How Many Selves That Are Not Mine? - by Father Fábio de Melo

“These pages were written based on the desire to open interior paths that favor reaching the imposed selves, the roles we assume out of fear, convenience, affective impositions. They are the result of a movement that has been constant in the exercise of my ministry: reflecting on the existential deviations that prevented us from cultivating the selves that correspond to the substantial self that we are, and interfering with them. It is never too late to become who we are. The substance that differentiates us in the world is a potential that never stops blossoming. There is always a detail to be cultivated, an unprecedented version to be discovered and embraced.” – Father Fábio de Melo