In their book, Born to Win, Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward introduce the chapter on the human need for recognition and affirmation (strokes) with the words of a nine-year old boy, Bradley, who says,
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Fr Prakash was attending a renewal programme. He told the other participants that he had left his former congregation because religious life there was not up to his expectations. There were so many things going
In the 15th year of my Religious life, God gave me a wonderful message: Get wedded to silence. Silence from the need for self-justification, from the need to argue and prove my worth, from the
Suppose you worked hard at something, say, in cleaning a place, or teaching a group of students, or preaching, or writing a book, and you asked someone: “How do you find my work?” And that
Financial self-sustainability is one of the key features to be considered while assessing any institution in terms of its continuance. By financial self-sustainability we mean generating all the required financial resources from within (without depending
Pope Francis gave a text called the “The Beatitudes of the Bishop” to all the Italian bishops meeting in plenary assembly in Rome in November 2021. It gives wise guidance and encouragement, not only to
The year was 1974. I can still remember Miss Helen, my sixth grade teacher, telling us, “Children, open your copybooks and draw two margins on both sides of the page.” We, eight-nine-year-olds, would do as
A religious superior asks: Our congregation was invited by the bishop of a diocese twenty years ago, and entrusted with a school in a parish. We did not have a proper written agreement. We continue
JANUARY 4: International Braille Day January 4 is celebrated as International Braille Day. It marks the birthday of Louis Braille, an educator and an inventor of Braille System. Louis Braille was born on 4 January,
When you see destitute boys carrying luggage at a railway station, do you ever think that one of them may become a successful lawyer? That is the story of a boy I know well. Sanjay