Formation Course in Wewak Inspires Deeper Reflection on Human Dignity

Participants of the Formation Course on the Theology of the Human Person

Various participation from different Religious Congregation in the dioceses of Wewak and Aitape gathered last week of March, this year for their first Ongoing Formation course " The Theology of the Human Person" facilitated by Fr. Roshen Pinto SMM at Wirui Retreat center in Wewak Diocese. 

Religious Congregation who attended are; 1: Rosary Sisters,  2: Holy Spirit Sisters 3: Marianathas Sisters 4: Union of Presentation Sisters 5: Mercy Sisters 6: Sacred Heart Brothers  7: One Seminerian and  8: Missionary Franciscan Sisters

Discovering and understanding the beauty, Sacntity, and Integrity of the Human Person which most religious houses never thought in Formation. It was very impressived. Participants of different aging with six Novices who expressed dearly how the course taught something beyond their understanding. 

It was a great adventure of discovering the quality about thought and the beauty of religious life never change. It stays the same, it is our way of looking at things that making it different. Intellect verses emotions, and clothes verse body both makes and complete a human person. 

Fr. Roshen was very skillful, thoughtful, and spiritualized that his talk were beneficial to his audience. He expresses that the dignity doesn't comes from what we already have, but what we are. 

Father further emphasized that the source of sin was the 'mind'. What we thought is acted, and what we acted is thought. Every sin is the devorce or a break up with God. Refering to our Consecrated way of life in today's world. 

How each person hold on to his/her sacntity and integrity as a human person. In religious and consecrated life, the companionship is not about it's sexual life, it is beyond. 

Just like a religious women takes Jesus as her bridegroom and a priest or religious men takes the church as his bride. Consecrated life is all about our companionship with the Lord and not limited to sexuality. 

But it is beyond our human body. It is the sacredness of our consecrated life. Whatever ways we love, and serve with our body, the soul inside us is immensely being affected.