SALESIAN FAMILY BULLETIN CELEBRATES 10 YEARS
“Everyone is born with a blue print from the Almighty. Yet the paradox unfolds itself as we question the trails that we tread without consulting the map. Personal Free Choice and Vocation need not be on a collision course. Reflection, seeking and listening will make the ace difference in journeying on familiar yet untraveled roads. The challenge ahead is then to walk on and help fellow travelers as well like a boy scout with a reliable compass.”
EDITORIAL AUGUST 1999
“You too can live the life of your choice. Or you could live the life of someone else’s choice, or settle for a combination of your desires and another’s dreams for you. Also, you could just decide not to make a decision at all. The point is, no one else can make that decision for you. You make it yourself. Just don’t start a game of blame or deal out cards of woes, or brood over a missed opportunities stockpile. Unless you ‘own’ your decision, stamp your personal commitment on it, you are going to drift, swayed by the currents of circumstances and external factors. Your paddles of INDECISION will have handles of Doubt and Fear.”
EDITORIAL OCTOBER 2004
“In the Book of Sirach chapters 44 to 50 we have an interesting list of Heroes of Israel. Ben Sira considers them heroes because their hearts were fixed on the Lord (49:3). While the ‘stuff’ of heroes and heroines is already within us, we need to believe in ourselves, become aware of the might of the ‘kingdom of God’ within us and dare to soar above mediocrity focusing on the Lord who said, “I am with you till the end of time.” (Mt. 28:20)
EDITORIAL MARCH 2005
“There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.” William James. We think in pictures and dream in pictures. Getting back to Don Bosco means we need to think and dream big in vibrant colours – the streak of light (influence) that travels across the globe, the robe of many diamonds (fidelity), path of roses with thorns (daring), two rivers and desert (distant frontiers).
EDITORIAL MAY 2007
Our attitude determines whether our work is about daily humiliation or the exquisite and the rare. Our attitude will again determine whether our work as religious or Christians is just doing our duties or it is the fulfillment of a God given mission. Starting afresh from Don Bosco through the Provincial and General Chapters is a clarion call to move our life to the starting lane of excellence through high fidelity. Fr. Egidio Vigano introduced the new Constitutions of the Society of St Francis de Sales with a prayer which in part reads, ‘ You have made blossom in us a new and exhilarating reality which is the offering of ourselves in the work of salvation and the liturgy of life.’
EDITORIAL JULY 2008
