1. Confront our personal convictions. What is our stand on social issues? What is the quality of our opinions.
(a) Human formation begins in the family and the environment we live in.
(b) Years of formation in the convent shaped our personality.
(c) As Catholics, our thoughts ought to conform to the teachings of the Church.
(d) Common sense dictates that along with maturity comes the capacity to make objective views on social issues as well.
(a) Human formation begins in the family and the environment we live in.
(b) Years of formation in the convent shaped our personality.
(c) As Catholics, our thoughts ought to conform to the teachings of the Church.
(d) Common sense dictates that along with maturity comes the capacity to make objective views on social issues as well.
A Girl In the River: The Price of Forgiveness
For me, the documentary film "A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness" by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, strongly presents the challenges to Catholic religious nuns who chose to be at the service of the 'disadvantaged' in the society. Is there really honour in killing? What is an honourable life?
2. Check what our minds feed on.
(a) Our favourite reading material, the people we associate with, the television programs we watch contribute to our mental frame.
(b) The quality of conversations we participate in determine whether life can be elevated in general.
(c) The way we evaluate things whether something is right or wrong influences our life in general shaping our moral principles.
(d) Our priorities in life determine how we behave online.
3. Check our personal maturity.
(a) Our engagement with gadgets: phones and computers. etc.
(b) Online activities: quality of posts, likes, friends, timeline...
(c) In following the convent's timetable.
(d) The transparency of our life.
4. Evaluate community life.
(a) Help heal the digital divide: teach others how to be online.
(b) Update Sisters who do not have the possibility to be online on what's going on in the media world.
(c) Capture common life in pictures, choose the best and post in social media.
(d) Blog. Say something about your ministry.
5. Evaluate spiritual life.
Religious profession demands maturity in living baptismal promises. It is helpful to know the deep meaning of baptismal consecration and to renew.
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