The scene of education has faced many crises from within and from outside. But the coming of artificial intelligence, particularly with Chat GPT-4, a tool developed by Open AI, the scene of education is finding itself like a cat among the pigeons. It is a breakthrough that is breaking down all that we held as sacred in education. But...
The Feast of Immaculate Conception of Mother Mary
The Eight of December celebrates the Dogma of Immaculate Conception. It is a day of great joy and festivities for the people of Margao, Panjim, Moira, Calangute, Carmona, and Parodo in Goa. It celebrates the anticipation of grace earned through the obedience of Jesus Christ on the cross. This grace is applied to his mother at her conception by...
Priestly formation and Authenticity of Life
The history of Priestly formation have its beginning in the practice of Jesus in the Gospel. The shortest summary maybe found in the Gospel of Mark: Mk 3:14-15. In the early centuries leading up to St. Augustine, there is very little or no evidence of any special institutions of priestly formation. In Didache ( late 1st century) priestly ministry...
Declericalising Priesthood
We have been told that clericalism is an evil we have to avoid. When clericalism reigns priesthood dies. Priest is a religious term while clergy is a sociological term. When we identify the term clergy with the term priest we are at the threshold of clericalism. Such identification leads to the naturalization of the thinking that priestly activity is...
The Synodal way of Being Church
The church being a sacrament of communion with the divine and union with the human cannot but be synodal. As a channel of mediation and spatio-temporal embodiment of grace, she has a fundamental mission to build the body of Christ. This is why the synodal process that opens us to the spirit of discernment of the charisms of the...
Happy livings and Happy Endings
The sound and the word logos is thought to echo everything that exists in the West just like the word Om is thought to do in India. Logos and Om also echo our death. Maybe we have to begin from death to let things be. Let things exist as they are without anthropocentric significance to humans. Maybe if we...
The Mysterium Convivium and the Gospel of Creation
The word animal is an unsaying word. It unsays more than it says. In fact, it cannot truly say. There is a limit on what it can say. It cannot say the entire diversity of all the species of animals. The recognition of limits and creaturely peculiarities of every animal as well as species unsays the vast category of...
Intellectual Approach to Pastoral Ministry
One question is lingering on my mind: ‘Do we need an intellectual and learned approach to ministries in our parishes?’ The question has sharpened because in Goa we now seem to have the challenge to take pastoral care of the third generation of the literate people of God. This does not mean that the situation is so bad that...
The Ideal, the Political and the Pastoral
Being in a parish and engaging with pastoral care has raised an interesting question in my mind. It asks how we uncritically link idealism and performativity. This linking of idealism with performativity makes us think that the conditions and persons that reach the standards of idealism also simultaneously reach the standards of performativity There is a kind of apriorism...
Sharing Meals with God
Humanity all over the world shares meals with God. God who is source of our food becomes our guest in these food sharing traditions . There is the God welcome inscribed in nature and humans. This sharing of meals with God shares in this God’s welcome. In fact we share God’s image and likeness and live out this God’s...
