Reflections

 

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent that culminates in Easter, the celebration of Christ’s rising from the dead. In the Christian story it marks the triumphant end of God’s journey with us in Jesus. 

 

 

Friday 31 January marked the feast day of St John Bosco, founder of the Salesians, co-founder of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, and father of the present day Salesian ‘family’, which has over 400,000 members worldwide. 

Conversion is at the heart of all authentic religious experience. Inauthentic religious experience denotes a use of religion—scripture, ritual, belief or collective identity—that effectively blocks the transformation process that is initiated when consciousness opens to God as source and ground of being.