Missionaries of Africa, Jinja

In the morning of ADORATION,
 I began with MEDITATION,
 Ready for the CONVERSATION,
 To the Lord in PRESENTATION,
 In form of VENERATION,
 I sat for CONTEMPLATION. In ACTION,
I chant in JUBILATION,
 Jumping in HARMONIZATION,
I sang with MODERATION,
 As a way of ORIENTATION,
For the evening of NATURALIZATION,
 Not for the spirit of SPECIALIZATION,
 But the one of UNIFICATION,
 All in the name of FORMATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simplicious Wesonga Mugeni

This is the theme that we have Chosen as Mapeera team members, in correspondence to this week’s readings, especially to this Sunday’s readings. It is simply suggested as an object of our reflection for this week. It is meant to help us refresh our memories and bring our families to our consciousness. Families here, I mean, our families back at home (for this purpose let’s call them individual families), our family here; Lavigerie House, and definitely Our PCJ family. Lord, May your Joy and Peace reign in our families, now and always, Amen. Just to come into grips with what we would mean by family is that: it is a basic societal unit; it is a school of life, where each one of us finds a sense of identity and a sense of belonging. It is precisely where we find our nourishment. It assumes primacy of influence in each one of us. To say that one belongs to family is to implicitly assert that he/she is a relational being; we are profoundly persons in a relation...

Evaristo, Collins and Yago at Tobie Kizza burial's site (Ibanda Parish)                              As a saying goes that ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ, it indeed spoke to me. It was after I had taken a step to read about Bro. Tobie Kizza, who also happened to be the first Muganda brother of the society of the Missionaries of Africa not only that but also the Patron of Tobie Kizza Team here in our community Lavigerie. Being born from the pagan background in 1872 in Burigi, this did not hinder him from achieving and discerning his call to discipleship. The man, who ate, worked, loved and lived with the famous martyrs (our fathers in faith) in the year 1886. Inspired by their lives, and their willingness to die for Christ, this gave Tobie more zeal and increased his commitment to Christ (rooted in Christ, we venture with hope). Despite the hard ships under the rule of the king, Tobie did...

It's about a lived experience in apostolate at the central prison in Goma called Munzenze during my basic formation in 2014. Our apostolate was going always on Sunday; it was in the prison that we participate even in the mass. Our apostolate group consisted of Joseph CIRHAHONGERWA who is currently in Kimbondo, Germain KAYARI and Valère MUTOO with whom I am currently at La Ruzizi. Our experience is therefore not very current; it is more or less a year. In fact, I class the present experiment among those that impressed and helped me to advance and understand what I want to get involved: an apostolic life, of closeness to the people. Throughout our apostolate, the prisoners demonstrated the importance of our presence in their midst by their openness towards us: very often, they were asking us to pray for them and they shared their experiences in prison for they had put their confidence in us. It is by this fact that I became aware of the importance of intercessory prayer: this wa...