Jesus comes to in the poor.

    What finally counts is not whether we know Jesus or know his words but whether we live our lives in the spirit of Jesus. The spirit of Jesus is the spirit of love. Jesus himself makes this clear when he speaks about the last judgment. There people will ask “Lord” when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?” and Jesus will answer. In so for as you did this to one of the least of mine you did it to me.

Reflection: This is our great challenge and consolation. Jesus comes to us in the poor, the sick, the dying, the prisoners, the lonely, the disabled, and the rejected. There we meet him, and there the door to God’s house is opened for us.  

Fulfilling a mission

   When we live our lives as missions, we become aware that there is a home from which we are sent and to which we have to return. We start thinking about ourselves as people who are in a faraway country to bring a message or work on project, but only for a certain amount of time. When the message has been delivered and the project is finished, we want to return home to give an account of our mission and rest from our labours.

Reflection: One of the most important spiritual discipline is to develop the knowledge that the years of our lives are years “on a mission”.

the gift of Friendship

    Friendship is one of the greatest gift to a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a band stranger than sexual union can create deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and can be even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love friendship makes all of life shine brightly. Blessed are those who lay down their lives for their friends.

Reflection: Through friendship we can built up our relationship. It is symbol a of sacrifice and love.

Called out of slavery

     The church is the people of God. The Latin word for “church” ecclesia comes from the Greek “to call”. The church is the people of God called out of slavery to freedom, sin to salvation, despair to hope, darkness to light an existence centered on death to an existence focused on life.

Reflection: When we think of the church we have to think of a body of people, traveling together. We have to envision women, men and children from all ages, races and societies supporting one another on their long and often tire some journeys to their final home

Being merciful with ourselves.

    We need silence in our lives. We even desire it. But when we enter into silence we encounter a lot of inner noises, often so disturbing that a busy and distracting life seems preferable to a time of silence. Two disturbing “noises” present themselves quickly in our silence. The noise of lust the noise of anger. Lust reveals our many unsatisfied needs, anger our many unresolved relationships. But lust and anger are very hard to face.

Reflection: Jesus says “Go and learn the meaning of the words, mercy is what please me not sacrifice. Sacrifice is “offering up” cutting out” burning away or killing. We shouldn’t do that with our lust and anger. It simply won’t work., But we can be merciful toward our own noisy selves and turn these enemies into friends.

1) Once there was a little girl who went to a church. But she couldn’t pray like the others because she was too small to read and write. So one day she carefully writes the alphabets from A to Z and keeps it near the image of Jesus and slowly whispers, I don’t know the prayers to the mass because I am very small to read and write. But I will tell you and give you what I learnt till yesterday in my pre-kg classes. And now please arrange the alphabets and make a prayer from my side to you.

 God sees your heart, not the words in your prayer.

To exist is to co-exist.

To exist is to co-exist.

Man is a radically social animal. On no level of his existence as a person is he absolutely alone.

I fully agree with the hymn when it says, “no man can live in an island journeying through life alone.” It is obvious that we need one another besides our parents, siblings and our near and dear ones. We need friends, leaders, teachers advisor who would help us to live lives beautifully.

Fritz perls said, “I am not in this world to live up to your expectations; it’s true. But in the society we need confirmation, recognition, affirmation and relation. So I am in this world to confirm you as a unique human being and to be confirmed by you. It is best to know that we are fully ourselves only in relation to each other. It is 100% true that I must begin with myself. But I must end with my self. The truth always involves two or three. Jesus does not say, “Where there is one and only one, I will be there in his or her midst.” But he says, “Where there are two or there are gather in my name I will be there in the midst of them.”

In short, we become fully human only through our interaction with other human beings.