Missionaries of Africa, Jinja

What do you intend to do in the next 5 years, 5 months, 5 days, 5 hours or 5 minutes be it a life career or vocation, a one day task of even some kind of leisure activity? It’s easy provided one has the intellectual, physical and skill capacity to achieve anything one desires. From life experience, it requires something a little more than that so as to finally reach a goal for your life’s fulfillment. It calls for the  Spirit of Intention  to achieve fulfillment which is beyond contentment. Many people today do things that help them achieve what they desire and live contentment than fulfillment. In fulfillment, one discovers constant growth both spiritual and intellectual which are often kept away by contentment. So ask yourelf, is what am doing today in the here and now bringing fulfillment or its easy for me to say, “Am not complaining therefore it’s okay”. The choice is yours. I would like to draw this in the line of my 3 years of formation with the Missionaries o...

Pastoral work is one of the pillars of our formation program for the first cycle. This year, we have thirty eight students who reach out on Saturdays and Sundays to seventeen different areas of apostolate. I as a formator believe that, we and the students in formation need to be nourished and challenged by divine and human realities, which are outside our formation house; our comfort zone and security. Together, we reflect, share and pray about situations in which students find themselves. Examples of these situations are: prison ministry, youth ministry, outstation ministry, serving people with disabilities, hospital ministry or being for the first time involved in interreligious dialogue and ecumenism among others. The formation to be effective and healthy needs constant inputs from real life situations. It helps the students to grow spiritually, emotionally, rationally and socially in their personalities. The specific experiences of life test the motivation, the a...