Spiritual Streams

New Academic Year begins

June 9, 2015

The new academic year began yesterday. It was a beautiful concelebrated mass, with Bishop John Rodriques as the main celebrant. The annual report was presented by the president and the keynote speaker of the day was Prof. Kancha Ialiah, of Osmania University. I started the orientation for both first and second year students of the Master of Pastoral Management program, in the afternoon. Classes are in full swing from today.

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Workshop on, Transitions

May 27, 2015

It was nice giving the one day workshop to the preregents of the western zone of the south-Asian assistancy. They will be beginning their regency in June, and looked quite excited about it. Young and energetic is how I would describe them.

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Returned from Goa

May 25, 2015

I am back from Goa, where I directed a retreat for a group of sisters. It was an amazing experience, to see how God works his plan. I feel humbled at the trust they placed in me. Goa was very hot and humid, but we survived. I am back in Pune again.

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Course on Psychosexuality

April 25, 2015

The course on "Psychosexuality" for the Karnataka and Andhra Province first year students ended last night. It was a five day intense workshop. There were ten scholastics, eight from Karnataka and two from Andhra provinces respectively. I used a workshop format, and the days were pretty full. A number of topics were addressed, through multi-modality teaching. It was a learning experience for me , as every context is different, and questions that come from participants are different too....
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End of the semester

April 8, 2015

It has been an interesting year academically, and it is finally over. The MPM 2015, diploma students have returned home, while the MPM 2016 students are now busy collecting data for their summer project and working on their projects. The MPM 2015 students defended their dissertations and have left. There were eight defenses this year. It was a culmination of two years work. It is now time for me to do some writing, and prepare for the two programs that I have accepted for summer, one in Bang...
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Course at The Sadhana Institute Lonavala

February 11, 2015

I am back after teaching a course on "Spirituality and Self-Development" at the Sadhana Institute, Lonavala. The course was for a group of 15 students, and was part of the formators course. It was a for 5 days, 6 hours a day.

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Conference presentation

January 29, 2015

I am just back from a conference in Mumbai where I made a presentation. The paper is also published in their conference proceedings. This is the citation.

Noronha, Konrad. J. “Finding God in all things:” Older Jesuits and their God Image. Presentation made at the National conference, 2015, “Vision India: The road ahead, at Valia C. L. College of Commerce and Valia C.L. College of Arts, CES road, D.N. Nagar, Andheri (W), Mumbai – 53, January 2, 2015

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Article in the Examiner (India) Christmas Issue

January 25, 2015

My article was published in The Examiner (India) in their Christmas issue.It is titled,Committed to the silent night. The citation is:

Committed to the silent night. The Examiner (India. (December, 2014). 165(51). p.41

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New article link

January 12, 2015

 Konrad J. Noronha (2015) Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Older Adulthood,Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 27:1, 16-33, DOI: 

10.1080/15528030.2014.963907

To link to this article: 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2014.963907

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Summer project guide

January 12, 2015

Here are some of the projects I guided last summer. They worked through summer and defended their data in the beginning of June 2013, when the semester started. They are now in their second year and four of these students are now doing their Masters in Pastoral theology dissertation under me. They will defend their dissertation at the end of March. Their summer projects are:

Motcha, Pushpa Rani (2014). Education builds character: A comparative study of government run school and a school run by...

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