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MARY, A NEW ISRAEL              I am glad to share with you some of the reflections on the theme “Mary a new Israel. ” Before I begin, allow me to acknowledge Fulton J. Sheen whose reflection I am going to share from the theological point of view.             Dear friends, not one of us has the power to make our own mothers as we wish. If we had this power, I am sure that we would make our mothers most beautiful and most perfect. I made this statement, because Jesus preexisted Mary and so He could make  mother perfect and pure. Thus, the concept of the Immaculate Conception pre-exist in the mind of God. He thought of her before she was born.             When the first Paradise was lost by the sin of our first parents God thought that He would remake paradise which was defiled but not destroyed. So, in the Old Testament we see Israel as a loose woman loved by God. Therefore, God told Moses to make the tabernacle so that He could dwell with his people. The cloud overshadowed

SUFFERING IS A MYSTERY                         Today in the class I am captured by the word pain and suffering. Suffering has been playing a drastic role in the human lives at different levels at different times of one’s life. Therefore, I feel enthused to ponder on this issue which is ever relevant in human existence as a whole. Suffering empirically speaking, it has immediate unpleasant implications on a situation of a person. But if I see at it critically basing on the lives of Don Bosco and Victor Frankl who have gone beyond suffering and endured it gracefully and even became radical producers of positive affirmation in life.             Down through the ages the human species have been battling with the question which has been a thorn in the flesh. Now what it is that thorn in the flesh? Well, it is the complexity of suffering in human life. I say the complexity of suffering precisely because; there are the degrees and various elements of suffering. Suffering can be caused by

            I am deeply captured by the common phenomena of our life namely ‘Fear’. Well, to begin with what exactly is fear? Many of us think that fear has always a negative connotation but, if we are sharp enough and examine this phenomena, has very positive outlook as well. You might wonder what I am talking all about. According to French political philosopher there are two principles which govern the human life namely LOVE and FEAR. Of the two, Fear is more pervasive factor in human life. Now my premise is to tap this factor like sap in the sandal wood tree. Because, fear is often taken for granted from our comfort zones and not looking the other factors which are involved with it. I am sure down the centuries neither prophet nor sage gave a solution to do away with fear. Even Buddha and Christ the greatest teachers that the world has ever encounter have given any medicine to elude this from life.             “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are power

“FEAR AS INEXITRICABLE PHENOMENON OF LIFE”             I am deeply captured by the common phenomena of our life namely ‘Fear’. Well, to begin with what exactly is fear? Many of us think that fear has always a negative connotation but, if we are sharp enough and examine this phenomena, has very positive outlook as well. You might wonder what I am talking all about. According to French political philosopher there are two principles which govern the human life namely LOVE and FEAR. Of the two, Fear is more pervasive factor in human life. Now my premise is to tap this factor like sap in the sandal wood tree. Because, fear is often taken for granted from our comfort zones and not looking the other factors which are involved with it. I am sure down the centuries neither prophet nor sage gave a solution to do away with fear. Even Buddha and Christ the greatest teachers that the world has ever encounter have given any medicine to elude this from life.             “Our deepest fear is not th