Sermon for Pentecost – Cycle C Homily

Are we ready to be surprised by God, the Spirit?
Feast of Pentecost
  Positive Psychology (PP), an approach in psychology, focuses on ingredients of human wellbeing and happiness. For instance, PP has a list of 24 character strengths and 6 core virtues that are said to play an important role in human wellbeing. This ‘catalogue of sanities’ – as they call it – is nothing but a list of the cardinal virtues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (similar to Gal 5:21-22; Eph 4:2-3).  PP has a questionnaire to measure individual’s level of these character strengths.  An interesting finding is that, in the present global population, ‘humility’ is one of the less developed character strengths.  Some time last year I took the test and I must ‘humbly’ confess that humility featured as the least developed character strength even for me!
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Is your roadmap aligned to the compass?


God has created us in his own image, and has put a desire within us to know Him, to love Him, and to be with Him for ever. That desire is the compass in my heart.
God who has put the compass in my heart has not given me a roadmap. Roadmap is something I create through the choices I make in my life.
True happiness consists in aligning my roadmap to the compass of my heart!

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