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 Man Who Won the Spiritual Tests

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At the very outset, wishing you the greetings of the feast of our beloved founder, St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara (Jan. 3). In connection with the feast, the holy church wants us to reflect on the beatitudes which are very familiar to us. The 8 beatitudes could be understood as 8 spiritual tests. Those who win the tests will be awarded. I would like to present St. Chavara as a champion who had won these 8 victories. Let us see some of them. Those who are poor in spirit will achieve the medal of the kingdom of God. Poverty here means not just material poverty. Someone who longs for the Lord is the one who is poor in spirit. Only a simple-hearted person can keep this longing for the Lord always. St. Chavara had a childlike heart to call Jesus – Appa, St. Therese of Avila – Amma, and all the saints as his family members. Let us think about how much we are complicated within our heart. Those who mourn will be awarded the reward of consolation. A heartbreaking incident in the life o...
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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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