Thursday 6 October 2016

Our Birthday Celebrations

Simon Peter during his birthday celebration 

To celebrate a Birthday is ‘to be born anew’. It is the only time to acknowledge God’s providence for the prime gift to mankind, which is, LIFE. Without life, it obviously means that man is a nobody. Basing on the experience in Lavigerie House, Jinja, Birthday celebrations bring lots of memories through one is treated during his celebration. Actions like singing  birthday songs, exchanging gifts, pouring water, calling one a ‘baby’ and above all, celebrating at team levels.  When members gather and pour water on the ‘baby’ accompanied with birthday songs, it feels like one is indeed re-born. One is also identified with the baptism that he underwent. And also, the baptism that every catholic undergoes as a right of initiation to the Catholic Church.

It is for this matter that we as members of Lavigerie family, Jinja, have always found great meaning in celebrating each others’ birthday. This keeps us to continue connected to one another as a way of being actively present, in LOVE.


SIMON PETER KAHINDA