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.