.

The second Triad quoted some of Barlaam’s writings. In response to this, Barlaam composed a treatise called ‘Against the Messalians’, which linked the hesychasts to a proud, materialist, Protestant-style sect called the Messalians, thus accusing Christians of heresy! In the third Triad, Gregory refuted Barlaam’s charge, showing that Orthodox Christians are not anti-sacramentalist and do not claim to see the essence of God. Gregory oriented the Orthodox teaching against Barlaam on the issue of pagan intellectualism, that is, the Hellenism of such as Aristotle, which he considered to be the main source of the heresies of the Scholastic Barlaam.

Six Patriarchal Councils were held in Constantinople between 1341 and 1351 to consider Barlaam’s attacks against Orthodox Christianity. These are accepted as having universal status by many Orthodox. Some call them the Fifth Council of Constantinople or the Ninth Universal Council. The Council of May 1341 condemned Barlaam and the Patriarch insisted that all Barlaam’s writings be destroyed. Barlaam realised that he could not promote his errors among Orthodox Christians and went to Italy, where he was soon appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Gerace.

After Barlaam’s departure, a pro-Catholic Aristotelian intellectual called Gregory Akindynos became the chief critic of the Christian teaching on unceasing prayer and the Divine Light. However, the second Council in Constantinople in August 1341 condemned Akindynos and affirmed the findings of the earlier Council. Nevertheless, Akindynos and his supporters gained a brief victory at a rogue Council held in 1344, which excommunicated Gregory. Here his opponents spread slanderous accusations against him and in 1344 the corrupt Patriarch John XIV imprisoned Gregory for four years.

Nevertheless, the last of the Six Councils in 1351 supported Gregory and finally condemned his opponents. This Council ordered that his enemies, the Metropolitans of Ephesus and Ganos, be defrocked and jailed. All those who were unwilling to accept Christian teachings were excommunicated. A series of anathemas were pronounced against Barlaam, Akindynos and their followers. At the same time, a series of acclamations was made in favour of Gregory and the adherents of the Christian teaching, which he had expressed.

In 1347, when a new and non-corrupt Patriarch was appointed, Gregory was released from prison and consecrated Archbishop of Thessaloniki. He probably reposed in 1359 and his last words were: ‘To the heights! To the heights!’ He was canonised only nine years later, in 1368, and his life was written and a service was composed to him. His feast is celebrated twice a year, on 14 November, the anniversary of his repose, and on the Second Sunday of Lent. This is because St Gregory’s victory over Barlaam is a continuation of the victory of the Church over heresy, which is celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. St Gregory’s relics are venerated in the church dedicated to him in Thessaloniki. In 2009 Gregory’s mother and four siblings also embraced the monastic life and the whole family was canonised.

Persecution is the norm for those in the Church who oppose politically-motivated corruption and intimidation. Christ was slandered and crucified. St John Chrysostom was deposed and twice exiled. St Gregory Palamas was excommunicated from the Church, slandered and imprisoned. In the last century St Nectarius of Pentapolis was slandered and exiled by jealous Greek bishops of his own Synod. St John of Shanghai was slandered, put on trial and suspended by jealous Russian bishops of his own Synod. Today, nothing has changed. Those who propose the Gospel model of the Church and not the corrupt one, which is all about money, power and so links with States, are also persecuted, just as we have been persecuted for 2,000 years already.

 

 

 

 

 

On Edmund the Martyred King

Men become devils and all dreams overthrown,

Shadows of moonlit trees and faces unknown.

Hope itself, with Edmund’s England, here lies slain.

Be warned: He will haunt you and come back again.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the arrow shower.

Bury King Edmund beneath the fading hour.

Bury King Edmund beneath the stubble ground.

Bury King Edmund beneath the forest mound.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the failing light.

Bury King Edmund beneath the thick of night.

Bury King Edmund beneath the stars that stand.

Bury King Edmund beneath his gentle land.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the autumn bough.

Bury King Edmund beneath the snow and plough.

 

Edmund’s spirit is in little market towns,

Where we’d live as simple souls and win our crowns.

As a Saint, Edmund has shone forth through our tears,

Edmund’s prayed for us through all the clouded years.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the spring green born.

Bury King Edmund beneath the standing corn.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the hearts that cower.

Bury King Edmund beneath the lust for power.

Bury King Edmund beneath the greed for gold.

Bury King Edmund beneath the mind grown cold.

 

Bury King Edmund beneath the old faith lost.

Bury King Edmund beneath the darkness crossed.

Bury King Edmund beneath Empire that lied.

Bury King Edmund beneath the proud mind’s pride.

 

We who are Edmund’s people know only this:

There’s no help but in Edmund and his God’s bliss

And on the last day he will rise from his grave:

Edmund the Martyred King, risen bright to save.

The Western Captivity is Ending: The Restoration of Orthodoxy is Gathering Strength

Introduction: Miracles

In 2007 the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and the Church inside Russia were miraculously reconciled before me, as I stood confessing ex-Soviet generals and others in the miraculously rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Then, as a priest from the Rue Daru Archdiocese concelebrated, I did not think that it would take that Archdiocese another twelve tumultuous years to return to its Russian Mother Church. However, this miracle too has come about – in 2019 – and its Archbishop Jean has now become Metropolitan Jean. Who cannot be moved to see his photo, with that of the distinguished Protopresbyter Anatoly Rakovich and others, at last reunited with the Russian Church? Here are joy and triumph come from the grace of God.

True, his Metropolia is tiny, with only some sixty, mainly small, parishes, largely in France, but also in Belgium, the Netherlands and England. Nevertheless, it is both historic and important, as it includes many who have worked tirelessly for the Orthodox evangelization of mainly French-speaking countries in Western Europe, translating, presenting the Faith and celebrating the Liturgy. This unity became possible only after 2000, once the New Martyrs and Confessors had been canonized in Moscow. This meant that the Church inside Russia and its representatives abroad would now progressively be unshackled from enslavement to the State and from renovationism by their veneration for the New Martyrs and Confessors, who witnessed to Christ against both.

The Past

Thus, the century from 1917 on until today of colossal Orthodox decadence is coming to an end. Marked successively by the forced introduction of the Roman Catholic (‘new’) calendar, the spread of ecumenism, the shortening of the Liturgy, the dismantling of iconostases, the installation of chairs and pews in churches, the establishment of a largely homosexual and anti-monastic episcopate who persecute married clergy and monks alike, the contempt for the canons and the services and the absurd ideology of Eastern Papism, all led by Constantinople, controlled and manipulated  by Anglo-American geopolitics, and aped by others equally weak in faith, the decadence is ending. We thank God for this grace, for it comes from Him, not from men.

We naturally welcome this historic event with a joy beyond words. We helped in the fight against the double-bladed sword of renovationism and sectarianism everywhere, despite phenomenal injustices and persecution. Only our native Eastern English stubbornness helped; others, including a ROCOR Archbishop, told me that they would have given up long ago and walked away from the disgraceful and scandalous. The fight was harsh, the combat was rude. The Centre in Moscow, held captive by Communism and betrayed by renovationist internal enemies both inside and outside Russia, was occupied, the barbarians were inside the City. There was no alternative for those faithful to Russian Orthodoxy but to join one of the two Non-Moscow émigré groups.

The first group was the Church Outside Russia, ROCOR, worldwide and embracing over 85% of the Russian emigration. In the late 1940s, its Synod moved from Europe and has since been based in New York. Sadly, from the 1960s on it was to spend a long period darkened by the accession to power in it of those promoting Cold War sectarianism, phariseeism, ritualism, nationalism and CIA-funded politicking. In 2007 the sectarians left for the only place they could go – to various old calendarist sects. ROCOR now appears to be turning into the Russian Orthodox Church of the English-speaking world. Now dominated by the new immigration, the old largely having died out, the sectarian mentality has today been consigned to the dustbin of history.

The second group was Rue Daru, geographically limited to a few countries in Western Europe and embracing less than 15% of the Russian emigration. It has always been based in Paris. Founded by anti-Tsar, revolutionary, Saint Petersburg aristocrats, liberals, intellectuals and freemasons who soon broke away from ROCOR, it was from the start contaminated by a Western captivity to Protestant, pseudo-intellectual renovationism and fanatical Russophobia. This it later spread to the ex-Uniat Metropolia in the USA, which, today called the OCA, is only now freeing itself of its captivity after over fifty years. Now dominated by the new immigration, the old largely having died out, the renovationist mentality has today been consigned to the dustbin of history.

Conclusion: The Future

Today Metropolian Jean stands with authority, the aggressive enemies of Orthodoxy like the Fraternite, Struve, Behr and others who so persecuted and mocked us, gone. The obstacles they presented fell with their deaths and despite a few neo-renovationists, 1960s rebels against their émigré parents, agents of Western spy services, those married to or paid by Roman Catholics or arrived from Moscow in the 1990s with a political axe to grind, or naïve converts, nothing now stands in the way of restoring Orthodoxy and abandoning the hopelessly old-fashioned half-Catholic/half-Protestant ‘Euro-Orthodox’ mentality. This means restoring the Russian Tradition, abandoning the Catholic calendar and other liturgical and canonical eccentricities.

The remains of émigré Russian Orthodoxy, ROCOR in Western Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain, Rue Daru in France, and Moscow everywhere, are now in the One Russian Church. The Church has been cleansed; parasitic, secularist-minded elements have fallen away. The bad old days are over. Persecution by racists and renovationists is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. We have now moved a step closer to establishing a United Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe, faithful to the Tradition, venerating the local saints in the local languages, the foundation of the restored future Orthodox Church of Western Europe, our combat against the traitors and their injustices, and our dream of nearly fifty years, done. This is a miracle of God.

 

The Centre Can Hold Because of the Cleansing of the Church

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

William Yeats, The Second Coming

 

All three groups of Russian Orthodox émigrés have now been cleansed off their extremes:

In 2006 the Patriarchate of Moscow suffered schism in Great Britain and France as the vestiges of old-fashioned modernism and ecumenism finally cast themselves off. Those who adhered to their Russophobic cultural prejudices and desire to dilute Orthodoxy into just another department of Western Establishment ideology left the Russian Orthodox Church for the pseudo-Orthodox US-run Phanariot group in Turkey. The Church was cleansed of those who had no love for the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Christian Empire of Orthodox Civilization and preferred compromised Western secularism to the fullness of the Church of God.

In 2007 ROCOR, the Church Outside Russia, in turn at last lost its censorious, sectarian fringes in tiny schisms to various strange and extremist sects which justify phariseeism. The Church was cleansed.

Now, in 2019, the Rue Daru Archdiocese (the former ‘Paris Jurisdiction’) has lost its extremists, in fact rather a large minority of modernist marginals. Why has it taken so long? Because this was the group most deeply infected by extremism, in this case, of the ‘liberal’ kind, so well-known for its intolerance and terrorist witch-hunts against faithful Orthodox over the decades. As a result, many had already left, even decades ago, persecuted by modernists and freemasons in the group. The minority dissidents, who prefer to celebrate Parisian philosophers who died 60-80 years ago rather than the Saints of God, will now fully merge with the US-run Turkish group in the Phanar (if they have not already done so).

Many of this dissident group are in England. There is also one parish in Brussels that has left for the Romanian Church (its Russophobic priest had already been suspended by the Turkish group a few years back, so he could not return there) and some parishes in France which still remain undecided. However, the fact is that Church has been cleansed, with the Orthodox returning to the Russian Church, the extremists falling away. Moreover, many in Paris who had left in disgust that the Church there was not commemorating the Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill, the leader of the Orthodox world, already returned last Sunday to congratulate Archbishop Jean, who was in tears of joy, on his final decision.

As perhaps the only priest who had suffered from ‘the blood-dimmed tide’ of all three groups of aggressive, troll-like extremists, I cannot but rejoice with our brothers and sisters who have at last escaped the clutches of the Phanariots. The plot of the Phanar to hand over St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris to Ukrainian schismatics and rededicate it to apostate traitors and mass-murderers like the robber of souls, Andrei Bobola or Josaphat, has failed.

Meanwhile, the Phanar’s incoherent and schismatic head, Patriarch Bartholomew, yesterday met Pope Francis and the head of the Ukrainian Uniats in Rome to discuss merging the Uniats with his tiny and failed OCU organization in the Ukraine. A joint Phanariot-Papist Galician Synagogue of Fascist Ukrainian xenophobes may soon be formed there, uniting all haters of the Church of God. It will be financed by the State Department in Washington, which has already sent out its ambassadors in the Balkans to bully and bribe Local Churches into recognizing the Galician Synagogue. In this they failed.

The centre can hold – because only extremes fall apart, and this is how the Church is cleansed. Glory to God for His Providence, for the evil inflicted by the Phanariots has had the reverse effect. The Orthodox have been strengthened, being cleansed from the pseudo-Orthodox fringes who have fallen away.

 

 

Let us Drink of the Cup Which Destiny has Poured

With apologies and gratitude to John Masefield and the poetry in his collection ‘On the Hill’ (1949). To him belongs any merit for the adaptation of his verses below.

 Hope

We pray for any gleams,

For any rays of light,

For any certain beams,

To help us through this night.

Faith

O Spirit ever strong

Beyond all beauty bright

Cancel out all our wrong

And change our speech to song

Our darkness into light.

Love

O Wisdom of Heaven’s birds,

Upon brightest wing that flies,

Speak to us the loving words

That come all from Paradise.

Victory

Death having perished, hell is overthrown

And spirits making glad heavenwards turn,

While we all brim with the happiness known

From sorrows’ ending and our home return.