Rise Up



It is not so easy to travel a way where you never find a stumbling stone….
You will encounter it by chance…
Will fall down….
Will be hurt…
Still you are not to stop…
You will begin from where you were made to stop.
You are a beginner always… a Beginner Monk…

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St. Chavara - The Blessed Peace Maker

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“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called      the sons of god”. This is one of the 8 beatitudes upon which we are reflecting today. This verse has 2 parts. 1 st  is about peacemakers and the latter is about the son ship of God. Let’s see them one by one. Blessed are the peacemakers. At Jesus’ birth, the angels from heaven sung “Glory to god in the highest and peace to people on earth always. “See down in the manger, God has sent his peace to dwell with you” (Luke 2:14). This song of glory is an inevitable part of our life. We begin our prayers with this song and of course, this is one of the most repeated prayers in our liturgy. By repeating the song of the holy angels, we proclaim the great truth that Jesus is the real peace and he is always with us. Peacemaker means one who brings peace. Bringing peace means being Jesus in the world and being Jesus in the world means becoming the sons of God. How can we become Jesus in the world? The gosp...
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The Samaritan Woman and the Disciples (JN. 4:27-38)

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(especially for priests and religious...) This gospel passage is very familiar to all of us. There we come across two main characters other than Jesus. They are the disciples and the Samaritan woman. They represent two categories of people. The Samaritan woman represents a zealous religious or even an outsider who has his/her own responsibilities in his family and society. And the disciples represent a passive religious like most of us. The gospel passage deals with the incidents happened after the dialogue between the Samaritan woman and Jesus. When the disciples came back they saw Jesus speaking with a gentile woman. They were astonished. Because she was a Samaritan – a pagan. Very often we also get disappointed or jealous when we see Jesus intervening through laymen or outsiders. They perform miracles, they see visions, they predict future, they hear god’s voice…and we wonder just as the disciples did. There are a number of examples for this. Mario Joseph - a Muslim w...
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