Br Paul Noonan Formation Centre, Tamale: We are on our way to Cape Coast

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

We are on our way to Cape Coast

This weekend (which starts on Thursday this time round!) we are heading down to Cape Coast for a well deserved and much anticipated break. We are driving down in our mini bus and pickup. The drive should take us 12 hours or so if all goes well, the traffic in Kumasi doesnt delay us unduely and the mini bus lasts the pace of a long journey!

We will be staying at the idyllic Moree Beach Resort. This little resort lies well off the main road and right on the beach hidden

behind a little hill. Will tell you more about it when we get back. but here are two oictures just to whet your appetite!

We hope to also visit Kakum national park and at least one of the famous Castles in the town. More than anything else I am looking forward to the break, to feel the sea breeze in my face, the crunch of white sands under my feet and smell the salt in the air!!

The opening ceremony of the Olympics will have to wait!!!! And the air is a lot cleaner by the sea!

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What do we want this novitiate to be?

There is a saying that goes something like this: “If we don’t do what we believe in, then we’ll end up believing in what we do”. Without a vision that is authentic and alive to guide our actions, then we can settle for rationalizing the status quo or what is convenient and comfortable.
One of the first things the new team in Tamale did was to spend time beginning to articulate its vision of a novitiate beyond the basics laid down in our Constitutions. Here are some elements of what we came up with:
Novitiate is a journey, a process that involves KNOWING, EXPERIENCING and CHOOSING.
It is an INITIATION into Christian Brother religious life, so a “rite of passage” into a new identity, a time of learning and testing.
Novitiate confronts the novices with the Brother’s vocation as a call to brotherly solidarity and community, not to privilege, status and security.
It involves exploration of the basic values of faith and vocation, and the challenge to embrace these out of personal conviction and free choice.
Novitiate means understanding that a religious vocation makes a claim on the whole of the person and his life, including his inner life, his relationships and his professional activity (ministry). Furthermore, it challenges the novice to see the dynamic inter-relationship of these areas and to learn what their integration means.
Novitiate is a time of DISCERNMENT. The novice learns more deeply who he is, and what this Christian Brother life is. There is a constant back-and-forth movement between these two poles as an answer is sought to the question, “Is this where I am meant to be? Is this the life that will enable me to find my true self in God?”