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SHARJAH & ABUDHABI RETREAT PREACHING :
Fr. Rudolf D'Souza recently preached a six days
retreat in Abudhabi. All his Retreat talks have been
published in the form of DVD from Sharjah and into
three cassettes( part one, part two and part three)
from Abudhabi. This will be available also in India
shortly.
The themes are as follows:
Day 1: THE KINGDOM OF GOD; DAY 2: KINGDOM OF GOD AND
THE 8 BEATITUDES; DAY 3: KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE
SEVEN SACRAMENTS; DAY 4: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
THE KINGDOM OF GOD; DAY 5: THE HOLY MOTHER CHURCH
AND MOTHER MARY; DAY 6: FAMILY.
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CHRISTMAS 2009
A long time ago there was a great General who was faced
with a situation which made it necessary for him to make
a drastic decision to insure his success on the
battlefield. He was about to send his army on shore to
face a powerful enemy, whose men outnumbered his. He
loaded his soldiers into boats, and sailed to face the
enemies on shore. When they reached the shore, he
ordered them to unload the soldiers and cargoes. He
then ordered for all the ships and boats to be burned.
Addressing his men before the battle, he said, “You see
the ships and boats going up in smoke. That means that
we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We
now, have no choice – either we win, or we perish.” They
WON!
Life
is a battle, either you WIN or LOSE it. But Christ came
into this world to win the battle, even at the cost of
his own death. That is really Christmas. Life is a
battle, but it should be a battle of love as that of
Jesus. Even his birth signaled a call of battle between
the indifferent people of town and warm people of the
countryside.
Christmas feelings - feelings of love within created by
happiness and Christmas feelings created first in others
Christmas feelings - feelings of special blessings
received from God - feelings of higher happiness felt
within ... millions enjoy Christmas feelings NOW these
days, millions even enjoy the very same true Christmas
feelings all year long, day after day and Billions are
too busy in filing lawsuits, pursuing lawsuits, planning
or executing revenge and punishment or are simply busy
in planning career, income and wealth management and
doing business.
If
now during Christmas time you are doing anything else
but loving all and using all of God's bliss pored upon
you for your inner healing and for the increase in all
people's healing and overall happiness, then you may
have once more mismanaged your entire year, most likely
your entire life
On a
long term plan we all know that we will return home to
God, home to our eternal home in God hence we all know
that this only is possible on the basis of lived and
applied love
Work
is important, work provides us with the means we need to
share, to support, to help, to spoil others with our
love, to relieve others from their burden of life after
many months of most intense work there also needs to be
a week long lasting phase of love - improved and
increased, spirituality lived and practiced in our all
daily life.
Christmas is the feast of forgiveness, of asking
forgiveness and of joining heart in heart again with
ancient long time enemies. Christmas feelings only can
prosper and occur at all in hearts free from revenge,
hearts free from old wishes to punish, to destroy, to
kill, to take away, to restrict.
Christmas feelings only can live and blossom in hearts
free for true love, free to MAKE happy a strong heart -
strong by making many people many times happy during
many months - such true hearts of love are strong enough
to be flooded with God's love and bliss these very days
and all years long we all need healing spiritual
healing, emotional healing, mental healing, physical
healing,
but healing of any kind only can occur when love flows.
It is our own love toward all that first needs to flow
and heal all those we ever damaged in our past, past
years or decades.
Flowers, hugs, hours to share, money to share, expertise
to share, help to share, professional services or
products to share are but a few ways we all can prove
our love - we all have something valuable to give, to
share else we have been too lazy to grow strong and to
be useful to all society and all creation.
Start creating Christmas feeling in others day after day
create smiles in others create true and lasting
happiness in others relief others from any kind of
burden they may have in life care about others find out
the need, problems and nature of burden others may have
known why some people never smile dissolve in love that
reason that keeps them from smiling and add a few happy
making moments to their lives to make them experiencing
Christmas happiness again.
People need to learn to be happy like happy children;
people need to learn to make happy to see all others
smile like children. This is a battle before which we
need to burn the ships of security, ships of hatred,
ships of jealousy and ships of indifference. Then we can
win a war, we have no choice than win this war. If we do
not win we perish, if we win, we are with the PRINCE OF
PEACH, JESUS CHRIST BORN AMONG US. GOD WITH US.
WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND
A JOY FILLED SEASON OF PEACE AND LOVE
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