Leadership apostolate (full)

The chat VI

The purpose of formation

(such as these talks) is not just

information(you can get that from DIY books) but

conformation

But even conformation needs somemeans / mode / method / technique

The Plan of Life

The Training Regime

= The Plan of Life

The Training Regime

Team Meetings

Drills

Coach (Personal Trainer)

The Plan of Life

Means of formation

Norms

Spiritual Director

Means of formation, like team meetings, are a coming together to receive/form some game plan (the

theory).

The norms, like drills for a team, put the game plan / theory into practice.

The spiritual director, like the coach, directs both.

We have one-on-one conversations with the coach / spiritual director that we

callthe chat.

…that regular, humble and fraternal conversation we have to find concrete

ways of personalizing my pursuit of personal excellence…

Topics of the chat1. Target from last chat/talk2. Prayer3. Study4. Fraternity5. Mortification6. Purity7. Leadership/apostolate8. Sports/tizi, health and sleep

Today we focus on one of these topics…

Topics of the chat1. Target from last chat/talk2. Prayer3. Study4. Fraternity5. Mortification6. Purity7. Leadership/apostolate8. Sports/tizi, health and sleep

What is leadership or apostolate?

[leadership/apostolate ] Leadership is the lifting of a man’s

vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s

performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s

personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter F. DruckerNov 19, 1909 – Nov 11, 2005

author, management consultant,and self-described “social

ecologist”

How many people – concrete names of concrete friends – I’m I lifting, raising,

building… I’m I leading?

[leadership ] I start with the

premise that the function of

leadership is to produce more

leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Naderb. February 27, 1934

American political activist, author, lecturer, attorney

…other Jesuses…

Fulton J. Sheen1895-1979

American archbishop, author, tele-speaker

But what is our main problem? What really holds us back from effective

leadership or apostolate?

[Indifference ] When Jesus came to

Golgotha,they hanged Him on a

tree,They drove great nails

through hands and feet,

and made a Calvary;Geoffrey Studdert

Kennedy27 June 1883 – 8 March 1929

Anglican priest and poet

They crowned Him with a crown of thorns,

red were His wounds and deep,For those were crude and cruel days,

and human flesh was cheap.

When Jesus came to Birmingham,they simply passed Him by.

They would not hurt a hair of Him,they only let Him die;

For men had grown more tender,and they would not give Him pain,

They only just passed down the street,and left Him in the rain.

Still Jesus cried, 'Forgive them,for they know not what they do, 'And still it rained the winter rainthat drenched Him through and

through;

The crowds went home and left the streets without a soul to see,

And Jesus crouched against a wall, and cried for Calvary.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats1865 - 1939

Irish poet and dramatist, Nobel laureate, leader of the

Irish Renaissance

Fire has two qualities: light and heat. Light is

truth, heat is love… passion.

We have the truth, they have the passion.

Fulton J. SheenMay 8, 1895 – Dec 9, 1979

American archbishop, author, tele-speaker

Hate is infinitely closer to love than indifference. God makes saints out of rebels, lovers out of haters: Paul, Augustine, Ignatius. But not out of indifference.

Peter Kreeftb. 1938/1939

professor of philosophy, author, Catholic apologist

That’s one of the reasons he allows you to suffer: to bring you to him, by

whatever road. Tears are not indifference, and indifference is the only

road that never gets to God.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw

26 Jul 1856 – 2 Nov 1950 Irish playwright, co-founder of

the London School of Economics.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948Indian thinker, statesman, and

nationalist leader

"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: …'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

John the Evangelistc. AD 6 – c. 100

apostle, evangelist

Jesus Urteaga1922 – 2009

priest, author, columnist, TV show host

What is wrong with you is not

tepidity. In order to be tepid or lukewarm you

would have had to live a true interior life in

previous times.

Tepidity is a descent from heights to depths and your trouble is that, so far,

you have not risen to any heights. That is the cause of your indifference and

your wavering.

Malcolm X (Malcolm Little; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

May 19, 1925 – Feb 21, 1965African-American Muslim

minister, human rights activist

Once you change your philosophy, you

change your thought pattern. Once you

change your thought pattern, you change

your — your attitude.

Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As

long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern,

and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of

sit-down action.

And what’s the first thought we need to convince ourselves of?

Clifford C. Oluochb. 1967

teacher , author

[being vs. having] The most important

things in life are people.

-Knight of Garter-Order of Merit-Companion of Honour

-Territorial Decoration-Deputy Lieutenant-Fellow of the Royal Society

-Royal Academician-Prime Minister of the UK

-Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century

-The only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature

-Historian-Writer

-Artist-The first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States

-President of the Board of Trade

-Home Secretary-First Lord of the Admiralty

-Minister of Munitions

-Secretary of State for War

-Secretary of State for Air

-Chancellor of the Exchequer

-Leader of the Opposition

“My most brilliant

achievement was my

ability to be able to

persuade my wife to

marry me.”Sir Winston

Churchill

And an adult is not someone who can

take care of himself – plants can do that. An adult is one who

can take care of others. James Stenson

?writer and educational consultant

One is mature when they realise they can

offend or please others and act in

consequence.

Dr. Margaret Ogola12th June 1958 – 21st Sept 2011

medical doctor, author

But we need to begin now!

Why?

[apostolate] The only thing

necessary for the triumph of evil is that

good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke12 Jan 1729 – 9 Jul 1797

Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and

philosopher

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy…

Robert F. KennedyNov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968

American politician, civil-rights activist

…or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein

14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955German-born American

physicist and Nobel laureate

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. Mohandas

Karamchand Gandhi2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948

Indian thinker, statesman, and nationalist leader

[Westgate Atrocity]I am culpable because whenever I saw fundamentalists of all religions spout their venom, I made myself mute. Sunny Bindhra

?lecturer, columnist

I am culpable because whenever I heard people of one type talk trash about ‘those others,’ I made myself deaf.

I am culpable because I knew I live in a society that is deeply corrupt and morally bankrupt, and I made myself blind.

I am culpable because I knew that many more people than those who died in Westgate were slaughtered in similar…

…ways in something called ‘post-election violence,’ and I thought that had little to do with me, perhaps because it was far away from me.

I am culpable because I live in a world full of hypocrisy, where people sing with gusto in churches and temples and mosques, and then go home to promote every possible sin.

…I live in a world where people elect thieves and hope the thief will steal something for them. I live every day in this world, and I don’t do enough to change it.

When you live in a world of hate, intolerance, greed and self-absorption, the Westgate horror is where you end up.

So I apologize unreservedly for my part in this calamity. I am truly sorry.

I can only reach for the remaining vestiges of hope in the rubble of Westgate. I am hopeful because I saw people risk their own lives (and lose them) to save the children of strangers. Those people give me the strength to believe that there is still virtue and selflessness in the world, and that we should bring those things back into the centre of our lives.

Those who receive this privilege of education have a duty to return the sacrifice which others have made. They are like the man who has been given all the food available…

Julius Kambarage Nyerere

13 Apr 1922 – 14 Oct 1999politician, first President of

Tanzania

…in order that he might have the strength to bring supplies back…If he takes this food and does not bring help…he is a traitor.

Without being daunted by the sheer amount of work there is to be done?

First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence.

Robert F. KennedyNov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968

American politician, civil-rights activist

Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France.

…It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all.

[indefatigable apostolate]I will take a break when the devil takes a break

from ruining souls…

St. John Bosco16 Aug 1815 – 31 Jan 1888

Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Robert F. Kennedy

Nov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968American politician, civil-rights activist

Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.

How?

First and foremost, through my own example!

My life is my message.



nationalist leader

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful

mind, but great actions speak to all

mankind...Theodore Roosevelt

1858 - 191926th President of the United

States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

So what do I need to do?

"I’m more concerned with being a good person than being the best footballer

in the world."Lionel Andres Messi

b. 24 June 1987footballer

We need to be the change we wish to see in the

world.



nationalist leader

[apostolate] How wonderful it is

that nobody need wait a single

moment before starting to improve

the world. Anne Frank12 June 1929 – early March 1945

Holocaust victim

[apostolate] The Lord replied, 'If

at Sodom I find fifty just men in the

town, I will spare the whole place

because of them'. Abraham1812-1637BC

Receiver of the Covenant

Abraham replied, 'I am bold indeed to speak like this to my Lord, I who am dust and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just men lack five: will you destroy the whole city

for five?' 'No,' he replied 'I will not destroy it if I find forty five just men there.‘ Again Abraham said to him,

'Perhaps there will only be forty there’.

'I will not do it' he replied 'for the sake of the forty.‘ Abraham said, 'I trust my Lord will not be angry, but give me leave to

speak: perhaps there will only be thirty there'. 'I will not do it' he replied 'if I find thirty there.‘ He said, 'I am bold indeed to speak like this, but perhaps there will only be twenty there'. 'I will not destroy it' he replied 'for the sake of the twenty.’

He said, 'I trust my Lord will not be angry if I speak once more: perhaps there will

only be ten'. 'I will not destroy it' he replied 'for the sake of the ten.'

[I Had a Dream] When I was a young lad, a long time ago

I had many dreams, some big and some not so,The greatest of them, I remember quite well

Was how I would, single-handedly change all men.

I dreamt, thought, pondered and prayedHow I would bring this globe under my sway

Days, weeks and years rolled by,But the earth ignored my tide.

Exasperated, disillusioned, discouraged and dulled,

I went back to the drawing board whereupon I mulled

At once, it seemed ridiculous and an utter stupidity

That I, a mortal man, could transform humanity.

Allan Aywak1981-?

IT specialist, poet

Enlightened, effervescent and still radical was IWhen I got up and set my goal a wee less high,

I was unable, I knew, to metamorphose mankind,But I fancied I could transform my nation’s state of mind.

Expensive, draining and dirty it was,When I attempted to be a rebel with a cause,

Money, not principles, determined who was wise,And one’s volatile supporters would easily vaporise.

I sat down and again my capabilities I weighed,‘twas only logical, it seemed, my endeavour had failed,

one man was not enough to initiate an eventthat would stop his country from going wherever it went.

Bewildered and belittled, I lowered my goal,This world had coldly shown me I was so small,My family, I decided, my last target would be,For they I was confident, would listen to me.

I postulated and propounded my theories on life,To my brother, my sister, my child and my wife,

‘twas disappointing when I had said all that I could,for their actions reported they had misunderstood.

Here I am, an old man, in his twilight years,I implore you, I beg you to lend me your ears,

I discovered, rather late, where I should have begun,I should have changed myself, and maybe I could have

won:

By changing myself, my family would have known,Perhaps, they then would accept my words as their own,

The chain would thus flow from man to woman,Till finally it reached every last one human.

[apostolate of example] Do you want to be more? Be better!

St. Josemaria Escriva1902-1975

civil lawyer, priest, canon lawyer, Founder of Opus Dei

Second, to pray and mortify for them.

[apostolate] Seeing their faith,

Jesus said to the paralytic, 'My child,

your sins are forgiven'.

Jesus Christ4B.C. – 29 A.D.

Son of God, “fundi wa mbao”

Third, to speak to them – privately, but clearly.

[apostolate of friendship] Those well-timed words, whispered

into the ear of your wavering friend;



the helpful conversation that you managed to start at the right moment;

the ready professional advice that improves his university work; the

discreet indiscretion by which you open up unexpected horizons for his zeal. This

all forms part of the 'apostolate of friendship.'

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for

consensus, but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929-1968

American clergyman, Nobel laureate, American civil rights

activist

[to speak clear and hard] Do you also wish to

leave?

Jesus Christ4B.C. – 29 A.D.

Son of God, “fundi wa mbao”

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, "let me do the most evil thing I

can do today." I think he woke up in the

morning and using a twisted, backwards

logic, he set out to do what he thought was

"good."

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr.

b. Sept 25, 1968American actor, producer, and

rapper.

Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. ... I wake up every day full of hope,

positive that every day is going to be better than yesterday. And I'm looking

to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic.

[apostolate] Among those around you — apostolic soul — you are the stone fallen into the lake.



With your word and your example you produce a first circle... and it another... and another, and another... Wider each time. Now do you understand the greatness of your mission?

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