Chillout @ Love the World Bistro & Bar

This is a belated blog for last thurs 19th, where I heard a talk by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, in a Q&A session with young adults organised by the CAYC. It was really nice. I learnt a few things or was reminded of these...

- That Freedom is really Freedom to love spontaneously, rather than the freedom to do what I want and stay away from other people (that is not freedom). Sometimes, we rather do our own thing than be with others, but sometimes, being with people is our gift to them...

- That God is Love. Anyone who loves, has a part in God.

- That our bodies and what we do with it is a gift to our parents, who gave us this body we have. We don't feel anything at all, but to our parents, who saw us from babies, everything we are, is everything to them. If we do not treasure our bodies, we hurt our parents indirectly.

- That "Progress" is a word that is common to society today and a very good principle to have, but we have to remember that we aren't commanded in the Gospel, to "make progress". The whole point is whether we are living our faith fully, rather than "making progress" in terms of events, programmes and numbers of members. So we don't have to focus on "progress".

- That the whole point about being christian is to have that inner Joy. The freedom to love.

- That when gossip happens, we, as christians, should try to offer a good word for the person, and don't pass on the gossip.

Just wanted to jot it down somewhere before i forget it totally!