Learn to meditate in 7 Steps
Fr Sahaya G. Selvam, SDB takes you through an ancient method of Christian Contemplative Practice: the Jesus Prayer.
These 7 steps introduce you to a method of prayer and contemplation that has been used in the Christian tradition at least since the 4th century. It consists in reverently repeating the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus.
In some of the steps, we suggest you use a prayer bead. However, this is not very crucial to the technique. The prayer bead can act as an anchor.
Every session of meditation begins and ends with a few minutes of instrumental music. The sessions are timed as indicated in the list of contents. Timing is marked by the clang of the […]
Publications
Publications
Taize: a New Way of Being Church
Selvam, S.G. (2008). “Taize: a New Wayof Being Church,” New People, no.116, pp.31-33. (Nairobi,Kenya)
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Trainer Resources
For Trainers, Teachers and Youth Ministers
(A companion to Scaffoldings and Chuo Cha Maisha)
This Trainers’ Resources DVD is a companion to the Scaffoldings Manual. The DVD provides demonstrations of some of the games and activities that are used for building life skills. It also has some extra resources like action-songs and hints on how to divide groups.
Copies available from BEAMS, Nairobi
Nadhi Vazhvu Nirai Vazhvu
River Me in Tamil
Translated by
Bharath Jeyaraj and Jeyaseelan.
Produced by Alaihal Midea – a Don Bosco Insitution, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India.
Released on the occasion of the Priestly Ordination of Bharath Jeyaraj in December 2009 at Chinnamuttam, Kanyakumari.
Capabilities Approach to Youth Rights in East Africa
ABSTRACT:
Early physical maturity and delayed social maturity, contributed by the Industrial Revolution, make youth a vulnerable group. Governments, including those of East Africa, attempt to respond to this situation in their National Youth Policies. However, these policies remain weak and uncommitted to youth rights. Capabilities approach, pioneered by Amartya Sen and developed by Martha Nussbaum, challenges the naivety of debates on human rights, by calling for affirmative action. In the light of Capabilities approach, this article critically examines the existing National Youth Policies of the three countries of East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It suggests certain elements that need to be added to youth capabilities in the African context.
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Selvam, S.G. (2008). “Capabilities Approach to Youth Rights in East Africa”, International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. […]