The End and the Beginning

As time draws near, get ready for anything

The end will come in summer, winter, fall or spring.
For when it'll end, Don Bosco Utume November 16 , Sunday: Issue 75

Your new life will begin. • Jambo You(th) is a weekly news letter aimed at helping the Youth in moulding their daily
And when it comes your priorities better be straight, lives in Christ.
• Our vision is expressed in just two phrases: GOOD CHRISTIANS and
Because after all you handle your own fate.
RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.
Take life one day at a time.
Pep-up : Stories for Reflection
Give it to the Lord and everything will be fine.
The Young and the Bible : Pauline Year Special 5 (Ephesians)

Features
Be in control of your life and you'll be surprised Points to Ponder : Twelve Don’ts for Success
Because believe it or not you're in your Father's eyes. Saint of the Week : St. Hugh of Lincoln
Poem : The End and the Beginning
John McKenzie Last Drop : Undying Love

Last Drop The Dark Candle!

An article in the National Geographic several years ago provided a pene-
trating picture of God's wings. After a forest fire in Yellowstone Na-
tional Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the
inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes,
perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat
sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When
he struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their mother's wings.
The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her
offspring to the base of the tree and gathered them under her wings,
instinctively knowing that toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown
to safety, but had refused to abandon her babies. When the blaze had
arrived and the heat singed her small body, the mother remained stead-
fast. Because she had been willing to die, those under the cover of her
wings continued to live. "He shall cover thee with His feathers and under
His wings shall thou trust" (Ps 91:4). Learn to experience the warmth and
protection of life beneath the wings of the Almighty."
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A man had a little daughter-an only and much-beloved child. He
lived for her, she was his life. So when she became ill and her ill-
ness resisted the efforts of the best obtainable physicians, he be-
came like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring
about her restoration to health.
His best efforts proved unavailing and the child died. The father
was totally irreconcilable. He became a bitter recluse, shutting him-
self away from his many friends and refusing every activity that
might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But
one night he had a dream. He was in Heaven, and was witnessing a grand pageant of all
the little child angels. They were marching in an apparently endless line past the Great
White Throne. Every white-robed angelic tot carried a candle. He noticed that one child's
candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little
girl. Rushing to her, while the pageant faltered, he seized her in his arms, caressed her
tenderly, and then asked: "How is it, darling that your candle alone is unlighted? "Father,
they often relight it, but your tears always put it out."
Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear, and its effects were
immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but mingled freely and cheerfully
with his former friends and associates. No longer would his little darling's candle be ex-
tinguished by his useless tears.

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 The Young and the Bible
Pauline Year Special 5 1. Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are
Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians
1. When and where was this letter written? In Rome between A.D. 61 - 63
2. In whom did God, the Father bless us with every spiritual blessings? In Christ
(1:3)
3. For what did God choose us before the foundation of the world? To be holy and
blameless before him in love (1:4)
4. Why did God destine us for adoption as his children? To the praise of his glori-
ous grace he freely bestowed on us in the beloved (1:6)
5. How did we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our tres-
passes ? According to the riches of his grace (1:7)
6. What did Paul compare the church to? The body of Christ (1:23)
7. “For by grace we have been saved through faith, and this is not our own doing”
then whose doing? It is the gift of God (2:8)
8. How are the people of the church saved? Through the gift of faith (2:8)
9. Who is the corner stone in whom the whole structure is joined together and
grows into a holy temple in the Lord? Christ Jesus (2:20-21)
10. What are we built together spiritually into? Into a dwelling place for God (2:22)
11. How should Christ live in our hearts? Through faith (3:17)
12. How should we maintain the unity in the Spirit? In the bond of peace (4:3)
13. What must we grow up into? We must grow up in every way into him who is
the head, into Christ (4:15)
14. Why should all of us speak the truth to our neighbour? For we are members of
one another (4:25)
15. When will one’s anger become a sin? When the anger continues till the sun
goes down (4:26)
16. Where do we find the fruit of light? In all that is good and right and true (5:9)
17. What does Paul advice us to do instead of getting drunk with wine? Be filled
with the Holy Spirit (5:18)
18. To what did Paul compare the relationship between husband and wife? To the
relationship between Christ and the Church (5:32)
19. What is the armour of God? The belt of truth around the waist, breast plate of
righteousness, shoes of Gospel of peace and shield of faith, helmet of sal-
vation and sword of the Spirit (6:14-17)
20. What does Paul wish for the people who have undying love for Lord Jesus
Christ? Peace, grace and love with faith ((6:23-24)
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
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Twelve don'ts for Success
different that each of us is special.
2. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is
best for you.
3. Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would
your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
4. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By
living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.
5. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the
moment you stop trying.
6. Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that
binds us each together.
7. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be
brave.
8. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to
receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the
best way to keep love is to give it wings.
9. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also
where you are going.
10. Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
11. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry
easily.
12. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a
journey to be savored each step of the way.
SAINT for the WEEK
November 17 St. Hugh of Lincoln
He was born in about 1140 near Grenoble in the foothills of the French Alps, and at the
age of 25 became a Carthusian monk at the nearby Grande Chartreuse, which had been
founded some 80 years previously by St. Bruno. From there he was extracted by King
Henry II of England, who asked him to take charge of the Charterhouse (i.e. the Carthu-
sian monastery) at Witham in Somerset, which had been founded in reparation for the
murder of St.Thomas Becket, and which was struggling to survive. In 1186 he was chosen
to be Bishop of Lincoln and proved to be a bishop of massive energy: he refounded the
famous Lincoln theology school, visited extensively, took responsibility for rebuilding Lin-
coln Cathedral after an earthquake , tended the sick, calmed an anti-Jewish riot and
nearly lost his life in the process, and in addition was frequently called upon as an admin-
istrator of justice. He died in 1200 in London and was canonised in 1220.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. Alexander Pope
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