Building New Humanity through Faith:Republic Day Message 2019

If I recall rightly, in 1974 or so, on Gandhi Jayanthi day, late Fr. Samuel Rayan in his homily in this very chapel said: Bapuji (Gandhi) and Ambedkar are symbols of new humanity. On hindsight today we could also say, Fr. Sam was one of them, showing traits of a new humanity. Describing the evolutionary progression, Scientist Philip Clayton wrote: “Once there was no universe and then, after the Big Bang, there was an exploding world of stars and galaxies. Once the earth was unpopulated and later it was teeming with primitive life forms. Once there were apes living in trees and then there were Mozart, Einstein and Gandhi.