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On 18th Feb, 2015 Random Reflection from one of my students during Hermeneutics Oral Exam: He said "A bad person sees a bad person bad; because he doesn't trust the other.  but a good person sees a bad person good; because he trusts the other." So it is TRUST that builds our Relationships, Family and Community. Beautiful....

Today evening I was with my students working in the Mango Garden. While working we noticed that out of so many flowers that bloomed are down now. Most of the flowering has been withered away due to some natural conditions and situations. What ever would be the reason....I was wondering why only some trees can be planted by the seed, others by the stem and few others by the flower and the rest neither of them but by a formulae... Have you ever thought about it? First of all they bloom, flower and bare fruits not just by their instinct and natural condition. But they do have the instinctual desires to propagate themselves and spread their roots across just like humanity strive to procreate and propagate. That's why all the trees and plants (flora and fauna) when they feel that they are going to die or perish then they start flowering and then bearing fruits. This was shared by one of the senior Salesian members of my community. I was really thrilled to know this wonderful secret of...

Don Bosco is a creative and innovative saint. The church honored by calling him as the father and friend of youth . His greatness lies in the unique and creative method called Preventive System . By this effective pedagogical system he taught young people the values and the virtues of heart beside imparting education and offering employment. Hence the church recognized him as the creative saint of the young people. Don Bosco is a catalyst among the boys on the streets who were disposed to all sorts of social and economic evils. Despite the fact that the boys were at threat both physically deteriorating their health and spiritually making them go astray he resolved and committed that his life would be meant only for them. He wished first to save their worldly life and then lead them to Christ by his arresting slogan “ Give me souls and take away the rest. ” There were a handful of boys who were attracted to his slogan of soul and became saints from his own oratories.  His mi...

           As I was taking an oral exam with my students; I asked one of my students about what is/was God for him? He answer saying that God is complete to which we cannot neither add anything nor subtract anything from him. Beautiful answer and I began think over it.          Today as I was reading a book Awareness by Anthony de Mello I came across a similar ideas about God. He quotes Meister Echart, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." We don't do anything to be free, we just drop something of the self then we are free. This has been an eye opener for me to think of God's greatness and my limitedness. In his greatness is our strenght. But not by our will and power. God is therefore, complete in himself and pervades everywhere. 

           Dear Friendz, Today the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. This feast reminds us dat mother Mary suffered mentally, psychologically and spiritually. She suffered not for herself but for us. The pain and suffering of our Blessed Mother tells us that, if we suffer for ourselves it is endurance but if we suffer for others it is noble and meaningful. This is the kind of suffering our mother experienced in her earthly life. For suffering is a mystery. Suffering is God's visit to us in disguise. Praise God for having brought Christ through our Blessed Mother. May she intercede for us dat we may imbibe her virtues of patience and purity.     The feast of our lady of sorrows reminds us that the cause of joy is painful but the fruit of suffering is sweet like the salvation brought by Jesus by his death on the cross. Pain is never desired by anybody but the truth is that we all of us have face some sort of pain and s...

HOUSE OF OUR LIFE: "God invites us to build the house of our life on a rocky foundation. For this enterprise we are the contractors, masons and dwellers. Therefore, ultimately we are responsible to build the house of our life either on a rocky foundation or on sand." Those who are wise will build their house on a rocky foundation and the foolish build on sand. It is all in one's individuals choice. No one can make us to choose either of the options but the others can only advise and suggest us to help to choose either of the choices.......Be watchful therefore  

              "God forgives but nature will never forgive." Bec God is not a principle, not a law (natural law), not a system (barter system, where we exchange goods for goods), God is Mysterious LOVE. Therefore as God's children our christian life invites to live beyond laws, principles and systems. This is what we call going extra mile. And living Virtuous over being good. Bec, our life is beyond tit for tat, where we experience God's love as He embraces equally despite our differences and vulnerabilities. Bec, God cannot but love us; for He is love itself. This does not mean that he is conditioned by His love for us? No not at all. Bec, our minds are too small to grasp this profound truth. The point is that we are called to transcend from our limited level of eros to philia and from there to Agape level where we become complete. For we are called to go beyond tit for tat. At this level we begin to respect the individuals as they are rather than l...