Dear Family,
I was listening to the father of a boy from a very rich family...the boy had
so much of toys and he wanted more and more. Parents admit that just for his
toys and other needs, they had to spent IRS 2,00,000+ during the last couple
of years and his latest demand is that he wants to have his hair dressed
like one of the pop singer and the parents do know what to do.
Hearing the story of this boy and about many others in this new generation
I was just appreciating how we all benefit as a joynet family or JY family.
Reading/hearing the experiences of many, there develops a thirst in us also
in the spiritual way and the desire for the Spiritual fruits, which is
contrary to the worldly desires like the boy in the above example.
Yesterday I was reading Prajomi's mail regarding praying the rosary even in
that noisy atmosphere... I was asking the question how about me? I travel
all alone and still do I concentrate on praying the rosary? Or do my
thoughts just wander?
Reading the sharing from Dr. Sindhu - needless to say how inspiring they
are - I was just checking with myself some points. Here I could see a child
of God with lots of spiritual wishes in her life. Among them were - the
greatest desire to see the Pope - Do I have this love and desire to see the
Pope? The answer somehow did not seem to be really inspiring..
Dear Dr. Sindhu, please share more from your walk in the Catholic life, from
which stage in this holy path, have you developed this great love and desire
to see the Pope. I do not know if you can put these into words or the
answer is any Catholic should have had this.. However as we believe our
faith increases by hearing..
Grace
Sijo Mooken
Abu Dhabi
- Original Message -
From: sindhu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: joynet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:39 PM
Subject: [JOYnet] Fruits...surplus ! .. How ?
Hello family,
We know fruits are produce of a tree/Plant.We get good fruits whent he
plant
is properly nourished.Like wise when we get filled by Holy Spirit ,all our
actions will bear holy spirit ...
Lo we 've the fruits of Holy Spirit.
But how to get filled? Its easy in this context..simply ask...remember
our
Big Brother saying ask and it shall be given to you.if you ask for
holy spirit ,how much more will my Father in heaven give you...?!!( cf
..Luke:11: 9 13)
I'll never forget what my spiritual father told me regarding how to ask
for
HS..he saidwhen you ask for Holy spirit do so
REPEATEDLY,SHAMELESSLY,FEARLESSLY ,HOPEFULLY.
When i was in medical school i had little time to exercise (physical),but
i
had to do some since i was having disc problems..so what i did was a
Spirit
filling execrcise...Early in the morning i start doing some exercise..
when
ever i take a deep breath inside i will pray like thisHoly Spirit ,divine
spouse of my heart ,come and fill me with your Loveand i could feel Him
filling me .Then when i exhale i will pray Lord now i'm denouncing all
that's against your love in me...and i could feel it going away..!!!Then
i'll repeat the procedure asking next fruit Joy,then
patience,kindness..till faithfull ness. So ,you see, like wise i could
by heart all fruits of the HS ! .Another unexpected fruit of the task he
he
he .And also like wise i had no difficulty in counting too,i just need to
pray two rounds for HS fruits and its done !and at the end of this
spiritual
excercise i'll be perfectly fit to go on with my personel prayer and then
to
go out to trade this FRUITSAlleluia.
Isn't it exciting to do excercise with HOLY SPIRIT ?More over i enjoyed
jogging /strolling with Padre Pio and do combine study with St. Anthony
,praying rosary with Mother theresa and ...even cooking with Our
Lady.
Mind you Our Lady is an excellent cook.I can testify that..when i started
cooking i always had fear putting salt and chilli etc...and i was all
alone
in my quarters..no body to ask ..so i pasted a photo of Our Lady in my
kitchen and i used to consult her before putting all these..and yes,she
never went wrong. Oh...even after night duties we had nice time cooking
together and i still remeber how i could pray the 10 hailmary's correctly
while doing kitchen chores..i put straight 10 tins of salt , chilli etc
in
line so that even while cutting vegetables or doing other things i can
pray
correctly by looking at those and still keep the count..tin rosary...eh
Plus those things inside the tins could inspire many symbolic
prayers...like salt of the Earth etc...
I will share one more thing...i always had two dreams after becoming a
JY..one to meet the Pope and second to pray a rosary with Mother Theresa.
The first thing became reality first in WYD 1997 in Paris and many times
afterwards..but i could go to Calcutta only after Mother Theresa's
death.So when i was there praying in the chapel at her tomb.i asked her
.Mother why was that i could not come here before you died?.. i
