The document is a series of slides from a religious presentation given in Kinshasa, Congo in December 2010, providing guidance and questions for reflection on the past year and goals and commitments for 2011. It encourages the audience to meditate on important personal and global events from 2010, make positive changes and commitments for 2011, and pray for themes affecting humanity.

1. Best Wishes ! BEST WISHES FOR THE YEAR 2011 ! (Wished to You from Kinshasa, december 2010, by a young religious). I H S Click to go to next slide

2. Ready to assess 2010 ? IF YES, LET US START WITH A SIMPLE BUT FRUITFUL MEMORY EXERCICE : Personnal choices and decisions made in 2010 which I am happy or proud of. Personnal choices and decisions made in 2010 wich I regret. Important events that affected people in my quater, region or country during 2010. Important events that affected other countries or the world during 2010. Some key events that occured to me during 2010 and wich I can hardly forget. I H S Click to go to next slide Peace of Christ

3. How was the year of Grace 2010 ? LINKED QUESTIONS TO MEDITATE ON YOUR 2010 ANSWER TO THE BURNING LOVE OF GOD 1. What are some key events that occured to me during 2010 ? 2. How do those events talk about my life ? 3. What are one to three personnal choices which I am happy or proud of during 2010 ? 4. How do I intend to get myself used to do such right choices ? 5. What are one to three personnal choices which I regret during 2010 ? 6. About which one will I actively try to tackle the negative origin in order to do better next year ? 7. What are some important events that affected people in my quater, region or country during 2010 ? 8. What is my true opinion about those events ? Do I spiritually and morally accept this opinion ? 9. Can I remember some important events that affected other countries or the world during 2010 ? 10. What is my true opinion about those events ? Do I spiritually and morally accept this opinion ? I H S Click to go to next slide

4. How is your Christmas period going ? Here in Africa, most answers to this question are the following : ”I have no money. How can this Christmas be nice ?” If this is also your answer, check first if your situation is not a ponctual one which can leave floor, through some creative and fair attitudes, to a better one. But, beloved child of the Lord, remember also Mt 6, 26-33 . In any of the two cases, the lack of money during Christmas is an occasion to free Your heart from ordinary considerations and to reach a deeper meaning of this actualising event. Make Christmas more consequent with the experience in Bethleem : a moment of face-to-face with the truth of life, a moment for receiving God through unexpected people and maybe very strange presents, a moment for receiving a mission of protecting the life of Christ Jesus in the world, in the hearts, in the souls, in the minds, in the social structures. Because of that, I ask the Lord three graces for You : 1) the permanent ability to move from any sea of despair to the best port of renewed courage ; 2) the spirit of efficience, efficacity and fruitful creativity ; 3) the grace of keeping being fair and honnest whatever the case. I admit that You may be in the case of people whose poverty situation looks like an unfair on-going structural process. I H S Click to go to next slide Lk 2, 7-20 Mt 2, 11-23

5. How is your Christmas period going ? In fact, the “tangible” pathway can be a good basis for going further. The problem would be to settle in some kind of sincere but unconsciously influenced pragmatism. Christmas can deeply bless each sincerely-socially-committed-person. I mean, if the person accepts to experience the true importance of shifting from the confidence to faith: from confidence into our own ability to help people, which makes them as assisted and irresponsible people, to faith into an unseizable path offered to understand and follow : the grace of Christ passing through us to reach people. But I've also heard the following answer : ”Well, in fact I care about quite different stuff.” Let me hope that by this answer You mean : “I care about more ”tangible” commitment for the Good”. In other words : do we stay connected to the meaning carried out by each Grace received from Christ, or do we let the treasure of Love being kidnapped by our own ideology ? Because it would be at least much better thant an attitude of loosing faith in everything. Even though ”tangible” commitment in itself may be shaped by a vision in need of discerning and purification, with coherence and courage., I H S Click to go to next slide Ps 118 (117), 9 Jn 15, 5

6. How is your Christmas period going ? But I've also heard the following answer : ”Wow ! Christmas is good time coming for fun, excitement and exageration !” For sure, fun and rejoicing are part of the human experience. But prayer and meditation too ! Christmas joins both sets of aspects. It is only because of that, and of course after that, that will blossom a very special joy inside us : the joice which comes from the Child Jesus, the joice which comes from the Redeemed World which He already carry inside him, and that His Sacred Heart will pours from the Cross as Water and Blood. The Joy of Christmas is a kind of “Evangelic Joy”. As the birth of a child settles a new presence among us, the presence of Jesus does in each family or heart where God is welcome. Thus, fun or excitement are not, and cannot be, the first ingredients to experience Christmas. Instead, a core experience of Christmas starts by the true welcoming of the Child Jesus. And do You know something ? Each new Christmas carries a non-routine-based experience : it is always a new but true and endless experience of The great Mystery of Christ. Those who experience that very Joy are rather carried to a better Love and Service of God and of mankind, not the opposite, a greater will of Faith and Justice, not the indifference towards those. And anyone who sees the behaving of people filled with that joy wishes to taste the Christian life, not the opposite. This is where lies, enclosed, one true experience of Christmas. Please never let Christmas be a pretext for going back to kind of annual-untransforming-exterior-routine. Jesus Christ comes into the flesh, not to bring us back to our habits, but to sanctify us deep from inside (cf. Rm 13, 12 ). I H S Click to go to next slide

7. How are You entering into 2011 ? It may happen that your answer to that question focuses on some projetcs carried out either personnaly, collectively or professionnaly. HEALTH AND FITNESS ORIENTAL SPIRITUALITIES EGO No doubt this is very good : projects are sign of vitality, and sign of hope of a better future for all. Anyway, please consider how the future of humanity, including 2011, is being shaped by the way some sets of questions and themes are perceived and produce activity. I personnaly group those, in a logical and as neutral as possible order, as follows : SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMON GOOD COMMON HABITS AND LIFESTYLE ECOLOGY, CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS DISTANCE-LESS AFFECTIVITY SOCIAL ROLES, GENDER, FEMINISM HUMAN BUILDING AND AUTHORITY ETHICS, VALUES AND EDUCATION RELATIVISM AND RESPONSABILITY GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP ESCHATOLOGY PEACE AND JUSTICE I H S Trying to picture the upcoming last second of 2010... Click to go to next slide

8. How are You entering into 2011 ? Therefore, one important question to ask yourself can be this one : ”How can I assume my identity of salt of the earth and light of the world (Mt 5, 13-16) , considering this situation of the world ?”. I suggest one or both of the following manners : I H S 1) Each time You have spare time, just consider each of those 15 themes, and with all Your heart, put them in the Name of Jesus ( Jn 16, 24 ), meaning, wish them and pray that they experience the Resurrecting and Resurrected Life of Christ. Doing so, You will really be by your prayer, an apostle of the Lord, from anywhere You are. If this manner touches You, You can join a jesuit apostolate named the ”Apostolate of Prayer”. It will teach You a lot. Just look for the Apostolate of Prayer in your country, and offer yourself for Love within Truth (cf. Caritas in Veritate, 2009) , and Peace and Justice of the Lord ! 2) If Your schedule allows, just find, among those sets of linked themes, at least one , inside which You will ask the Lord how to commit yourself in a way that will call His true Reign among human beings. Such a Reign does not taste any kind of ”sexual democratisation”, but instead, purity ; such a Reign does not taste self-promotion or self-ideology, but instead, service and true sense of God ; such a Reign does not taste materialism nor possessive will, but instead, moderation and distachment . Click to go to next slide SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMON GOOD COMMON HABITS AND LIFESTYLE ECOLOGY HEALTH AND FITNESS ORIENTAL SPIRITUALITIES EGO RELATIONSHIPS DISTANCE-LESS AFFECTIVITY SOCIAL ROLES, GENDER, FEMINISM HUMAN BUILDING AND AUTHORITY ETHICS, VALUES AND EDUCATION RELATIVISM AND RESPONSABILITY GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP ESCHATOLOGY PEACE AND JUSTICE

9. Entering into 2011 ! So, one possible way for entering fruitfully into 2011 can be to ”keep in touch with God” through all the meditations we've been doing during this slideshow trip. But before You receive your mission, let me assure You that if You really try the exercice, Your life will change in good : god soul, honnest feelings, presence of God to share with people who live hell on earth, taste of Eternity even down here, strehght to be able to present Yourself before the Lord ( Lc 21, 36 ). I H S Doing so, maybe You will progressively feel a mission received from God. Remember that there's more joy to give than to receive. Then, how happy You will be at that moment ! You can give much to people during 2011 ! Click to go to next slide

10. GOOD START FOR THE YEAR OF GRACE 2011 ! May The Heart of Christ be your companion throughout 2011 ! DEDICATED TO NICOLAS. PRAY FOR HIM. Credits : Inspiration, Child Jesus, Christmas 2011, Kinshasa.