What is the Best Service we Offer?

     There are many MANY SERVICES that we can offer to fellow beings. But the question is what is the best service that is essential but doesn't cost much of your energies but our heart and will? The service that costs our heart and mind is PRAYER. Yes friendzz PRAYER the best SERVICE that we can offer to our fellow beings. Therefore prayer the best means to help others. St Theresa of Child Jesus knew this fact and she embraced all humanity and the whole world through her PRAYER. Thus by prayer we don't need to speak much to be heard. Instead we can be heard according to the voice of our heart and spirit of our prayer. 

IMPROVE NOT PROVE

            In life many people strive to prove what they are not. For example students, players, leaders and actors try to give their best in order to prove their talents and potentialities. The same principle applies to all of us. Because as members of the communities, families and societies at large. Life is all about proving what we are to others; rather than living what we are. Given the question Do you make your life or do you live your life? Ask yourself and see. Because in rat race of our life (competition, compromise and collaboration) we get on to this sort of attitude of proving ourselves. 

             While trying to prove ourself, what happens is, we wear a mask, we disguise and distance self from our true self. Instead what should happen is, that we should strive to work upon our true self. We need to introspect and see what exactly we can improve. By this process of introspection we tap our inner and silent potentialities and thus we get into our own shoes of self awareness and realization. As a result we stop proving ourselves and begin to improving our life. The rest follows......

Death Anniversary of a Veteran Salesian...

Rev Fr John Varicatt, was born in 1931 and lived as a Salesian in the Province of Hyderabad and worked tirelessly for the welfare of the young people. He died in 2002 due to a massive heart attack. His was the first death of the province of INH. Today we keep the 12^th anniversary of his demise. Therefore today we prayed for him and prayed to him. One of his hobbies was to make rosaries of sandalwood and present them to his friends. He was also known for his sincerity and punctuality. However he used to be flexible with the people. Although he was a late vocation yet we could see how convinced he was. His holiness is much greater than any scholarliness.  May His Soul Rest in CHRIST.

Religious Life and Secular World

Religious Life is a friend to the Secular World. It is not at all an enemy to it. Very often we think dat Secular world is an enemy. It is not because only in religious Life we have fulfilment of vocation that we all choose and live. Therefore to make our vocation as a gift we need to live in this world. Down the history we have many individuals who set their life as great examples. Religious life will bear its fruit in hundredfold and two hundredfold only in  the world. Therefore, it is not ideal to dispose the world and uphold the other world/heaven.

What makes religious life more outstanding is that its simplicity and charity. Because Religious life demands to live by poverty, obedience and chastity. Well it is not enough; this life is all about daily living. Because everyday and every activity is simple yet with great care and love. All through our life expected to live with love. Because love bears all things and embraces all things.
Most interestingly in religious life it is not about doing great things everyday but doing everyday things in an extraordinary way. There lies the real life that entails joy in small things. We enjoy this life by doing good to everyone who at our reach. Thus God's love is spread more more though our instrumentality. Likewise our life becomes more meaningful to us and becomes an example and inspiration for all those who are with us.

Sense of Despair & Sense of Transcendanse

Today (nowadeiz) we see the two spectrums of perspectives about truth and reality. This is a constant flux where the youth drift or float...depends on their stand and conviction. This once again confirms the ground of Chinese philosophical spectrum about reality. bUt by this what is happening to the human values and meaningfulness of life? Yes dat is what I am concerned about. Let me hit the nail on the head. By the forces of this global, multicultural and postmodern trend I feel dat we are drifting by the current rather than floating on move. This is vividly manifested as it unveils the sense of Despair and Hopelessness. In the subtle trend meaningless is creeped into the lives of the people. We lack joy, peace, love and forget even to smile. Therefore we become impotent like the stray and rust. Our potentialities and possibilities get blurred and become blunt. Thus, unfortunately we lack sense of GOD and sense of the Other and Self itself. 

         

As we are caught up and blinded by the current forces of the materialistic world; Jesus offers a new way out. He invites us all to his mantle of gentleness and kindness. How wonderful to feel his presence and how delightful to experience his love and affection. Thus he always welcomes to build up a sense of God that enables us to have access to the sense of TRANSCENDENCE. His way out ever contrasts to the way in of the world. His love opens our senses to attune to his passionate love for us. Therefore we long for his love. Hence, we need and ought to cultivate dis wonderful attitude of sense of God. As good men and women and as religious specially, striving for this way is our task in all that we do, should be our only aim  for life. Likewise we become men of God as we have the access to the transcendence while we rare on earth. 

Transfiguration: Mystery made a Reality

It is Jesus who manifested simultaneously two natures in himself. We see down history of Israel how God has been protecting them in various forms. In the form of a cloud during the day and in the form of pillar at night. However Israelites could not understand the mysterious revelation of God as he was making mystery into a Reality. Even mother Mary the seat of wisdom became the part of this mysterious salvific project. Thus even she is enabled to teach us wisdom and love. Jesus is Mr Perfect. Therefore, he was made perfect to stand on the pulpit to set good example of the providential Father and Spirit. On mount Tabor, he once again manifests his splendour and glory to his disciples with the company of Moses and Elijah. When he was born the stars revealed about his birth. When he was crucified there was thunder and earthquake. So, even the cosmos acknowledges His presence and privilege and penance that he brought to the humanity by costing his life as a ransom for many. Thus we have Jesus life as Cosmological History, MytholOgical History and finally we have in Christ tHEistic HIStory. Thus in Christ we see Mystery made HIStory, Myth becomes a Reality and Truth becomes a Certitude. (Genesis creation Myth, God as Truth into a Certitude more scientific and Mystery as part of geographical, cosmological and scientific History.)  

Solidarity Rosary Service: A Cry for PEACE

      On fifth August, 2014 we, the community of DBK prayed the Solidarity Rosary Service. The sole intention of this rosary service was to pray for peace. Well the procedure was the same as a normal Rosary. But what captivated me was the depiction of the powerpoint slides of war incidents of the of late wars that occurred in and around the world, inclusive of PAK and IND. War affected countries like, IND, PAK,
Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Russia and Ukrain and etc.,

    During Solidarity Rosary Service everyone was called to pray devoutly for the establishment of peace and to seek peace in the world. All the community members participated in this service and I'm sure that everyone felt the need and necessity of peace.