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Cirilo F. Bautista

A poet, fictionist and essayist. He was acknowledged by peers and critics with exceptional achievements and significant contributions to the development of the country's literary arts. He was known as the nation’s large foremost writer of his generation.

He was born in Commonwealth Manila, July 1941 and died on 6 May 2018. In elementary Cirilo Bautista studied at Legarda Elementary School and was awarded as 1st honorable student in the year 1954. For his secondary level, he studied at Victorino Mapa High School and graduated as the Valedictorian in his batch year 1959. He received his degrees in AB Literature from the University of Sto.Tomas, Magna Cum laude, the year 1963. MA Literature from St. Louis University, Baguio, magna cum laude year 1968. Cirilo has proven himself that he deserved as one of the National Artist of Literature. He continued his education at De La Salle University in Manila, Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature year 1990. He received a fellowship to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (1968–1969).

He won First Prize in Epic Writing English Category, of the National Centennial Commission's Literary Contests, 1998, sponsored by the Philippine Government. The judges in this prestigious contest, held to commemorate the Centennial of our freedom, gave the prize to Bautista's Sunlight on Broken Stones, the last volume in his The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus. This epic of 3,050 lines concludes his monumental work on Philippine history. And was published by De La Salle University-Manila Press garnered the National Book Award given by the Manila Critics Circle in 1999 and the Gintong Aklat Award was given by the Book Development Association of the Philippines.

An author of several books of poetry, fiction, criticism and translation, Bautista proves in The House of True Desire that he can also handle the genre of short composition with expertise and style. Many of his works got a lot of attention from the people that make him and his works well known Locally and Internationally. And because of his great works, he was awarded and achieve many great things for his works and ideas.

Hall of Fame of the Palanca Awards Foundation for achievements in the field of literature, 1995. This is given to Filipino writers who have distinguished themselves by winning at least five First Prizes in the Palanca Literary Contests. Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature nine (9) times for poetry, fiction, and essay. His prize-winning works include: Philippine Poetics: The Past Eight Years (essay), 1981; Crossworks (collected poems), 1979; Charts (collected poems), 1973; The Archipelago (an epic poem), 1970; Telex Moon (epic poem), 1975; The Cave and Other Poems (collected poems), 1968; and the short stories Ritual and The Man Who Made a Covenant with the Wind.National Book Award given by the Manila Critics Circle five (5) times, for The Archipelago, Sugat ng Salita, Sunlight on Broken Stones, The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus and Tinik Sa Dila. Diwa ng Lahi, Gawad Antonio Villegas at Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan in the field of literature by the City of Manila. This award is given to outstanding Manila artists who have contributed to the advancement of arts and culture. 430th Araw ng Maynila, June 22, 2001, Bulwagang Villegas, Manila City Hall. Gawad Balagtas in 1997 by the Unyon ng mga manunulat ng Pilipinas for Bautista's achievements as a poet, fictionist, and critic. Included in Who’s Who in the World, 1996, New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Makata ng Taon 1993, sponsored by the Komisyon ng mga Wikang Pilipinas with the poem Ulat Buhat Sa Bulkan. With this and his Palanca award for Tagalog poetry and his winning the First Prize in the Poetry contest sponsored by the Dyaryo Filipino with his poem, Ilang Aeta Mula Sa Botolan, Bautista affirmed his importance as a bilingual writer. Included in The Oxford Companion to the English Language, edited by Tom MacArthur, Oxford University Press, 1992. Included The Travelers’ Guide to Asian Literature, 1993. Knight Commander of Rizal by the Order of the Knights of Rizal, December 1998, in recognition of Bautista's literary works that helped propagate the ideas and achievements of the national hero. His The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus has the national hero as the main character and focal point in the author's poetic recreation of the development of the Filipino soul from the beginning of our history to the present. Adopted Son of Iligan City, 1997, by virtue of Executive Order #98 signed by Mayor Alejo Yanes, for his contribution “in the development of creative writing in Mindanao, for serving as a role model among young writers, as well as his tireless promotion of Iligan City as a center for literary arts in The Philippines.” Bautista was instrumental in the founding of the Iligan Writers Workshop and was its primary mover in attracting young writers to congregate in Mindanao and learn the craft of writing. Gawad Manuel L. Quezon in 1996 by the Quezon City Government in connection with the Quezon Day Celebrations for Bautista's outstanding achievement as a writer, editor, and teacher.

Certificate of appreciation from the Benigno Aquino, Jr., Foundation for his literary works that helped perpetuate the memory of the late senator St. Miguel Febres Cordero Research Award, SY2002-03 given by De La Salle University-Manila, 2002. This award was given to Bautista in recognition of his achievements in research and creative writing. First Annual Dove Award by the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University-Manila, February 14, 2001. An alumnus of the Graduate School of the University, Bautista was honored for the contributions he had in energizing the writing life on the campus through his co-founding of the creative writing programs in the University and activities as Writer-in-Residence for fifteen years. Most Outstanding Achievement Award in Literature by the Philets-Artlets Centennial Alumni Association of the University of Santo Tomas, 1996. Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Literature, Mapa High School Alumni Association, 1982. Pablo Roman Prize for his Novel-in-Progress entitled Reconstruction, 1982. Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Literature from the Alumni Association of the College of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, 1982. Fernando Maria Guerrero Award for Literature, University of Santo Tomas Alumni Association, 1980. Most Outstanding Alumnus Award for Lite.

Here is an Excerpt from Sunlight on Broken Stones The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus 4 “Do What? Chimes I never heard, or halos wore, the stone upon whose sheen I swore to shackle the sharks, the barks I blew across cinnamon and thyme in lieu of lupercals, lunes for lakes, rice-cakes, bullets, parapets, donjons: of these my bones sing like a book, beyond indigenes and ultimatums: white in the solid dream yet not contained in the plastic tide, wide brides side by side move these islands whose chamber of wisdom is the tomb, whose head of telex ticks jigsaw jungles in jasmine clouds and parrots in pine trees: whines the breeze, rankles the mind, march the rues—the fat-bellied nothing does not lose: of these my bones sing like a book, all these I remember: I walk on a strand of cobwebbed memory, I bring out my tools to incise the sounds in history, and I remember: him:: the cricket tree called to him with vultures in his eyes: he shut the gates of sunlight and propped epistles on the grass: the first spoke of a terribel war between shifting mirrors whose rage mathematic, technique pure, prevent waterclerks from clipping the revenue: a war of blood and brain cutting its own wound like a diamond, a hooded abstract in twenty carats: the second was a parable dressed in lemon and turpentine; its line, printed on sable, trumpeted tonsure as torture— an experiment in cancer and royal jigs: to invent what in the mind is optic or midget is to grease contumely, is to seal the concordat between pirates and papal henchmen: the words hissed like flame against metal: the terrible collusion that brought ignorance to these Islands: and the third, O the third was bantam, the third was brother to the ox, the third stuck its feathers in gum and broke the spine of priesthood: its intestines were solid gold: it cackled the monasteries to ruins: I walk on a strand of cobwebbed memory and I remember: metal wings beating conundrums in cathedral domes: that doomed warrior Magellan, rusting with metals in Mactan: that fruity sailor Legaspi, drowning in his fever while in his thick eyes Manila rose up on sticks and stones: that pale Rizal, pinned like a butterfly to his texts, Impotent as the alphabet he rode on: “offerings of gold and silver and brass, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goat’s hair and ram’s skin dyed red, and badger’s skin’s, and shittim wood, oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, andd for sweet incense, and onyx stones, and also stones to be set in blue ephod, and in blue breastplate”: the death with their dryads and decimals, their spirit like rubber mannequin—how long can they hold to the letters of tombs? The pen sprouts their flesh and numbers numb their bony solitude. So lost the ghost they bought with their last gold, desiring the warmth of womb, cursing the papers that etched their sins: I remember: like glass, or a blade of grass, I bend to the wind, throw the papers to the wind, hoping the rustle will cover the sound of ache in my heart for souls seeking new homestead for their head. But more it is for the world I weep to sweep away the decay of warfare and darkness, and I am old and childless, my words cannot shoot: The lotus moon hands maximum on my lute—its pluck has dry throats on the grass: alas! the lack the lutist laments liks the art in my tongue which cannot live long: my blood throbs with the wounds of ages— Lapulapu, Humabon, Sikatuna, Sulayman, Matanda, Mabini, Rizal, Bonifacio—they clog the arteries of my soul till I am aflame and through the heat I see my people’s corpses piled high inside th Walled City, their brains staining the streets, the children’s limbs scattered like garbage upon the mud, and the black words flapping like banners in the wind, “Death to the Infidels!”: my blood boils and I remember: the parables they strung around our necks as amulets against the unknown in the hope that catholic spells would expel the voodoo in our speech, as each to each we passed our sorrow: place the thumbs so, on the temples, and hear my words, “for what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?” Very like a kite I am, cackling for a piece of the moon: touch my words and my biography falls aparts: dig into my breast and I have no heart: all my patrimony burned with the fruit boats in the Pasig when we abandoned the brown gods for gunpowder and Paradise: whos eyes shape the picture of our sin?: whose dagger shall draw the poison from our blood?: what shall link our tongue to the silent speech of the grave so that brave words be quicker, be full, as I sing of things?”

In the past few years, many young poets have enlivened our literature with their fresh voices and unique interpretation of the human condition. Mostly products of the various writing workshops in the country, they respond to social and personal realities with the exciting and well-informed facility. Their reflections vibrate with a taut understanding of common virtues and falsities, with deft handling of poetic surfaces and undertows. His best-known work is the epic poetry trilogy “The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus,” made up of the “The Archipelago (1970), “Telex Moon” (1981) and “Sunlight on Broken Stones” (1999).

His works were; Sugat sa Salita was published in De La Salle University Press, 1987 Kirot ng Kataga was published in De La Salle University Press, 1995. Galaw ng Asoge was published in UST Press, 2004. Tinik sa Dila was published in The University of the Philippines Press, 2003; and more.

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15. And it was so. The Door was made to Open and two New Beings came through the Door and were Made to Be in the Garden of Eden. 16. And as the Light receded, the first of the New Creations spoke. 17. He said: “Son of a BITCH!” (a) 18. And as the Host watched, the second of the New Creations spoke. 19. He said: “Where the fuck are we?” (b) 20. Stepped forward the Seraph Castiel to name the two New Angels of the Host. 21. He said: “Dean? Sam? What is going on here?!” 22. Alas no one could offer an answer, for the New Messiah, Jack Kline, son of the Morning Star, had disappeared. Annotations (a) Translations vary wildly. Scholars of the St John of Lawrence institute refer to it as ‘A curse against the Old World and its wicked proclivities’. (b) Once again, translations vary, but reference to procreation is generally accepted amongst theologians, linguists and Talmudic scholars, making this a reference to the creation of the New World by the Messiah. - Excerpt from ‘The New Bible, original unedited translation, with annotated commentary and comparative studies’ by Gertrude Bally-Smith (Prophet of the Lord, circa 2212).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14080074 The Parable of the Truck and the Dove - Maldoror_Chant

oh my god this is only two chapters long so far and already goddamn killing me from the lols. Dean and Sam are angels now! Whoops.

#pimptastic #supernatural

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fevie168 · 6 years

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Friday (January 26): What the kingdom of God is like

Scripture: Mark 4:26-34

26 And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." 30 And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Meditation: What can mustard seeds teach us about the kingdom of God? The tiny mustard seed literally grew to be a tree which attracted numerous birds because they loved the little black mustard seed it produced. God's kingdom works in a similar fashion. It starts from the smallest beginnings in the hearts of men and women who are receptive to God's word. And it works unseen and causes a transformation from within. Just as a seed has no power to change itself until it is planted in the ground, so we cannot change our lives to be like God until God gives us the power of his Holy Spirit.

The transforming power of the Word of God The Lord of the Universe is ever ready to transform us by the power of his Spirit. Are you ready to let God change you by his life-giving Word and Spirit? The kingdom of God produces a transformation in those who receive the new life which Jesus Christ offers. When we yield to the Lord Jesus and allow his word to take root in us, our lives are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. Paul the Apostle says, "we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us" (2 Corinthians 4:7). Do you believe in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit?

The cross of Jesus is the Tree of Life Peter Chrysologous (400-450 AD), an early church father, explained how the " tree of the cross" spread its branches throughout the world and grew into a worldwide community of faith offering its fruit to the whole world:

Christ became all things in order to restore all of us in himself. The man Christ received the mustard seed which represents the kingdom of God; as man he received it, though as God he had always possessed it. He sowed it in his garden, that is in his bride, the Church. The Church is a garden extending over the whole world, tilled by the plough of the gospel, fenced in by stakes of doctrine and discipline, cleared of every harmful weed by the labor of the apostles, fragrant and lovely with perennial flowers: virgins’ lilies and martyrs’ roses set amid the pleasant verdure of all who bear witness to Christ and the tender plants of all who have faith in him. Such then is the mustard seed which Christ sowed in his garden. When he promised a kingdom to the patriarchs, the seed took root in them; with the prophets it sprang up; with the apostles it grew tall; in the Church it became a great tree putting forth innumerable branches laden with gifts. And now you too must take the wings of the psalmist’s dove, gleaming gold in the rays of divine sunlight, and fly to rest for ever among those sturdy, fruitful branches. No snares are set to trap you there; fly off, then, with confidence and dwell securely in its shelter. (SERMON 98)

Do you allow the seed of God's word to take deep root in your life and transform you into a fruit-bearing disciple of Jesus Christ?

"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and transform me into the Christ-like holiness you desire. Increase my zeal for your kingdom and instill in me a holy desire to live for your greater glory."

Psalm 51:1-5,8-9

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 8 Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: God gave us what was most precious, by Isaac of Nineveh (a Syrian monk, teacher, and bishop), 613-700 A.D.

"The sum of all is God, the Lord of all, who from love of his creatures has delivered his Son to death on the cross. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son for it. Not that he was unable to save us in another way, but in this way it was possible to show us his abundant love abundantly, namely, by bringing us near to him by the death of his Son. If he had anything more dear to him, he would have given it to us, in order that by it our race might be his. And out of his great love he did not even choose to urge our freedom by compulsion, though he was able to do so. But his aim was that we should come near to him by the love of our mind. And our Lord obeyed his Father out of love for us."

(excerpt from ASCETICAL HOMILY 74.28)

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Louise Glück | Poems 1962 - 2012 | excerpt from Parable Of The Dove | Meadowlands

#louise glück #poignant #poetry #prose #modern poetry #poets #female poets #famous poets #p333 #parable of the dove #meadowlands #time #nature #change

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fevie168 · 7 years

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Friday (January 27): What the kingdom of God is like

Scripture: Mark 4:26-34

The Lord of the Universe is ever ready to transform us by the power of his Spirit. Are you ready to let God change you by his life-giving Word and Spirit? The kingdom of God produces a transformation in those who receive the new life which Jesus Christ offers. When we yield to the Lord Jesus and allow his word to take root in us, our lives are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. Paul the Apostle says, "we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us" (2 Corinthians 4:7). Do you believe in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit?

Peter Chrysologous (400-450 AD), an early church father, explained how the " tree of the cross" spread its branches throughout the world and grew into a worldwide community of faith offering its fruit to the whole world:

Do you allow the seed of God's word to take deep root in your life and transform you into a fruit-bearing disciple of Jesus Christ?

Psalm 51:1-5,8-9

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: God gave us what was most precious, by Isaac of Nineveh (a Syrian monk, teacher, and bishop), 613-700 A.D.

(excerpt from ASCETICAL HOMILY 74.28)

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