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Today morning I was in the garden reading a book. But suddenly my attention went to the singing of the birds............how beautiful the voice............I enjoyed it one hour............My heart is very calm and peaceful............one hour no thinking of other things, no worry...........God created the nature to calm our mind and heart....................Let us feel it..........

Nature

It was my desire always to enjoy the natural beauty of the Creatures of God the Almighty. How God created the nature. I always wonder about it. Always it leads me to reflect about God and His greatness. When I am alone I look around I see there the Hand of God which point to show me the beauty of all the things around me. When I am silent He calls of by name and ask me to listen the beautiful songs of teh birds. When I am in prayer He speaks to me about His presence in others. I see in other His loving presence. When my mind is calm He comes to me and tells all about the World and its contains. How wonderful it is ............. He created them for us ............. not to destroy but to multiply.........use it properly........... be thankful to God...........Thanl you Lord.

Homily 6th Sunday fo Easter.

All through the Easter season we read from the Acts of the Apostles. There we see the growth and development of First Christian community. It is very interesting and meaningful for us to reflect about the First Christian Community. When we reflect we can see that the First Christian community teaches us something for our family life and our community life today. Mainly we can see 4 essential point which we can take today to our life.

a) The First Christian community was faithful to the teaching of the Apostles:- Means they were living the Gospel values. They were faithful to each other in the community and they gave life witness.

b) They were concerned for each other, especially for the poor and the weak:- They gave attention to the people to whom they live, for them everything was in common. There were no discrimination in the community as rich and poor.

c) The Breaking of Bread:- They were faithful in participating in the breaking of the bread, that today we have in the form of Eucharist. They were sincerely participating and living the meaning of Eucharist, that in unity and peace.

d) Thanksgiving:- They were greatful to each other, what they receive from the community. More than that they were thanksful to each other for their life presence, for their life witnesses.

Dear friends when we look at today´s families and communities we can see very often these 4 essential points are missing from our day today life. So we see the breaking up of the families very soon. Today the First Christian community calls us to reflect about our own families and communities. Are we faithful to the other persons in our families or communities?, Are we concerned for others, do we give time for other, are we ready to listen others? Do we have time to come together in the family? We thank when we receive some gifts from others, but do we thank the person for his life presence in our joruney of life?

Another point today´s first reading give us is, it asks us to inherit the quality; the Chritian ability to solve the problems. The 15th chapter of Acts of the Apostles gives us the first prolem in the Christian community. But today´s first reading tells us how the Apostles were able to solve the problem. They were able because they were living the Gospel values. They called the people together, listened them, collected all the openions, and took decision together. We too need to inherit the quality. We live in human community, there naturaly have problems, we should be able to slove them, we can solve them if we live the Gospel values in our day today life.

The Gospel shows how deep is God´s love that He never leae us alone and how we should express our love. Today´s Gospel is an answer to the question of one of His desciples that how canit be that you can show yourself clearly only to us and not to the world. Jesus knew what He was going to suffer and that He was going to die but He was not worried of Himself, He was thinking of His desciples that He will leave behind. He knew that they were weak when the trails come they will fall. Here He shows His unconditional love He promissed to send His Spirit to guide them. For God´s love there is no conditions, He never asks anything in return. But He asked us only one thing `Love one another as He has loved us`. This was His condition. We want to love but very often we base our love in human perspective, for our self pleasure, happiness. This human love searchonly pleasure. But Jesus asks us to love one another as He loved us. That si to love others until the pain of death. He showed us teh greatest example, He loved us until the Cross. His love call us for sacrifice.

Today´s Gospel is also a gospel of Hope. We see the promise of th Holy Spirit. God never leave us alone. We read in the Gospels that after the death of Jesus the desciples went away for their own works, they lost their hope. But when they received the Holy Spirit we see the result, they stood for the Gospel even at the point of death. Let us pray today for the gift of Holy Spirit that we may be strong and live according to the guidence of the Spirit.

We uesed to visit hospital form our minor seminaries. One day I visited a mother who was dying with Cancer, she was at great pain and suffering much and she knew that she is dying. But her words surprissed me and made me to think. The mother told me, brother I am fride to go now, if I go today who will love my children, who will take care of them. Even in her pain and suffering the mother was not thinking of herself but about her children and family. My dear friends today we celebrate Mothers day. We experience teh unconditional love of God first from our pearants specialy from our mothers, we experiecne the sacrificing love. The mothers in the Christian families are called as the first teachers of faith. From our mothers we receive teh seed of faith. A mother in the family love to talk much specialy to her children becasue she wants her children grow in good fiath and Christian values. Today whatever success of live and in whatever state of life we are behid all these there is a woman...our mother, because she gave us life. A mother is a life giver, without life we are nothing. today we may be thinking what gift we can give to our mothers, dear friends if we pray sincerly in this Eucharist and say to our mothers that I love you my mother that will be the best gift youcan give today to your mothers. In today´s Gospel Jesus says if you love me you will obey my words. Yes my dear friends we can express our love to our mothers ....if we obdy thier words and advices. We experience this reality in our families, that if the mother in the family is happy the whole family is happy. From our mothers we learn........that we need to live in this world with courage to face the challenges, we need to live in this world with security to have faith, we nedd to live in this world with friendship to find God´s love in this world. Love of a mother is eternal. Today let us offer our mothers in the hands of Our Beloved Mother Mary that she may protect them and lead themin their journey to bring their children in good faith. If a mother is happy the whole family is happy. Amen.

Pictures of Visit to the Hindu community

Visit to the Hindu Community in Brazil

It is very interesting to know about the Hindu Community in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I visited the community last week. The community is named as ´Hare Krishna´. At present all the memebers of the community are the local people. The communityis started by an Indian, he is a Sami. I had a chance to be present in a prayer section. It is very interesting, people sing, dance, and make some signs of praise of God. It is a silent place, with trees, streems, mountains, and animals. Naturaly beautiful place. They teach the Mandras there. There also exist a Thandra peeda, here the candidates for the priesthood study the mandras, prayers and the scriptures. After coming to Brazil first time I saw the ladies with sarees and Churidars and the men with Mundu and Jubbhas. There is also a shoppe for the India style cloths. They come to India and buy the and bring here. So everything an Indian touch. I saw and Indian village in Brazil. I was very happy to see the temple and the people of our own culture and Indian touch.