മാതൃ ശിശു ബന്ധത്തേക്കാൾ പവിത്രമായ
മറ്റെന്തുണ്ട് ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ?

അവിടെ വ്യവസ്ഥകളും അതിർവരമ്പുകളും
അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുന്നു .

ഹൃദയങ്ങൾ തമ്മിൽ സംസാരിക്കുന്നു .
അനുപമ സ്നേഹത്തിൻ ഈരടികൾ .

ഔസേപ്പച്ചൻ 

I lost myself in that wonderful sight

The faithful singing the praises of the Lord

A mother and a child in the crowd
Something special… my eyes got stuck.

I gave my heart and mind to those lovely moments
A baby in white turning the pages of a book.
Totally fearless in the presence of her mother
Even in the presence of God, child too is present for her

A wonderful smile appeared on her cheeks
And moved gently to her mother
Not worried about what is happening around
Offered a gentle kiss to her mother.

A moment of love and affirmation.
A perfect symbol of perfect love, love Divine.
Both are in a state of unconditional love
Love that is beyond all the limitations

Joseph Shibin

വിലാപം

ജീവിതത്തിലെ ഏകാന്തനിമിഷങ്ങളിൽ

ഒരു വിലാപം  എൻറെയുള്ളിൽ മുഴങ്ങുന്നു 

സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിന്റെ ലോകത്തിലേക്ക് 

പറക്കുവാൻ വെമ്പൽകൊള്ളുന്ന എൻറെ 

കണ്ണീർതുള്ളികളുടെ വിലാപം 

ജോസെഫ്സ് 

ജീവിതത്തിൻ താളം

നിൻറെ  പാദസരത്തിന്റെ  കിലുക്കം
എൻറെ ഹൃദയത്തിന്റെ താളമായ്  മാറുന്നു
ജീവിതത്തിൻ താളവും


ജോസെഫ്സ് 

Touch of love

Touch of love

My little flower, dancing in the breeze

My sweetheart reflecting the Divine radiance

Life brought me closer to your loving presence

Let me be here with you for a while

I become helpless and cannot go forward

My eyes fixed on you, my being becomes one with you

Your smile releases me from the hard reality of life

You are born to dispel darkness from my soul

I love you as you are a beautiful being

You are rooted to the earth like a mother to the child

I fall into deep meditation in your presence

Songs of adoration and praises fill my heart

My heart longs for being with you till the end

Strong temptations to make you my own

Keeping you close to my heart I want to live

Still, be there my dear to touch many other hearts.

Joseph Shibin SJ

Daivathine Swantham Cletus - Malayalam Film Review

Daivathinte swantham Cletus

     What good can come out of Malayalam film industry?  What more can be expected from a person called megastar Mammooty? I started with these presuppositions.   But now I feel that Malayalam film industry still has a great future and Mammooty can contribute a lot still. Even in this era of the new generation currents, megastar is able to swim against the current and to make his mark.

     The skill of the actor is well manifested in the movie titled  ‘Daivathinte Swantham Cletus.’ It is not an attempt to make fun of the Christian tradition but to raise a few questions about understanding Jesus Christ in a new century. This is a different reading of the gospel. Many are aspiring to be Jesus but the selected one is a sinner, a sinner to the core. He rejects the offer in the beginning but ultimately he has to respond the the call. Of course, the call to be a another Jesus in this ever changing world is a challenge for us. We need to forget ourselves and to adopt a new system of values. Though the man is a sinner grace is still resisting to fade away from his face.

    Incompatibility between Jesus Christ and Cletus is becoming clear as we go ahead. The actor faces severe inner struggle to be a Jesus. It becomes difficult for him to meditate on Jesus and to be faithful to him. He has all the temptations to go back and to dwell in the darkness of the soul. But the ways of Divine are great. Cletus is the chosen one.  Cletus represents a believer in this century proclaiming the faith and meantime facing a difficult situation in being faithful to his set of beliefs. Many of the parables are interpreted in a different and new dimension. To be a Christ means to be one with the suffering, the oppressed and to remain where there is a greater need. 

     The darkness of the world cannot hide the light of being. This is the key insight given by the film, I think. As the film progresses, Cletus is identifying himself with his role as Christ which gives him a new turn in life.  The suffering at the cross makes Cletus a new man and he accepts his sinfulness. He receives the wounds as a punishment for all the evil he had done. Here a Judas appears with bowl of red wine for the master. Cletus is not really a sinner to the core. We can trace some element of goodness in him. Cletus was called from the depth of sinfulness and made new. The Son has come to redeem the lost.When others observe world with lust Cletus observes the drowning innocents and the tortured by the society.

       Lakshmi is a great influencing character of the film. She is not like the passive women in the contemporary society and films. She is a powerful character with moral integrity, determination and courage. The society tried to view her as another Mary Magdalene, a prostitute. A Still she changed the perspective of the society by becoming a good mother to her son and in responding courageously when she was torn apart by the destiny.

Cletus is God’s own with a compassionate heart..

Joseph Shibin

Darkness of soul

Lonely

In the midst of a crowd

Doors locked … safe

No one to disturb

Staying in between sacred places

Songs of adoration and praises

Dry leaves all around

Resisting to fly in the rhythm of breeze

Do not waste your time knocking

The door will not be opened

If the door is open

Light may enter and disturb my life

This loneliness is infinite

No drop of hope

The darkness of the world

Has reached even the light of being