October 11, Tuesday of 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Daily readings: Galatians 5:1-6; Gospel Luke 11:37-41
Atheist Alain de Botton believes that “Christianity is focused on helping a part of us that secular language struggles even to name […] the soul. It has been the essential task of the Christian pedagogic machine to nurture, reassure, comfort, and guide our souls.”
I am afraid that our curricula are about cleaning the outside while neglecting the inside, by design or default, using the gospel language of the day. But do our present-day educational institutions live up to this expectation? Here is an exercise: Visit the websites of a few catholic educational institutions in your country. Look through the curriculum of the courses offered.
We need to recapture the object of education which is “to make capable and cultivated human beings” (John Stuart Mill) who will have “a love of our neighbor, a desire for clearing human confusion and for diminishing human misery” (Matthew Arnold) and love of God, to top it all.
Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a media platform of the Catholic Church, aims to share Christ. RVA started in 1969 as a continental Catholic radio station to serve Asian countries in their respective local language, thus earning the tag “the Voice of Asian Christianity.” Responding to the emerging context, RVA embraced media platforms to connect with the global Asian audience via its 21 language websites and various social media platforms.
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