Fine tuning the heart to the voice of the Lord: “How would a grateful child respond to the selfless love of his/her dear mother?” Giving this down to earth example, Fr Frederick D’Silva endeavoured to bring the broad topic of Discernment to the understanding of the 53 novices of six congregations gathered for the Inter-Novitiate Seminar. The five-day course (10-14 January) packed with in-depth reflection and rib tickling humour was held in Alverna Bhavan Novitiate. The sessions were interesting and it fully involved the participants. Fr Freddie with his long-standing experience in the field of Spiritual Direction shared some of his own experiences and often sent the hall roaring with laughter. Cases that made us put on our thinking caps were given for analysis. During the sharing of the collective opinion of the groups, not a single point was left unexplored by Fr Freddie, thus giving more insight into the aspects of discernment.
“God’s ways are the ways that He himself walked and that we must now walk with Him.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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