Self-Care in Five Areas
While being care-givers, we (religious and priests) are responsible for our own integral development. This means taking steps to grow up and stay balanced in five areas, namely:
Body, Mind, Emotions, Relationships, Inner journey.
Using current data, real life examples, drawings, Powerpoints and short videos, the resource person, Fr Joe Mannath SDB, explained how we can (and must) take responsibility for growth in these five areas. A good life is an integrated life of maturity in these five aspects, leading to happiness and inner strength.
Over 200 religious and novices attended the programme, which was held at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada. Fr Ravi Sekhar SJ, the outgoing CRI President, Fr Thota Mariadas SDB, the new President, and Sr Lucita SAL, the Local Secretary, took the lead in organizing this mini-seminar. The Jesuit Community of Loyola College hosted the large gathering.
The seminar concluded with the Holy Eucharist.
Some photos of the event are seen here. (The group was too large to fit into any one picture completely.
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CRI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 2018
The Triennial CRI Assembly of Major Superiors will take place on the SRM University Campus in Chennai, from May 27th (9.00 am) until May 30th (1.00 pm).
It will look at two important issues: the present situation facing the Church and religious in India today, and the call to move to the peripheries, which Pope Francis has been repeatedly extending to Religious.
Experienced and competent speakers will present different aspects of these two themes.
More details will be sent to Major Superiors by email and by ordinary post.
Major Superiors are expected to come in large numbers (and with great enthusiasm), as they have done in the previous Assemblies.
The photos show the auditorium of SRM University where the Assembly will be held, and a partial view of the campus—a 200-acre beautifully maintained campus with excellent facilities. Apart from the ease of reaching Chennai from anywhere in India, we think that an exposure to a well-run private university is itself a learning experience for us, since most of us work in the educational field.
Major Superiors, please mark your diaries: Chennai, May 27-30, 2018!
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