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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">II LEZIONE</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1. Finalità di EG:
dare vita ad una nuova tappa evangelizzatrice </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.1. Avendo presente la tematica sviluppata
dalla 13ª Assemblea Generale del Sinodo dei Vescovi, “</span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_synod_doc_20110202_lineamenta-xiii-assembly_it.html"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">La nuova evangelizzazione per la
trasmissione della fede cristiana"</span></i></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
(7-20 Ottobre 2012), l’Esortazione ha un tema preferenziale, cioè, l’evangelizzazione
o l’azione missionaria, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paradigma di
ogni opera della Chiesa</i>” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 15).
L’invito pressante dell’Esortazione si orienta a una “conversione missionaria”
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 25) di tutta la Chiesa<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>.
L’invito del Papa è di assumere uno stile evangelizzatore “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in ogni attività che si realizzi</i>” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 18). “Intendiamo porre tutto in chiave missionaria” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 34). L’azione missionaria è il
“paradigama di ogni azione della Chiesa”, perché la missione è la natura della
Chiesa. E’ difficile incoraggiare la partecipazione nel “fare”, nell’azione, se
non si ha coscienza chiara dell’”essere”. Bisogna ripeterlo ancora:
l’evangelizzazione non è qualcosa che il cristiano fa, ma qualcosa che vive,
perché è il suo essere. E’ qui dove nasce la gioia del Vangelo e la gioia
dell’evangelizzazione<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Questa
è la dottrina conciliare che troviamo in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AG</i>
2 e ripetuta nello stesso Decreto, parlando della formazione sacerdotale: “I
sacerdoti rappresentano il Cristo e sono i collaboratori dell'ordine episcopale
nell'assolvimento di quella triplice funzione sacra che, per sua natura, si
riferisce alla missione della Chiesa (cf. LG 28). Siano dunque profondamente
convinti che la loro vita è stata consacrata anche per il servizio delle
missioni. […] Nell'insegnamento poi delle discipline dogmatiche, bibliche,
morali e storiche mettano bene in luce quegli aspetti missionari che vi sono
contenuti, al fine di formare in questo modo una coscienza missionaria nei
futuri sacerdoti” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AG</i> 39).</span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Giovanni Paolo II è ancora più chiaro e
concreto: “Ogni chiesa, anche quella formata da neoconvertiti, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">è per sua natura missionaria, è
evangelizzata ed evangelizzante,</i> e la fede va sempre presentata come dono
di Dio da vivere in comunità (famiglie, parrocchie, associazioni) e da
irradiare all'esterno sia con la testimonianza di vita che con la parola. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L'azione evangelizzatrice</i> della comunità
cristiana, prima sul proprio territorio e poi altrove come partecipazione alla
missione universale, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">è il segno più
chiaro della maturità della fede.</i> Occorre un radicale cambiamento di
mentalità per diventare missionari, e questo vale sia per le persone sia per le
comunità. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Il Signore chiama sempre a
uscire da se stessi</i>, a condividere con gli altri i beni che abbiamo,
cominciando da quello più prezioso che è la fede. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla luce di questo imperativo missionario si dovrà misurare la
validità degli organismi, movimenti, parrocchie e opere di apostolato della
chiesa.</i> Solo diventando missionaria la comunità cristiana potrà superare
divisioni e tensioni interne e ritrovare la sua unità e il suo vigore di fede”
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RM</i> 49).<span style="color: red;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.2. Questo discorso sulla missionarietà
fondamentale della Chiesa e di ogni cristiano non è nuovo per il Papa. Infatti,
“i cristiani, aveva detto, siamo discepoli del Maestro, perciò non possiamo
guardare la realtà se non in termini di missione. Non siamo osservatori
imparziali, ma uomini e donne che desiderano impregnare tutte le strutture
della società di un amore che abbiamo conosciuto e che nell’incontro con la
realtà è capace di trasformarla in vita abbondante”</span><a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> </span>Commentando con numerose riflessioni la
celebrazione di Aparecida, il Card. Bergoglio scrive: “Si dice che il <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Documento </i>sia il penultimo passo di
Aparecida: l’ultimo è la missione, che ampollosamente alcuni chiamano «Gran
Missione Continentale». L’annuncio di Gesù Cristo. Siamo consapevoli che
l’annuncio di Gesù Cristo si sia un po’ ammalato, no? E che siamo deboli e che,
poco a poco, molte chiese con molti agenti pastorali cadono nella
burocratizzazione, nella pastorale del puro organigramma o nell’<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">establishment</i>. E quando si cade in
questo, si paga con l’annunciare poco, o annunciare meno, o annunciare
debolmente, o annunciare male Gesù Cristo. Dalle prospettive pastorali è emerso
un «idoletto» che lo spirito di Aparecida cerca di demolire, che è la gestione.
Veneriamo la gestione. Purché sia una buona gestione. Intendiamoci, tutto
questo è vero, ma sono semplici strumenti, ciò che conta è la missione,
l’evangelizzazione. Questo tema della missione, dell’evangelizzazione, è lo
spirito che incoraggia tutto il piano pastorale, tutta l’organizzazione
pastorale, inclusi tutti i progetti funzionali alla pastorale, tutto l’organigramma
pastorale, ma è dalla missione che parte l’annuncio di Gesù Cristo”</span><a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Il papa invita, quindi, a giudicare tutto il
fare della Chiesa con il prisma della missione. Abbiamo visto che questo era il
proposito di Aparecida. Animare un nuovo tipo. Un nuovo modello di Chiesa, non
più legato alla passività di una pastorale di conservazione, ma progettato
verso la missione. La missione è il criterio per giudicare la vitalità della
Chiesa, come ci ricordava Giovanni Paolo secondo, appena citato. Alla luce
della missione si deve fare teologia, si deve ripensare la morale e la legge,
comprendere tutto ciò che dice relazione alla fede. Di fatto, tutto è orientato
alla missione e guidato dalla missione. Sotto questo orientamento lo stesso
studio accademico acquista nuovo significato e una nuova rigenerazione. La
responsabilità dei centri universitari cattolici è molto grande in questo
contesto: preparare pastori capaci di portare a termine questo profondo
cambiamento ecclesiale. La formazione accademica è indispensabile per poter
evangelizzare</span><a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.
La storia conferma che quando il clero è ignorante, il popolo non riceve la
Parola in modo conveniente; questo fatto motivò la nascita degli Ordini
Mendicanti. Papa Francesco ha spinto i pastori su questa direzione: da qui il
fatto di “uscire”; se non si esce non si produce l’incontro, né il confronto,
né il dialogo, né l’annuncio; non c’è “odore di pecora”, né, probabilmente,
“odore di Cristo”.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.3.
“Sottolineo che ciò che intendo qui esprimere ha un <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">significato programmatico e dalle conseguenze importanti</i>. Spero che
tutte le comunità facciano in modo di porre in atto i mezzi necessari per
avanzare nel cammino di una <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conversione
pastorale e missionaria</i>, che non può lasciare le cose come stanno. Ora non
ci serve una «semplice amministrazione».<sup> </sup>Costituiamoci in tutte le
regioni della terra in un «<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stato
permanente di missione</i>»” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 25).
In queste parole, il Papa supera la visione molto più stretta e rigida del
Sinodo dei Vescovi. Il fatto di parlare in prima persona, assume una serietà,
un impegno personale e una responsabilità che non può non coinvolgere tutti i
cristiani. In modo che, l’interesse per il cristiano oltrepassa ciò che il Papa
dice, perché in questa lunga narrazione anche il lettore diventa protagonista. Comunque,
solo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dall’essere missione</i> nasce lo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stato permanente di missione</i>, è la
conseguenza necessaria. Il problema è arrivare a prendere coscienza
dell’essere, dell’identità ormai definita dal Vaticano II (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AG</i> 2). Per questo, “l<span style="color: black;">a missione al cuore
del popolo non è una parte della mia vita, o un ornamento che mi posso
togliere, non è un’appendice, o un momento tra i tanti dell’esistenza. È
qualcosa che non posso sradicare </span>dal mio essere se non voglio
distruggermi. Io <i>sono una missione</i> su questa terra, e per questo mi
trovo in questo mondo. Bisogna riconoscere sé stessi come marcati a fuoco da
tale missione di illuminare, benedire, vivificare, sollevare, guarire,
liberare” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EG</i> 273). “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Io sono una missione</i>”, è la conseguenza
che si trae leggendo pagina a pagina l’Esortazione; la coscienza di essere
parte di una relazione comunicativa dalla quale non mi posso scaricare. È un’espressione
che non ha bisogno di molti ragionamenti e che invita a collocarsi pienamente a
disposizione del annuncio. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Tuttavia,
queste parole del Papa Francesco non sono nuove; esse si trovano nella linea di
pensiero di Papa Benedetto. Anche lui era cosciente della necessità di una
conversione missionaria incominciando dall’approfondimento della vita di fede<a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>.
</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Si
tratta di una <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conversione</i> di tutta la
comunità a Cristo. La fede ha un dinamismo comunicativo centrifugo, ma prima
deve dirigersi al centro, al Vangelo, vivere la dinamica centripeta che unifica
e rende feconda la testimonianza e l’annuncio conseguente. Questo era
l’obiettivo dell’Anno della Fede. Cioè, “risvegliare il desiderio, da parte di
tutta la comunità cattolica, di riappropriarsi con gioia e gratitudine
dell’incommensurabile tesoro della nostra fede. Con il progressivo indebolirsi
dei valori cristiani tradizionali e la minaccia di un tempo in cui la nostra
fedeltà al Vangelo può costare cara, la verità di Cristo non ha bisogno solo di
essere compresa, articolata e difesa, ma anche di essere <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proposta con gioia e fiducia</i> come chiave della realizzazione umana
autentica e del benessere della società nel suo insieme”<a href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>.
Si tratta di “riscoprire la gioia di credere”, un altro modo di dire “la gioia
del Vangelo”. La gioia della fede fa nascere l’entusiasmo per la comunicazione
del Vangelo.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> “<i>La nuova
evangelizzazione per la trasmissione della fede</i>. C’è una stretta
connessione tra questi due elementi: la trasmissione della fede cristiana è lo
scopo della nuova evangelizzazione e dell’intera opera evangelizzatrice della
Chiesa, che esiste proprio per questo” (<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Discorso del Santo Padre Francesco,<b> </b></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ai membri del XIII
Consiglio Ordinario della Segreteria Generale del Sinodo dei Vescovi, Sala del
Concistoro, Giovedì, 13 giugno 2013). </span></span></p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Cf. J<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">. M. Bergoglio, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Lui solo la speranza. Esercizi spirituali ai vescovi spagnoli (15-22
gennaio 2006), </i>Jaca Book-Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Milano – Città del
Vaticano 2013, 74.</span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> </span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Card. J. M. Bergoglio</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">, <a name="cultura_y_Religiosidad_popular__"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cultura y religiosidad popular, religiosidad popular como inculturación
de la fe en el espíritu de Aparecida</i>, Buenos Aires, 19 de Enero de 2008.</a></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Card. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Discepoli e missionari, affinché in Lui
abbiano vita</i>, 1 octubre 2007, en <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Card.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio-Papa Francesco, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Riflessioni di un Pastore. Misericordia, Missione, Testimonianza, Vita,
</i>LEV, Ciudad del Vaticano 2013, 200-201.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F7; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";"> </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">“Infine, la fecondità e la solidità
dell’evangelizzazione dipendono naturalmente dalla qualità del clero”. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">(</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Discurso del Santo Padre Francisco, </span></i><span lang="ES" style="color: black; font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">A los obispos de la Conferencia Episcopal del Chad, en visita “ad limina
apostolorum”, Jueves, 2 de octubre 2014).</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"></span></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Nella mente
di Papa Francesco il termine “conversione” non si riferisce unicamente alla
vita interna personale, sempre necessaria; la conversione ha anche una
dimensione pubblica nel vivere concreto. Da qui il richiamo frequente ai
pastori perché non cadano nel carrierismo e le apparenze di grandezza, ma
vivano nella semplicità. La conversione deve portarci all’altro, al povero; i
suoi effetti si possono controllare, poiché la vera conversione porta vita e
speranza.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Discorso</i> ai presuli della Conferenza dei Vescovi Cattolici degli
Stati Uniti d’America (di riti Orientali) (Regione XIV-XV), in visita “ad
limina Apostolorum”, Venerdì, 18 maggio 2012; </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.vatican.va"><span style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";">www.vatican.va</span></a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";"> (21/10/2012).</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">My
take….</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">THE SYNOD IS HERE WITH US</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Synod in the Greek
language from, which the word comes, means a journey together. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An assembly of bishops and others meeting to
determine matters of the church doctrine and practice. The name is applied to
any such official assembly, from a diocesan synod right through to an
ecumenical council.</i> We have been in the cables and hubs of our work during
the start of this Synodal processes from: Parish - Diocese – Conference - Regional
- Continental and now Universal level. We are at optimum cost if permitted to
say so. May this same Holy Spirit bless the participants who are now arriving
at the see of St. Peter in the mood to encounter and feel the spirit of
dialogue, looking into the future of the Church so as to create a refreshingly
sound common home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT WILL WE LEARN FROM THE SYNOD?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The role of communication
comes in here. social communication is all about acknowledging the power it has
in evangelization and we are to be committed to find ways of harnessing
ourselves in order to fulfill the mandate we have received from Christ to preach
the Gospel to all peoples. We are also very cautious of the power to destroy
individual, social, cultural and religious values and their growing influence
on our families and especially on children, who are relentlessly exploited for
economic gain of those who control them. We also consider the evil that is
almost total control of the media by those who rule in our countries. People
have a right to access to information and truth, a right that is in practice denied
to many. We are going to explore into the Synodal approach of doing things and
what is being thrown out there by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fake
newsers</i>, naysayers. This is a house of communication and all process of
communication have to be emphasized. The message is being put out there,
codified, and once it is received it has to be decoded to read it well and get feedback.
All this will depend on how these messages are interpreted not forgetting the
interferences that may block the truth. We also have to agree that traditional
forms of communication which are less costly and more easily understood, such
as a story-telling, proverbs, dances, drama and so forth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT ARE THE ISSUES AT STAKE?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Church as a Family
has its origin in the Blessed Trinity at the depths of which the Holy Spirit is
bond of communion. It knows that the intrinsic value of a community is the quality
of relation which it makes it possible. This synod launches a strong appeal for
dialogue within the Church and among all people of good will who hold that
participation, communion and mission is possible. Particular attention should
be paid to our customs and traditions in so far as they constitute our cultural
heritage. They all belong to oral cultures and their survival depends
essentially on the dialogue of generations to assure their transmission. There
is a church outside the wall that needs to be reached and addressed. A dialogue
with the guarantors of our cultural values and our traditional religion
structured around the cultural heritage is strongly recommended in our local
Churches with a universal approach and understanding. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT ARE OUR EXPECTATIONS?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Reforms are here with us.
We are called to be ready for change whether small or big there will be change
after the synod. There is going to be review in strengthening of Catholic Church
in her evangelization and working methods. This is the opportune time for the
Curia to consult the laity. The Spirit will blow through the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula </i>and enter into every participant to
stand before that same Holy Spirit. The Spirit sometimes comes with its velocity
that may shake the walls, who knows something will have to fall due to the
force of the Spirit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHERE IS THE CHURCH HEADING WITH THIS
SYNOD?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the question that
has been at the heart of all of us in the searching and thinking and talking
about the Synodal moment. What we need not to forget is that first and foremost
that those in this synod are men and women. The synod is not forcing anyone to
believe what it says and no one should be afraid to speak out their mind and
bring up new ways of looking at what the Holy Spirit is saying. We all have to
reach an acceptance that Pope Francis’ way of newness of thinking and his
manner of being a Pope caught most of us offside and we are really adjusting to
that, whether we are aware or not is another moment of good discernment. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE PARTICIPANTS?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The church as a family is
oriented towards the building of society which she seeks to inspire by the
spirit of the beatitudes. The task of every participant at the universal level
have a right to participate in the three great functions of Christ, priest,
prophet and king, is to be the salt of the earth and light of the world
especially in those places where only a lay person is able to render the Church
present. The Church as family is a Church of communion. All participants have
to rediscover their proper place and importance. The participants have to
utilize every initiative which the Holy Spirit will give them, so that our
Church may rise to the challenge of her mission. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WILL THE CHURCH CHANGE?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We are now living in the signs of hope. Without
falling into the temptation of discouragement on the one hand, or into the
opposite extreme of a superficial and unrealistic optimism, we could see signs
of real hope for better future of justice and peace globally towards those deep
heart’s desires, we want to share this hope with all Christians as the Family
of God. This has to be evident to us that small Christian communities are a
privileged place to learn and practice justice and peace through participation,
communion and mission. We need to get up from the paralyzed situation which has
affected our Catholic Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT NEEDS TO BE SIEVED?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There may seem to many as
improbable that a section of those opposing the synod, and giving the
internationality of it, such negative attitude on its part cannot justifiably
be assumed. It is, however, possible that individuals may for personal reasons
hold on to their own opinions on certain subjects. But there is no evidence to
suppose that the central departments of the Church are anti-Synodal. We are simply
living in an exaggerated and erroneous faith in progress and consumerism. But
above all it is a question of difficulties arising from a superficial or only
partial reading and a prejudiced interpretation of the Synodal documents. This
kind of attitude creates a world that becomes incomprehensible if God is left
out. Man may be able to intuit it, but he can fully understand it only through
faith. This autonomy of created things finds its fullest expression in
Christian revelation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this sense that the Christian secularism
mentioned that the final report of the synod should be understood. Since God
spoke to human modes of speech in the Bible, the exegete must strive to grasp
accurately what the authors of the books of the Bible had in mind to say. So it
is necessary to take to account the modes of thought, language and style
prevalent at the time and place where these participants in the synod come from
and their understanding of the Universal Synodality. We also have to bear in
mind to preserve the unity of faith in its various national, racial and
cultural expressions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WILL POLITICS PLAY PART OF THE SYNOD?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We are living in the
times where there are higher demands of responsibility and transparency in politics
and economic activities. We rejoice in the growth of political and national
awareness and an authentic desire of democracy, justice and peace for which we
have all been longing and praying. The Catholic Church has no other power than
moral power of the truth entrusted to it by the Word of God. In an effort to
read the signs of the times and to enlighten the social situations with the
light of this unalterable Word, the Church proposes not only to Catholics but
to all people of good will its Social Conference and diocesan levels, can
contribute to the promotion of justice and peace globally. Our politicians have
to be helped to know the social Teaching that has to be presented in a simple
and popular format and reach a wider audience so that Christians also may take
inspiration from the local level. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If we secularize the
Church, we can no longer carry out a mission of preaching the message of
Christ. The estrangement of the Christians from the world is wrong. The
secularization of the Church is equally wrong. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Do not conform to the standards of the world, but let God transform you
by a total change of your mind so that you will be able to know his will and
distinguish what is good and perfect”</i> (Rom 12,2). Sometimes we may seem to
be pessimists. But the Synodal documents are optimistic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">HOW CAN THE HOLY SPIRIT BE DETECTED IN
THE SYNODAL DISCUSSION?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are those who want
to go back and those who wish to go forward and finish this whole process of
the Synod once and for all, either they don’t want to be engaged, tired of
hearing the word Synod wherever it is mentioned due to personal disposition and
attitude. Many will have to be detached from any form of fame and attention.
The synod is opening certain doors which had been locked and keys have rusted. The
question is what do we do to access into the room? They are distorted views on
the present pontificate, based on isolated words or actions of the Pope. The
Holy Spirit will have to guide us to know personal opinions and true words of
the Synodal Church fathers and mothers. The Holy Spirit will help to calm into
loyal and constructive debate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The chance is here for
the laity, the Spirit will expand ecumenism as far as possible, and count with
prudence the charismatic movement. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT IS DIALOGUE IN THIS WHOLE PROCESS?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dialogue – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conversation</i>. Courteous discussion
between individuals who hold different beliefs with the view of reaching or at
least drawing closer to a consensus. Vatican II (1962-1965) encourages
Catholics to dialogue with the world at large. (G.S. n.85), with members of
non- Christian religions, Christians, traditions, cultures, politicians, those
churches in the west which have their challenges of separating from the time
past, to current challenges that the church faces. Time to time the church has
given guidelines for dialogue has issued through Vatican offices. We are all
called to dialogue of charity and dialogue of truth. It is through this that we
seek to reach full communion in faith and sacramental life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Strictly speaking, collegiality
means collaboration between the Pope and the entire college of cardinals as we
see in the Council. The synod, going beyond the juridical definition of
collegiality, has drawn attention to importance in small and large communities
as well as in bishops’ conferences. The final report will sum up the opinion of
the synod thus: besides the strict meaning of collegiality there are and will
be several other expressions which are authentic applications of the spirit of
collegiality require certain degree of theological clarification. But several
occasions the synod will reiterate the importance of bishops’ conferences. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">WHAT NEXT WHAT THE SYNOD?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Your contribution to the
Synod is not finished with your prayers, sacrifices, reports, writings and
suggestions. There is a long way to go in the journey of the Synod. Walking
together has to continue to be attentive and docile to the action of the Spirit
and courageous in facing our responsibilities as all baptized Christians and a
common home as a family of God in our countries. The synod has just begun and
the work is now to roll our sleeves up to get back to work. We need to
celebrate the fruits of Participation, Communion and Mission. The theologians,
pastors, religious women and men, and lay intellectuals who are going to write
all about the fruits of the Synod. Their reflections and constructive
criticisms have to help us gain a deeper vision of the many challenges to
evangelizing mission of the Church towards a new leap of what the Church has be
in the modern world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We will need a new and
deeper theological reflection in order interpret these signs in the light of
the Gospel. Above all the theology of the cross. Dialogue with the world is not
only conducted from the theoretical levels but also practical terms as
evidenced for example in the activities of Caritas, Cor Unum, Development Aid,
etc. The Church has no option but to study the signs of time and interpret them
in them in the light of the Gospel. Then the Church will be able to respond to
the questions of each generation adequately. Slowly by slowly, step by step we
will discover the laws, that govern life, but we are at a loss how to orient
it. (GS. n.4).</span></p>
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Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-25966713873953599422023-09-07T20:27:00.000+03:002023-09-07T20:27:34.108+03:00 THINGS CHURCH MEMBERS MUST UNDERSTAND <p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU MISS CHURCH, NO ONE IS AFFECTED BUT YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU WITHDRAW AS A WORKER, GOD REPLACES YOU ON TIME TO THE POINT THAT YOU BECOME
“IRRELEVANT”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">YOU
DELIBERATELY REFUSE TO SUPPORT THE CHURCH PROJECTS, GOD RAISES OTHER BETTER AND
SERIOUS GIVERS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU START FIGHTING THE CHURCH, GOD SEES YOU AS HIS “ENEMY”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU LEAVE THE CHURCH MORE SERIOUS PEOPLE COME IN.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU EAT YOUR “TITHES”, OFFERING, AND SACRIFICE, THE GRACE ON THE CHURCH STOPS
WORKING IN YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR CHURCH TO OTHER MEMBERS OR OUTSIDERS, YOU BECOME A REBEL AND A
DISLOYAL WORSHIPPER.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU SPEAK EVIL OF THE CHURCH, THE ANGELS WORKING WITH THE CHURCH WITHDRAW FROM
YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHEN
YOU DON’T WANT CONTROL, DISCIPLINE AND CORRECTION FROM THE CHURCH, YOU ARE ONE
STEP CLOSER TO “DANGER”.</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">YOUR
CHURCH IS THE SYMBOL OF THE MINISTRY’S MANTLE AND MANDATE AND NOT YOU OR WITHOUT
YOU THE WORK WILL SUCCEED. SEE YOURSELF PRIVILEGED TO BE PART OF GOD’S PROGRAM.</span></b></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-42123044652841260042023-09-07T18:45:00.000+03:002023-09-07T18:45:14.850+03:00FAMILY LIFE<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Opening Prayer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lord
Jesus, I come before you today, at this specific moment in my life and my stage
as a mother, a widow, single, and confused about what direction I have to take.
Send the healing power of your Holy Spirit upon me and heal me of hatred,
resentment, bitterness, reactions, and the forgiveness that is in me. Free me
from the spirit of rebellion and disobedience, anger, anxiety, and depression.
Lord Jesus, I have all this in me some I am aware of them fully, while others
come too stormy that take me by surprise. This day I trust in your care, take
care of me by surprise. This day I have entrusted it in your care of me, touch
me in the special way, in those areas of pain that I may be healed from undone
business in me and a special way. Lord you know what I need I surrender all to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FAMILY Life<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Husband +wife + Children – workers, = Everyone at the
roof/plantation/village (ancient)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Father/husband =wife = mother and children<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two components = husband +wife = <b>Conjugal society</b> (horizontal component)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vertical component</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">=
parents +Children = parental society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One
component may exist but not the case, not a normal case.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Material cause</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">=
husband +wife +children<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Formal cause</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> = moral bond between them = rights
and duties = conjugal society + parental society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A final cause</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">of
the family is the good of all parties concerned = living together in mutual
love. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Efficient cause</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">=
contract marriage, or more properly the contracting parties, for by marriage,
the family is brought into existence and maintained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">People get married so as to live in the married state.
The state of marriage implies four chief conditions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There should be a union of two opposite
sexes, it is for the production of the human race.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Marriage is a permanent union, it has to
last as far and long as it should – purpose, discharge the obligations, until
the last child is capable of living independently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is an exclusive union- sharing
relations only with each other, extramarital acts are a violation of justice, and adultery is a crime against marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is all about covenant and not contract
– Abraham, Moses, Elijah, John the Baptist, Hosea, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We drive three things from parents</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Existence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nourishment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rendering service to each other as married persons
render one another in household matters. We have to live together. Why? Because
one is not self-sufficient in all things concerning life, the reasons why man
is included to being a political being. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You come together, and reproduce – this sexual
relationship has to produce a child. The question for others would be what
happens if there is no child? Wait- the development process takes time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">People marry for many reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For companionship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For money<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For position<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Men eat for the pleasure of
it, not thinking of sustaining life, but later on discover they eat for the
purpose of sustaining life-sustaining the race. It is a duty of two persons, not one. We agreed to have a child- 9 months, nurturing it. Together we gave
the child life, together we take care of it. The fact that you have money is accidental and outside the natural/natural provision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The help of the father is
very necessary throughout the raring of the child, and responsibility,
psychological and</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">physical- the sternness
of the father and the sweetness of the mother is necessary for the training of the
child. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A momentary union for the
sake of procreation alone is a betrayal and gross violation of nature’s
provisions for the human child. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Family is not only an
institution, it is also a personal experience, one of the most profound a human
being can undergo. Love is a developing thing that the lovers themselves must
foster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Love in the highest sense
is attracted, not commanded, and cannot be reduced to contract Love alone can
inspire the ideal of marriage and make it of what it ought to be. The selecting
of the right partner in life and the preservation of fidelity to marriage vows
are not matters of accident but of wise human conduct, sedulously developed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The best way to keep
family at its best is through virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance in the highest degree. Virtuous life and heavy responsibilities, but
it brings with it one of the best of earthy rewards, the founding and
maintenance of a happy home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Family is about spiritual
development and the experience of journeying with God. The hidden life of Jesus,
Mary, and Joseph provides a solid foundation on which authentic life and the
entire church can be constructed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nazareth is the school
that begins to understand Jesus. It is the school of the gospel, learning to
look, listen, ponder, and penetrate the profound and mysterious meaning of this
very simple, humble, and beautiful revelation of the Son of God, understanding who
Christ is. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To know Jesus of Nazareth
starts with knowing yourself first, without pride or discouragement. A trusting
attitude consoles the heart and deepens hope and love, which has</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the
power to transform and makes it possible to rise to God in praise of His
inexhaustible goodness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is all about the daily
routine of doing things within the spiritual life. This will involve silence,
maintaining an atmosphere of eternal quiet makes it easier to maintain interior
silence. Deep concentration, to lift your heart to God in conversation, work, or
rest, the spirit of silence means remaining in union with and continual
adoration of God. You maintain this silence to recreate the spirit of
silence. This should foster communion, participation, and mission in the life of
the incarnate God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">© </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don. Joseph B. Nyamunga, ssa</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-34798495074023970392023-09-07T17:24:00.003+03:002023-09-07T17:24:33.968+03:00SATAN CALLS FOR A WIDE WIDE CONVENTION OF DEMONS<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We can’t keep Christians from going to
church”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We can keep them from reading their
Bibles and knowing the truth”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We can’t even keep them from forming an
intimate relationship with their savior”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Once they gain that connection with Jesus,
our power over them is broken”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“So let them go to their churches; let
them have their covered dish dinners,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">BUT
steal their time, so that they don’t have time to develop a relationship with
Jesus Christ<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
is what I want you to do, said the devil<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Distract them from
gaining hold of their savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout
their day!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> How shall we do this? His demons
shouted:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Keep them busy in the non-essentials
of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
he answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, spend
and borrow, borrow, borrow”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Persuade the wives to go to work for long
hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day so that
they can afford their empty lifestyles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Keep them from spending time with their
children. As their families fragment, soon their homes will offer no escape
from the pressures of work”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Over stimulate their minds so that they
cannot hear that still small voice of their savior by enticing them to play the
radio or CD whenever they drive” “To keep their Electrical gadgets going
constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the
world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break
that union with Christ.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Fill the coffee tables with magazines and
newspapers”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Pound their minds with the news 24 hours
a day”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“invade their driving moments with
billboards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Flood their mailboxes with junk mail
order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotion
offering free products, services, and false hopes”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Keep skinny beautiful models on magazines and TV so that their husbands will believe that outward beauty is
what’s important, and they will become dissatisfied with their wives. Keep the
wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If
they don’t give their husbands the love. If they need to, they will begin to look
elsewhere. That will fragment their families quickly”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Give them Santa Claus to distract them
from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Give them an Easter bunny so that they
won’t talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Even in their recreation, let them be
excessive. Have them return from their recreations exhausted?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Keep them too busy to go out in nature and
reflect on God’s creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays,
concerts, and movies instead” “Keep them busy, busy, busy with anything which
doesn’t have eternal significance and value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And when they meet for spiritual
fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with a troubled conscience”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Crowd their lives with so many “good
causes” so that they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be
working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good
of the cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It will work!” “It will work!” “It will work!” “It will work!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
was quite a plan!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The demons went eagerly to their
assignment causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed going
here and there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having
little time for their families. Having no time to tell others about the power
of Jesus to change lives</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
guess the question is this, has the devil been successful in his schemes?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> You be the
judge!!!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
Does BUSY mean:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-oke?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-74126125621951222662023-04-18T23:06:00.002+03:002023-04-18T23:06:40.668+03:00WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?<p> </p><p></p><p><!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">St. Augustine defines a Christian as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one who follows Christ</i>” – St. Paul long
before him had written to the Romans to explain to explain to them what it
means to be a Christian- It means change of Masters and allegiance; Before you
become Christians you were…. Now that you are Christian…. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The line between a Christian and non-Christian
is drawn – it is clear. But there are two ways to being a Christian- There is a
genuine Christianity and counterfeit Christians. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who says: Lord, Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who does the will of
Father</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who goes to Church
every Sunday</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who changes his life
and shapes it to that of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who joins his
brothers and sisters in the sacrifice of Mass- There is a Christian who
genuinely loves his neighbor and helps him or her in his/her needs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a Christian who knows all about
his religion- who talks religion- there is a Christian who lives it, and does
not divorce it from daily life. That is why St. James said: Do not be hearers
of the word only- be doers of it. God who is moved by repentance to have mercy
even on the greatest sinners, look kindly on our humble prayers and enlighten
our hearts, so that we may have strength to fulfill thy commandments through
Christ Our Lord. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amen</span></p>
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J.B Nyamunga, ssa</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1<sup>st</sup>
Reading</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> wisdom 9:13-18 : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who
can imagine what the Lord wants<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>?</u></b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u></u></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2<sup>nd</sup>
Reading Philemon</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> 1, 9-10.12-17: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Receive him not as a slave but a dear brother</i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gospel</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:
Lk 14:25-33: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He who doesn’t renounce his
belongings is not worthy to be called my disciple.</i></span></p>
<div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;">
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disciples of Jesus in Discernment.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Gospel of this Sunday
starts by stating thus ... “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And now great
crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them</i>” (Lk
14:25a). But the question we have to confront today is. Do we know what it
means to follow Jesus? It’s easy to walk behind Jesus with the great crowd, but
imagine a crowd that doesn’t think or discern? Put yourself in that big <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crowd </i>of followers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To be a follower of
Christ is being catholic by tradition, that celebrates the sacraments, from the
beginning as a Christian in a given Christian community, it means professing
the faith in the Holy Trinity, in the church, in communion of the saints, in
the forgiveness of sins, in the resurrection of the body, in the life eternal,
and daily committing your living a life that looks into your interior life, not
spending a lot of energy in securing wealth and possession but concentrating on
the well-being of the family and consolidating the sense of belonging to the
family and how you treat your family and dearly investing in the wealth of
relationship, love, tenderness and hospitality. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus turns back to the
crowd to ask them... each one of has to be in the crowd fully aware of why
he/she is in the crowd that is following Jesus. This is what has come to be
called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DISCERNMENT </b>in most church
circles today. What does it mean to discern? It means to have full knowledge,
experience, emotion and will to be aware of what you are doing, and why are you
doing what you are doing? Planning, measuring one’s proper energy. Our
challenges are usually more than we can handle, when they start flooding into
our lives we are always overwhelmed and they get us unawares, our bodies with
little immunity to resist the force and we find that we become vulnerable to
any attack. Every day we are will find ourselves confronted with our human weaknesses,
fragility and human limitlessness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus confronts his
readers in the gospel this Sunday with an example of construction in mind. Who
among us will not start by putting everything in place before he starts to
construct? Sometimes most of us find ourselves in the rush of life. We meet obstacles
and people in life that put us off the thinking rail due to our overwhelmed and
beaten by life expectations and anxieties. Jesus reminds us that before going for
war count how many soldiers you have lest you are defeated and run over. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For whom among you, wanting to build a
tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to
see if he has the means to complete it? </i>(Lk 14:28-31). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Discernment is about
accepting one’s limitations. The book of Wisdom it brings out this clear by
taking us back to King Solomon who lived in a new reality of kingship, he had
everything as king (Wis 9:14-16). “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For
the thoughts of mortals are timid, and our foresight is uncertain. For the
corruptible body weighs down the soul, and this is earthly dwelling presses
many thoughts upon the mind. And we assess with difficulty the things that are
of earth, and we discover with labor the things that are within our view. So
who will search out the things that are in the heavens</i>. The risk of or
humanness which we also read in Psalm 89:10. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful,
they are eighty years, and more of those are with hardship and sorrow. For
mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected”</i>. The years of our
life pass…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That means that we have
to walk with God who knows our weaknesses, pains, limitlessness and who created
us and who sanctifies us daily in finding his will in our lives. We are to ask
God what do you want in our life? Wisdom 9:17) “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Moreover who will know your mind, unless you give wisdom and send you
holy spirit from on high?” </i>The desire to walk with Him in communion,
imploring him for the gift of wisdom and Holy Spirit. (Psalm 8:13-14,17a)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So
does he make known to us the mystery of his will, which he has set forth in
Christ in a manner well pleasing to him. In the dispensation of the fullness of
time, so as to renew in Christ everything that exists through him in heaven and
on earth”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. (Eph 1:9-10)… “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But
we have not received the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is of God, so
that we may understand the things that have been given to us by God”</i>. 1Cor
2:12). This calls for each committed Christian to enter into self evaluation
and discernment...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Denying
ourselves for the kingdom…If anyone comes to me and does not hate his, and mother,
and sisters, and teas, even his own life, he is not able to be my
disciple…Therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all that he
possesses is not able to be my disciple”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Lk 14:26,33).
Everything that will come before us will have to bring us closer to God, in
actions and deeds because: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For you are
all sons of God, through the faith which is in the Christ Jesus. For as many of
you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Gentile; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither
male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus”</i>. Gal 3:26-28). To
fail in this examination means that we are simply Christians by name not by
calling and commitment. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And whoever does
not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple”</i>. Lk
14:27</span></p>
Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-38122694827516471982022-05-14T16:23:00.003+03:002022-05-14T16:23:57.667+03:00FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR C<p> FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>31. Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said: Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32. If God has been glorified in him, then the God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him without delay. 33.Little Sons, for a brief while, I am with you. You shall seek me, and just as I had said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go,’ so also I say to you now. 34. I give you a new commandment: lone one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another. 35. By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another. (John 13:33-35)</p><p><br /></p><p>“You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law” (Heb. 13:8)</p><p>We shall share together three points of departure</p><p>a)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How many ways are there to love my neighbor?</p><p>b)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What intention should we have in loving a neighbor?</p><p>c)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How do we love our neighbors with deeds?</p><p>We can love a neighbor in many ways. We can love him or her in an ordinary way; or with love of interest; or loving him or her with love of the flesh; or love of the heart. But what kind of love is Jesus talking about in this Fifth Sunday after Easter? Let’s look into each love that has been mentioned.</p><p>Ordinary love (kawaida au la kimuambile)</p><p>That love which was put into us by God from the time of creation. This is the love we get from our parents, love between brother and sister and the family relatives. It’s that bond the family forges daily to be united in bad and in good times as our ancestors would say blood is thicker than water. “your own is your own!!!…it’s you who know your own!!!…” </p><p><br /></p><p>Love with interest/ strings attached</p><p>It’s that love where we love our neighbor with something to gain out of her or him. You love someone because there is something you are going to benefit out of that person. Nothing is for free, you will pay in the long run for that love, whether you know it or not, you will pay for it. This kind of love has no condition before God even the pagans do so. </p><p>Love of the flesh</p><p>This love comes in the kind of pleasure you get from the flesh (concupiscence). You love your neighbor because of the way she looks or he looks. Your appetite is always in terms of flesh, the physical appearance and all that come along with what you want to see to please your appetite and desires. It is selfish love, it has no value before God, it is often dangerous even to your own heart and soul. </p><p>Love from the Heart</p><p>This kind of love comes as a result of loving a neighbor because of the conception of God in you. You see the image of God in your neighbor, that love that was revealed in Jesus. This is the true love for the neighbor, it is the love that was commanded by God. </p><p>The challenge that will come out in discovering the kind of love is that now comes with what intentions do you really have in loving? We are all created in the same image of God but what differs is the physical, intelligence, heart that makes the difference of loving this one or the other.</p><p>These reasons should not be too big that they cause a big rift between people in general. You love because you love, with no reason to love, because to love with reason is your own creation in your mind of what love, from the subjective level which has ought to develop into objective truth, for in Genesis we:</p><p>And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and every animal that moves on the earth”. (Genesis 1:26).</p><p>To love a neighbor in this way is to love the image of God in this person. If you think that you love God dearly then know that that God is seen in your neighbor. As an anecdote that says “God could not be everywhere that is why he made mothers”.</p><p>We need to love ourselves. For the Lord himself said “They will know that you are my disciples in the way you love each other”. St. Peter is very clear on this when he says “Before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins” (I Peter 4:8).</p><p>Love pushes God to show us mercy if we ourselves do the same to our neighbor. We read this in the gospel of Matthew “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 5:7). </p><p>How do we love our neighbor with deeds?</p><p>In the first letter of St. Peter, it has something to teach us: And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble, not repaying evil with evil, nor slander, but to the contrary, repaying with blessings. For to this you have been called, so that you may possess the inheritance of the blessing (I Peter 3:8-9).</p><p>The truth of the matter is that to love a neighbor is all about wishing a neighbor well, and avoiding any evil intention from the beginning in our words and acts. Let us put in mind and practice the words of I John 3:18. “My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth”.</p><p>Let’s us imitate the first Christians. Their love was really very genuine that even the pagans were heard saying “Look at the way the Christians love each other” Let our stand be of… if you have nothing to say about your neighbor, better to keep quiet.</p><p>If s/he has betrayed you, hurt you in anyway, forgive him or her from your whole heart, because we too also hope that he will do to us the same way. Love your neighbor the same way you love yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-78800359279552834532022-05-13T09:03:00.000+03:002022-05-13T09:03:42.971+03:00<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">UNDERSTANDING REFORMS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: </b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">VATICAN II TAKE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">Vatican II council is one council that illicit many
questions with often few answers because we never read. The culture of reading
is a bit getting lost with modern technology, where things can be got with
instant easy. The time to go to the library, to buy a historical book leave
alone a church history book is next to none. These questions are usually
addressed to historians. The question may not be necessarily whether there has
been a reform in the Catholic Church? It’s all about what has been translated
into action. How deeply have things changed? What kind of reform did the
council initiate and how can its magnitude, or finitude, be assessed? These are
questions that cross our minds whenever we hear about Vatican II council and
its impact to the contemporary world. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">Today no one with even the slightest knowledge about
the history of the Christian Church denies that it has during its long course
in the world undergone a number of significant changes. In its organization, in
the styles of its theology, in the forms of its piety, in the ways it exercises
its ministries. Changes do not jeopardize a deeper identity of who she is, the
spirit to maintain her authenticity in the changing world. This is what Thomas
Kuhn calls paradigm shift (Cf. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Structure
of Scientific Revolution </i>(2<sup>nd</sup> Edition; Chicago Universy,1990).
Those changes which have occurred in the church without being deliberately and self-consciously
initiated by Church leadership, often by the kind of osmosis with them. Some
developments have been repudiated as abuses, whereas others have been ratified
and embraced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its only upon recognition,
if it ever occurs, might developments therefore begin to assume some
characteristic of reform or reformation. The Church has a right, and sometimes
the duty, to initiate changes enacted within the Church that take place within
a given frame of reference. They are within the system. They are “adjustments”
or “emendations”. Terms which often describe how the Vatican II was all about.
(Cf. John w. O’Malley., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reform,
Historical Construction</i>, 576). These are reforms that do not rock the boat;
they steady it on its course. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">Reformation is about self-consciousness that is based
on ecclesiastical life or consciousness base on principles that tend to
dislodge old ones. This should not be seen as puzzle solving, or mopping up. It
creates a different way of looking at the universe and does not merely effect an
adjustment within a prevailing view. It forces the abandonment of certain basic
assumptions and it replaces them with new ones. The total shift of paradigm is
by definition impossible. If we fail to understand the changes it is because we
are in unreflective manner equate them with lesser ones. Some changes do not
merely confirm and farther elaborate received ideas and institutions; they
challenge and contradict them. The paradigmatic radicality comes with its angle
components of being focused on issues. What exactly are we dealing with at
hand, focusing attention on single problem or call it challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One has to test for authenticity, Prove the authenticity
of what kind of reform, are they perverted custom, an unwarranted development?
Reformation is at the very meaning of life itself as today it correctly bears
its name. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">Reformation is means changing of set of ways and
mentalities, which implies dislodging imbedded interest-groups and earning
their hatred. The resistance to such change is inevitably enormous and requires
heroic energies to overcome it. That comes clearly with the old axiom that it
is more difficult to reform a religious order than to found a new one betrays a
profound understanding of how institutions function. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">Until the Council, Catholic thought on reform was
based on what can be called a “classicist” mentality. According to such a
mentality, the Church moved through history more or less unaffected by history.
Men must be changed by religion, not religion by men was the concise articulation
of the position, enunciated by Giles of Viterbo at the opening session of the 5<sup>th</sup>
Lateran Council, 1512. (Cf. John, O’Malley., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giles of Viterbo on Church and Reform</i>, 1968, pp 179-91). This
council too evinced a sense of freedom and flexibility in its interpretation of
the tradition of the Church that was unprecedented. Religion had to change to
meet the needs of the time. To initiate a new freedom of expression and action
within the Church that certain Vatican institutions were now interpreted as having
previous curtailed; to distribute more broadly the exercise of pastoral
authority, especially by strengthening the role of the episcopacy and local
churches vis-à-vis the Holy See; to , modify in people’s consciousness and in
the actual functioning of the church the predominantly clerical, institutional
and hierarchical model that had prevailed; to affirm the dignity of the laity
in the Church. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">In adjusting itself in this and other ways to a world
consciousness the Council gave shape to its own paradigm of the Church. After
recourse to its own tradition, the Council determined that the Church could and
should in fact refashion its own paradigm to bring it more into accord with
conditions which are out there. The need for the Church at present, a need legitimated
by the tradition itself, was to accommodate to the present situation. Many
profound changes that have taken place in the history of the Church were not
the result, in the first instance, of self-conscious initiative on the part of
the Church membership. There is no reason to believe that the situation is any
different today, except perhaps more intensified because of the mass media and
the fast pace of contemporary culture. The emergence of democracy as a favored
political form, the world as global village, a new religious and cultural
pluralism, and similar phenomena. The reality out there so ingrained into the
way we think and judge, seems to be where the long-range grounding of the
Council may lie. The new consciousness will persist and have its effects. No
large institution will overnight transform its paradigm into something entirely
different; no institution ever continues over a long period of time to operate
wholly on the same paradigm, especially not an institution so deeply imbedded
in human culture as the Roman Catholic Church.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">The church is fully incorporated into human history,
and changes that take place there deeply affect it. That is what the Council
saw, and that perception is perhaps its best legacy. That is what it means to
belong to the church that as the Council insisted, is truly a pilgrim in the
world. That is the continuing challenge of the Council to us all.</p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MsoIntenseReference">FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER (VOCATION SUNDAY)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="157" src="file:///C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" width="305" /></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My sheep hear my
voice. And I know them, and they follow me. And I give them eternal life, and
they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize from my hand. What
my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the
hand of my Father. I and the Father are one</i> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 10:27-30</b>)</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD = VOCATION SUNDAY</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">In 1964 the Holy Father
declared that the fourth Sunday after Easter should be called Vocation Sunday
for priests and religious. All Christians are invited to offer themselves to
pray for vocation, promote vocation to brotherhood, sisterhood, priesthood. The
priests and religious come from our families and we present them to the church
for the great service of evangelization and holiness. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">What does the Holy Father want
us to do this Good shepherd Sunday? That is our assignment today. The good
shepherd teaches us many things, we shall just choose a few to guide us
through.</p>
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<p class="MsoIntenseQuote" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 18.0pt;">What does this Sunday mean to us?</p>
<p class="MsoIntenseQuote" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 18.0pt;">How do we associate ourselves with the sheep metaphor?</p>
<p class="MsoIntenseQuote" style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 18.0pt;">What is our obligation as Christians?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">The invitation of the Holy
Father what impact does it create in us to take seriously issues of vocation in
the Catholic Church. We know that every human being has been created for a
purpose. There is no worker in any field will do what he or she does without
having any objective of what s/he does. That means that even when God created
us, he made us for reason and purpose. What is that purpose? Do we know? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">The Catholic Catechism teaches
us very clearly on that. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We are created
so that we can know Him, we love Him, we serve Him, and we live happily here on
earth in preparation to join Him in heaven. </i>This is our call this Sunday,
whether we know it or not this is our obligation this Sunday. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">We are called to follow the
same way did when he was with us on this earth. May be one may be asking which
way is that? And which work? That is what we are being told in the Gospel of
Today “I am the Good Shepherd…” my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they too know me (Cf. Pope Francis – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the smell of the sheep</i></b>). We are all
the Lord’s sheep. We have to make sure that each other as the Lord’s sheep we
take good care of ourselves. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">Imagine your brother having a
sheepfold would you allow invaders or foxes to attack it? Now this is the call
the Holy Father is inviting us to. Let us take care of the sheepfold of our
brother Jesus. Let us take care of our vocation and protect the ones we already
have. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">How can we take care of the
sheep of Jesus? After Jesus going back to the Father, he left the keys to St.
Peter to take care of the Church. They chose bishops, ordained other ministers
so that they can continue with the work of Christ. This continues to-date. The
care, administration and sanctification of the Church continues. We have spread
all over as a church, but we have few laborers, as the number of Christians
increase the ministers are few, hence we are still called to pray for vocation
so that we may have many priests, religious in our local churches. The laborers
are few, so we prayer for the laborer to send many in his vineyard. (Mt 9:36).
This is our role and we have to take it seriously hence VOCATION SUNDAY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">It’s the Lord who chooses, its
him who consecrates. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You have not chosen
me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth
and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked
of the Father in my name, he shall give you”.</i> (John 15:16).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">There are challenges that are
found in the ministry, but what might be the obstacles? The hardness of heart
and not having a generous heart to save a dear brother and sister. The other
obstacle of selfishness and self-love, you simply love yourself so much that to
give any support to the other is a challenge. Then not responding to the call,
you hear the call and assume as if you have not heard, or that vocation is for
someone else not me. That is where the invitation lies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">We know that these obstacles we
can’t overcome them by ourselves, we need the help of the Lord overcome them.
That is why Christ is telling us…” Pray for the Lord of the harvest to send
more laborers to his vineyard”. The lord of the harvest to send laborers. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">We pray that the youth can be
found and that they may be generous to serve humanity, not selfish but generous
in their sacrifice for their church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
also pray for the parents to be able to release their sons and daughters to
serve God. May parents not start bargaining with their children of what kind of
work they want them to do but daily praying that their sons and daughters can
follow the invitation of Christ who is daily knocking at their doors looking
for servants and candidates to priesthood and religious life. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">We pray for holy families that
we can get good fruits of vocation, a good tree produces good fruits and a bad
tree produces bad fruits (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mt. 7:17</b>).
Parents who are not good cannot expect to get good priests from their homes.
Although God can also use a bad situation to bring the best out of it, but not always
and it’s not his nature. How many send sons and daughters to religious life and
priesthood for their own benefits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
many seminarians whose parents still pester them to change their call for the
sake of a better future and who consider priesthood as a wasted endeavor? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom</i>” the book of Sirach advises us. The person who has no self-motivation and personal care can be
dangerous to himself and to his community. A False vocation is that of a person
not fearing God. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">Pope Francis tells us that: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To be a saint is not a privilege for a few,
but a vocation for everyone. God calls you to make definitive choices, and He
has a plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment”. </i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family: "Rockwell Extra Bold",serif;">Your
True Vocation = <u>Your Gifts+ Your Passion</u>. As we have shared so far, your
calling is not one specific magical job out there, but rather your unique
talents, gifts, and capabilities-the things within you that you bring to a job.
Thus, different jobs can tap your vocation to different degrees</span></p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ECCLESIA IN AFRICA</i>: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PROCLAMATION AND WITNESSING THE GOSPEL IN AN
EFFECTIVE, EFICIENT AND RELEVANT APPROACH TO EVANGELIZATION</b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Joseph B. Nyamunga</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Reinstating the teaching of the Apostolic Exhortation, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evangelii Nuntiandi</i> of Pope Paul VI, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ecclesia in Africa</i> (EIA) asserts that
the grace and the vocation proper to the church indeed her deepest identity and
reason for existing, is to evangelize all people. (Pope JPII (1995) EIA,
no.55). The two principal ways of carrying out this all important vocation.
This will be true through the witness of life that is lived in the midst of the
community, and sometimes that will end up into martyrdom. This re-echoes the
earlier teaching of Pope Paul VI where he said:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;">In the church, the witness given by a
life truly and essentially Christian which is dedicated with the utmost fervor of
the soul to our neighbor is the primary organ of evangelization (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evangelii Nuntiandi</i>, n.41)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">This means
that the men of our generation are most impressed by witness than teachers and
if they listen to these it is because they also bear witness. The starting place
of this evangelization starts from the Christian family, the first cell of
small Christian community, a privileged place for evangelical witness, a place
of human and spiritual growth for parents, children, the youth and the aged. (Cf.
Maura Browne, 1996: 87-107). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">The Word of
God should lead each one into interior transformation of all people of the good
will whose hearts are open to the action of the Holy Spirit. (EIA, n. 55).
There are those especially who are not yet evangelized, and who practice the
non-Christian religion (EIA, n. 47). This Word should raise hope of the life
that is rooted in the Paschal Mystery and celebrated in the Eucharist. An
encounter with the living person called Christ. It has to reach individual
being, society in every aspect of their existence. Evangelization is not a theoretical
experiment but a life, a meeting of love which radically changes our life
today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">This Word (Sacred
Scripture) has to be translated to a language that is accompanied by
study-guides for use in prayer and study in the family and community, through
the scriptural formation of the clergy, the religious, the catechists and the
laity in general, through the careful preparation and celebrations of the Word,
and the promotion of the biblical apostolate (EIA, n. 58). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;">The good news proclaimed by word of
life. There is no true evangelization if the name, the teaching, the life, the
promises, the kingdom and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God are
not proclaimed</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">In other
words, true evangelization takes place where the Good News is proclaimed in
word and actions of life. For Jesus is the first communicator par excellence,
who is by nature word, dialogue and communication. This communication has to be
fostered from within and outside. The better diffusion of the information among
the members of the church to be more advantageous position to communicate to
the world the Good News of the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. (EIA,
n.122). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">This can be carried out through the traditional means such as songs,
music, theatre, proverbs and fables in addition to the mass media. These are
vehicles of the wisdom and the soul of the people and a precious source of
material and inspiration for the mass media. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">The media has its own language,
complete with its own specific values and counter-values. These are cultures
that need to be evangelized. This will mean that the church has to train
preachers of the Gospel, who must master the media style of communication, the
readers – audience and print media, listeners- audiovisual media etc. (EIA, n.
71).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"> All have to be trained in order to understand the kind of communication
being made through the mass media and use it with discernment and critical
mind. It’s our duty to ensure that Christian principles influence the practice
of the profession, including the technical and administrative sector.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">There should
be more establishment of more communication technology, like radio, television,
newspaper, good public address system, internet etc. The question here is the
way ahead for the Church in Africa to establish her own religious media or not?
EIA, n. 71 has recommended us:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;">The first Areopagus of the modern age is
the world of communications which is unifying humanity and turning it into what
is known as global village. The means of social communication have become so
important as to be for many the chief means of information and education, to
guidance and inspiration in their behavior as individuals, families and within
society at large. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">As we stand
in the market place of ideas and listen to the views there is that immense
variety of stories told, arguments presented and contemporary news interpreted
daily, one must seek the ways and the means of being effectively present in
order to project the teachings of the Church, present the Church and her
leaders as major players in each country’s religious arena and provide the
symbols that will enhance the identification and commitment of her members. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">As we establish radio stations, Catholic
Magazines and newspapers, video production centers, internet facilities become important.
Because these can reach a small portion of the population, the Church has to
combine owning them with imbuing the general media culture with Christian
values. The growing number of Catholic media practitioners perceive their
profession as God-given vehicles for proclamation the Gospel values. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">The media are
not the magic wand that enables the gospel message to transform the lives of
the audience, and they become powerful and effective in the process of
evangelization if and when they reinforce the impact of the gospel already in
operation in the lives of the people. The solid formation in faith starts right
from the families, homes and places of work. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">We should recall that what conquered
the cruelty of the Roman emperor who persecuted the Church was not the power of
communication that was an alternative to Roman communication, but the witness
of the martyrs, the presence of the fortress of the faith in the midst of
fragility and weakness of human efforts to protect themselves and to announce
their doctrine. (Ricardo Antoncich.,“Christian Witness as Communication” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Church and Communication</i>,(1994) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>p. 150-151). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">The families
are assisted to see the language they use to bring up their children and the
type of stories they share with them as veritable means of bringing them up as
Christians and creating a Christian atmosphere in the homes. Even the types of
posters and calendars they hang in their sitting rooms, the pictures they use
as book-markers etc. Have a subtle way of filling people’s minds with things
that are Christians and can elevate their thoughts to things that are holy and
wholesome.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">In this
spirit therefore, parents should not abandon their responsibility for
regulating the television and video viewing habit of their children. In 1994
during the World Communication Day Pope John Paul II called attention to this
when he stated:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;">Forming children’s viewing habits will
sometimes mean simply turning of the television set: Because they are better
things to do, because consideration for other family members requires it, or
because indiscriminate television viewing can be harmful. Parents who make
regular, prolong use of television as a kind of electronic baby-sitter
surrender their role as the primary educators of their children ( Joseph
Oladeje Faniran., (1998) “Evangelizing the Media: A Challenge to the Church in
Africa”, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AFER</i>, Vol 40, no.2:121). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">The
appropriate media include the liturgy the Liturgy and its various parts like
songs, prayers, readings, the homily, and the offertory profession. Others are
parish bulletin, the notice boards, the posters, the microphones, and the
simple cameras, not to mention the video recorders. All can be creatively
employed to communicate meaning, share experiences of faith. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">We need to invest
in training and investing in communication skills for all those involved in preaching
ministry in the Church, catechetical system in order to provide an ongoing
solid formation in faith to the people and promoting Catholic family life as a
foundation on which other forms of Christian formation can be built, vigorous
promotion of Small Christian Communities to foster close human relationships,
care and love.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;">Without a
strong interior life of faith and prayer, and a message coming out of this
experience, Christian communicators cannot really transmit the experience of Good
News of redemption into the lives of the people who today sorely need that Good
News. (Cf. Frans-Josef Eilers., “The Spirituality of the Christian Communicator”
in Jacob Srampickal, et.al <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CrossConnections:
Interdisciplinary Communications Studies at the Gregorian University</i>, Rome
(2006), p. 192.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"> </p>
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Sunday of Lent Year C</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Rockwell Extra Bold",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Rockwell Extra Bold",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Jesus filled with the Holy Spirit left the Jordan and was led
by the spirit through the wilderness, being tempted there by the devil for
forty days.”</span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 4:1-2)</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lent is a time of
revision. At this time, we are remembering our children who are going to sit
for their final examinations. They have been revising the work for the last two
years or more, some chapters are fresh in their minds, others bit hazy, some
will find chapters which are completely forgotten or ignored, or never
understood clearly, some of the candidates have been reading in isolation and
never linked what they were revising with other aspects of the course. Revise
brings all this to surface.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lenten liturgy brings out
the events of Old and New Testaments. Events, incidences, personalities, all of
which we have at some time heard or even read about- perhaps without going down
to the time heard or even read about, but perhaps without going down to the
depth of the meaning they were intended to bring us to. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We now need a degree of
maturity, a degree of Religious Receptivity, a degree of some spiritual
disposition. To enable us grasp fully all the saints the breath and length and
height and depth of the love of God to which we are all called. Today we talk
of crush course in the universities, which runs from one to two years, given
six months with equal or even better results. In the world of business, I think
they will be talking of efficient minimum energy, shortest time, maximum
output. This is where Christ comes in: He relived in his shortest span of time,
all the history of the chosen people, from Adam to his own time. Consider Adam,
head of all mankind, he was tempted, tempted is an unfortunate word, we have
been brought up to understand it to mean ... “to<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> entice a man to do wrong, to seek to seduce one into sin, try to
persuade one to take the wrong way.” </i>The better word would be to Test, Adam
was tested, God tested his loyalty. The temptation proposed to him supernatural
powers to enable him to rival God, without need of faith, love, and obedience.
Adam fell. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Christ too was tested,
the tempter used the same Tactics: to change stones into bread, to throw
himself and God will send His angels to hold him, showing Jesus all the wealth
and he can get it so long as he worships the Devil. The prophets went to the
desert to find God. So did the Hermits. And whom did Christ encounter there?
The Devil, He was led by the Holy Spirit, only to be tested. He fasted. And the
Devil brings dangling before him the pleasures of feasting. God reveals
himself, the world with all its attractions. All these have been the
temptations of the people of the Old Testament, Christ lived their experiences,
fought their battles, won victory where they had failed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As Christians we are in
Christ, there is a new creation for us, we are reliving the life of Christ. His
experiences are our experiences, His test is our test, his victory can be our
victory. When life brings us to the heights, it is then that we are in gravest
danger of depth. For those who love reading Church History. In Luther’s room in
the castle of Wartburg one can see ink stain on the wall. He threw an ink-pot
at the devil who tempted him. The struggle is not only outwardly but also
inwardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ did not conquer the
devil in one attempt campaign, he is still fighting. We need to be vigilant as
the cost of freedom, if we are prepared to pay the price. It may come as the
years we spend at the university examination room can be real martyrdom, it
could be with games a strong team doesn’t play with the weak one, if it does it
fails to prove its worth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This is the purpose God
to allow temptations to assail us, that we may prove our manhood and emerge the
stronger for the fight. Satan is an adversary, attributed to all the evil that
befell man, physical and moral. Just to be on the lookout. We must also know
that we as human beings we also have adversaries within ourselves as brother
and sisters. Adversary always provides us with choices, a situation in which we
have to decide. Lowell the poet once said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to
decide.” In the strife of Truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side”.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Our lord was presented
three situations and he had to decide for Truth or for falsehood, for the good
or evil side. The difference between us and Christ is that minds easily get
obscured in the moment of temptation. He had clear vision of the real good and
could not mistake evil for the good. Lack of clear vision often makes us
hesitate, or worse still make a wrong decision. This is why we must never cease
to pray for that grace which enlightens the mind to see the truth, to see the
good in the moment of temptation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Another difference
between us with Jesus is that he did not suffer moral weakness. Once he saw the
good he never failed to do it. While as human beings we are born with moral
weakness and it is made greater at each fall. Think of a drunkard or prostitute
that each act he sinks lower. Our weakness become greater with each bad example
we give. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The time of lent is
sacred. We are invited to make special prayers for ourselves and for our
brothers in Christ. We are invited by the Church to offer special prayers for
ourselves and for our brothers and sister in Christ. We are invited to deny
ourselves, to mortify our flesh in enjoyments of life which are legitimate, so
that we may gradually gain the necessary moral strength to deny ourselves in
what is wrong and sinful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Let us in this first
Sunday of lent a holy season resolve to take full advantage of the graces of
the time in spirit of the Church in union with our Lord Jesus.</span></p>
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difficult to be quite if you have nothing to do”- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arthur Schopenhauer</span></span></b></p>
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Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-87519009895955666642022-02-23T14:45:00.006+03:002022-02-23T15:01:24.599+03:00HOW ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IS CONFRONTED IN KENYA<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">HOW ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IS CONFRONTED IN KENYA </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> The creation of care is something that was blessed by God Himself from the beginning where the garden was given in charge to Adam on the condition that we may possess the things which God committed to his hands. This meant that man had to be frugal and moderate in the use of what has been entrusted to. Kenyans are called upon to take care of creation so as to curb environmental degradation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Sorley participated in a workshop on creation and environmental care for a group of Kikuyu people who live in the escarpment of Kenya’s famous Rift valley. He focused on the acute problem of deforestation and how the Christians could respond to such challenges. Once carpeted by a lush cedar and African Olive forest, feeding streams into the valley. Most of this escarpment now lies completely denuded of all crop yields due to soil erosion. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He narrates that, as he was speaking about biblical foundations for creation and care they (the group listening to him), can get involved in honoring Christ through caring properly for the land that he created. An old man raised up his hand, retaliating that “It was the first time that he had heard such teaching,” he proceeded to ask the question: “Why is it that for all these decades the missionaries right here have never told us that God was concerned about how we manage the forests? Why have they just watched this destruction taking place all this time?” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">C. SORLEY, “Creation Care and the Great Commission”, in Creation Care and the Gospel, reconsidering the Mission of the Church, Sorley says that this is a question which Christians and churches cannot afford to ignore. This is a clear indication that something has been missing in our efforts to advance the gospel. Little have we considered that taking care of creation is direct contact with God and His people. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This, by all means, is a reached community.
People are beginning to question, how comes that we have not been told. A re-awakening call to action and take charge of the environmental care and curb environmental degradation. Many of our people attend Mass and church services on Sunday but this teaching looks like they have not sunk yet, because there is still a continuous cutting of trees unabated. The trees which attract rainfall are al cut, the rivers are dry, the soil erosion at a high rate, not mentioning the high population explosion. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">These have become a battle camp during electioneering year, which always becomes a bedrock of tribal clashes due to pasture and fight the few natural resources available. The idea is to go back with the community to re-read the bible from Genesis to reshape the way of rethinking, to reawaken the hope, and take responsibility. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Kenyan scenario of environmental degradation is taking a toll on forests, grassland, water sources, rainfall and climate patterns, wildlife and bird populations and soils. This is an alarming situation that calls for urgency and sobriety to stop for a moment to see what is happening. We are as Kenyans because of the continuous hardship of life for the people. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This hardship leads to perpetual poverty, hunger heightened by competition among ethnic groups, civil unrests, disease, and even death. Sorley, the in the Bible we are confronted with the reality shared for decay "We know that the whole of creation has been groaning as in pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Rom 8:22). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The speed of decay is so worrying and the groaning seems to louder and louder. In the last ten years ago, the Kenyan Government reported that in just half a generation, the country had lost roughly half of its woodland, and forest cover.
While tree planting efforts have increased since that report, the quality of care given to newly planted trees has remained low, and the demand for wood in the form of timber, building poles, and cooking fuel has risen sharply due to rapid growth population as result deforestation continues to be a major problem. (Cf. National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) a State of the Environment Report for Kenya 2003 (Nairobi: NEMA 2004). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This means that the deforestation at its highest, add farming on the slopes will eventually lead to significant soil erosion and a loss of precious water resources. The continuous intense use of arable land over several decades will leave land exhausted and worn out. This is the reality in the Kenyan context. We are entering into what R. Bunch calls African soil fertility crisis.
Over the past eight years, care of Creation Kenya (CCK) has been conducting informal crop yield surveys with the older farmers from various locations across the country. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The results according to the survey have been wonderful. For primary food crops like maize and beans, farmers consistently reported that over 25 to 30 years, their yields have dropped substantially. In many parts of the country harvest, today are 30 percent of what they had been before. A 70 percent loss in per acre productivity is clear evidence that the agricultural landscapes of Kenya are groaning. This figure has been consistently confirmed by groups of farmers who have visited (CCK) from different parts of Kenya since 2010. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> The workers who watch their yields decline have become discouraged, and they have abandoned farming or simply opted for another livelihood, something else profitable. This has greatly affected the young generation, who have a very pessimistic view of farming. The young men and women have left their villages for towns to make ends meet. Agricultural farms have been abandoned or sold out to prospective buyers, rendering a future generation landless and unengaged, or simply restless. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The young men go to town to improve their lives but they find that what they dreamed of is not that they meet in town lifestyle. No job, no housing, end up in ghettos and a proper timing bomb about to explode. This is evinced during electioneering year when it becomes a business enterprise by politicians to hire youths to cause chaos and political instability in Kenya, every five years or can we offer something better, something that will bring healing, to a groaning creation.
A solution that would allow agrarian communities across the world to live (Cf. P. BUNCH, Restoring the Soil, C. SORLEY, “Creation Care and the Great Commission”, in Creation Care and the Gospel, reconsidering the Mission of the Church”. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> This is a theme Oborji picks up very passionately when he addresses the African Religion and Healing Churches. He urges that the Church should intensify its evangelizing work for human promotion in Africa; (Cf. F. An OBORJI), Towards Christian Theology of African Religion, p.178, productively on their own farms, carrying out the work of human hands as God established from the beginning when He placed a man into the Garden of Eden. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Agriculture is not only central to Kenyans, but it's the backbone to many countless millions across the world, especially in developing nations. In Africa, small-scale agriculture is the single most common vocation providing a livelihood for the greatest proportion of its people. The foundation of many cultures and people groups are built upon agriculture.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> This is what missiological studies have to be engaged in to get real paradigm shift in what we could call Agro-Gospel Evangelization and Ecology (AGEE). An evangelization that has to put the gospel at the heart of agriculture, the fifth gospel of the farming.
We plant churches, we are being trained in missiology, scripture is being translated in vernacular, and theology is gaining in its contextualization, many hospitals are being built.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> But little attention is being focused on agricultural farming, forestry, and other creation care topics, yet the backbone of many African livelihoods depends on agriculture and livestock farming.
It's unfortunate that even in most of our Kenyan seminaries at the national levels and Catholic educational institutions of higher learning, ecological studies are not taken seriously or considered as core subject or units in academic year books. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is the heart of the challenge that calls for concerted effort to hold the bull of the horn so as to curb the environmental degradation menace in the East and central African regions.
The old adage goes "You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.” We can also decide to take a neutral ground that will not be a solution it will only just mean that one supports the status quo. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Most of our Christians we preach to every Sunday are themselves Sunday goers, they simply comply the obligation requirement for it’s a holy day that the Lord has made, but little is being followed up after the priest says, “go in peace the Mass is ended.”
The (AGEE) paradigm is created when the priests are able to visit and bless their farms during the weekdays. On Sunday as they get back to church, the response they give during the Eucharistic celebration has meaning: where the response goes as follows. "Priest: Pray my brothers and sisters; that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father. Assembly: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of His Church”. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> This will avoid the dualistic approach to life realities where spiritual things are put into one box and agricultural things into another box. There is little if any relationship between the two. Not taking care of creation or environment is a sin. This should be the (AGEE) message every Sunday. This is what most Kenyans love to be formed on. The majority of Kenyan brothers and sisters have little or no vision for restoring degraded landscapes. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Most Kenyans population especially the youth grow up knowing that agriculture is for school dropouts or for lazy studies who do not want to study, or simply a punishment tool for indiscipline, where to feel the pain of misbehavior the student will be humiliated to go weed around the school administration block or compound where everyone sees him or her doing the punishment. This, in the long run, creates a negative impact on the student that agriculture is not seen as a professional job. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> This kind of treatment is also extended to our minor local seminaries, where the seminarians have no interest in agriculture or farming. Even for the seminarians to help in the parish farm during holidays is seen as an extension of punishment. This is the magnitude of environmental crisis; degradation of environment runs through. It is not something that is a physical but systemic and negative attitude that needs a proper pedagogy of (AGEE) approach and paradigm.
There is little passion or none in honoring God in every step of the agricultural process, from planting to harvesting. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is no commitment to discover and implement the most sustainable practices at all times and at all levels. We have to admit at this point that there is something wrong in our formation programs and understanding of the creation mandate, right from our institutions of higher learning to African agricultural farms and gardens. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The gospel message has not yet sunk properly due to its gospel packaging. It looks as though most theologians have not taken seriously their studies, discussed seriously the creation care needs, and as a result, it is turning out to be a blank page in their ministry or discipleship programs and pastoral work. The time now is to transform, renew our hearts and minds, in accordance with the (Rom 12:12). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If Christ’s creation is groaning, we should do something about it, because when creation groans people groan. Our world view about environmental matters has often been shaped more by science, politics, or by secular economic thinking than by scripture.
When a farmer in Kenya doesn't hear biblical teaching in the church that is related to agriculture, it leaves no better option, but to continue doing everything else that endangers the environment than preserve it in this common home. J. Sittler states: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>When we turn our attention of the church to a definition of Christian relationship with the natural world, we are not stepping away from the grave and proper theological ideas; we are stepping into right in the middle of them. There is a deeply rooted, genuinely Christian motivation from attention to God's creation, despite the fact that many church people consider ecology to be a secular concern.
What does environmental preservation have to do with Jesus Christ and his church? </i>They ask. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They would not be shallow or more wrong. This means that we have to adopt something new in our traditional mode of advancing the gospel.
We need to buy a new toolbox, getting back to the laws of ecology as presented by B. Commoner. As we shall explain them in the third chapter. As more environmental concerns gain more attention on drought, deforestation, water scarcity which is almost causing a third world war, and other issues that cause the earth to be sterile and bringing untold pain to many Kenyans. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Kenyan pastors and churches have to have a combined ecumenical approach to the great commission with efforts to bring healing to creation as well. We need to recall the words of Christ. “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19-20). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Jesus didn’t command that we go out to make mere converts. He called us to make disciples whose lives would change the world. Discipleship transforms people, communities and the entire nation and in a world that changes over time, that discipleship will need to be applied in fresh new ways to new leitmotivs. This passion for Christ goes hand in hand to include a commitment to care for everything he has made. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is the time for African theology of creation to be incorporated into discipleship training, seminary formation and pastoral work. Leadership is lacking in these areas and that will call for sacrifices to be made.
The Kenyan churches and mission agents with such sound biblical guidance on these issues must stimulate the application of sound scientific and practical solutions and the ability to lead the world by example. P. Brand, the famous medical missionary to India, once said: “I would gladly give up medicine and surgery tomorrow if by so doing I could have some influence on policy with regard to mud and soil.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> The world will die from lack of soil and pure water long before it will die of soil and pure water long before it will die from lack of antibiotics or surgical skill and knowledge”. When the land becomes impoverished, people become impoverished as Christians who God has called to bring mercy and justice to the poor.
When we integrate creation care as a long-term component of our exports to show mercy to the poor, to restore the productivity of farming, and to replant lost forests cover, the impact will be felt for the generation to come.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Prophet Isaiah demonstrates this clearly by giving us reason to move in: If you do away with the yoke of oppression…and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness…you will be like a well-watered garden like a spring whose water never fail. (Is 58:9-11). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The frontier is wide open, it’s a field ripe for the harvest. This shows that once we embrace our neglected role to care for creation not only will help strengthen the testimony of the church, not only will bring hope to the hungry but will also provide one of the most promising answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Integrating creation care into Christian outreach and mission can help us rediscover the beauty of holistic ministry that does not separate the spiritual from physical. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Today, we want priest, sisters, Catholics who are expertise in forestry, fisheries, and sustainable agriculture. We need to be trained appropriately in technology, wildlife conservation, and water resource management, environmental education, and similar fields. And this will raise up missionaries who are system thinkers theologically, scientifically and socially, so that they can effectively demonstrate the fullness of Christ’s love in this troublesome world.
As part of the strategy to spread a biblical vision for creation care in East Africa. (CCK) is an organization fully engaged in training workshops and conferences, where they do a review of the pressing environmental or agricultural concerns common to East Africa. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This training is towards practical means of taking action. This includes tree planting and nursery management, farming God's way, beekeeping the use of fireless cookers, spreading the vision through biblically based education in churches and communities. They have a follow-up visit by the (CCK) staff contact with farmers, pastors, women's group, or community leaders, where both biblical and practical aspects of the initial training are reviewed and reinforced while consistent follow-up with those living further afield is difficult. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many choose to participate in subsequent training courses to improve their knowledge and skills. If we have to restore the Kenyan landscapes, all have to be mobilized to action. The behavior will not change if attitudes are not changed. The people's mindset and attitudes have to be transformed towards creation. The real evidence is only seen through action.
The lives of small-scale farmers are being blessed and transformed by the ministry of farming God's Way, putting the farmers towards a commitment to restore their soils and become excellent stewards of their land. Farming should not separate the spiritual from the physical. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addressing the root causes of environmental degradation that are taking place in Kenya, there should be a paradigm shift in the way farming is being carried on Kenyan landscapes.
Farming God's Way (FGW), a track record in healing degraded land and improving crops productivity in Christian communities who want to incorporate the gospel teaching with agriculture, through training the farmers' hearts and minds. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This (AGEE) breathes life and hope back into agrarian communities. Trials in the Rift Valley using (FGW) method, conducted by farmers and at local schools and churches, have produced corn and bean harvest between two and four times larger than adjacent fields farmed in a conventional manner. Similar results have been reported from other parts of the country.
In 2011, the corn yield from a farmer named Simon Njoroge almost six times greater than his neighbor's plot, which held the exact same number of corn plants. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This means that FGW speaks for itself. This new process of restoring soil from the destruction with fertilizers. This helps many communities to productively make use of their gardens that they now believe that it was God given.
This all has to be geared through a Harambee (pulling together) the efforts of restoring not only the soil but a nation as the national anthem states: Oh God of all creation Bless this our land and nation Just be our shield and defender May we dwell in unity peace and liberty Plenty is found within our borders. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Let one and all rise with hearts both strong and true Service be our earnest endeavor and our homeland of Kenya Heritage of splendor Firm may we stand to defend Let all with one accord in common bond united Build this our nation together and the glory of Kenya The fruit of our labor Fill every heart with thanksgiving.
As we venture into the dilemma that is before us in this common home, we are called upon to get back to the drawing board and reconnect the missing dots of the environmental protection and care of creation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">What has been missing in our understanding has to be remodeled and presented with new forms of evangelization and gospel package. Sometimes we have shown little interest in regards to what God has made and have always overlooked the truth that creation care should be an integral part of living fully for Christ. His creation groans, we are degrading into a heap of filth as Pope Francis admonishes us. Most of the people are going through terrible untold stories that are affecting them and their communities in Kenya and the whole globe. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Our world cries out for Christ centered leadership in this field of agro-gospel ecology. Great opportunities stand before us in the missioning and evangelizing believers and non-believers alike.
We need the gospel that transforms the hearts and mindset, the gospel that changes behavior and the gospel that brings healing to the broken landscapes. This can only be actualized once we implement a biblical world view of Environmental degradation, offering hope to the poor, a healthier future for the future generation, and the hope that vividly demonstrates the all-encompassing nature of Christ’s love. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As we integrate creation care into the cause of evangelization and pastoral call. We will bring goodness to a world that strives to wrestle with this challenge of environmental degradation in Kenya in its own strength.
We cannot afford to leave God out of our lives. We are because of our environment that God has blessed us with. We need to leave it as good as we found it, with a beautiful green cover. This can only be achieved through a collaborative effort with other international family community. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As we battle with environmental degradation this has to help us in one way or another to move towards God when we are able to meet the needs of others. Through others, we learn to care, sensibility, and attention hence becoming environmentally friendly in this common home. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As one H. Njoroge could state thus "I have now learned that we have completely left God of our farms. Your teaching has opened my eyes to realize that we have strayed from God's will and I know God is calling us back to the garden. We claim to have faith but have not been practicing it". </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Kenya there was a campaign all over the country that was "Cut one tree plant two campaign" it became a slogan everywhere, in schools, institutions of learning, government-sponsored advertisements, churches, everyone came on board, agricultural subjects were compulsory in schools, but with time the nation started walking into sleep, it turned into option and even now the option is no longer there. It showed the space, speed and enthusiasm died. This is the challenge we are being confronted with as we look into environmental degradation. </p><p> © Don. Joseph Baptist Nyamunga’22
</p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-22079735732747574712022-01-13T13:25:00.000+03:002022-01-13T13:25:02.985+03:00THE COST OF COMMITMENT <p><br /></p><p>You are now fascinated by the world around you with your self, exploring the secrets and mysteries of your own psyche and emotions.</p><p> Psychology has made great progress in exploring the obscure roots of our judgements, desires and decisions. </p><p>You are now called to commit yourself. Are you able to make permanent commitment, a commitment that will last for a life time. </p><p>You now have the capacity to comprehend yourself and the world around you, but your decisions are going to be made within a very restricted field, you can’t get committed to the unknown, all will be within the field of your perception. Eventually it enlargens a person never stops growing. </p><p>New knowledge and inspiration, new worlds will open up for you now with need to re-evaluate your previous promises. You now have increased freedom. </p><p>A commitment for life at a given stage would be equivalent to imprisoning yourself. Chained to your narrow past by a promise that at present may not open yourself to the future. </p><p>Never commit yourself to permanent promises before finishing it (student) not married boy/girl. Don’t fear to break your promise if after a long experience you know it was a mistake. No man/woman can commit himself for life, but when it comes to an adventure in which God is the main party, the real question is not what you can do but how far the strength of God can go. And it can go far. </p><p>God can commit himself to the lifespan of a fragile man/woman and much beyond it. God always loves an adventure with God (Gen 12:1). Lifelong commitment, not only Abraham, wife and son but all his posterity. </p><p>The prophets in the OT Yhwh never abandons them. The twelve apostles. He committed himself to them for life and beyond. This should inspire you to the permanent commitment. </p><p>Man is not strong enough to commit himself for a life time. Yet faith has to commit himself for a lifetime. Yet faith has a dimension beyond the reach of psychology and our personal craftiness.</p><div><br /></div>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-36226864902203051252021-05-29T18:44:00.001+03:002021-05-29T18:44:20.156+03:00STANDING ON THE FEET<p> A MAN MUST STAND ON HIS FEET</p><p>MAY RECOLLECTION</p><p>DON. JOSEPH B. NYAMUNGA, SSA</p><p><br /></p><p>AIM OF EDUCATION</p><p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Helps us to achieve manhood- not nature… By nature we can all call ourselves men…not age as distinct from women, but to achieve self –integration. </p><p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Harmonious ordering of elements of human makeup</p><p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Keep a perfect balance between the elements of human makeup.</p><p>FEW MEN ARE WORTH THE NAME</p><p>- Some fail because they are not encouraged</p><p>- Others fail because they have not worked at it</p><p>- Others fail because of the complex of influences</p><p>Such personal inadequacies, corrupting example of others, environmental circumstances.</p><p>INTEGRATED MAN</p><p>Is one who has brought the spiritual, the emotional and the physical into harmony <Hierarchy></p><p>LIVE STANDING ON YOUR HEAD</p><p>Physical upper hand takes shape, it should not be a blunt emotional-stifle spirituality that is built upon the irresistible urge to eat, drink, so as to gratify desire-inertia, refusal to get up or do anything when up. A sober mind and well baked.</p><p>SOME BARELY CRAWL</p><p>Emotion has upper hand which often leads to affection that builds up into passion and this can make one lose one’s head into thinking that truth depends on feelings but to know that everything depends on attitude, e.g. teacher may give up when not appreciated and one may pray when only in form.</p><p>STAND ON YOUR FEET</p><p>The spiritual holds the veins, complete freedom not contempt of the above elements, but the Spirit is masts plus the Lord. We need God’s help. To transform our inner life is an open soul to God and leads to a strong will in full cooperation to what does God want in me as an individual in search for integral unity.</p><p>MAN HAS TWO DIMENSIONS</p><p>To be a man one must be on his own feet, he must achieve and work towards self-integration, bringing his make up into balance. The spirit must rule both emotions and the body to create that harmoniousness..</p><p>MAN MUST FUNCTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS</p><p>Isn’t enough to achieve self-integration, the man on his feet must face reality. Man has two dimensions in facing reality and who really deserves the name “man”.</p><p>a)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Man’s vertical dimension: is his relationship to God. No man can say indeed I need no one outside myself. We must be open doors of our personality and giving freely to serve without reservation. God was not content with just creating us, he wished to become one with us in our lives. We have to allow him to transform our very lives where we can say with St. Paul:</p><p> “It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me…” This is the first dimension of man what we call the vertical one, i.e. man’s relationship with God. </p><p> To be worth of the name man one must function within this dimension. But a well-balanced man, the man on his feet ought to face reality that has to build up into another dimension.</p><p>b)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The horizontal one; His relationship to his fellow men. He must open his heart to them all. As Shakespeare says “Life is a stage and we are all players” For any play to be successful all players must have a feel for it, must cooperate. Man is a family of actors and no matter where and when he lives he must be one with all men in their problems and concerns, their hopes and aspirations. We are not thrown together as potatoes in the sack. </p><p>We are persons and we must communicate, we are related, we have to contribute to the wellness of those around us. We can’t mature if we do not communicate with fellow men-just like a limb separated from other parts of the body can’t develop. Our development as men have aspects:</p><p>i)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Self-consciousness: by doing this and that the child develops into an adolescent with the <reward> as a gift and <Shame> as a penalty.</p><p>ii)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other consciousness in knowing that I am not alone- my life is not fully human if other people have no place in it.</p><p>iii)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Egoism- egoism is the opposite of love. A man who retreats into himself and tries to convince himself that he can go it alone, is an egoist. However talented he may be, he will never attain full maturity. Such a man thinks only of his interests, his studies, family, future, his wellbeing- he has no time for anyone else. </p><p>He has nothing to do with them- Such man will never grow up, he will be a spiritual dwarf.</p><p>iv)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Self-forgetfulness and generosity- Each of us has to be a link in a chain of relationship. Link yourself with those around you. If you fail here, any other link is likely to lack a genuineness, sincerity, but be formed in the spirit of community (seminary family).</p><p> Contribute to its life if there is no room first. How can you welcome others in your life but to do this you must create room. If you are full of yourself and your interests how can how can other men and their interests find room in you? </p><p>It is possible not to know their names, where they come from- or never said a word to them. To out of your way to do well, sometimes at a cost of sacrifice, helping them out.</p><p>v)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The two dimensions are inseparable- they are complementary- you can’t be sons of the Father if you do not love the brother- you can’t be brothers if you don’t have a common Father. Sacrifice will be called for, self-love has to be nurtured, is this not the greatest commandment.</p><p>MAN MUST MAKE CONTACT WITH OTHERS</p><p>In order to live our horizontal dimension we must make contact with others. This is our duty because no man is an island to himself. Psychologists speak of “a lonely crowd” how a crowd of so –called one can be quite alone in the midst of a crowd of so-called friends. In the crowd of 150 students it’s possible to be lonely. </p><p>For how can be lonely if he can’t make contacts with others, and unless he is willing to see others as they are and welcome them into his life. There is a common doubt that will always pop up in the life of formation stages. “We do not understand him”. If the formators can’t understand you, do you think the bishop will?</p><p>b) To see a person, means to be genuinely getting interested in that person, in his work. Expressions such as “mind your own business or don’t poke your nose into…” are all rights in their circumstances. But if we are people living in a community we should not be so indifferent about the affairs of others.</p><p>ii) In your recreation think about a case of a game where a player is needed, are you prepared to sacrifice your own interest and get involved and respond to the need at hand?</p><p>iii) In our likes and dislikes- if we want to be sociable and serviceable, we must learn to anticipate to the wishes of others. We must learn to read the likes and dislikes of others and interpret them as they are.</p><p>iv) If we decide to live together there will certainly be difficulties. This will have to build in us a generous and self-forgetting person who studies the difficulties of others, in as much as there lies in power of helping out.</p><p>MAKE ROOM FOR OTHERS IN YOUR LIFE</p><p>In Europe people who don’t like others to come to their homes put a sign “Beware of the Dogs” in many of them they are no dogs but themselves. These are people whose temperament is so repulsive that no one dares approach them and they don’t like to be bothered. </p><p>Like a student who asked “do you think you will understand me? He was always silent in class, silent at meals, silent and alone in recreation. </p><p>He was an island to and in himself. Sometimes we like impose our ideas on others, often they are rejected hence we sulk like a praying mantis, If you are always talking to yourself…learn openness, sincere welcome where people would find warmth, simplicity and affability.</p><p>FREEDOM, ITS NATURE AND USE</p><p>(Cf. Gal 5:13-16)</p><p>The last sentence is back to where we started namely: In order to be men we must stand on our feet. The spirit must control and guide the emotions and the body. </p><p>The middle passage takes us back to the second consideration, namely man’s two dimensions. It stresses the second dimension which is our relationship with our neighbor. You must reject all attitudes of antagonism and opposition to your neighbor. St. Paul speaks in the practical way. </p><p>If you are backbiting and worrying each other then don’t call yourselves Christian, if you go opposing each other and tearing each other into pieces, you had better watchout or you destroy the whole community.</p><p>Vivisection is about tearing a person to pieces. There are students who develop habits of grumbling, complaining against fellow students, against that member of the staff and against the whole staff. </p><p>What is interesting about such people is how easily they persuade themselves to believe that they are always right. Of course their listeners will not dare to show them they are wrong, for fear, they may fall victims of their sharp tongue. (Cf. James 3). </p><p>In all our conduct with all people, brotherly love must be the guide. To stand on your feet means a man whose spirit controls his emotions and his body and must be a man who knows what freedom is and who knows how to use it.</p><p>II) They are many who think freedom is the ability to do what one wants. You can imagine the situation in which would result in any community. If freedom meant that, this may be freedom wild animals enjoy, but its certainty is not the freedom of man, let alone of a son of God. </p><p>We can describe freedom as: The ability of always choosing the good and of resolutely keeping to your choices. The question here could be what is “good”. The answer is short and simple. God’s will. Quoist sums up this by saying </p><p>“If you follow your instincts exclusively, you know only an animal freedom. If you give into imagination to emotion, to your own will, to pride, to egoism, you will know the freedom of the sinner. </p><p>If you however do the will of God, the freedom of the son of God…your ability to do the will of the Father is the measure of your level of freedom”. </p><p>Real freedom comes to fulfilment in obedience to God whose will is mediated to us through the Church, our legitimate superiors, our daily obligations and the ordinary circumstances of our lives. </p><p>The agent par excellence of this formation is the Holy Spirit who by the gift of new heart configures and conforms us to Jesus Christ, the Good shepherd. </p><p>It’s therefore right that we invoke the Holy Spirit as well as we prepare to get back to the seminary family. That we may be made docile to his inspirations, which He makes us docile to. In mediating human forces which he employs, in molding us. Do not close your hearts to Him but be open for transformation and conversion.</p><p><br /></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-60431772895478073672021-03-05T09:20:00.001+03:002021-03-05T09:20:21.859+03:00READING TOGETHER THE LETTER OF LAUDATO SÌ <p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">READING TOGETHER THE LETTER OF </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LAUDATO SI</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Don. Joseph Baptist Nyamunga, SSA</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (English: Praise Be to You) is the second encyclical of Pope Francis. The encyclical has the subtitle “on the care for our common home”. As its name implies a circular letter meant to be spread throughout a community. It gives us the impression that it has not yet reached to all sectors because the environmental crisis seems to escalate. There is no longer praise but lamentation hence taking the negative form from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Non Sia Laudato</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (English: Don’t be praised). We find ourselves in the same dilemma, crises and challenges of taking care of our common home. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> manifests itself as an act of giving praise to God for His creation and His magnificent presence and manifestation to human beings. But from the lived experience, today it is completely contrary to what Praise Be to You is all about. If we to take seriously our call in this common home, we would not be talking of environmental crisis in the first place.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If decisions were reached, commitments made, and resolutions arrived at in as far as care of the common home is concerned, we would have no any other option except to live up to our duties and obligations of taking care of our common home. If these decisions to take care of the mother earth are anything to go by, we would be having a change of mentality, new paradigm shift, new leitmotif, and great strands in environmental care and protection. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pope Francis is giving us the blue-print, designed road plan with all road signs clearly signalized on this super highway and we are to drive as per for the speed limits prescribed in given by-laws. If the teachings are right, admonitions just, discernment processes fully fine-tuned and the signs of the times interpreted well, then can all say (Praise Be to You). </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is about building up a philosophy, doctrine, a system thinking where all members of this common home become protagonists of desired change. As the Spanish saying states: “</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La basura tiene su lugar”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (English: Rubbish has got its place… a place for everything and everything in its place).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we are a Church, we have to read </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so as to refreshingly sink into its experience with Pope Francis in his invitation to start discerning seriously. We know what ought to be done, so we must do it right. The Church has published many documents, encyclicals, books, church liturgical materials in volumes. But little have we engaged ourselves into entering into the heart of the environmental crisis affecting our common home. All the above mentioned materials are by-products of trees, paper!!! Little have we dared to question or fully swung into rescue mode of tree planting campaigns as church agents. Trees are being cut unabated, books and documents are being published but little do we ask where this stationery paper in publishing houses come from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Change begins when we stop and question our way of doing things in the family, community and Church. Once our conscientious is re-awakened in every member of this common home, then the ripple effects will multiply the strong currents that will cause great impacts in paradigm shifts, leitmotivs and right discernment processes. These multifaceted changes have to be confronted with multi-cultural interpretation of crisis.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this research we are building on care of creation as our mother earth, a call that goes beyond obligations but delve into sense of responsibility and respect to nature and neighbor. It is sinful if we fail to take care of creation and our common home.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are called upon to start a new pedagogy of love and care of creation, to re-learn, to re-live, to re-educate our attitudes to know the responsibility that the Lord has entrusted to us. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an encyclical that helps us to enter into the heart of the problem, crisis, not looking at the problem at the phase level but to start asking ourselves the fundamental questions that create difference, new lifestyles, mental revolution. Our common home is an open space, a house of God, a home that carries everyone and all who live in this common home should take the sense of belonging seriously. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As evangelization agents, we are called upon to encourage and promote interdisciplinary attitudes of respect, protection and defense of the common home, through experience of observation, inquiry and experimentation that build us into global systems, grounded on local and universal wisdom and knowledge that generate healthy habits in the family and community. In our research we are going to treat different approaches, paradigms and leitmotivs as far us our mother Earth is concerned and as we get into dealing with the care of our common home. In chapter one, we shall deal with </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laudato Si’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Care of Creation. Then in chapter two we will delve into Building our Common Home (The Kenyan Context) into environmental degradation, then in chapter three we will be grounded into the Culture of Integral Ecological Education.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wishing you a good reading and lets journey together through the encyclical and create new paradigm shifts in our way of looking at the environment. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.</span></p><br /><br /><br />Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-845925880362508782021-02-13T17:14:00.000+03:002021-02-13T17:14:20.829+03:00REBUILDING OF OUR NATION THROUGH PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY <p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rebuilding Our Nation through Inclusive and Accountable Governance</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The teachings of the Gospels have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living. Our Spirituality should motivate us to a more passionate concern for the protection of our world, interior impulse which encourage us, motivates, nourishes and gives meaning to our individual and community activity (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LS#216</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). These spiritual treasures bestowed by God upon the Church, where the life of the spirit is not disassociated from the body or from nature or from the worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us. For this reason the ecological crisis is also a summon to profound interior conversion, an “ecological conversion.” The effects of our encounter with Jesus Christ becomes evident in our relationship with the world around us. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lent is the time for praying in the desert, the deserts of our hearts and lives. We have many deserts out there because inside of us we have wider spiritual deserts (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LS#217</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Planting trees, almsgiving and prayer is one way of eliminating these deserts. We are called upon to look into our lives that challenges us to improve ourselves. If we wish to change the outer aspects of our lives we must first change the inner attitudes of our minds. Change requires substituting of new habits for old ones. It calls us to command ourselves do what needs to be done. The change of heart to which Lent calls us can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue, it is not an optional or secondary aspect of our Christian experience. We need to recognize our errors, sins, faults and failures and led our heartfelt repentance and desires to change. We must examine our lives and acknowledge the ways in which we have harmed God’s creation through our actions and our failure to act. We need to experience a conversion, or change of heart (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L.S#218</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social problems must be addressed by community networks and not simply by the sum of individual good deeds. This task the Pope tells us that, it will make such a tremendous demands of men and women that they will never achieve it by individual initiative or even by united effort of men and women bred in individualistic way. The work of dominating the world calls for a union of skills and unity of achievement that can only grow from quite different attitude. Ecological conversion is needed to bring about lasting change is also a community conversion. A number of attitudes which together foster a spirit of generous care, full of tenderness. It entails gratitude and gratuitousness, a recognition that the world is God’s loving gift, and that we are called quietly to imitate his generosity in self-sacrifice and good works: “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing…and your Father who sees you in secret will reward you” (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mt 6:3-4</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). This calls for loving awareness that we are not disconnected from the rest of creatures, but joined in a splendid universal communion. As believers we don’t look at the world from without but from within, conscious of the bonds which the father has linked us to all beings. By developing our individual, God given capacities, an ecological conversion can inspire us to greater creativity and enthusiasm in resolving the world’s problems and in offering ourselves to God, as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rom 12:1</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). The call for serious responsibility stemming from our faith. Pope Francis calls us to live fully the dimension of our conversion, this can be evident in our relationship to other creatures and to the world around us, in this way it will help to nurture that sublime fraternity with all creation which St. Francis of Assisi so radiantly embodied.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lent is a great window opportunity to plant a tree as a sign of your commitment to take care of God’s creation. What do we have to do? In a nutshell: turn from power to love, be kind, act justly and walk humbly on earth like a cat. May the Lord help us to let go of the rags of sin, so that he may clothe us in newness of life. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each year the trees give a lesson in renewal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First the bud, then the blossom, and finally the shoot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring dresses the trees in a new robe,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And makes them young again.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But this is possible only because of autumn, they let go of their old leaves, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And in between endured a period of nakedness.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lent is the springtime of the spirit. Let’s ask our Lord to help us not to be afraid to let of old habits, and to face our Spiritual Poverty, in order that he may renew us, and so that at Easter will feel young again in our discipleship to take care of our environment and leaving it better than we found it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">© Don. Joseph Baptist Nyamunga’21</span></p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-17613674059945915792020-09-24T18:46:00.001+03:002020-09-24T18:49:48.312+03:00The Kenya National Environment Policy<div>THE KENYA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY </div><div><br /></div><div>The Kenya Government through the Minister of Environment and Mineral Resources has embarked on reevaluating its policy on environment hence coming up with a National Environment Policy, 2012, a revised draft No.4 of April 2012. In this draft, the government defines the environment in a broad way. Where it includes physical factors of the surroundings of human beings including land, water, atmosphere, sound, odor, state, the biological factors of animals and plants and the social factors of aesthetics and includes both the natural and the built environment. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kenya has a wide variety of ecosystems ranging from mountains, forests, and semi-arid areas, freshwater, wetlands, coastal and marine, offering myriad opportunities for human, social and economic development. These ecosystems are natural capital which provides important regulatory services like forests and mountains serving to regulate water flow, sustain biodiversity, cultural services that include aesthetics, recreational or spiritual values, and their uses, supporting services that include soil formation, nutrients cycling, and primary production. </div><div><br /></div><div>The survival and socio-economic wellbeing of Kenyans are ultimately twined with the environment. Most Kenyan citizens depend directly or indirectly on environmental goods and services. In addition, Kenya's environmental resources contribute directly and indirectly to the local and natural economy through revenue generation and wealth creation in such productive sectors and agriculture, fishing, livestock, water, energy, forestry, trade, and industry. </div><div><br /></div><div>The environment is an essential feature of Kenya's development policy. This is captured through the periodic development planning cycles since independence. This is traced to the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 that helped in raising understanding of the link between environment and development. From this Kenya initiated the Natural Environmental Actions Plan (NEAP) process. This was completed in 1994 that recommended the need for natural policy and law on the environment. This culminated into a draft sessional paper No.6 of 1999 entitled "Environment and Development" The legislative process that gave forth the Environment Management and Coordination Act (EMCA), Act No.8 of 1999 as Kenya's first framework environmental law. This has created a diffuse system of environmental laws and policies, some of whose provisions are not in harmony, making them ill-suited to aid the pursuit of sustainable development objectives as set out in the vision 2030. </div><div><br /></div><div>The promulgation of the Kenya Constitution, 2010 marked an important chapter in Kenya environmental policy development hailed as a green Constitution. It embodies elaborate provisions with considerable implications, for sustainable development. These include environmental principles and implications of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. (MEAs) to the right to clean and healthy environment enshrined in the Bill of Rights. It's chapter five that is embodied on a host of social and economic rights of an environment such as the right to water, food, and shelter among others.113 </div><div>The National Environment Policy aims to provide a holistic framework to guide the management of the environment and natural resources in Kenya. It creates a linkage between the environment and poverty reduction as integrated, in all government and poverty reduction as integrated, in all government processes and institutions in order to facilitate and realize sustainable development at all levels. </div><div><br /></div><div>THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN KENYA </div><div><br /></div><div>The main human activities contributing to environmental degradation in Keya include unsustainable agricultural land use, poor soil, and water management practices deforestation, overgrazing and pollution. This means that the country's natural resources of land, fresh and marine waters, forests and biodiversity threatens the livelihood of many people. These undermine the sink function of the environment which operates through such processes as nutrient recycling, decomposition and natural purification and filtering of air and waters. </div><div><br /></div><div>In Kenya, the environmental degradation is partly responsible for rising costs of water, treatment, food imports, and medical treatment. The loss of biological resources translates into a loss of economic potential and options for commercial development in the future that comes with considerable and ever-growing environmental issues and challenges. Harmonization of sectorial policy instruments with EMCA and constitutions, implementations. Sometimes the state resources are misplaced and dis-coordinated services in the implementation of land policy. The rehabilitation of degraded areas needs to be emphasized and followed up so as to the loss of biodiversity. This can only be reached through concessions and incentives that have to start from the local communities, counties, and parishes. </div><div><br /></div><div>The people should own the project and policy amendments, where they can own it hence creating a communitarian and public awareness that guards against: waste management, pollution, energy, climate change, disaster management, conservation of shared natural resources, invasive and alien species, public participation, environmental education and awareness, data and information, poverty, weak enforcement and then fragmentations which disintegrates the soil. </div><div><br /></div><div>The goal of the National Environment Policy, 2012 is for better quality for the current generation, without compromising the quality of the future generation through unsustainable management of the environment and natural resources.</div><div><br /></div><div>© Don. J.B Nyamunga'20</div>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-9938488412280887672020-09-15T22:06:00.004+03:002020-09-15T22:23:13.093+03:00AN AFRICAN UNDERSTANDING OF A COMMON HOMEIn Africa the common home can only be understood in terms of community,
relationship, and belonging. In order to be realistic and concrete, we need to
factor in the African concept of family that will help us have a sense of
belonging and contribution towards building this “common home.” As we have
mentioned in the contextualized perspective of Common home, the same thread runs
through from Pope Francis’ understanding of family. Pope Francis proposes the
paradigm shift and personal insights and compressive approach to ecology and
environment as a “common home”. It is also good that we slot in the African
understanding of family amidst ecological and environment crisis that has
befallen humanity. African continent is at the receiving end of this crisis,
Africa has to wake up. The lying giant needs to wake up to roar again to claim
its space at the international platform. The environmental crisis that is
affecting the globe has to be viewed from the localized altitude so as to see
the bigger panoramic picture of this ecological crisis. African families are
crawling on their knees due to colonial hangovers, political poor leadership,
terrorism, poverty, poor governance and so forth. The question is how can the
African perspective help us understands Pope Francis’s encyclical letter laudato
Si’ in the context of African families? The challenge that is first before us is
that in Africa the “common home” has a definition that is concretized by place,
region, nationality, culture, ideology and traditional believes. In this section
our focus will be more on what unites Africans than what divides them. Fact is
if the enemy attacks and finds the household in disorder, he will run over the
homestead but if he gets the homestead guarded and its members awakened, they
will be able to repel off the enemy. Truth is African families are wounded, and
disengaged from the global scene. Others in the global scene have turned African
continent into a dumping site for western waste, cheap market. Right now the
African continent is almost being auctioned by the invasion of china. How can
African families, Christians, churches come together to face these invading
enemies who are raping Africa off her dignity and morals due to technological
advancements? Oborji in his discourse builds clearly on this when delves into
the problems which he basis it on cultural and political undertones. He argues
that add religious sentiments to them, and there you will witness out blown
phenomenon which are simply meant to serve the above goals.This according to
Oborji categories it as some of the exaggerated ethnicity if these factors are
not well addressed, they will continue to frustrate the on-going work of
evangelization and the church formation on the continent, because this is the
real cancer that is eating into ecclesial and civil communities. In Africa when
we talk about family, it’s goes beyond the western understanding of family.
There are many modern changes in the definition of family that the traditional
understanding seems discarded. In this part of the thesis, we want to focus on
African meaning of extended family that incorporates all as a clan. Most
Africans put a lot of emphasis on the brotherhood where there is an amplified
sense of family. According to Oborji he stresses that if we have a sense of
development in Africa, the language should be that of deepening the
relationships among Africans of different ethnic groups living in the same
community and nation and between them a people of other religions in the same
society of relationship and pluralistic society. The African families have to
get their places in the “common home” that Pope Francis is building on. We need
to think internationally but also act locally within this common home. African
families can get their roles and responsibilities in the common home, but not as
spectators or passive fellows, but activity persons in moving the ecological
agenda and finding solutions of these ecological crises. These big families in
Africa ought to forge the way forwards, not only to wait to be given handouts
but being protagonists of transformation. African families need to come up with
local bred solutions to their challenges. Ecology seems not be something on the
priority list because of what Oborji calls laziness. African families are
becoming a burden to themselves, unless they get back to the root of Ubuntu
(African ethics), Ujamaa (oneness) and Umanna,(extended family system) Undungu
(brotherhood), concepts that real define who Africans are in on a global stage.
Oborji’s concept of family is that of which each person is born within an
extended family. One has to have a sense of belong. He argues that no one falls
from a tree and finds himself automatically in some realities, he quotes
Cardinal Arinze on what an extended family is and what it is composed of:
African are at home both in the nuclear family and in the extended family. The
sense of family belongingness is rather strong. Many African languages have the
same word for brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews and nieces, the same word for
grandfathers and uncles, and sometimes even the same name for fathers and
masters. The sense of family belongingness pervades all these scales on the
genealogical ladder. We all live in the community and this has to help us to
build a spirit of working together towards a united front with collaborative
global outlook. All this is towards protecting and safeguarding the “common
Home” which Pope Francis proposes in the encyclical letter. With the African
family model of family as Church, we should be in good position of understanding
Laudato Si’ not like any other document but as a call to conversion and
reawakening from our long slumber to care of this common home. As Oborji reminds
us, that we are sons and daughters of the soil entrusted to carry the torch
mantle that has to lead us towards environmental care and protection. This
re-awaking has to get us to re-educating ourselves and our people. It’s through
re-educating ourselves in new ideals that we can rightly redefine and rebrand
our theology in understanding an African concept of family in her resilience in
the contemporary changing cosmos. This pedagogy should be based on
self-awareness and search for new paradigm shifts of identity amidst the
plurality of ideas and religions in this big “common home” Oborji thus states:
The stress should be on togetherness, communion, respect for traditions and
unquestionable acceptance of what the ancestors have practiced, sectioned and
established as the way things are done for maintaining the relationships. In
this context environmental and ecological relatedness and co-existence. Nobody
should exploit the other or engage in communal strife to endanger the common
world amidst the tribal conflicts and civil wars, for they are alien to the
practice in traditional African communities and cultures.
Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-79682822028069531172020-08-27T12:23:00.001+03:002020-08-27T12:23:55.374+03:00EACH MARRIED COUPLE IS LIKE A GARDEN<p> Eco-CONNECT'20 </p><p><br /></p><p>EACH MARRIED COUPLE IS LIKE A GARDEN: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE</p><p><br /></p><p>By J.B. Nyamunga</p><p>The Bible begins with the garden planted by God in the Eden (Cf. Gen.2:8), a garden city, the heavenly Jerusalem. River, a tree of life with twelve kinds of fruit, each fruit each month and leaves of the tree are for healing of nations (Rev. 22:2). This throws one to a wide search outside there and the best place to begin from is that of the book of Song of Songs, which we have come to commonly call the book of Solomon, where Rabbi Akiva describes as “Holy of Holies”.</p><p>The garden that flows with water and flowering trees. (Gen. 2-3) and in the book of Revelation it has an invitation of a bride to come…The Spirit and the bride say, Come, let the hearers say, “Come”. Let he who thirst come forward and the one who wants it receive the gift of life of the life-giving water (Rev.22:17).</p><p>The lover and the beloved are completely in corporeal world (corpus), while in the Song of Songs we read “How beautiful you are, my friend, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves! (Song 1:15-16).</p><p>The interesting part of this text can also raise a pertinent question…why does the couple meet in the garden? It’s the Song of Songs that provides a scenario for holding ourselves to that garden, that garden of reflection… Awake, north wind! Come, south, blow upon my garden that its perfumes may spread abroad. Let my lover come to his garden and eat its fruits of choicest yield… I have come to my garden my sister, my bride I gather my myrrh with my spices, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat friends, drink! Drink deeply, lovers! (Song 4:16-5:1).</p><p>Pope Francis in his encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ on the care of the common home (2015) which we are encouraged to read atheist a page each day. Just in that same line we also get the apostolic exhortation of Amoris Laetitia: The Joys of Love in the Family (2016). This garden is entrusted to man by God, for care (Cf. Gen. 2:8). Jean-Pierre states this by driving us into the Hebrew understanding of garden when he states that The Hebrew gan is a “fence” (the root ganan means “to enclose, to protect). In this garden (Gen. 2:9) man and woman discover themselves, but that brings in a big trial and challenge on man and women. The matrix of “where are you? </p><p>This question often disturbs many, the answer is often responded to why do you ask? Say what you want to say? Kwani nini (Swahili for (what is it, what has happened). We are being called to make a journey through the Bible, and the best way to get our bearing is through Isaiah…As the earth brings forth its shoots, and the garden makes its seeds spring up, so will the LORD GOD make justice spring up, and praise before all the nations. (Isaiah 61:11).</p><p>For Israel shall be like watered garden, like spring of water, whose waters never fail. The prophets as we know them did their missioning in the deserted places, there is where you listen attentively, no noise, only the whistle blowing sound that tickles your ears. Hosea the prophet of love brings in olive tree of the fragrance (marashi) like that of Lebanon. This God can still bestow his beauty out of sorry that each of our story, regardless of their repeated wounds.</p><p>The Song of Songs projects us to have the teleos, sharp vision to that of a typical scholar of scripture who would sit on something and gets refreshingly lost in that thought. Its one vision that no one can get it except he to whom that vision is revealed to make that journey.</p><p> Jean-Pierre quotes Robert Alter in his essay, the Art of Biblical Poetry, as unique strategy in the metaphorical inventiveness as that which has a confusing tendency of its borders. He still brings in the reflection of another author, Lewis Carroll’s novel “The characters pass” through the looking glass, and finding themselves in the world of metaphor, a completely wide horizontal hope with new leitmotifs.</p><p>One gets lost into the sweetness but there is a limit to it, he can’t hit the roof of sweetness, it’s sweet to his taste. (Song 2:3). It’s not enough to say I love you, but behave accordingly and this is a call to each one in his or her capacity. You should be able to eat with great calmness not as a thief ready for a chase after. It’s about a place for everything and everything in its place.</p><p> In love you don’t compare the palm tree to something else, the beauty of the feel is to climb it and know how it feels. As they say, a palm tree grows under difficulty. Don’t be too lose to be climbed, make it difficult and hard nut to crack, of course if you were not raised in the palm tree zone, this may be difficult to comprehend. You are invited to come in and eat the fruit (Song 4:15-16).</p><p> It’s about the chase coming to the celebration after a catch, its beautiful id you are the one who catches her, she becomes part of you internationally, not externally…my lover has come down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed I the gardens and to gather lilies (Song 2:3), you seal it to be yours (Song 4:12), fence of fence. Intimacy is not a public show, it’s a world of two, one feeling and each is lost in the other.</p><p>A metaphor is so lifting that you can’t exclude yourself from what Song of Song says. Rob Aben and Saskia de Wit put it, “a room with no ceiling. A place you say what you feel not what you think, its exotic in nature. As one gate closes, the other opened to allow the personal mystery and openness of being in relation.</p><p>This is a place of wonder and requires all the attention of lovers…let us go early to the vineyards, and see if the vines are in bloom, if the buds have opened, if the pomegranates have blossomed, there I will give you my love… (Song 7:13). This shows that we are able to drive ourselves to the sexual nature of flowers, between the pistil and stamen.</p><p>The irresistible gratuitousness of the buds reflects the bond of their love. As you stay together, everything matures according to that plan of God, you feel at home, you are yourself, not hidden mystery (Song 8:6-7).</p><p>Jean-Pierre quotes philosopher Harrison as one person who always liked to say…”the growth gardens are places that show down time, the growth rates are slow, the ripening of the fruit, the growth of trees, thus the garden supports with its long duration, promises and oaths by which the lovers live.</p><p>Rumi says “love is a tree whose branches reach eternity and whose roots grow in eternity and therefore the trunk is nowhere to be found. </p><p>John 20 is a typical scenario “Now in the place where he was crucified, there was in a garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been placed. There then they laid Jesus” (John 19:4-42) she is weeping looking for her lover (V13)…tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away (V15), very powerful gesture of deep passion for lover, for love has no fear, jealousy, etc., this is it. (Cf. Song Chapter 3)…</p><p>An encounter in the enchased garden, a graveyard is not an open place for everything to enter in, its sacred place, a place of encounter, a modern desert, a garden of forgetfulness. Hence a good grave yard needs many trees planted there, preserve one and handover to next generation, a change of generations, events, where human person rediscovers the self.</p><p>A garden, a place of smells, I sit on the bench and get lost in the smells. We create this garden (kitchen, medical, botanical vertical, urban herbal), where we can get lost in nature, in silence and mediation.</p><p>Planting a garden also means offering believers a living parable of God’s faithfulness in his plan of salvation. Between the garden of the origins and that of the resurrection while waiting for gardens-city that of the heavenly Jerusalem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Between the man and the woman, the garden is the holy of holies of meeting the parable of miraculous beginning and faithful growths of secret intimacy and communion with creation and with the creator. This mystery is great… (Eph 5:32). Equally great is mystery between the couple and the garden.</p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-75770351409213243832020-08-12T20:42:00.002+03:002020-08-12T20:42:22.365+03:00CONTEMPLATION AND IT'S TWISTS... <p> CONTEMPLATION AND WHAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND OUT OF IT</p><p>By. Don. J.B. Nyamunga</p><p><br /></p><p>Contemplation for many may be a recitation of formulated prayers, mysteries of the Rosary and common traditional prayer patterns instead of the awareness of God’s presence at its deepest value. Most of us have been trained to pray, instead of being trained in prayer. Many find themselves in phenomenal amounts of formulas which have become aid to prayer, which have become ends in themselves. It eventually turns into a product-oriented method.</p><p>Being trained in prayer has to lead to contemplation. We have to realize that contemplation is not for few people set apart but it’s a call open to everyone to delve into contemplation. This is something beyond prayer but someone, God. Contemplatives are people whose consciousness of God permeates their entire lives. Their awareness of God’s presence magnetizes them and directs them beyond everything else, beyond all other values. They are aware that God creates them, sustains them and challenges them. As a result all other agendas, values fall away. Of course it doesn’t mean that contemplatives don’t find values in other things, e.g. in career, money or achievement, but these things do not become their great value. The awareness of God becomes their greatest value, living steeped in God, surrounded by God, of being directed by God, of being in the presence of God, of learning to see life through the eyes of God, of being aware of God’s love, action and challenge. </p><p>The desert fathers and mothers felt that contemplation can be accomplished through labor (work). These works could be basket weaving for example, which was often mentioned, for the contemplation was not idleness but who is better for the contemplative life if not a person who is working, but not totally caught up in things he or she is working with. With this approach work or being busy can become a contemplative act, can be an occasion for fostering the awareness of God’s presence Giving yourself a chance to see yourself as you are, a chance to relate your own story to the Jesus story, being renewed and revived by that presence. But you remember that all these you have to make time for it. Once you make it a practice in life, there is a way it overflows even into moments that are consciously are spent in reading, working through problems, organizing, administering. </p><p>The interesting thing is that one can’t live contemplative life without discipline. This will include regular lectio, or spiritual reading, to undergird it and to challenge the way one lives. There should be time for work, time for family and community, time for Christian community, time for private scripture reading and reflection. Out of this will come a whole new rhythm of life, a whole new way of seeing the relative importance of various parts of one’s life, it provides the discipline, the structure, to help one to make the awareness of the presence of God as the greatest value in life. A married woman for example who works out of her home may not do her lectio, spiritual reading, with a book. Instead, she might get the spiritual nourishment provided by lectio through listening a tape while commuting to work or working around the house. This will mean cutting out listening to hard rock or watching “soap operas” But becoming a contemplative does involve discipline as well as desire.</p><p>Work shouldn’t be an impediment to contemplation, we all have to work. In the rule of St. Benedict there is a marvelous chapter in the rule that says in effect, when you have to get the harvest in, you have to get the harvest in, so pray in the fields. You don’t have to have the harvest in the rain because you have to get back home a certain time to pray, to contemplate. The harvest is what needs to be attended to now. Do it. This is your contemplation. A women living in the suburb can do the same with her good works. This presence of God in one’s life and the world. It wouldn’t be a burden, it won’t be an exercise. It is. This awareness of God’s presence that will always be the filter through which one has to think and act and pray. This presence will always stand between one and those around him or her and what they are doing.</p><p>© Don J.B Nyamunga’20</p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-67386375491120280262020-08-10T15:27:00.002+03:002020-08-10T15:27:13.822+03:00SEX AS A SACRAMENT <p><br /></p><p>SEX AS A SACRAMENT</p><p>By. J.B Nyamunga</p><p>The most important task of the church is to emphasize the sacramental character of sex. As a symbol of spiritual reality, sexuality takes on the sacred character. A spiritual gift emerges through this physical act.</p><p>This concept is probably an intuitive conclusion rising out of the essentially sacramental character of life. In a more modern times sexuality has been divorced form the whole man and delegated or derogated, to the biological and psychological dimension.</p><p>Heretical and pagan religious movements have often observed the sacredness of sex. Unfortunately it has not been considered as the divine-human encounter of Biblical sexuality, but has been made explicitly in religious activities. </p><p>In the First letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, Paul urges his readers to “Glorify God in your body.” They would be well aware of sexual orgies at the nearby temple of Aphrodite, where pagan Corinthians visited temple prostitutes in the name of worship.</p><p>By way of contrast to this blasphemous violation of God’s gift, Paul encouraged the Christians to see their sexuality as sacramental, a means of glorifying God.</p><p>This reminds us of the essential awfulness of pornographic literature which makes the sacred profane. It tempts one to consider his sexuality as an end in itself and to express it in a way that will deny its inherent spiritual character. Reacting by denying sexuality, as many Christians seem to have done, only makes a difficult situation worse.</p><p>Denial of sexuality is in effect to accept the secular view of sex. It is to consider it base, fleshly and in opposition to the spiritual life.</p><p>Unbelievers hold a similar view of the biological essence of sex while denying God. Christian’s have tended to regard the privacy of the sexual act as the means of hiding from view of stigma of his expression of lust, in sort of vain hope of being secluded from God and neighbor. However, the privacy of conjugal act is not in order to conceal one’s participation in an earthy, demeaning act, but rather to respect its holiness. Just as significant worship is essentially private, so is the exercise of this divine gift to be cloistered communion.</p><p>In a guarded way, we would say that there is a significant parallel with the entering of the high priest into the holy of holies on the day of Atonement. His act was neither sinful nor loathsome, but rather a high and holy response to God’s instructions. It was kept from the public eye because of its sacramental character.</p><p>Sexuality is a unique function whereby the Christian may grow in grace and in the knowledge of the lord. Its nature as a sacrament ought to be taught early and forthrightly in the context of Christian education. We should be convinced that this would strengthen the church and support a proper psychosexual development of Christian youth.</p><p><br /></p><p>© J. B. Nyamunga’20</p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-16590320887907067242020-08-07T11:24:00.006+03:002020-08-07T11:24:53.839+03:00ADULT PSYCHOSEXUALITY<p>ADULT PSYCHOSEXUALITY</p><p>The most important attitude of the adult is a positive attitude toward his or her sexuality. As an adult how have you been brought up to view sexuality, do you believe in yourself about what you inform yourself to be or what you have been schooled into as far as your human sexuality is concerned. There are some of us through the years have been taught that sexuality is innately evil. The really spiritual person is for the celibate, the one who abstains from marriage, and sexual intercourse. If not evil, at least it is earthy and the sort of thing one does in the dark corner apart from the judging eyes of God and neighbor. </p><p>Such an attitude misses the important point of sexuality being the gift of God. The Word of God revealed by the Holy Spirit through the prophets and apostles, explicitly refers to the wonderful potential of it. Responsible sexuality holds the key to great human joy and possibilities for ultimate human growth in spiritual insight and personal fulfilment.</p><p>Sexual compatibility involves an understanding of the sexual differences in psychosexuality. Males for example attain the height of sexual potency at about eighteen years of age while female mature in potential of sexual activity in the late twenties or early thirties. The man is easily stimulated to sexual readiness, whereas his mate may need preparation of a romantic aura for satisfactory sexual experience. </p><p>To keep married love exciting and romantic is a most rewarding task. Many couples begin to take each other for granted and develop habits of sexual scheduling and conformity which obscure the ever new delights of the sexual secrets of the marriage partner. </p><p>Marriage is not a reason to stop having dates, or wooing the beloved, or continuing the courtship. It’s through perennial practices such as these that conjugal bliss and mutual love will remain fresh and flowering. An attitude of openness and freedom in sexual play with one’s spouse, as depicted in the Songs of Solomon, will maintain the enthusiastic and exciting encounter of first love and will reinforce the mysterious enchantment of wedded happiness.</p><p>On the contrary, much of the difficulty in early marital adjustment relates to the guilt and anxiety of premarital sexual experimenting. This is compounded by the furtiveness and uncomfortable surroundings that usually accompany experiences of illicit sexual activity. That one needs premarital sexual experience in order to become an adequate marriage partner is a scientific nonsense and dangerous psychologically. </p><p>One of the maturing of marital experiences is the opportunity to discover together the mysteries and joys of heterosexuality. In the light of fullness and freedom of Biblically oriented sexuality, this can be a most stabilizing factors for marriage. </p><p>We live in the world where there are many who are frustrated in their lack of opportunity for sexual commitment. However, satisfactory sublimation in meaningful and enjoyable alternate tasks is always a present possibility. In any case, this is the providential ordination for the Christian whose full sexual experience is pending the provision of a marriage partner. </p><p>In conclusion, we can say that sexuality is one of the great and difficult tasks of the Christian, as well as one of the most fulfilling personal experiences. </p><p>We live in a culture in which, for the Christian, psychosexual development is a daily dialectic between the demand for personal purity and the tensions of sexual desire, stimulated by pornographic pressures at every hand. However, with confidence we can remember that our providential sexuality is God’s appointment and that He has provided a means of fulfillment of our sexual personalities in the mystery of marriage. </p><p>The tensions and tests of patiently preparing for this mystery will, perhaps, be alleviated if we remind ourselves that we should work out our own sexuality with fear and trembling, knowing that it is God working within us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don J.B NYAMUNGA</p>Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-45519922512365567322020-07-17T22:52:00.001+03:002020-07-17T23:08:39.738+03:00EFFECTIVE PASTORAL PLANNING AMIDST COVID-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We are all figuring out the pastoral
planning mechanisms and we are fully engaged in “let’s do it next week”, “We
shall be well with this plan and that” mentality, everyone seems intelligent,
hands on and all ideas are being floated around. This may look a naïve approach
to the challenge, very flawed process that may do more harm than good. Being
realistic and pragmatic in planning is what is very essential. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Developing a way
to think about the key areas of pastoral concern and one of them being the Covid-19
pandemic that is spreading like bush fire allover. That now is our pastoral
focus at the moment, our working progress. This will come with its
characteristics of effectiveness on the ground and the way the pastor/s understand
what he is dealing with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">All in all this planning has to create a deep faith
community and not a government program executed by the Church. Those giving
those guidelines seem to be non-Christians or simply people who look as if they
belong to no church. The burning question we need to ask ourselves amidst the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">haywireness</i> of Covid-19 is what is it
that we do not know so far? Or what is it that we do not want to know?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Pastoral planning has
to result in a better faith community with deep cultivation of the ideals of
Jesus. If we don’t center Christ in our planning will be creating pitfalls in
our pastoral planning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Planning even a simple task can be confusing if people
are involved. With more people and communication channels be sure that there
will also arise misunderstandings. The very thought of engaging in the process
that produces an effective outcome is something overwhelming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We are to get
involved in simple process that brings in right results, just enough and not
also too much process hence beginning with a little too much than too lean.
That means to loosen up than tightening up once the project of any sort starts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This will call for those concerned to be clear, easy in understanding and easy
in communicating so that others but above in clear and workable enough utility
to be effective from the starting point, flexible enough and all will depend on
the type of leadership. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Planning is essential today
because everything around us is changing, the world too is changing at the rate
which no one knows what we shall wake up to. Heraclitus a sixth<sup> </sup>Century
philosopher stated once that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you can’t
put your foot into the same stream twice</i>”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In the contemporary society, the
scope and pace of change requires a constant planning. Problems do not stay the
same, let alone the solutions. What we have to know is that the spirit of Jesus
works in us that is true for that will remains constant and unchanging. But the
humans change, physical environment changes, and some changes will call for
signs of the times to be interpreted rightly. This means not keeping things as
they were, or returning back to the factory settings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">There will have to be
clear-headed engagement with the way things are. What is that we did yesterday
which may not work for us today, we have to invent new approaches to new
challenges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Planning is about invention and implementation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Effective planning is
based on agreement about the present. Most people think planning deals with the
future. We are here and we want to be there. We spend most of our time trying
to agree on where we want to be and assuming that everyone knows where we are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">After all we are all here, in the same place. Right? Wrong. The key factor is
for all of us to agree on where we are right now, we need to know where we
ought to pay attention to out of the mass stimuli that bombard us constantly.
We construct our reality based on past experiences of what works and what doesn’t. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Unfortunately most of the time we are living in the past, thinking its present,
and trying to plan for the future. This is where information about the present
realities is so important, it forces us to look into the way things are, and
not how they were or how we would like them to be, that means giving up our
preconceived notions of how things are and how they came to be. Learning is the
only sure path of effective planning.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As we learn we discover
that none of us is as smart as all of us. This comes out clearly in any team or
group, there are some people with more power and authority, based on position,
personal characteristics and skills, intelligence, insight, commitment,
honesty, creativity and other giftedness. Effective planning has to involve
everyone, what we have come to call “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">level
the play field</i>” not for aggressive and assertive but also not necessarily
more intelligent and creative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We should not use our positions in that way.
People will always differ to someone who is in an authority or someone who is
in a position of authority. All participants should feel they are legitimate
actors in the process, leaders must be careful to express their views or
provide information in a way that doesn’t stifle the engagement of others.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In effective planning,
what we also need to consider is the element of quality that is very important.
Quality is what counts, in short-term numerical goals can prove deadly to an
organization and church institute. Quality drives everything. Just don’t say we
are going to increase by this amount, but what will you do differently that a
reasonable person would think could result in such a change. No matter what
goals we set for ourselves, if we continue to do things the same way, we will continue
to get the same results. If it’s about directive planning that deals with where
we are and where we want to be, and what needs to be done so as to be there,
assuming that we know where we are and where we want to be, we can control our
movement towards the desired state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Focusing on what we want and implementing
action steps that look back from the present tends to confirm this view. Sometimes
it may call dealing with probables of realties what technically in the pastoral
language we call probabilistic where nobody controls what is happening to that
effect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Probablistic projections are those insights into the futures with best
information available and also other factors which may influence the outcomes.
This can be compared to weather focus maps. Knowing where you are, and where
you would like to go, tolerating ambiguity is flexible in the means and ends, values
diversity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Vatican II has taught
us how to read the signs of the times on how to sustain faith communities of
disciples who follow Jesus in whatever conditions in the world presented. Today
the Church institution requires the astute use of the best human wisdom on how
to create and sustain concerted action toward organizational goals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We are a Church
because God has called us to announce the Reign of God in the world and
especially to those whom the world cares little. We are also called to use our
human talent and understanding on behalf of this community seeking its life in
the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Pastoral planning joyfully
confronts change in the conditions under which we are called to discipleship. Talents
and giftedness of the assembly are discovered, called forth, respected, and
celebrated. Not only from top down, command-and-control planning does not work
anymore, it is fundamentally at odds with an understanding of the Church as the
people of God. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Although we can count
many things in pastoral planning, we cannot measure qualitatively the most
important thing: The vibrancy of a faith community. The heart of pastoral
planning is a focus on qualitative issues without ignoring the quantitative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The notion of probablistic planning must be an essential and ongoing part of
the life of a vibrant faith community. Pastoral planning is not done with a
five-year plan but it is an ongoing cyclical process.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Don J. B Nyamunga, ssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623867804113966459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3477268253881768545.post-26243778940080273012020-07-07T11:23:00.002+03:002020-07-07T11:23:40.178+03:00TEAMING UP FOR TOMORROW <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
TEAMING UP FOR TOMMOROW<br />
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We are all daily working towards a structure that loosens rigidity that could make people be themselves and creative at their best.<br />
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This will enable those who are still lying dormant on their talents that seem to be going to waste. We now have to be invited to work beyond our disciplines, outside our cultures above and below our ranks. Working in a TEAM.<br />
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Being organized as a team. Today being a lone ranger is impossible unless otherwise. Today you can’t invent something alone, you need several people, form different disciplines, working together at the same time.<br />
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This is what calls for a paradigm shift, information based model, in the technical language what we can call Connectography- the lining up lights in the a straight line that produces bright light and connections of city to city that manifests a brilliant beautiful panorama.<br />
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This calls for team spirit as in a football, tennis or any sport that carries with it a deep district if what is intended for can reach its objective. The members have to act as responsible decision-maker, where all members have to see themselves as executives.<br />
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All members participate in a creative action team right across departmental lines. There is no need for one to be the president or chairman, unless he is dedicated to serving the needs of others and to providing resources to the people who are getting the job done. What used to work no longer works anymore.<br />
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Management is becoming a lot flatter. Now there is a real need to build teams, lead teams and motivate people horizontally, and this in most cases has been without titles, without financial remuneration or incentives. Its team performance that is key. They cooperate, they work in teams, and they produce group projects.<br />
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Working more cooperatively than they ever have before, Team effort, social skills, to encourage those in the group who aren’t doing so well. They should not be made to feel less than worthy because they slip up or they do not have all the answers. We need to feel welcomed to real world of team work.<br />
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Effective team work doesn’t happen by magic. It takes a cooperative group of players, and it takes a talented coach. You can’t simply throw a few individuals together, even a highly talented individuals and expect them to perform brilliantly.<br />
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When it comes to playing as a unit, it’s important to forget about the specialties and limelight as in being a superstar, but to create the image of the teamwork. There are some few coaching skills in the field of sports that can help us get the idea of what we are trying to approach in this context of Team work for tomorrow.<br />
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a) Create a shared sense of purpose<br />
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People working together can accomplish tremendous things: a unified vision, ideas, creativity and intelligence sparks a sense of oneness. A strong leader is always needed to focus all that energy established, to focus all that energy that helps the team members how their accomplishments will impact upon the outside world.<br />
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We ought to provide an environment, the corporate objective and encouragement so that people as individuals and as teams of individuals can feel that they are world-class, that they are better than any other team, and that there’s recognition and feedback which acknowledges that.<br />
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b) Make the goals team goals<br />
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Unless the whole team wins, no one wins, this is how the world sports do what they do to win. Individual records are fine for history books. What matters is more of performance of the entire team. Once people get involved in this way and they feed off each other, it’s contagious.<br />
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c) Treat people like the individuals they are<br />
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When individuals come together as a team, their individuality doesn’t suddenly evaporate. They still have different personalities. They still have different skills, different fears, different hopes, we need to recognize those differences, appreciate them, and use them to the advantage of the team.<br />
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d) Make each member responsible for the team product<br />
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People need to feel their contributions are important. Otherwise they will devote less than complete attention to the tasks at hand. The project belongs to the team. We should let as many decisions as possible bubble up from the group, invite participation, don’t dictate solutions, don’t insist that things be done a certain way.<br />
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e) Share the glory, accept the blame<br />
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When the team does well and recognized, it’s the leader’s responsibility to spread the benefits around. A public pat on the back, a bonus from the top, whatever form the recognition takes, everyone should get a generous share of it, and we all congratulate each other.<br />
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People appreciate being included in the praise, it encourages them to give their greatest efforts and makes them want to works, again with the leader who guides them to this success. In the end the leader gets a big share of the credit anyway.<br />
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When it comes to criticism be smart leader and take exactly the opposite approach. Don’t point the finger to others, never raise public complaints about the weak link in the chain. Step forward and accept whatever complaints arrive. Then speak privately with the team members about how the results might be improved, and turn their attention to doing better next time.<br />
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f) Take every opportunity to build confidence on the team<br />
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Believe firmly in the team and share that belief with every member. Who doesn’t want to feel as if they are part of the wonderful group? When they get complaint from others, they can begin to see the progress they are making and changes in themselves.<br />
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g) Be involved, stay involved<br />
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The stronger leader has to be involved and stay involved, visualize the leader as a commander of the busy battalion. The leader doesn’t need to be there, you have the experience and you got to listen. If you get enough experience, if you work hard enough, if you are smart enough, if you don’t do your then you get a good feel for all these activities going up and down and for all the other things around you. You cant always draw up a precise battle plan. Get initiative feeling for it, you have to have antennae out, at the back of your head.<br />
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h) Be mentor<br />
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It’s the leader’s job to develop the talents and strengthen the people on the team. Team members ought to deal with their assignment at hand, taking genuine responsibility for the lives and careers of the members of the team. How would you like to improve? Where do you want your career to go from here? What kind of new responsibilities would you like to be taking on?<br />
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It’s your job as a leader to ask all these questions and help the team and whatever knowledge and experience you possess to help the members achieve those goals.<br />
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The final test of the leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The greatest reward of a leader can achieve the greatest legacy a leader can leave, is the group talented, self-confident, and cooperative people, who are themselves readily to lead. Team players are leaders of tomorrow.<br />
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