Author: selvam
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 the […]
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 […]
Spiritueller Reichtum: Schätze im Himmel
Gedanken zu den Lesungen des 19. Sonntags im Jahreskreis
Weish 18, 6-9; Hebr 11, 1-2.8-19; Lk 12, 32-48
Während der letzten Woche stieß ich durch Zufall bei Facebook auf einen meiner früheren Studenten. Wir hatten einen kurzen Kontakt miteinander und ich wurde neugierig auf das, was er in seinem Leben tat. Er sagt Kursentwicklungen voraus. Im Frühstücksfernsehen berichtet er über Marktentwicklungen und gibt Ratschläge für Investoren. Er bringt den Menschen bei, wie sie zuhause sitzend Geld verdienen können, indem sie Aktien kaufen und verkaufen. Ich habe mir einige seiner Fernsehshows angesehen. Alles geht darum, wie man schnell und mit wenig Mühe reich werden kann! Und er ist erfolgreich. Ich fragte mich: Können Menschen in einem Klima des schnellen Geldes einen Zugang zu Religion und Spiritualität finden? Man müsste mit ihnen wahrscheinlich in der […]
Sermon for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Who do you say I am?
Who am I? This is the question that we all start asking consciously right from the age of reason. But it has its beginnings perhaps even earlier, as infants when we are weaned and begin to walk, becoming independent and separate from the mother. This identity question becomes even more acute during adolescence at the threshold of becoming adults. I am not too sure what it could mean for the elderly. As I live through my 40’s I see certain serenity come over me as I ask myself: Who am I? The feeling about that question is unlike it was in my teens and twenties, and even in my thirties.
In answering the question of ‘who am I’ we rely on the help of others. Basically we define […]