Father of All Mankind,
We ask you to look down upon our people, and fill our hearts with your spirit, that we may have the grace and the wisdom to look into ourselves, and in so doing, see are weaknesses and our strengths.
So many of us have lived in corruption, greed and violence, forgetting that this nation – or any other nation – cannot survive and grow prosper unless we learn to live as brothers, striving not for selfish ends, but for the common good.
Give us strength to rebuild our
lives, leaving forever our selfish, corrupt and derelict ways.
Make us see what we are and what
we could be, open our eyes, our minds and our heart to the things that need to
be done, and the things we can do to make this rich and beautiful land a joy
and comfort to all our people.
We have set for ourselves great
and never-ending tasks; stand by us in our labors, and teach us not to weary
nor to lose faith, neither to seek reward beyond what is just, but rather to
see in our work the full measure of our own reward, and to see in it, the full
expression of ourselves.
When the day’s toil is ended,
teach us to look to the morrow’s labor as part of our continuing sacrifice;
bring us not to temptation of luxury, ease or privilege, nor to the
blandishments of power or comfort that corrupt; but make us a sturdy race,
self-reliant, cheerful and upright.
Teach those who lead to act with firmness but with humility, with humility but wisdom, with wisdom but with justice, and with justice but with compassion, and teach those who follow the true duties of being men and being members of a community of men.
Cleanse us of our anger, our
bitterness, and our recriminations of the past; spare us the doubts and
anxieties of the present; and purify us for our sacrifice so that we may raise
a people who will be their own strength today, and their own warranty against
the future.
Signed by the former President Ferdinand E. Marcos
1917-1989
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