CONSTITUTION
As gifted by (the) HOLY GHOST to HIS Church, the objective of Shepherd Corps is to evangelize and educate HIS creatures as well as mankind’s ailing, unknowledgeable, aged, and poor.
SHEPHERDS
A Shepherd of Shepherd Corps is an extremely devout person who has reached a place in his life in which the service of/to man and corporal living are no longer of interest or validity. Such a spiritual person oaths allegiance to a set of temporal vows for a supervised period of twelve (12) consecutive months. After successful completion of the Indoctrination Period, a candidate affirms vows to HOLY GHOST as a fully pledged Shepherd of the Shepherd Corps order. His assignment will be based on:
- Order expansion
- space availability
- the Shepherd’s innate skills, talents and aspirations
- Church input
Daily lifestyle at Shepherd Corps is molded directly from the Old Covenant. As revealed by Patriarch Abraham and identified by the incomparable knowledge of King Salomon, a Shepherd, from his waking moment to his evening retire, lives a consistent life of sacrifice, thanksgiving and homage to HOLY GHOST. He ecstatically embraces this through constant prayer and service. A Shepherd of Shepherd Corps lovingly and freely resides as anglican by diligently pursuing and aspiring to become superogaveris. All earthly necessities and subsidies are provided to the Shepherd from the Shepherd Corps Sanctuary.
What are the qualifications to be a Shepherd Corps candidate? The aspirant must provide proof for the following:
- a male of at least 24 years of age
- debt free
- working knowledge of the English or Latin language
- no contractual obligations to any third parties
- debt free
- not legally dependent upon another person
- no individual is dependent on the applicant, financially or otherwise
- free of any permanent or enduring medical ailments
- legal citizen of the United States or other nation where Shepherd Corps is established
- free of any legal proceedings, current and future
The minimum 12 (twelve) consecutive months of supervised training includes but is not limited to: lifestyle orientation, prayer routine and structure, Liturgy studies, Evangelizing, liberal art talent(s) pursuit, husbandry, construction and planting, fishing and trapping, land survival, emergency medicine, Baptisms, concerts at assisted living and veteran’s homes, physical fitness education and daily training, and, a final opportunity to handle all personal dilemmas.
LIFESTYLE & VOWS
Daily life for our Shepherds is so rewarding that earthly words do the sensations no justice. Albeit extremely gratifying, a Shepherd has very little time for personal leisure. Following is a sample portrait of a Shepherd’s diurnal schedule, excluding Sunday & Holy Days:
- day begins with Prayer which, at a minimum, is required during Canonical hours
- physical fitness or husbandry
- meal
- chores
- prayer
- physical fitness or husbandry
- assignments
- meal
- prayer
- evangelizing
- aid/educate mankind’s infirm, poor, ill, forgotten
- meal
- assignments
- husbandry/chores
- prayer
- personal
- sleep/prayer
Like the Blessed Holy Trinity Itself, the omnipresence of HOLY GHOST makes a Shepherd’s daily routine executable even during his travels. Since each Shepherd has a personal responsibility to ELOHIM’s creatures of nature, travel is frequent. The Shepherds of Shepherd Corps-Brookside, for example, primarily venture to the mountains throughout UT to tend to QUI EST’s land and creatures there. It should be stated such a regiment enhances our Order’s ability to become entirely self-sufficient from any external auspices or forces to include donations. With Shepherd Corps-Brookside’s location in the mountains of southwestern UT, we have the distinct ability to even search freely for our own finances due to the republic’s extreme mineral wealth. Thusly, the capability of our Shepherds to herd, plant, farm, fish, trap and hunt (creature and mineral) makes each a synergistic asset and earthly investment. Therefore, it is the Order’s utmost responsibility to insure each of our Shepherd’s is protected, insured or otherwise for health, transported, secured and quartered.
The vows a Shepherd aspires to are categorized into two spheres. Ethereal Vows become a Shepherd’s primary obligation as they are contracted with HOLY GHOST. Temporal Vows are secondary because they are nominal, or earthly. To understand the covenants, it is essential to comprehend the goal for each Shepherd of Shepherd Corps—vitam aeternam. There is absolutely nothing on terra or likewise manufactured by mankind that motivates the Shepherds. Shepherds aspire to reside eternally with ELOHIM in vitam aeternam. This goal, in fact, becomes the foundation for all the covenants with each Shepherd.
ETHEREAL VOWS
- chastity
- obedience
- poverty
- sobriety
NOMINAL VOWS
- dress code
- evangelize
- sleep singularly by candle light
- always honor our KING’s name
- apologetic prayer hearing ELOHIM’s name announced vainly
- daily discipline
- Mass assistance, if required
- supererogate/superogaveris
Shepherd Corps, maybe one day to finally be accepted as an Order by Church clergy, is property entirely provided to HOLY GHOST. The sanctuary is a blessed gift devoted to our Savior’s Spouse (the Church of Saint Peter in Rome) and it provides a serene and safe atmosphere for spiritual reckoning, awareness and dedication. We are completely severed from the U.S. government and therefore do not accept any grants, loans or aid from it or any other earthly government. It is Shepherd Corps’ obligatory duty to ensure the policies, politics and auspices of man do not interfere with the operation of this sanctuary in any way. If the rules and leadership of mankind do not govern us, then what does?
+ Shepherds do freely honor a King—QUI EST
+ Shepherds voluntarily serve only one man—JESUS
+ Shepherds willingly accept guidance by—HOLY GHOST
Our Heavenly FATHER’s Commandments, Ceremonies and Precepts are what govern a Shepherd. Distancing ourselves as much as feasibly possible from the influences of mankind is essential to a Shepherd’s well-being. Not only are temptations significantly reduced but the independence truly provides a naturally grounded platform for each of us to operate from. Since Shepherd Corps provides the atmosphere for balance, serenity, and simplicity, this frees each Shepherd to concentrate his waking moments on prayers and service to HOLY GHOST–ethereal awareness.
Written and Honored by:
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Brother Sebastian, Anglican/Eremite and Temp Chair of Shepherd Corps.
Dated: _______________
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Daniel Shackle, CFO of the Shepherd Corps Sanctuary.
Dated: _______________