Colloque sur la sécularisation: Prêtres séculiers dans une société sécularisée

Mardi le 6 novembre 2007

Fr. Thomas Dowd
Office for Pastoral Per-sonnel of the Archdio-cese of Montreal

Mgr Mariano Fazio, recteur de l’Université pontifi-cale de la Sainte Croix, Rome

"Sécularisation et christianisme : défis et possibilités" par Mgr Mariano Fazio

"The Priest in a Secularized Society" by Fr. Thomas Dowd

Horaire du mardi le 6 novembre 2007
• 10 h arrivée
• 10 h 30 conférence par Mgr Mariano Fazio
• 11 h 30 conférence par Father Thomas Dowd
• 12 h 30 dîner, échanges, temps libre
• 15 h 30 deuxième conférence par Mgr Mariano Fazio
• 17 h prière du soir
• 18 h souper, échanges, départ
Frais d’inscription 65$
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The Temperament God gave you

Imagine, sirens begin to whirl behind you and you realise that a police car is pulling you over. You think:
-His radar gun couldn't possibly be correct. I was hardly going over the speed limit. The cars in front of me were speeding.
-Oh, no! I've heard of people getting arrested for this!
-Was I driving fast? What's the speed limit on this road, anyway?
-Do I have my wallet? And where did I put the car registration!?

Different responses to the same situation; the first is typical of the choleric temperament, the second of the melancholic, the third the sanguine, and the fourth, the phlegmatic. Now which one do you fit in?

Here is a book that can be a huge help to figure this out in yourself and in others. Art and Larrain Bennett provide a fascinating outline of the four classic temperments already identified centuries ago by Aristotle: choleric, sanguine, melancholic and phlegmatic. Everyone is born with one of these basic tendencies, and will always react in accord with this hard-wired disposition. Though one can change and acquire dominion over oneself, that basic tendency will always be there, ingrained in us like our DNA. I found the descriptions of each temperament very illuminating; one can see that the book is clearly the result of many years of thought and experience. I highly recommend this work to anyone involved in the spiritual direction of souls or anybody who wants to come to have more dominion over his own temperament. Which is everybody. There is a great test at the end to help you figure out your own temperament. It is published by Sophia Press