Solitary Soul

HIS CLOAK ………. Mario D’Couto             Someone once defined faith creatively in the following acronym, F – Forsaking A – All I – I T – Trust H – Him             I am always taken up by the incident in the life of our Lord when a woman, who was bleeding for many years, took the courage to touch the edge of Jesus’ cloak.             In the Gospel of St. Luke (8: 40 – 48), we see Jesus being surrounded by a huge crowd of people who were trying to get Him. It is but obvious that there must have been many people who were touching Him but then here was this woman who thought to herself, “If only I could touch His cloak, then I will be healed.”             Being overwhelmed by the crowd, it must have been difficult for her to get past so man...

GOD AND US Mario D’Couto             “To err is human and to forgive is divine,” so the saying goes. As an educator, a person is all out willing the good of his or her students (at least this is what each teacher and educator is called to do). But quite often, it happens that the expectations and demands of the educator on one’s students may not be reciprocated which consequently leads to frustration on the part of the educator.             At times I wonder how God must be thinking about us. Each time He gives us another chance to come back to Him hoping that we may stay on with Him but sadly that does not happen. How much should God be frustrated with us? Yet He continues to give us opportunities and circumstances to come back to Him. That is why He is great and almighty as Benny Hinn once said, “The greatest miracle that Jesus worked was not changing the water i...

JESUS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Mario D’Couto             Sometime back, I had seen a video of Cristiano Ronaldo which amused me while at the same time it brought to my mind a reflection which is what I would like to share in this article.             The video was about how Cristiano disguises himself as a beggar and starts playing with a boy. The boy was innocently playing with the beggar not knowing who he really was. It was only after some time that the beggar took off the disguise and showed the boy who he really was.             As soon as he removed the disguise, the boy was shocked and amazed. He was totally unaware that he was actually playing with the man who was just declared FIFA’s player of the year (this was in January 2015). People then began to crowd around him to take pictures of him.  ...

FROM SEX TO SUPERCONSCIOUNESS  Mario D’Couto              The title of this article comes from one of the works of the great Shri Rajneesh Osho. [1] To be honest, I have not read it but I have borrowed his title to give my stand or my interpretation as to why sex is something divine.             Sex, by and large, in any society is a taboo and not anyone would want to talk about it openly. So the question that comes up is if we believe that sex is a gift from God, why then do we shirk or feel uneasy about it? Dietrich Bonheoffer once said, “Even the Bible could find room for the Song of Songs and could hardly have a more passionate and sensual love than is there portrayed. It is a good thing that, that book is included in the Bible as a protest against those who believe that Christianity stands for the restraint of passion.” We moderns would be better off ...