Today, on the day I celebrate Santiago’s Day, the Way in which I began to walk as God-Love- with-us walks… I am being granted the grace to share this beautiful envisioning — para las generaciones crecientes, for the future generations and those niños valientes yet to grow, that will be able to understand and constitutionally aspire to form together what is not even able to be conceived now. “Lo que ojo no vio, ni oído oyó, ni se ha imaginado en corazón humano…   eso es lo que Dios ha preparado para los que le aman” (1 Corintios 2:9).

There is a meat cut called “churrasco”. The word’s etymology recalls the sound of meat crackling over a flame, precisely as the Taínos —the ones who created the BBQ— taught to cook meat over sacred native fires. But the churrasco meat cut came to America through colonialism. And today, to celebrate this envisioning — a new world rooted in love, communion, and truth — we, as a family of Heaven, propose to you to enjoy together a humble offering: a sandwich that honors the end of colonialism in a positive way, in a communion-affirmative way. In America, we cook churrasco with BBQs that the Taínos inherited to us with their ancestral blood that still floods through our veins, despite being the first people to be declared extinct by colonization… and that is how we honor a communion-based American cultural identity instead of a colonial America identity: transforming everything into a cultural transmission of growing together in communion; transforming the colonialism that transmitted that churrasco into a celebration of growing together in communion. As we sizzle churrasco into a BBQ, we reenvision our cultural identity in a way that the colonialist transmission is left behind as we honor the communion fire inherited from the Taínos, and as we celebrate an American native culture of new life, a communion-affirming cultural ancestry that would begin with the Taínos, the first extinct peoples of the Americas: “La piedra que desecharon los edificadores ha venido a ser piedra angular” (Salmo 118:22).

So, let´s create a sandwich with churrasco, simply cook it marinated over a BBQ, and enjoy the culinary communion journey! This sandwich would transform the colonial transmission by which the churrasco reached us into a growthful transmission of a culture of new American culture that comes from native life. It would be a Crescere Sandwich, to celebrate our sovereignty to become — together — the best persons we can be, and the best people we can be in communion and truth: “Conoceréis la verdad, y la verdad os hará libres” (Juan 8:32).

This Crescere Sandwich, besides the churrasco marinated in sofrito, would also have queso de papa and new albor sauce, all lovingly embraced by a sobao bread. Feel free to add your favorite veggies and toppings — make of it a celebration of personal communion, because that is what affirming personal sovereignty in community is all about, about being together in growing communion: “Todos ustedes son uno en Cristo Jesús” (Gálatas 3:28).

My own personal sovereignty began on the Way of Santiago, the first time I began to see myself as who I am and who I am called to be beneath God-Love’s gaze: “Antes que te formara en el vientre, te conocí; y antes que nacieses, te santifiqué” (Jeremías 1:5).

In its most profound meaning, this would be an anti-colonialism sandwich: a sandwich to celebrate the end of all forms of colonialism — political, economic, cultural — and the beginning of a new era, growing together in communion, walking side by side as equal and dignified brothers and sisters, surprising everyone with how this comes precisely from the only place in America that still is a political colony: “De lo vil y de lo menospreciado escogió Dios, y lo que no es, para deshacer lo que es” (1 Corintios 1:28).

 So, here is this Crescere sandwich, very tasty, for celebrating everyone´s gifted capability to create a peace that can only come from Divine Charity, from Jesus-Charity-within-you-and-through-you: “Bienaventurados los que trabajan por la paz, porque ellos serán llamados hijos de Dios” (Mateo 5:9).

How it can be understood that celebrating and honoring together personal sovereignty is the true way out of the colonialist era and of a colonial American cultural identity and government style that still tolerates and even normalizes other forms of colonialism, like predatory capitalism, that is economic colonialism?

Democracy, as modeled by the French Revolution, assumes that nations are sovereign, rather than citizens being the sovereigns. The truth is: citizens are the soberanos; nations are interdependent… Technically speaking, we can now understand that nations are not independent; they need each other’s trade and must honor human rights and dignity for the peace of everyone. Therefore, they are not “soberanas” but rather interdependent. When it is said that a citizen is “soberano”, it is meant that he or she is totally capable of assuming his or her civic duties on her or his own in a democracy, both in service of the common good and for his or her best growth possible as a person. “Soberano” doesn’t mean the citizen can do whatever they want according to their own interests only (the usual way to understand “soberano”). 

So, technically speaking, the way of truly celebrating the end of colonialism is celebrating… a soberanía personal day, a day of personal sovereignty to celebrate our respect for everyone’s right to self-govern their personhood according to their best conscience and civic duties of their civil state. Right now, the United Nations hasn´t declared any international day to be celebrated as a “soberanía personal day”, celebrating how we all are unique sovereign persons called to grow together in communion. This is a vision of post-colonial celebration not centered on the state or the nation, but on the dignity and sovereignty of the person, in mutual service, not isolation, not dominating each other, but walking together fraternally.

Nations are not truly “sovereign” in the absolute sense. They are interdependent in terms of economics (trade, supply chains), diplomacy (treaties, peacekeeping), ecology (climate change), and ethics (human rights, migration). The notion of total national sovereignty is a holdover from colonial and imperial ideologies: control, competition, isolationism.

True sovereignty as a nation lies in the person as the foundation of the fullest growth of both the citizens and the nation. It doesn´t lies in an ego-centric nationalistic cultural identity as “independent state”, but in a perso-centric interdependent cultural identity, affirmed as a declaration of new fraternization, not as a declaration of independence, that makes possible the fullest growth as person of all the citizens, as nation, and as human family of equal and dignified brothers and sisters.

A ciudadano soberano is not someone who does “whatever he or she wants,” but someone who can act from moral conscience, assumes civic responsibility, contributes to the common good, and grows in liberty, virtue, and communion

Therefore, the true post-colonial celebration should not be of nations breaking free from empires, but of persons living as sovereign citizens, together in growthful interdependence.

All this leads to the creation of an International Day of Personal Sovereignty, that everyone can celebrate sharing a Crescere sandwich: a day to honor each human person as sovereign in conscience, dignity, and responsibility. That is the true opposite of colonization.

What Would It Celebrate?

• Every person’s right to self-govern their body, conscience, and destiny

• The civic beauty of choosing to grow with others, not against them nor dominating them or slaving them.

• The spiritual and moral call to use freedom in service of communion

• A rejection of both colonialism and its shadow — individualistic consumerism and predatory capitalism.

What day to choose? May the American people of New Albor choose the date for posterity… but today, as I already explained, is the Santiago Way´s Day. Yes, my personal sovereignty began to be formed there, a way of my own began to be shaped there, as I began my own personhood growthful path towards God´s will for me… so today is a beautiful day for me to commemorate this and share this envisioning, changing the French nationalistic-centered revolution into a Fraternal personalist-centered revolution: Liberty, Dignity, Fraternity, Communion. Liberty is the freedom of the citizen and their right to have equal responsibilities towards the common good. Dignity encompasses equal rights that are inalienable, ensuring legally that the personal dignity of all citizens unconditionally. Fraternity is the call to grow together in dignifying communion, a sense of brotherhood, unity as a human family, and mutual support among people. Communion is the unconditional recognition of every citizen´s call to grow together in personal communion, each one growing as the best person we can be and become.

From the nationalistic revolutions, we have progressed to personal conscience revolutions, marking a symbolic dawn of human civic maturity.

 It Would Be a Celebration of:

• Teachers forming sovereign thinkers

• Youth taking civic responsibility

• Adults committing to growth and justice

• Governments recognizing that rights come from personhood, not exactly from any kind of passports, but of a sovereign citizen passport.

• Artists, artisans, and citizens building a world where no one is reduced to a subject of power

This matches the deepest roots of:

• Catholic social teaching: dignity of the human person, subsidiarity, common good

• Postcolonial ethics: healing the wounds of objectification and dependency

• Decolonial political philosophy: rejecting the colonial state-centric model in favor of relational liberty

We are formulating a new kind of civic culture, rooted not in resistance alone, but in formation, communion, and dignity. That’s the kind of anti-colonialism that builds a world worth inheriting… but for all that be able to be possible, a reform is needed: you need a fourth constitutional power, a rama formativa; a fourth formative branch of the Government, besides the three traditional branches of government that are already known as constitutional powers, which establishes the legal framework of the state.

These are:

1. Executive Power (Liberty)

Executes and enforces the laws.

(e.g., President, Governors, Ministers, Agencies)

2. Legislative Power (Dignity)

Creates, debates, and passes laws.

(e.g., Congress, Parliament, Assembly)

3. Judicial Power (Fraternity)

Interprets the laws and ensures justice.

(e.g., Courts, Supreme Court, Judges)

A fourth branch, the Formative Power, would affirm the sovereignty of the person and the fullest dignified growth of all citizens. So, along the pillars of Liberty, Dignity and Fraternity, the Formative Power (Communion) would be a constitutional branch whose core mandate is to affirm and cultivate the inherent dignity and sovereign growth of every person, not as an abstract idea but as a systematic civic function embedded in governance.

What would the Formative Power do?

It would:

Affirm Personal Sovereignty (Soberanía Personal):

Recognizing each citizen as a moral and civic subject capable of self-governance, conscience-driven action, and participation in the common good.

Guard Human Dignity Publicly:

Oversee that education, health, family policy, and cultural services are delivered non-partisanly and fraternally — in ways that uplift, not condition, the person.

Foster Growthful Citizenship:

Ensure that the conditions are in place for all people to grow in knowledge, conscience, vocation, creativity, and civic contribution. This is not just “access to services” but access to personal flourishing.

Cultivate Fraternal Culture:

Coordinate institutions, such as an American Cultural Affairs Commission, that reinforce a shared public ethos of mutual care, respect for differences, and dignified coexistence.

Ensure Continuity Beyond Elections:

Because human dignity must not be subject to electoral volatility, this branch, through a long-term, ratified Fraternal Presidency with a fraternal president (communion presidency), ensures the stability of civic values across administrations, governed by a woman who would act as a co-president alongside the current president’s national government role. Why a woman? After millennia of women being denied leadership and the opportunity to shine in what they do best, there will come a time when progress will make it possible to recognize the leadership of women in formative roles: we are the ones who can form from within, we are the ones best to teach how “yes, we can grow best!”. The fraternal president would be chosen every 12 years, agreed upon by all the previous presidents still alive and ratified (not elected democratically but fraternally) by the citizens. Take Jesus Charity´s recommendation to future generations: choose someone who doesn´t come from an elite background to begin this presidency. Right now, for more than half a century, absolutely all presidents have come from an elite background.

 In short:

Yes — the Formative Power would be the guardian of “sovereignty through formation”. It affirms that democracy is not just about voting or representation, but about cultivating the full, dignified, and communal growth of each person.

It completes what the three traditional powers cannot: they regulate society. The Formative Power nurtures the person within that society.

Articulating this is not a vague ideal: this Formative Branch, this Rama Formativa, with a fraternal president, would be centered on affirming personhood sovereignty, on affirming our soberanía personal, as the foundational civil power that all public service must honor, nurture, and be accountable to. As a matter of fact, in the very same way there is a White House, the fraternal president´s central administrative building would be a Lighthouse, as a sign of the light that a whole nation radiates when we grow together in communion as the best person we can be, and so the best nation we can be can also become true. Besides a White House, a Light House is needed to enlighten society civilly with a government that affirms personhood sovereignty as the fourth civil power, along with the executive power (the White House), the judicial power (the Supreme Court, the Constitution´s House), and the legislative power (the People´s House, usually known as the Capitol…).

If there is a Rama Formativa, then we can talk about a Sovereign Citizen Passport (a Pasaporte del Ciudadano Soberano) that affirms rights on personhood at the national level:

• Issued by the Rama Formativa

• Recognizes the bearer’s civic dignity and right to receive fraternal, formative public services.

As you can see, Jesus Charity will always find more and more creative ways to help us grow together in communion and consummate a growthful peace founded on the inherent recognition of personhood´s dignity and the call to grow together in communion. Commemorating an International Day of Personal Sovereignty is only one of them.

So, an International Day of Personal Sovereignty would:

• Honor the right—and duty—of every person to self-govern in communion with others

• Celebrate post-colonial civic rebirth

• Affirm a Growthful Constitutional Principle: “La soberanía civil radica en la persona, en orden al crecer juntos en comunión como nación y a hacer posible que todo ciudadano pueda crecer como la mejor persona que pueda ser, de tal forma que la dignidad personal sea reconocida, afirmada y cultivada inherentemente por el Estado mediante la rama formativa.”

Interim (Pope Francis “Soñemos Juntos” quotes).

So, here is the envisioning of a new way to celebrate the end of colonialism shared. Enjoy this crescere sandwich, and enjoy growing together in communion: yes we can grow best!

Jesus Charity, we adore you with our whole growth…