books of truth and knowledge...

Dom says: There are two books I have in my hand that I consider very important in my life as important as a security blanket because both books hold and contain very important truths and knowledge in relation to my present condition and the present condition of my monastic journey and seminary plight.

The first book in my hand is my journal which I fancily called as 'my redbook'. I began jotting down trivial and significant events of my life in my redbook since the day I stepped my feet in the monastery in year 2002. The other book which carries very significant truth about God and God's Words is my Bible which I fondly called as 'my blackbook'...


Both books are my companions especially now that I am faced with moments in my life when I have to sustain myself with a strange condition that I need to struggle and fight over with.

The Blackbook feeds me with everyday sustenance and strength to carry on with my spiritual journey and with my relationship with God.

The redbook contains past records of people (inside and outside the monastery who includes my family, relatives and friends) who were involved and connected with my life since I entered the monastery in year 2002.

The redbook is also my record of past significant events that re-orient and re-educate me of what went on in the past six years of my life as monk in the monastery where I belong now.

Both books contain salient factual informations that sustain and nourish my mind, my heart and my soul as I go over and manage my life here in the Cloister amidst my present condition.