After TEN years

So ten years have passed bye! It was on this day in 2000 I began my month long spiritual exercise of St Ignatius or 30 days retreat! Time goes very fast! It seems the other day, we all gathered together in a room, our Novice Master gave points and explained every bits of it. We were thirteen of us altogether. We listened to him very carefully. We did not know what would happen! ‘Let the spirit enter in your life’, ‘let Jesus guide you’, listen to your inner spirit’ – these are few phrases he constantly repeated.

My life, My thoughts

Oh language!
I was studying Greek! I found it extremely difficult. Somehow could not concentrate on what I was studying. Then at one point I gave up. There is no point simply wasting my time. Perhaps some other time I will be able to concentrate and study better.

My life, my thoughts

A new chapter begins...


Finally the moment has arrived. I have just another few hours before I commence my theological studies. Shortly I’ll go to bed. But when I get up tomorrow, I will have to do things differently. The usual time-table will be replaced by a new time-table. I’ll have to begin ‘student life.’ I’ll have to spend hours after hours sitting at my desk, glancing through books, making notes, writing assignments, preparing for exams…oh whole lots of stuff!

Che cosa pensi?

L'altro giorno ho incontrato Babul, un ragazzo del Bangladesh. Questo incontro non era previsto. Mentre stavo facendo una passegiata dopo cena, lui si é avvicenato a me e mi ha chiesto se volevo comprare un fiore. Quando gli ho resposto che non volevo comprare, il suo viso é diventato triste. Ho potuto vedere che lui ha cominciato quasi a piangere. Ho voluto combiare il soggetto cosi gli ho detto, 'tu sei molto fortunato a vivere a Roma. Devi guadagnare molti soldi.'
Immediatemente lui mi ha detto che oggi aveva venduto solo un fiore, cosi che lui aveva solo un euro un tasca. Poi lui me ha raccontato la sua storia che é una storia triste. Magari scriveró un altro giorno...

Che cosa pensi?

Posso contare le ore che sono rimaste prima di cominciare la teologia. Sembra che il tempo sia arrivato un po’ presto. Quando sono entrato nella compagnia di Gesù, ho pensato che la tappa della teologia era molto lontana. Purtroppo il tempo è passato rapidamente. Ci sono volute dieci anni per arrivare a questa tappa.

my life, my thoughts...

‘Silence’ I love you most


I am just back from my annual retreat. It was a marvelous one. The location was very fitting for retreat…top of the mountain, far away from the noise of the city life. Living in the centre of Rome for the last three months, I was missing trees, flowers, birds…NATURE. This retreat gave me an opportunity to be in the midst of all.

che cosa pensi?

Mente sana in corpo sano


One of the first proverbs I learnt in Italian is ‘mente sana in corpo sano’, which in English translation would be ‘sound mind sound body’ and in my mother tongue would be ‘মন ভালতো সব ভালো’. I find this proverb very much in tune with my life. Often I have experienced that whenever I was ‘low or down’ it affected my other activities. Like the other day I was a bit tensed with regard to my admission. Though I knew that I was not to be blamed for anything but still I was down. I could not concentrate on my studies. It affected the different areas of my life. My friends who relate to me closely noticed it immediately. Though I pretended to be normal with them, but they felt that there was something wrong with me.