2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
Finding our space in the Universe:
The Life Journey of John the Baptist (Jn 1:29-34)
Christmastide is now over and retailers have special Sales. Because, retailers hate ordinary time. They try to make even ordinary time into something special. Hence the reduced prices!
In the liturgical calendar, we are back to the ordinary time. But even in our gospel reading there is an attempt to make the liturgy of today special too. Perhaps it is just to remind us that every Eucharistic celebration is special! As we are in Year A, we should have been listening to the Gospel of Matthew. But our gospel text for today came from the Gospel of John, as is the case every year on the 2nd Sunday […]
Author: selvam
Monthly Recollection at Don Bosco Upperhill – 11 Jan 2020
Spirituality of Youth in the 21st Century
Dimesse Centre, Nairobi, 22 October 2019
A presentation made to the Kenyan Association of Vocation Animators (KAVA).
The presentation has three parts:
What is special about the youth of 21st Century?
What is spirituality?
Dimensions of Youth Spirituality
The first part explores the characteristics of the youth of 21st Century. It focuses on the following aspects:
a. It begins by pointing out to the fluidity of the 21st century… what will be the nature of the following in the year 2100: education, job-market, media, science & technology, politics, social structures? No one really knows in details. One thing is sure: it is going to be much different from that of today.
b. Consider the demographic truth. Africa is still going to have a high level of youth population. Causing a youth-bulge! Would we have […]
Sermon for 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Homily
27th Sunday of Ordinary Time (C)
“We have done no more than our duty” (Lk 17:5-10)
The Spirituality of Daily life
In the late 1990’s, CNN, the American news channel, ran an ad in the print media that made a deep impression on me: not necessarily to watch CNN – which, of course, I do sometimes, but about the spirituality of daily life. The two page ad had this large truck in the foreground which was on fire. At one of the corners of the photograph there was this elderly person who was throwing a bucket of water on the blazing truck in an attempt to put off the fire. And the caption read: “History is not made by kings and presidents; but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
The Liturgy of the Word on this 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time invites us to reflect on the sacredness […]
News Report on Book Launch
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NAIROBI , 31 August, 2019 / 3:37 AM (ACI Africa).-
A book on how principles of psychology can be applied to the ministry of Christian churches within the African context has been launched in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
“Indications show that Christianity is vibrant in most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and pastoral challenges are also many being that the history of Christianity in most parts of the African continent is relatively short,” author of the book, Rev. Prof. Sahaya Selvam has noted.
“More scientific approaches are needed to understand and respond to these pastoral situations,” Fr. Selvam has further explained what motivated him to write the book that focuses on Africa.
“Africa has specific issues like anomalous experiences such as hearing voices or possession like behavior hence the need to apply psychological principles in the African context,” the Salesian of Don Bosco missionary said Thursday, August 29 […]