Adding life...

 

You cannot add YEARS to your LIFE

but 

You can add LIFE to your YEARS

EXCELLENCE...

 

Life is like a play, it is not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Butterflies have the shortest span of life may be a couple of weeks and a tortoise has max. life span as big as even a hundred years....and yet can it ever dream of covering the same amount of sky that a butterfly does in a few minutes????

Love of God

 

I wouldn't call it a mere a coincidence that the word for Love of God and Mother's Womb 

in the Hebrew language is the same.  

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; Jer. 1: 5

Emmaus Journey...

 

May our encounter with Him open our eyes to see His dynamic and yet unseen presence 

in the 'everydayness' of our lives...

Who will cry when you die??

 

"When you were born you were the only one crying and all around you were laughing...

Live your life in such a way that

when you die you will be the only one laughing and all around you will be crying."

FRIEND...

 

"It is not because things are difficult that we don't try but it is because we don't try that things are difficult"

Growing Old vs Growing Up!!!

 

GROWING OLD is Mandatory

But 

GROWING UP is Optional

Keep me burning Lord...

 

This is my simple prayer to Thee, Oh my Lord,

Grant me the grace to keep burning my little lamp even in the most unfavourable situations of my life.

"Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ."(J. Paul II)

കുരിശ്

എന്തിന് സഹിക്കണം എന്നല്ല, എങ്ങനെ സഹിക്കണം എന്നാണ് കുരിശ് എന്നെ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്,,,

കൃപ

Seeing a condemned man go to the gallows Philip Neri cried out with a loud voice: There goes Philip except for the grace of God ......

ദൈവമേ നിന്റെ കൃപയുടെ പൊന്‍ കരം താങ്ങുന്നില്ലെന്കില്‍ ഞാനും തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്തനല്ല. സമൃദ്ധമായി ഒഴുകുന്ന അങ്ങയുടെ കൃപയുടെ ചാലുകല്കളെ എന്‍റെ പാപങ്ങള്‍ നിമിത്തം തടസപ്പെടുത്താന്‍ ഇട വരുത്തല്ലേ എന്ന പ്രാര്ത്ഥന മാത്രം.

Fidelity is what matters,,,,

Once during an interview Mother Theresa was asked, "How do you rate the success of your work?" Mother was silent for a while and then calmly replied, "I don't think Jesus ever spoke about success but about Fidelity, Yes."

Credente o Credibile??

".....Alla fine Dio non ti chiederà se sei stato CREDENTE, ma se sei stato CREDIBILE?"

Recipe for Sanctity

"Do your ordinary things in an extraordinary way" (Advice given to Dominic Savio by Don Bosco)

Homage to Don Bosco

A man who completely dedicated his whole life for his boys.

This is a Photo which was taken towards the end of his life. Look at his worn out face and hands,,,,,The doctor who confirmed his death remarked that it was like a candle that burned out itself,,,,,there was nothing more left in him!!!

"There was not a word that he spoke, not a step that he took which was not aimed at the salvation of the young"

His motto was "Give me souls, take away the rest"

To those who asked him to take rest he would reply with his inevitable smile; "Courage, let us work, work, always keep working because up there we shall enjoy the eternal rest."

• No Congregation in the world ever made its founder known as Don Bosco

• The Only Congregation in the world that has the most number of its houses under the name of its founder is that of Don Bosco!

• A Congregation that is not named after its founder is still that of Don Bosco!

• He is just a country priest who made Game a Spirituality, Music - the door to the Soul.

• He moved ahead of his times, to make this Movement the third largest in the Church within the span of a century.

പറയുന്നതില്‍ വിഷമം വിചാരിക്കരുത്,,,, ആ ഡോണ്‍ ബോസ്കോയുടെ മകനെന്ന് പറയുന്നതില്‍ ഒരല്പം അഹങ്കാരം എനിക്കുണ്ട്,,,,,,,,,,,തികച്ചും സ്വാഭാവികം.

തിരിച്ചുവരവ്

എന്റെ 'നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട അവസ്ഥയെ' വെളിപ്പെടുത്തിത്തന്ന ദൈവമേ നിനക്കു നന്ദി,,,,,

എനിക്കറിയാം ഓരോ നിമിഷവും നീയെന്നെ എന്റെ പിതാവിന്റെ ഭവനത്തിലേക്ക്‌ കൂടികൊണ്ടുപോവുകയാണെന്ന്.....