Br Paul Noonan Formation Centre, Tamale: Believe

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Believe - Josh groban

Children sleeping, Snow is softly falling.

Dreams are calling like bells in the distance.

We were dreamers not so long ago.

But, one by one we all had to grow up.

When it seems the magic slipped away,

We find it all again on Christmas Day.

Believe in what your heart is saying, Hear the melody that's playing.

There's no time to waste, There's so much to celebrate.

Believe in what you feel inside,

And give your dreams the wings to fly.

You have everything you need If you just believe.

Trains move quickly to their journey's end.

Destinations are where we begin again.

Ships go sailing far across the sea.

Trusting starlight to get where they need to be.

When it seems that we have lost our way,

We find ourselves again on Christmas Day.

Believe in what your heart is saying,

Hear the melody that's playing.

There's no time to waste, There's so much to celebrate.

Believe in what you feel inside,

And give your dreams the wings to fly.

You have everything you need

If you just believe.

(These are the lyrics of the song that is listed third on the playlist of this blogpage)

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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?”