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Ben Ajaero

Ben Ajaero

Ben Ajaero is Executive Editor at Ninth Heaven, with a passion for fostering cultural and spiritual growth through poetry, philosophy, and thoughtful content.

Gadigal, Australia

Published pieces

29 pieces

Charity

Charity is the third and greatest theological virtue: for Aquinas it is friendship with God — a love, poured in by grace, by which we love God for his own sake and our neighbour in him. It is “the form of the virtues.”

Hope

In Aquinas’s theology, hope is the second theological virtue: a movement of the will, raised by grace, that reaches toward eternal happiness as a future good — arduous, but possible to attain with God’s help.

Faith

In Thomas Aquinas’s theology, faith is a theological virtue: an act of the intellect assenting to divine truth at the command of a will moved by grace — firmer than opinion, yet concerned with things unseen.

Akathist to our Most Holy Lady Mother of God

Akathist to our Most Holy Lady Mother of God

The Akathist Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos — the great Byzantine hymn of praise to the Mother of God, chanted standing (a-kathistos, 'not sitting'). Traditionally ascribed to St. Romanos the Melodist, its proem was added in thanksgiving for the deliverance of Constantinople from the siege of 626.

Committee Appointment Notice

Committee Appointment Notice

Incorporation of the Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association

The Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association has been registered as an incorporated association in New South Wales under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009.

The Classic of Filial Piety (孝經 Xiao Jing) (trans. James Legge)

The Classic of Filial Piety (孝經 Xiao Jing) (trans. James Legge)

The Classic of Filial Piety (孝經 Xiao Jing) is one of the Confucian classics. In Xiao Jing, Confucius discusses with his disciple, Zengzi, filial piety as the source of nascent virtue.

Respecting Antigone

Culture & Identity

Respecting Antigone

This is the commiserating heart that is both rare and common: common as in all men and women possess it; rare as in few bring it to finality. Antigone was able to maintain her original heart and develop her virtue, immortalising herself and her love for her loved ones.

The Ascension, and Will of Heaven

Issue I - Blue Winter

The Ascension, and Will of Heaven

We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.