Jesus Youth Movement & More

  Youth in the Light of 'Ecclesia in Asia Dr. Edward A. Edezhath [Presented at Meeting of the Leaders of Ecclesial Movements, Pattaya, Thailand. 24July2010] I am reminded of the journey to Emmaus . .. The story repeats itself in the life of many youth day after day. This young person so confused about life and God, someone introduced him to a learned and prayerful priest. “Father, there is no God in my life. My prayer is to a blank wall and I have stopped praying.” The priest listened with great interest. He took out a rosary from his pocket and responded with love, “I pray, and that keeps me going.” This was the beginning of a long walk together, lasting for many years. Soon there was an opportunity for the young man, of course helped by the priest, to rediscover Jesus in a retreat, times together for sharing, travel together to help other young people in retreats, books to read, slowly other youth around him and he found a transforming spiritual movement taking shape arou...

  New Trends in Catechetical Ministry On faith formation of present-day youth [Presented at Syro-Malabar Catechetical Congress - 26 Nov 2015 - Dr Edward A Edezhath]   On Oct 5, the opening day of the 2015 Synod on the family, Cardinal Peter Erdo of Budapest in his introductory speech spoke on, what he called, 'the verbs of the shepherd': to see, to have compassion and to teach (CAN) [1] . The first and the second are always found together in the attitude of Jesus, as he always gazes with "the eye of the heart". Such a pastoral gaze becomes the first condition to approach the contemporary generation and also to look for relevant approaches for their inner formation. This is first of all an openness that will connect the teacher to another mind-set and culture. But furthermore, it is a desire to search for and discover new and pertinent modes of door opening and creating channels of communicating faith. In JP II’s words “in our pastoral care we ask ourselves: How ...

  Expectations of the Laity from Church’s Communication Ministry [Dr Edward Edezhath. Results of the survey done for the p resentation at CBCI General Body Meeting 2004, Jan. 07-14, 2004, held at Marymatha Major Seminary, Thrissur with the theme Called to be a Communicating Church] 1.     Introduction   The world is shrinking fast, and each person is becoming so powerful with an ever-growing sense of widening reach and greater influence. The whole world is at our fingertips to see, interact and enjoy. Whether it is on the TV set, on the computer screen or the telephone receiver. And that too, all just a few inches away. All these marvels of the technology are accessible even to the most ordinary human being. This in a nutshell, is the fast-paced world of the media that has made life more fulfilling and enjoyable today. But on the other hand, these developments have also left behind a variety of complex problems in their wake. In this context wh...