Counseling the doubtful

If we look at the present time, we can perhaps say what is most urgent is to counsel, provoking questions, in particular questions concerning the meaning of life and the future, “the fundamental questions which pervade human life: Who am I? Where have I come from and where am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this life? [1]

The B.O.L. foundation will work closely to deliver various counseling sessions to address various doubts found in the society. Below are some of the subjects, but not limited to “Marriage, Family, Education, Women, Society and Life”:

1. “Who am I and what is the purpose of my life?”
2. “Who am I in my family?”
3. “Who am I in the society?”
4. “Where have I come from and where am I going in my marriage?”
5. “Where have I come from and where am I going in the society?”
6. “Where am I going in my career?”
7. “Why is there evil in the society?”
8. “What is there after this life?” 

These topics will be addressed in an environment suited to each individual faith tradition by using ecumenical platforms with the goal to promote peace and harmony within a family and society at large. After all the most urgent task today is “to lead people to discover both their capacity to know the truth and their yearning for the ultimate and definitive meaning of life”[2].

Biblical tradition stresses the importance of counsel: “In an abundance of counselors there is safety” (Prv 11:14). 

Ben Sirach point out the issue of truth and the critical importance of good conscience in the quest for it: 

13 And establish the counsel of your own heart,

for no one is more faithful to you than it is.

14 For a man’s soul sometimes keeps him better informed

than seven watchmen sitting high on a watchtower.

15 And besides all this pray to the Most High

that he may direct your way in truth. (Sir 37:13-15).

[1] St. John Paul II, Fides et Ratio, 1.

[2] Ibid, 102.