The document discusses the importance of apostolate and leadership. It provides examples from various historical and religious figures about starting small to improve the world and produce more leaders. It emphasizes that one person can make a difference and that we should be the change we wish to see. It encourages beginning immediately to lift others up through personal example, actions, and perseverance in working to counter injustice and spread good.

1. The chat VI

2. The purpose of
formation
(such as these talks) is not just
information
(you can get that from DIY books) but
conformation

3. But even conformation needs some
means / mode / method / technique
The Plan of Life

4. The Training
Regime
=
The Plan of
Life

5. The Training
Regime
The Plan of
Life
Team
Meetings
Means of
formation
Drills
Norms
Coach (Personal
Spiritual
Director
Trainer)

6. Means of formation, like team
meetings, are a coming together to
receive/form some game plan (the
theory).
The norms, like drills for a team, put
the game plan / theory into practice.
The spiritual director, like the coach,
directs both.

7. We have one-on-one conversations with
the coach / spiritual director that we
call
the chat.

8. …that regular, humble and fraternal
conversation we have to find concrete
ways of personalizing my pursuit of
personal excellence…

9. Topics of the chat
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2.
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8.
Target from last chat/talk
Prayer
Study
Fraternity
Mortification
Purity
Leadership/apostolate
Sports/tizi, health and sleep

10. Today we focus on one of these topics…

11. Topics of the chat
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2.
3.
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6.
7.
8.
Target from last chat/talk
Prayer
Study
Fraternity
Mortification
Purity
Leadership/apostolate
Sports/tizi, health and sleep

12. What is leadership or apostolate?

13. [leadership/apostolate ]
Leadership is the
lifting of a man’s
vision to higher sights,
the raising of a man’s
performance to a
higher standard, the
building of a man’s
personality beyond its
normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker
Nov 19, 1909 – Nov 11, 2005
author, management consultant,
and self-described “social
ecologist”

14. How many people – concrete names of
concrete friends – I’m I lifting, raising,
building… I’m I leading?

15. [leadership ]
I start with the
premise that the
function of
leadership is to
produce more
leaders, not more
followers.
Ralph Nader
b. February 27, 1934
American political activist,
author, lecturer, attorney

16. …other Jesuses…
Fulton J. Sheen
1895-1979
American archbishop,
author, tele-speaker

17. But what is our main problem? What
really holds us back from effective
leadership or apostolate?

18. [Indifference ]
When Jesus came to
Golgotha,
they hanged Him on a
tree,
They drove great nails
through hands and
feet,
and made a Calvary;
Geoffrey Studdert
Kennedy
27 June 1883 – 8 March 1929
Anglican priest and poet

19. They crowned Him with a crown of
thorns,
red were His wounds and deep,
For those were crude and cruel days,
and human flesh was cheap.
When Jesus came to Birmingham,
they simply passed Him by.
They would not hurt a hair of Him,
they only let Him die;

20. For men had grown more tender,
and they would not give Him pain,
They only just passed down the street,
and left Him in the rain.
Still Jesus cried, 'Forgive them,
for they know not what they do, '
And still it rained the winter rain
that drenched Him through and
through;

21. The crowds went home and left the
streets without a soul to see,
And Jesus crouched against a wall, and
cried for Calvary.

22. The best lack all
conviction while the
worst are full of
passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
1865 - 1939
Irish poet and dramatist,
Nobel laureate, leader of the
Irish Renaissance

23. Fire has two qualities:
light and heat. Light is
truth, heat is love…
passion.
We have the truth, they
have the passion.
Fulton J. Sheen
May 8, 1895 – Dec 9, 1979
American archbishop,
author, tele-speaker

24. Hate is infinitely closer to
love than indifference.
God makes saints out of
rebels, lovers out of
haters: Paul, Augustine,
Ignatius. But not out of
indifference.
Peter Kreeft
b. 1938/1939
professor of philosophy,
author, Catholic apologist

25. That’s one of the reasons he allows you
to suffer: to bring you to him, by
whatever road. Tears are not
indifference, and indifference is the only
road that never gets to God.

26. The worst sin towards
our fellow creatures is
not to hate them, but
to be indifferent to
them:
that's
the
essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
26 Jul 1856 – 2 Nov 1950
Irish playwright, co-founder of
the London School of
Economics.

27. It is better to be violent, if
there is violence in our
hearts, than to put on the
cloak of non-violence to
cover
impotence.
Violence is any day
preferable to impotence.
There is hope for a violent
man to become nonviolent. There is no such
hope for the impotent.
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948
Indian thinker, statesman, and
nationalist leader

28. "To the angel of the
church in Laodicea write:
…'I know your deeds,
that you are neither cold
nor hot; I wish that you
were cold or hot. 'So
because
you
are
lukewarm, and neither
hot nor cold, I will spit
you out of My mouth.
John the Evangelist
c. AD 6 – c. 100
apostle, evangelist

29. What is wrong with
you is not tepidity. In
order to be tepid or
lukewarm you would
have had to live a
true interior life in
previous times.
Jesus Urteaga
1922 – 2009
priest, author, columnist, TV show host

30. Tepidity is a descent from heights to
depths and your trouble is that, so far,
you have not risen to any heights. That
is the cause of your indifference and
your wavering.

31. Once you change your
philosophy, you
change your thought
pattern. Once you
change your thought
pattern, you change
your — your attitude.
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little;
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
May 19, 1925 – Feb 21, 1965
African-American Muslim
minister, human rights activist

32. Once you change your attitude, it
changes your behavior pattern and
then you go on into some action. As
long as you gotta sit-down philosophy,
you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern,
and as long as you think that old sitdown thought you’ll be in some kind of
sit-down action.

33. And what’s the first thought we need to
convince ourselves of?

34. [being vs. having]
The most important
things in life are
people.
Clifford C. Oluoch
b. 1967
teacher , author

35. - Knight
of Garter
- Order of Merit
- Companion of
Honour
- Territorial Decoration
- Deputy Lieutenant
- Fellow of the Royal
Society
- Royal Academician
- Prime Minister of the
UK
- Widely
regarded as
one of the greatest
wartime leaders of
the 20th century
- The only British
Prime Minister to
have received the
Nobel Prize in
Literature
- Historian
- Writer

36. - Artist
- Minister
of
- The first person to be Munitions
made an honorary
- Secretary of State for
citizen of the United War
States
- Secretary of State for
- President of the
Air
Board of Trade
- Chancellor of the
- Home Secretary
Exchequer
- First Lord of the
- Leader of the
Admiralty
Opposition

37. “My most
brilliant
achievement
was my
ability to be
able to
persuade my
wife to
marry me.”
Sir Winston
Churchill

38. And an adult is not
someone who can
take care of himself
– plants can do that.
An adult is one who
can take care of
others.
James Stenson
?
writer and educational consultant

39. One is mature when
they realise they can
offend or please
others and act in
consequence.
Dr. Margaret Ogola
12th June 1958 – 21st Sept 2011
medical doctor, author

40. But we need to begin now!
Why?

41. [apostolate]
The only thing
necessary for the
triumph of evil is that
good men do
nothing.
Edmund Burke
12 Jan 1729 – 9 Jul 1797
Anglo-Irish statesman, author,
orator, political theorist, and
philosopher

43. Every time we turn our
heads the other way
when we see the law
flouted, when we
tolerate what we know
to be wrong, when we
close our eyes and
ears to the corrupt
because we are too
busy…
Robert F. Kennedy
Nov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968
American politician, civilrights activist

44. …or too frightened, when we fail to
speak up and speak out, we strike a
blow against freedom and decency and
justice.

45. The
world
is
a
dangerous place, not
because of those who
do evil, but because of
those who look on and
do nothing.
Albert Einstein
14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955
German-born American
physicist and Nobel laureate

46. All humanity is one
undivided and indivisible
family, and each one of
us is responsible for the
misdeeds of all the
others. I cannot detach
myself
from
the
wickedest soul.
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948
Indian thinker, statesman, and
nationalist leader

47. [Westgate Atrocity]
I am culpable because
whenever
I
saw
fundamentalists of all
religions spout their
venom, I made myself
mute.
Sunny Bindhra
?
lecturer, columnist

48. I am culpable because whenever I
heard people of one type talk trash
about ‘those others,’ I made myself deaf.
I am culpable because I knew I live in
a society that is deeply corrupt and
morally bankrupt, and I made myself
blind.
I am culpable because I knew that
many more people than those who died
in Westgate were slaughtered in similar…

49. …ways in something called ‘post-election
violence,’ and I thought that had little to
do with me, perhaps because it was far
away from me.
I am culpable because I live in a
world full of hypocrisy, where people
sing with gusto in churches and temples
and mosques, and then go home to
promote every possible sin.

50. …I live in a world where people elect
thieves and hope the thief will steal
something for them. I live every day in
this world, and I don’t do enough to
change it.
When you live in a world of hate,
intolerance, greed and self-absorption,
the Westgate horror is where you end
up.

51. So I apologize unreservedly for my
part in this calamity. I am truly sorry.

52. I can only reach for the remaining
vestiges of hope in the rubble of
Westgate. I am hopeful because I saw
people risk their own lives (and lose
them) to save the children of strangers.
Those people give me the strength to
believe that there is still virtue and
selflessness in the world, and that we
should bring those things back into the
centre of our lives.

53. Those who receive this
privilege of education
have a duty to return
the sacrifice which
others have made.
They are like the man
who has been given all
the food available…
Julius Kambarage
Nyerere
13 Apr 1922 – 14 Oct 1999
politician, first President of
Tanzania

54. …in order that he might have the
strength to bring supplies back…If he
takes this food and does not bring
help…he is a traitor.

55. Without being daunted by the sheer
amount of work there is to be done?

56. First is the danger of
futility; the belief
there is nothing one
man or one woman
can do against the
enormous array of the
world's ills — against
misery and ignorance,
injustice and violence.
Robert F. Kennedy
Nov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968
American politician, civil-rights
activist

57. Yet many of the world's great
movements, of thought and action, have
flowed from the work of a single man. A
young monk began the Protestant
reformation, a young general extended
an empire from Macedonia to the
borders of the earth, and a young
woman reclaimed the territory of
France.

58. …It was a young Italian explorer who
discovered the New World, and 32-yearold Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed
that all men are created equal. "Give me
a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and
I will move the world." These men
moved the world, and so can we all.

60. [indefatigable apostolate]
I will take a break when
the devil takes a break
from ruining souls…
St. John Bosco
16 Aug 1815 – 31 Jan 1888
Italian Catholic priest, educator
and writer

62. Let
no
one
be
discouraged by the
belief there is nothing
one person can do
against the enormous
array of the world's
ills, misery, ignorance,
and violence.
Robert F. Kennedy
Nov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968
American politician, civil-rights activist

63. Few will have the greatness to bend
history, but each of us can work to
change a small portion of events. And in
the total of all those acts will be written
the history of a generation.

64. How?
First and foremost, through my own
example!

65. My life is my message.
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948
Indian thinker, statesman, and
nationalist leader

66. Great thoughts speak
only to the thoughtful
mind, but great
actions speak to all
mankind...
Theodore Roosevelt
1858 - 1919
26th President of the United
States, Nobel Peace Prize
laureate

67. So what do I need to do?

69. "I’m more concerned
with being a good
person than being
the best footballer
in the world."
Lionel Andres Messi
b. 24 June 1987
footballer

70. We need to be the change
we wish to see in the
world.
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948
Indian thinker, statesman, and
nationalist leader

73. [apostolate]
How wonderful it is
that nobody need
wait a single
moment before
starting to improve
the world.
Anne Frank
12 June 1929 – early March 1945
Holocaust victim

74. [apostolate]
The Lord replied, 'If
at Sodom I find
fifty just men in
the town, I will
spare the whole
place because of
them'.
Abraham
1812-1637BC
Receiver of the Covenant

75. Abraham replied, 'I am bold indeed to
speak like this to my Lord, I who am dust
and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just men
lack five: will you destroy the whole city
for five?' 'No,' he replied 'I will not
destroy it if I find forty five just men
there.‘ Again Abraham said to him,
'Perhaps there will only be forty there’.

76. 'I will not do it' he replied 'for the sake of
the forty.‘ Abraham said, 'I trust my Lord
will not be angry, but give me leave to
speak: perhaps there will only be thirty
there'. 'I will not do it' he replied 'if I find
thirty there.‘ He said, 'I am bold indeed
to speak like this, but perhaps there will
only be twenty there'. 'I will not destroy
it' he replied 'for the sake of the twenty.’

77. He said, 'I trust my Lord will not be angry
if I speak once more: perhaps there will
only be ten'. 'I will not destroy it' he
replied 'for the sake of the ten.'

78. [I Had a Dream]
When I was a young lad, a long time ago
I had many dreams, some big and some not so,
The greatest of them, I remember quite well
Was how I would, single-handedly change all men.
I dreamt, thought, pondered and prayed
How I would bring this globe under my sway
Days, weeks and years rolled by,
But the earth ignored my tide.
Exasperated, disillusioned, discouraged and dulled,
I went back to the drawing board whereupon I
mulled
At once, it seemed ridiculous and an utter
stupidity
That I, a mortal man, could transform humanity.
Allan Aywak
1981-?
IT specialist, poet

79. Enlightened, effervescent and still radical was I
When I got up and set my goal a wee less high,
I was unable, I knew, to metamorphose mankind,
But I fancied I could transform my nation’s state of mind.
Expensive, draining and dirty it was,
When I attempted to be a rebel with a cause,
Money, not principles, determined who was wise,
And one’s volatile supporters would easily vaporise.
I sat down and again my capabilities I weighed,
‘twas only logical, it seemed, my endeavour had failed,
one man was not enough to initiate an event
that would stop his country from going wherever it went.

80. Bewildered and belittled, I lowered my goal,
This world had coldly shown me I was so small,
My family, I decided, my last target would be,
For they I was confident, would listen to me.
I postulated and propounded my theories on life,
To my brother, my sister, my child and my wife,
‘twas disappointing when I had said all that I could,
for their actions reported they had misunderstood.
Here I am, an old man, in his twilight years,
I implore you, I beg you to lend me your ears,
I discovered, rather late, where I should have begun,
I should have changed myself, and maybe I could have
won:

81. By changing myself, my family would have known,
Perhaps, they then would accept my words as their own,
The chain would thus flow from man to woman,
Till finally it reached every last one human.

82. [apostolate of example]
Do you want to be
more? Be better!
St. Josemaria Escriva
1902-1975
civil lawyer, priest, canon lawyer,
Founder of Opus Dei

83. Second, to pray and mortify for them.

84. [apostolate]
Seeing their faith,
Jesus said to the
paralytic, 'My child,
your sins are
forgiven'.
Jesus Christ
4B.C. – 29 A.D.
Son of God, “fundi wa mbao”

85. Third, to speak to them – privately, but
clearly.

86. [apostolate of friendship]
Those well-timed
words, whispered
into the ear of your
wavering friend;
St. Josemaria Escriva
1902-1975
civil lawyer, priest, canon lawyer,
Founder of Opus Dei

87. the helpful conversation that you
managed to start at the right moment;
the ready professional advice that
improves his university work; the
discreet indiscretion by which you open
up unexpected horizons for his zeal. This
all forms part of the 'apostolate of
friendship.'

88. Ultimately a genuine
leader is not a
searcher for
consensus, but a
molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968
American clergyman, Nobel
laureate, American civil rights
activist

89. [to speak clear and hard]
Do you also wish to
leave?
Jesus Christ
4B.C. – 29 A.D.
Son of God, “fundi wa mbao”

90. Even Hitler didn't wake
up going, "let me do
the most evil thing I
can do today." I think
he woke up in the
morning and using a
twisted, backwards
logic, he set out to do
what he thought was
"good."
Willard Carroll "Will"
Smith, Jr.
b. Sept 25, 1968
American actor, producer, and
rapper.

91. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
... I wake up every day full of hope,
positive that every day is going to be
better than yesterday. And I'm looking
to infect people with my positivity. I
think I can start an epidemic.

92. [apostolate]
Among those around
you — apostolic soul
— you are the stone
fallen into the lake.
St. Josemaria Escriva
1902-1975
civil lawyer, priest, canon lawyer,
Founder of Opus Dei

93. With your word and your example you
produce a first circle... and it another...
and another, and another... Wider each
time. Now do you understand the
greatness of your mission?

94. The end