Spirituality and Sexuality

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19^th of September 2014, Friday, Mr. Bryan Crucis Shen Shuyliang, a Psychologist from Singapore, arrived in the Stigmatine Interprovincial-Novitiate, Phuket Thailand, to talk about Spirituality and Sexuality to the Novices. His talk started in the evening which was the Introduction to Psychology and afterwards followed by Psychology Test.  There were group sessions and also personal talks with the speaker. The personal talk started Sunday and finished Tuesday. After the personal talk, Mr. Bryan started the topics on Spirituality and Sexuality. 

  The topic on Spirituality started at 3:00 pm 23^rd of September. In this topic Mr. Bryan talked about spiritual realities such as God, angels, and fallen angels. He talked also about the temptations of Satan to man and how to overcome them. In the evening the topic on Sexuality began. In this topic Mr. Bryan talk about homosexuality, the causes of homosexuality, and the positive and negative characteristics of a homosexual. The two interesting topics gave the Novices more Knowledge about spiritual and physical realities.

In the following morning, Wednesday 24^th of September, Mr. Bryan asked the Novices if they wanted to talk to him for the second time. Majority of the Novices decided to talk with the speaker and the second personal talk ended at almost 10:00 am in the following day.

Before Mr. Bryan went back to Singapore, the Novitiate Community prepared a simple and memorable dinner and offered a song for him. In the following morning Friday, Mr. Bryan Crucis Shen Shuyliang went back to Singapore at 7:30 in the morning.