Year of Mercy – Reflection for 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (31 Jan 2016)
(Disclaimer: The following lines are product of pure imagination!)
Mr Pius is a good Christian.
He goes to church even on week days.
He reads the Bible very regularly.
He says all his long prayers very diligently –
even if often he would say them rather hurriedly.
He is an educated man, and he reads even the documents of the Church.
He is aware of the current debates that are going on in the Church.
He is in-charge of the formation of laity in his parish.
He has his positions clear:
The interpretation of the traditional teaching of the Church should not be watered down –
Not even in the name of mercy!
He believes that God is a just judge.
He will punish the wicked in time.
They will be condemned […]
Author: selvam
Year of Mercy – Reflection for 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (24 Jan 2015)
For a previous reflection of mine on the gospel of text of today: <<CLICK HERE>>. What follows is as reflection on the gospel of today in the context of the Year of Mercy, which is also the Jubilee year.
The Jubilee Year
It is so meaningful that in this “Year of Mercy”, as we begin to listen to the Gospel of Luke during this Ordinary Time in the liturgical calendar of Year C, we hear Jesus proclaiming “a year of favour from the Lord” (Lk 4:19; Is 61:2).
The connotation to the Year of the Lord in Isaiah is inspired by what is found in the Book of Leviticus (25:10-17):
You will declare this fiftieth year to be sacred and proclaim the liberation of all the country’s inhabitants. You will keep this as a jubilee… in it […]
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Salesian Mission and the HIV prevention programme in South & East Africa
Salesian Mission and the HIV prevention programme in South & East Africa:
The Background: It is true that there was an “Life Choices: Abstinence and Being Faithful Programme” run by the Salesians in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. It is important to note that while in South Africa it was run only in Cape Town – in one community, in Kenya and Tanzania, it was run in all the institutions of Salesians of Don Bosco and some of the institutions of the Salesian Sisters. It is also true that the five year project (2005 to 2010) was funded by USAID and PEPFAR. The Salesian Mission at Washington had applied for the funding on behalf of the Salesians in the three countries and had acted as the office for monitoring and evaluation of the project.
The current web-news concerns the allegations by means of a journalistic report made by Lepanto Institute and re-reported by […]
The methodology of Indian education: An autoethnographic assessment
How to cite this work:
Selvam, S.G. (2015). The methodology of Indian education: An autoethnographic assessment. In J. P. Doss, S. Fernando, & M. C. Antonysamy (eds.), Empowering education in today’s India (pp. 203-222). New Delhi: Don Bosco Youth Animation – South Asia.
Abstract
There are basically three possible approaches in scientific enquiry.[1] The third-person approach in science is informed by a positivist epistemology where truth is said to be what can be objectively observed. Physical sciences and life sciences adopt this methodology and derive their conclusions by means of measurements and statistics. Numbers offer an advantage of objectivity. The second-person approach believes that objective observation is not really possible, since the observer always causes their shadow on the observed. Hence truth is actually a construction of the interaction between the observer and […]