DEAR SOUL TRAVELERS AND FRIENDS ADULTS, COUPLES, FAMILIES and children   YOU are the Mirrors of the Future.   As you GLOW & GROW in 2019   LAUGH with me, make the world WHOLE for YOU and I are Mirrors of Wholeness       As we celebrate  PERFECTION  where LIGHT ♥ DELIGHT one life at a time             Let us learn to navigate THE NEW YEAR with The Seven "P" Gospels  POSITIVITY - PRESENCE - POSSIBILITY- PROMISE - PEACE - PURPOSE – PRAYER        "You are the Mirrors of the Future" A letter to the younger generations and all who believe in them  September 30, 2016, 2017, 2018   My dear Younger Friend, a Christlike Lover and a Faithful Believer in God,   Today, as I RECALL celebrating life I am thankful for all my glowing experiences of JOY: pain, sadness or happiness.   I am happy to know you, but who you truly are is not fully known! What lies enfolded in your destiny is yet to unfold. You are the Mirrors of the Future, just like me and others before me. The Universe continues to grow with your unique flavor from beginner’s innocence to wholeness or perfection         - Innocence.   Today, In your eyes I see dreams, the fulfilment of human destiny  -Infinity Through your ears I hear the symphony of the Universe      -Intimacy With you I smell and taste the fragrance of this moment      -Integrity From you I touch the radiance of divine vibrations              -In-harmony I am happy to love you and want you to know that life is simple yet paradoxical. May you grow to realize that it is “simply free and fully empty” [Ch 1] -Impermanence   Please allow me to share with you and the generations to come the good news, which describes my journey. Earlier I have called it Kristapurana in Sulcorna [PFM Ch 4]. In this missive I call it THE SEVEN "P" GOSPELS or Mirrors of Wholeness:  POSITIVITY - PRESENCE - POSSIBILITY- PROMISE - PEACE - PURPOSE – PRAYER.   1. LET US BE MIRRORS OF POSITIVITY: J. K. Rowling writes in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” I am gradually forgetting many things, including how it was to be young. I do not feel guilty but have one regret. For too long I lived my life like a dying disciple on Good Friday. I wish I had laughed more and danced with the delight of Easter Sunday! This is my principle message to you. Live The Gospel of Positivity. Let your affirming response to life be an enthusiastic God-filled “Yes!”   2. LET US BE MIRRORS OF PRESENCE: “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” These words of Mother Teresa lead me to share with you my next message. Live The Gospel of Presence like she did. Let your life be a generous present to those closest to you, especially the less fortunate - an attentive response to this moment with a grateful “Yes!”   3. LET US BE MIRRORS OF POSSIBILITY:   If I could give you a message that encompasses all messages, it is “Learn, unlearn and re-learn always.” Cultivate openness by awakening, balancing and centering new ideas and newer experiences with better intentions and expressions. Live The Gospel of Possibility. Let your delightfully resounding response to life be “Yes!”   4. LET US BE MIRRORS OF PROMISE: Believe in The Gospel of Promise where truth leads you to trust yourself and others with a courageous and visionary “Yes!” to the goodness, beauty, and order which await you in our shrinking global village. With Prophet Jeremiah [29:11] I am optimistic. As I read The Future (2013) by Al Gore I am reminded of Alvin Tofflers’ Future Shock (1970) and John Nashbitt’s Megatrends (1982). Today, Steve Case’s The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future (2016), Alec Ross’ The Industries of the Future (2016), Sean Carrol's The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself (2016) and Parag Khanna’s Connectography: Mapping the Future of the Human Civilization (2016) make me wonder what amazingly amusing adventures lie in store for you.   5. LET US BE MIRRORS OF PEACE: May these adventures lead to peace on Earth. May you glow with “Yes!” as The Gospel of Peace described by the mystic Francis of Assisi in his Peace Prayer, which I have slightly modified here to include laughter. “O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek, to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life;” it is laughing that we glow as Integral Being.   6. LET US BE MIRRORS OF PURPOSE: May you experience the power described by Rick Warren, one of the most popular contemporary spiritual writers, in The Purpose Driven Life [2002]. Live The Gospel of Purpose with a passionate “Yes!” Warren writes "Contrary to popular book titles, there are no Easy Steps to Maturity or Secrets of Instant Sainthood. When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when he wants to make a giant oak tree, he takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process. ... A delay is not a denial from God. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you've got to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be" [pp122-123].   7. LET US BE MIRRORS OF PRAYER: Finally, be “Yes!” The Gospel of Prayer described throughout this book. I am grateful to you for reading this far. May I request you to join me in uniting with all who prayed and celebrated Catholic Sacraments, Ecumenical and Interfaith Rituals with me in many delightful Communities of Faith, Hope and Love.       “Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.” This was Fr. Dennis Duarte, SDB’s prayerful toast  in Aquem, Goa on Dec. 21, 1977. PFM Mirror 129     I AM GRATEFUL They were and are My Gospel of Prayer from 2019-1994 The Universal Church of Delight @ SpiritualDirection.org The Little Flock of St. John's 1928 BCP Parish, Hayward CA El Buen Pastor Independent Catholic Church, San Mateo CA Stanford University Hospital Chaplaincy, Stanford CA St. Thomas a Becket Mission, Sacramento CA Christ Church Anglican Catholic Parish, San Mateo CA St. Benedict's Abbey Church, San Francisco CA   My Gospel of Prayer from 1993-1974 St. Paul's Parish, San Francisco CA St. Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco CA St. Dunstan’s Parish, Millbrae CA St. Francis of Assisi Parish, San Francisco CA St. Mary of the Lake Parish, Chicago IL Loyola University of Chicago Chapel, IL Ouevres et Mission de Don Bosco Chapel, Lyons Universitas Salesiana - Rua Community Chapel, Rome Salesian Provincial House Chapel, Matunga Mumbai Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Rivona Goa St. Francis Xavier Chapel, Colomba, Goa Don Bosco Farm Chapel Sulcorna, Goa Don Bosco Chapel, Makarpura Gujarat Dominic Savio Chapel, Andheri Mumbai Rua Youth Center, Our Lady of Dolours Church, Wadala Mumbai St. Anthony's Parish, Tambuchettypalayam, Karnataka Kristu Jyoti College Chapel, Bangalore   My Gospel of Prayer from 1974-1950 Shrine to Don Bosco's Madonna, Matunga Mumbai Our Lady of Dolours Church, Wadala Mumbai Mission Center in Konkani, Cotton Green Mumbai Sacred Heart Chapel, Yercaud Tamilnadu Sacred Heart College Chapel, Mawlai Meghalaya St. Joseph’s RC Church, Lonavla Maharashtra Don Bosco Chapel, Lonavla Maharashtra Shrine to Our Lady of Fatima, Don Bosco, Panaji St. Joseph's Convent Chapel, Aquem Alto, Goa Carmelite Monastery Chapel, Aquem Alto, Goa St. Sebastian’s or Pandavam Copel, Aquem Alto, Goa St Joseph’s Chapel, Davorlim, Goa, and Our Lady of Rosary Church, Navelim Goa, India Portuguêsa, where I was baptized on October 7, 1950 and ordained a PRIEST on December 21, 1977. Today, YOU are my Gospel. I am grateful to you for adding your unique flavor of wholeness to my life I pray with you and for you with a devout “Yes!” May you find God or the best in everything that happens to you.    You are the Mirrors of the Future & Spirituality for Teenage Girls & Boys      Email: ariostocoelho@yahoo.com  - Phone: 650-952-9456  ©Spiritual Direction 1998-2019 [Updated on January 6, 2019] HOMEPAGE: GUIDANCE - WORKSHOPS - Weddings - TESTIMONIALS Support - Rituals - Meditation - Coaching - Art - AJC Journeying with the YOUNG [DON BOSCO's WAY in India: Lonavla, Sulcorna, Goa]  in San Mateo, CA - with the Breath of the Risen Christ