Religions: DYNAMIC CARMELITE ASHRAM IN INDIA
Fr. Atlas spoke about the ashram during Expo Missio 2000, in a Forum in which Msgr. Zago also participated.
Rome, VID, 12-06-2000. Fr. Atlas Saint Antony, a Discalced Carmelite (OCD), 43, is the founder of an “ashram” (Hindu monastery) in Madurai (Tamil Nadu, southern India). In his talk titled “Man and Salvation”, Fr. Atlas spoke about his contemplative experience last Friday in the Roman abbey of “Tre Fontane”, where Expo Missio 2000 was held.
“Thanks to my Indian lifestyle – he said – it is easy for me to meet persons of different religions, as it is easy for them to be with me”. “They love me very much” when they know that I am a Catholic priest, because “our ashram is open to all. Some Hindus come to meditate and reflect, to experience a dialogue of life. In India, people from different religions live in peace.”
Several activities take place in the ashram, ranging from meditation using yoga techniques to interreligious seminars, exchange of experiences, themes such as ecology and the relationship between man and Nature. “This dialogue” concluded the Carmelite, “is an act of liberation, in which each religion collaborates for the liberation of man and in order to establish a new order through dialogue and collaboration”.
Msgr. Marcello Zago OMI, Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, participated in the Forum. END
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