Marcus Octavius Gracchus: import

2006-10-07T16:18:01Z

import

New page

{{CandidateDeclarationPage|MMDCCLIX|Marcus Moravius Piscinus Horatianus|Consul}}

<div class="scriptum">
Salvete Quirites

I, Marcus Moravius Horatianus, don the toga candida and humbly enter
the Forum once more, this time as candidate for Consul of our Res
Publica.

Nova Roma, it should be understood, is part of a much wider community
of Roman enthusiasts than just its own current members. The Census
of 2005 showed how Nova Roma has had a turn over of 80% of its
membership during the past five-year period. Former citizens may
have left Nova Roma itself, but they remain part of the same wider
community in which Nova Roma shares. The challenge before Nova Roma
today is to be a community of Romanitas for its own citizens, to
welcome back former members, and to attract new members from this
wider community of which we are a part.

I was first elected Tribunus Plebis for the year 2001. Health issues
and other personal issues required that I resign from office, and my
citizenship from Nova Roma as well, after serving for only two and a
half months. For the past five years I have been involved with
various Roman communities, mainly teaching others about the religio
Romana. I have been a member of the Board of Advisores to the Temple
Religio Romana, and twice served as Consul in the Societas Via Romana
as well as Rector of SVR's Collegium Religiosum. I taught courses at
Academia Thules for which, in 2004, the Senate of Nova Roma paid me
the honor of special recognition for my work. This was a very special
honor for me personally, and much of a surprise, as I was not then a
citizen of Nova Roma. Later then I became Decanus of the religious
Studies Program at Academia Thules. And there are other Roman
communities with which I have been involved, either on line or in
person, performing Roman ritual or lending my views on Romanitas. I
returned as a citizen of Nova Roma in June 2005, serving then as
scriba to Censor Fabius Buteo Quintillius, on whose behalf I directed
the effort made in conducting the Census of 2005. For this current
year of 2006 I have been serving once more as Tribunus Plebis, as
Procurator and Sacredos in provincia Lacus Magni, and as a scriba to
Aedilis Curulis Titus Sabinus for the Magna Mater Project. Typical
of others, my sojourn has been one that took me through many parts of
our wider community of Roman enthusiasts before returning to our Res
Publica of Nova Roma. I am grateful for the reception I have received
upon my return, meeting once more with old friends and making new
friends. At the same time I am aware of others, some former members
of Nova Roma and others who have not yet been introduced to our Res
Publica, who could be welcomed additions to our community.
Nova Roma is a social, educational, and religious organizations.
Each aspect of Nova Roma needs to be revitalized and developed
further. This is not some thing that can be done by proposing new
laws, distracting our attention into online debates, but rather must
be addressed in the manner by which we conduct Nova Roma affairs. In
order to provide for our Citizens, we shall have to refocus our
attention on a local level. In that way we shall reinforce the
social bonds that hold our Citizens together while they in turn
attract new members. We also, from the central level, have to better
assist and provide for local communities of our Citizens.

One area of concern that I think we will need to take up in the
coming is a reorganization of our provincial system. Suggested by
the Census 2005 is that provincial organization should be based in
local communites rather than according to arbitrarily drawn
boundaries. In 2007 another census shall be held, and what will be
needed is to formulate how information gained from that census may be
used. This is a matter that has been discussed by magistrates over
the past two years, and I will later provide my ideas on the issue.

Another thing that we should do is to focus on specific projects,
with delineated goals by which to measure our progress. Nova Roma
has one such project already in the Magna Mater Project. Individual
Citizens have taken it upon themselves to found a Roman podcast, to
establish religious sanctuaries, and to perform other activities. We
need to develop more projects, some at a very local level, in order
to engage our Citizens and to help further develop Nova Roma's
community. Changing our focus over to projects will go hand in hand
with reorganizing our provinciae.

More is needed from the central organization in providing
informational support to local communities and to individuals.
Primarily our informational resources can be found in our sodalitates
and Collegium. We have relied perhaps too much on individuals
referring to our website for informational support. I would like to
see instead the Consules work with our sodalitates and Collegium
Pontificum to coordinate active dissemination of our informational
resources down to local levels, through our Propraetores, in order to
foster monthly activities.

It will be by local gatherings of our Citizens, engaging in
activities, that will inspire projects for all of our Citizens to
participate in. This will in turn eventually build a stronger
community, one that is more stable than a community based primarily
in online activity, and will then in turn attract new members into
our Res Publica as they see what Nova Roma can provide. This is a
long range plan for revitalizing Nova Roma. The means are already in
place. We need only to lay a foundation in the coming year for
managing and coordinating our efforts. I hope that you wil see in me
one of the Consules needed to steer Nova Roma back in this direction
of local involvement and future growth.

Valete et vadete in pace Deorum

M Moravius Piscinus Horatianus

Flamen Carmentalis

Tribunus Plebis

Procurator Lacus Magni

Sacerdos Lacus Magni

Scriba Aedile TIS: Magna Mater Project

Decanus Facultatis Theologiae, Academia Thules
</div>

[[Category:Candidates MMDCCLIX]]

Marcus Moravius Piscinus Horatianus (Election MMDCCLIX) - Revision history

Marcus Octavius Gracchus: import