en-us SpeakUp in Province : 'New Delhi' Classification : 'All' http://www.donboscoindia.com © Copyright 2005 All rights reserved Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0530India Standard Time kjlouis@gmail.com http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/images/toplogo1.gif http://www.donboscoindia.com/ 255 41 Visit http://www.donboscoindia.com http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=129 It is reported that the average life of a religious congregation in the church is about 200 years. If there are more than 200 congregations with less than 50 members and their average age is above 60, then one would understand the significance of the `Death Knell` today. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=112 Recently I attended a seminar on ``Salesians and the Social Media`` at the Salesian Provincial House in New Delhi. I learned some very interesting things. Here are some reflections based on that learning. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=111 This evening I read an interesting article in The Tablet [8 August, 2009, Electronic version], the Catholic Weekly from England. This lead article was written by Nicolas Kennedy and entitled ``For whom the Bell Tolls``. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=109 SUKARAN THAKUR pens this TRIBUTE OF LOVE on his visit to his alma mater OLS, Kullu, in Himachal Pradesh. He was a student there in the years 1995-2007. His reminiscences and current impressions convey the strong links forged between the pupils and the School staff and the pride they can carry within them of their Institution and the teachers who moulded them. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=95 WHERE ARE THE SALESIAN `WRITERS`? A Question for Us to Ponder Over. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=93 DID YOU NEED TO SAY ALL THAT?A comment on BIS`s policies that restrict light bearers. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=79 SILENCE KILLS! http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=61 It was Sunday, 25th of May and the Rector Major and the General Council were just out of a rainy experience of the Feast of Mary Help of Christians in Valdocco, Turin. As if to say that the rain had come just to spoil that wonderful Salesian Feast and the traditional profession around Valdocco, on this day it was sunny. The General Council members set out for a visit to some of the unusual Salesian places in the Monferrato region of Piedmont, in continuation of their brief pilgrimage to the Salesian places. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=54 Today`s (Saturday, 2nd week after Easter, 04/05/2008) first reading at Mass and Francis Moloney`s Good Night at the General Chapter [The Word of God will Stand Forever] provided me an opprotunity to reflect further on ``light and shadow,`` on the need to hold things to the light. http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/articles_default_ms.php?proid=8.0&articleid=48 Thank you, Fr. Ivo Coelho, for your piece [The Human Face of the Congregation describing the dark side of the electoral process in the Congregation, and for your call to bring to light the careful but secretive plannings and plottings (``machinations and manipulations@ to use your own phrase)by the various language and ethnic group members of the Chapter.