seminar on “Collegio De Christo”
November 16: Carmelite family of Mysore
organized a seminar on “Collegio De Christo” in
Pushpashrama premises under the able leadership
of Rev. Fr. Dominic Vas. The resource persons of
the seminar were Rev. Fr. Alfred Menezes and
Jevan Tauro. Seminar began at 9:30 with
registration and refreshments. At 10:00 AM the
seminar began with invoking blessings on seminar
and on each one, followed by warm words of
welcome by Rev. Fr. Dominic. Then Rev. Fr.
Alfred dealt on the theme “Colegio De Christo”.
Colegio de Christo means school of Christ. He
began his talk by referring to the gospel text
of Lk 6:12-37. This passage refers to the prayer
of Jesus before choosing his disciples whom he
also named apostles. Then he explained about the
scenario of incarnation convent and the reasons
for renewal. St. Teresa’s vision of Colegio de
Christo was to resemble the band of apostle
along with Jesus so she recommended the ideal
number of a community would be thirteen. Then he
explained about Teresa’s vision of reformed
Carmel and how she accomplished her vision in
the company of Jesus the Lord.
In the noon session Rev. Fr. Jeevan expounded
his knowledge of St. Teresa on community living.
He explained St. Teresa’s idea of Gospel
community, for her a community should be in
Christ, through Christ and for Christ; thus
Christ is the centre of the community. In her
book of way of perfection she speaks of how to
build the community. For her Carmel is the
school of Christ, Carmel is the apostolic
school, Carmel is the home in Bethany, Christ is
the Lord of the House and Carmel is the house of
Martha means to say mixture of persons, and
Jesus is the guest. According to her, the
members of the community are chosen by God to
discover his plan for ourselves and for the
community and for the salvation for the world.
Seminar concluded at 4:00 PM by glorifying the
Trinity.