Reflection

Reflection:Are we a living Salesian or an existing Salesian?

     Are we living or existing. If living is good but if you just existing then we need to think about. What is the difference between them? Living has purpose and life that can create goal and while existing is non-life but just wondering I mean that in existing there is purpose in which path we are moving. So as a Salesian be living and existing. Date:22-8-15

MONTHLY RECOLLECTIO:12-8-15 by Rev.Bp.Lukes Daniel.

        To day’s recollection was a very meaningful and nostalgic upon the call that each one receive. The talk was given by our Rev. Bp. Lukes Daniel the Bishop of Nashik Diocese. The topic was about “the Attraction that Jesus created in us.” In the recollection talk he begun by narrating his own experience. He said that we do not see God but we hear His call and follow Him. His call attracts us. He also asked us why we are in the Philosophate and what are we doing leaving all the enjoyment outside. Also he asked whether we are faithful to the call or not. These entire questions made to reflect and made me to do things with purpose and not just dragging aimlessly. Finally he conclude saying that to be religious or priest is all about giving generously then only the church will grow and he said that Jesus is not concept/imagination but Jesus is Real –living.

     Priesthood is not an advertisement for a moment but FOREVER.

Friday

   

      Today we the community of Divyadaan celebrates the births day of Cl. Servin sdb and out Rector Major Fr. Angel Fernandez sdb. The mass was celebrated by Fr. Joachim D’souza sdb along with other concelebrants. In the homily he preached about the St. Pious IX and he said that he was same with our present pope Francis and in fact he anticipated our present pope in doing and going about. It was a nice homily and very prayerful one even though he was just narrating the life of Pope Pious IX because he does with a reflection.   Date: 21-8-15 

The God who prayed (Mk1:35)

          It is surprise and wired to hear that God prays to God, but it is a fact that our Lord Jesus prayed and through his concrete life he taught his disciples to follow and to pray. Why is it so? Could he not just talk to God, beside he is the Son of God, just as Moses spoke face to face with God in the Old Testament? However, not so but Jesus would go early in the morning to a quite place to pray to his father. There are two ways to answer to this question. First of all our lord Jesus has two natures, that is truly Man and truly Divine. That is he prayed to God as a true man and preached to the people as a Divine. The double nature of Jesus clearly shows in the gospel of Mark 4:35-41, Jesus stills a storm. In this passage Jesus as human he fell asleep and as God he stilled a storm.

 Our Lord Jesus taught all his teaching through his concrete life by living it and not just explanation out of something abstract. More over he came to this world not sit on other’s shoulder and rule them but he walk like us and he in order to acquire the status as a prince of the universe being a prince he had to shading his blood to win over all humanity. He prayed from the beginning of his life till his last breath at the cross with his powerful words, “Father forgive them for they know not”(Luke 23:34) and he instructed to his disciples to keep continue praying even after his resurrection as a prince of the heaven and earth

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   God understood man that the only way to convince them would be by loving them and to keep unite between his father and man is by becoming himself like us and teach by living like us. Thus God the Father did not spare to send his loving son to be like us and to suffer the most painful and ridiculed suffering ever human suffered.

   Jesus is the only man who lived life meaningful and to the full. When we see his life we would find that he lived like any human would live. He worked, enjoyed life, he had friends both man and woman. Lazarus, Mary and Martha were his closest friends that he always spent time besides his disciples. He always prayed before anything he had done. Without prayer he never started anything the best example that be code is before selecting his disciples (Lk:6:12b) there are many places where we find Jesus praying. Thus we can address Jesus our Lord as the God who prayed.

   We as his disciples have no other legacy that he left for us but to pray to him in any time as the only means to communicate with his father. Prayed is not recitation of a long writings but a personal dialogue with God who is always listening. Thus it is a loving conversation and sincere disclosure of our own sentiments of gratitude and petition that we required to walk our life journey. Prayer is always a personal matter even if we prayer as a community or the same prayer we pray because we pray to him with our own feeling of personal relationship. Let us then pray to him with our true feelings as he is our personal friend, father, mother, counselor, and comforter.

Beautiful day.

It was a beautiful day. The day begun with the praising the Lord. Since it was Friday we had Lectio Devina from the gospel according to Mathew chapter 7:1-12. Since it was long so we had only half part. Then followed by the holy Eucharist celebrated by Fr. Joachim and he preached in his homily from the book of St. Augustine, since it was his feast day, the confession. He explained nicely the actual intention of the book saying that he wrote for all people alike, that is about confession to God for the iniquity and not only for himself.   28^th Aug 2015

Mediocrity the blessing in disguise

                              

Don’t take literary that is planning to live mediocre life all through. Why am I saying this? You might be confused. Not that being a mediocre I am successful but because I am able to acknowledge that I am not perfect and master in all I strongly rely on GOD. Thus this weakness made me reflect through sincerity that without God I am nothing. Hence it is a blessing or else if I am a professional I would we proud and live with my ego and ego would have become my god. But due to this it has become a blessing in disguise.    

Do not judge other and you will not be judge.

This sentence is very powerful one and it is very good for frustrate people especially when some one want to correct. See how the scripture can be use for evil purpose. But when we see in human life, we human are a judging being and we cannot escape from judging. To not to judge is itself already judge. What do you say about if we reflect well? But there is always possibility to be not a judge and  that is how we say something to some one in a correct way. The concrete solution for this is  love and accept.

Realization

  Realization is never too late. It is the important state which human becomes more human. It is a time when everything you begin to understand and it is equal to many years of your work and struggle to come to succeed the thing that you wanted to have. When it comes be grateful to that moment and never feel bad for the time you took too arrived at that particular situation. This is the most important state of life of which people are longing for because it changes all things and lead to live a new way of life all together. So seek for the moment and when it comes be grateful and live it to change your self and the world.  

The power of word I love you.

         I am sure that every one of us must have said one way to the other to some one the word I love you if not to God then to our parents or siblings or to our girl friend not less than a thousand times. And we can feel that this word has a tremendous power to change the world and a person’s life.

   If you have not said then begin it to say from your heart to your loved ones whom you loved much and concern for. It has a tremendous power that can change in human lives as I have mentioned above. It is sad because it has become a victim because it has been used for a wrong purpose that is not to build relationships but to destroy by breaking it as soon as the desire the external desire had been fulfilled. Does this stand the true meaning of the meaning of word,” I love you”. The word I LOVE YOU no longer joined LOVE or relationship no longer connected with love but just I WANT YOU.

   Want and Love are very much different because the purpose of the former is to satisfy the desire but the later has the purpose even to sacrifice at a cost of one.

    This type of love is generally expressed by our parents whom we do not recognize and realized and we failed to show our love in them in return. We tend to express this feeling more to our girl friend or boy friend in a wrong ways. We need to express first to our parents rather than to some one who come only on the half way of our lives.

   When we try to change the meaning which is good we experience the same thing different taste and like but we can through it away if it does not come to our likes. However in love we cannot treat like things and should not be so superfluous in saying but we need to speak from our heart and it does really work in people’s lives. It does not return empty handed but it generates relationships and bring the bond of love between people and parents and children, God and man.

       With courage take first step to say to your mom and dad that “I Love You So much”, who have the right to receive because they were the one who said to you initially and brought you up with love and not out of burdensome.

freedom

                                                       

What is freedom?

         Most people think freedom means external action that they enjoy like free to move around, free to eat, to drink, to talk and some times even doing nothing. Yes all these are part of freedom but real freedom is not narrow which is only with the things we feel satisfaction but more than these external reality. People who seek freedom in external way will end up of the consequences of the external situation but those who seek beyond it will find it that no one can snatches away.

         For me freedom is not from things that we experience or we received in our lives but it is an internal force which is one clearly finds and experiences. No one can take this freedom from and individual because it is one’s own choice. To be free or not to be free is one’s own choices where he/she can decide. Here I would like to quote the best example about a person who is free in spite of all the external sufferings. He is non other than Victor Frankle who did once said quoting Niche,” He who has the why to live for can cope with almost any how”. In him we can see freedom personification and this is the fact of the people who are freedom personified. A free person from his inner self can see hope even in a most hopeless situation. Therefore freedom is not a freedom from punishment or duty but it is from the decision that one has made in spite of all obstacles and yet fines a peace and serenity. Freedom is contradiction to external condition. Another person whom we can called a freedom personified is Nelson Mandela who once said after coming out from the prison when a certain journalist had asked him and his reply was this ,” when I left the prison’s gate I have forgave them because if have not forgave them then I would be still in that bar”. Thus freedom is the ability to choose to forgive and to love even to those who inflict pains to us.