Remembering Blessed Michael Rua

The first successor of Don Bosco...29th October, 2014

Just to list a few things 
that are significant about Don Rua...

1. He was a strict man but was a fitting successor of Don Bosco with his true love for persons!

2. He was the one who sent first Salesians to India, in 1906.

3. He was Don Bosco's boy, grew and took the reins from Don Bosco!

WORD 2day: 29th October, 2014

To be saved...any shortcuts?

Eph 6: 1-9; Lk 13: 22-30

Will only  few be saved? Who will be saved and who will not be? Will so and so be saved? These are questions we hear more often than not. Jesus not even once when he was asked, answered these questions direct. He always gave an explanation that made them think more and think of something else! Once he said the parable of the camel and the eye of the needle and another time he explained to them that it is possible with God, and impossible with merely human effort. However today, he says there are no categories of people who would enter, neither are there selected races who would enter! Anyone can enter and everyone is invited to enter the Reign of God, provided they had the right disposition and the right life style!

St. Paul in the first reading explains what this disposition or life style has to be. It is nothing but living our life wherever we are, in a manner that is pleasing to God. It is easy to blame the others or the situation for a life lived below the standard that is expected of us and the Lord today challenges us to 'strive to go through the narrow door'...that is the door that leads to the Reign! In Paul's words, we are called to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling (Phil 2:!2); it is not about fretting and fidgeting but about being diligent and dedicated in whatever we are called to be, wherever we are! 

Remembering Sts. Simon and Jude

28th October, 2014

Today we celebrate the feast of St.Simon and Jude... 

Simon was called the Zealot; it is the lesson that he has to give us all: we as the militant   church should always fight the battle for the will of God to be done and the Reign of God be established here and now.                                                       

Jude, called Thaddeaus in two of the four Gospels, is the considered the hope of those who are on the verge of giving up in life. The message is clear: there is nothing that is beyond God.

May our call to be apostles, sent by God, be filled with the same zeal and the unswerving faithfulness of these saints!