Why are you here?

The seminarians and religious rose one morning on the 29^th of August, taking the sacred silence which conquers the solemnity of the whole compound. Having the ambiance, everybody took their journal and a Bible, went out into a quite field beside the seminary chapel- others find their own place where they can have their contemplation. It was the day with the Lord, when the birds are singing, the world awake. Seminarians often marvel at the exuberance of birds in the early morning. Sometimes, considering the sparrow can help to imitate the simplicity of life. What a wonderful recollection shared with pure silence and repentance.

“”A“Ad Quid Venisti?” (Why are you here?) This is the heart of morning recollection which revolves in one sole reason for everyone’s quest in choosing the religious life – to follow Jesus Crucified. Fr. Anthony, the novice master and the superior of the Community sets the mode of the seminarians by introducing a beautiful song, “I have decided to follow Jesus” and was accompanied by himself playing the song chords using the guitar. In relation to discipleship (Ad Quid Venisti), the Community feels this renewal of responding to this same calling. Fr. Anthony being the recollection animator mentioned in his talk that no other people called someone for this one goal, not Fr. Stan (Seminary Rector), the vocation director or anyone but only JESUS. Later on, the power point presentation caught the attention of everybody. It was the history of the song produced in India that parades the radical conversion of a simple man to Christianity regardless of political and religious upheaval of the country.

            The tenet of Christian faith relies on the ministry of Jesus and His disciples. The recollection plays on putting the disciples in a psychological scrutiny where turned out to be the disciples whom are the most great, failed the evaluation and the humble, simple and unknown are perfectly fitted.

Some will say, “Lowly but chosen”. It is indeed the irony of life in which Jesus planned to be. The Wisdom of God is not the wisdom of man. The humans cannot determine who shall be qualified - formation does.

HOHope offers everything in human. Having a closer look to the disciples of Jesus, they opened hope in the minds of those who are aspiring.         God can do extra ordinary things through ordinary people.

Being slaves of the creed, the disciples followed a rabbi, teacher and master. Knowing the one to follow entails many requirements to comply but can be found not in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Linked-in, Pinterest, Meetup, MeetMe, ClassMates, Flickr, and other networking sites. The ways to know the master is not those in social network, but first imitate relationship and listening to Him.

As a young adult, the seminarians made a re-commitment to Christ by this monthly recollection, praying He would help them to fulfill the missions in life He had chosen for them. The more seminarians sought through prayers and study to follow Jesus and submitting life to His will, the more they felt an aching sense of longing to devout their life entirely to serving him. Gradually, the birds that sing and the way dawn’s first faint rays peak over a dark horizon, the conviction that the Lord was calling them through Don Orione began to grow.

Sem. Pablo Jordan, contributor