DIVINE LENTEN 2019 WEEKLY VIDEO REFLECTION NO.4: “EXPRESS YOUR EMOTIONS CONSTRUCTIVELY” by Rev. Fr. Joseph Edattu V.C.

A weekly spiritual video talk will be posted every Saturday on this Friends of Divine blog until Holy Week. The 7-part DIVINE LENTEN 2019 WEEKLY VIDEO REFLECTION SERIES - is to help us search our hearts deeply as to how are we really living for God? Do we put Jesus as the centre of our life not just during the Holy Season of Lent but in our everyday living?  On Holy Thursday, a Eucharistic Adoration service will be posted. 

This is the fourth video of the 7-part DIVINE LENTEN 2019 WEEKLY VIDEO REFLECTION SERIES. At the top of this post is “EXPRESS YOUR EMOTIONS CONSTRUCTIVELY” by Rev. Fr. Joseph Edattu V.C., Associate Director of Divine Retreat Centre Ramsgate, Kent, UK.  In this heart-provoking episode of STREAMS OF GRACE, Fr. Joseph explains with clarity that every emotion should help us to grow into better human beings.

 “We have a wrong notion of anger. Anger is an emotion and it is a gift from God. It is not bad. It is good. It has to be expressed and not suppressed. When we express it, we need to do so constructively and productively. If not it is going to be something evil and destructive to society.”

“If there is no anger, there is no possible development.  Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of charity because of her anger that no one was looking after the abandoned children on the streets.”

“Even Jesus got angry in the Jerusalem Temple out of zeal. Any anger that comes from zeal is good but anger out of passion without reason is evil. If anger is from zeal, it is controllable, reason can work, and it is under your control.”

Every occasion for anger is an occasion for virtue.”

Next Saturday, Rev. Fr. Augutine Vallooran V.C., Director of Divine Retreat Centre, Kerala, India will be sharing the Word of God on how “TO BE ROOTED IN PRAYER TO GOD.”

Please do share this Divine Lenten 2019 Weekly Video Reflection series with your loved ones, prayer groups and friends to make this sacred season of Lent a truly transforming experience in our Christian life.