Reflection - 70

The prayer of the consecrated people is powerful and effective. A consecrated life without prayer is futile and utter chaos. Why the prayer of the seminarian is important is something that is to be taken into account because we are the future of the church. The holy gospel of St. Mathew 18:18 is something so crucial which goes like this “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”. The privilege of binding the sins of the people of god is given to the priest. So we are something that of great importance though sometimes we may not feel so.

One of the terrible disasters that can ever appear in the life of the consecrated people is the tendency to go away from the presence of God. Consecrated life is entirely different from that of the people who are outside of the ecclesiastical structure. But these kinds of contradictions give meaning to our life. Our unfailing dedication to these contradictions makes our life authentic and holy. The thing that is to be primarily understood is that each and every action as well as the dispositions of the present seminarian determines the future of the church in general and the future of the people of God in particular. Fulton J. Sheen says priest is not his own. Priest is primarily for the people but people are not our own and nobody is our own and nothing is our own but Jesus is in the hand of the priest and that is what his license is.    

Bro. Sebastian  Thinavila