All those who come to join the seminary come to become priests or consecrated people, right? But those who have spent a few years in a seminary will know, and the teachers who teach there will know it even more, that each class or batch will be very different from the previous or next. Generally speaking, all of them come with the same goal. Yet how is it that each batch/class is so different in their attitudes? One batch may be very close-knit among themselves while the next batch may be individualistic. And the next batch may be lazy and slumbersome, or rationalistic who are argumentative; r, they may be pious, or loyalistic to the authority; ultra liberal or legalistic or conservative. It is certainly natural in a class, for one or two to be different. But how does a batch/class on the whole acquire a specific characteristic or attitude? It can be said that it might be the design of God. However, how does it actually take place? I think, let's say in a batch of fifteen, a certain attitude of one or two persons must be followed by the others without even their own knowing.

It seems that every region has its own characteristics. That also could be the reason why a family, a class, an institution, a region, a church or a community has its own specific attitudes.

We are all social beings. The attitudes of one or a few members of the society get transmitted to others. This happens in a very subtle and mysterious way. If a suicide occurs in a community or region, it is seen that it repeats soon again. Once a crime of homicide or something similar has taken place, it can be seen that such a crime is repeated without any reasons of retribution related to it. I wonder whether it is such influences, which cannot be rationally explained - negative and sometimes very evil, that the New Testament often names as ‘evil spirits’.

Who knows in what all ways you and I have negatively influenced the society we are part of, through our words, actions or reactions!

Don't you see Jesus saying with such harsh words: "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it will be better for him to have a millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea"!