INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE FROM OUR EXPERIENCE OF GOD

Authors

  • Rose B. Calabretta Idente School, Philippines Delegation

Keywords:

GOD, INTERRELIGIOUS, DIALOGUE, EXPERIENCE OF GOD

Abstract

Already in 1965, Pope Paul VI had drawn up a living itinerary for interreligious encounters, in which the Church’s responsible testimony begins by recognizing “with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men.”1 My experience in meeting devoted persons — whether Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, Muslim or Christian — has taught me that experience of God’s presence is, indeed, universal. Sharing personal challenges and aspirations toward mystical union with the Absolute has always impressed me with deep peace, inner hope, awareness of the need for purification, and an enlightened view toward the future.

Author Biography

Rose B. Calabretta, Idente School, Philippines Delegation

Dr Rose B. Calabretta, born in New York, is an Idente Missionary. She studied as resident scholar and worked as social volunteer in Latin America, India and Pakistan. 1981 saw her first doctorate, in sociology, at Fordham University, New York, where she taught for several years. In 1998, she obtained the doctorate in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; from 1984-1999, dedicating her energies to humanistic and inter-faith dialogue with European youth and cultural circles, she served three years as data analyst in the Pontifical Council for Healthcare Apostolate, as Central European Program Director in the International Jacques Maritain Institute, faculty member at the Pontifical Institute Regina Mundi and the International Institute Camillianum for Theology of Healthcare Apostolate. Afterward, she taught in the Verapoly Archdiocese of Kerala, India, in Rome for the Masters of Global Development and Social Justice of the RIID and St John´s University, and in the Philippines at the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA) and Ateneo de Manila University. Email: rosecal2004@hotmail.com

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Published

2014-09-30

How to Cite

Calabretta, R. B. (2014). INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE FROM OUR EXPERIENCE OF GOD. Asian Horizons, 8(03), 539–552. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2102