Missionaries of Africa, Jinja

Jean Marie Bamutaze and Gabriel Ouma Participants' quotes from the Trauma Awareness and Resilience workshop: 1.  Not all human beings are human. (M. Longoli) 
 2. Trauma is unforgiveness and love. (M. Matuku) 
 3. Do not allow your trauma worries bring you down. (C.I. Imbusi) 
 4.  Sometimes when I am interested in things, I become bored of the very things. (B. Jean 
Marie) 
 5.  Trauma is dangerous if not processed from our bodies. (S. Onsongo) 
 6.  We are here to pass the examination of life. (Sr T. Namataka) 
 7.  Do not be guilty of your trauma but be responsible. (B. Jean Marie) 
 8.  I am the one to control trauma but not trauma to control me. (P. Muema) 
 9.  It’s only when we realize our trauma that we can come out of them. (P. Wachira) 
 10. We human beings are the cause of our problems and therefore our responsibility to rule them out. (G. Ouma)
 11. Lamenting about trauma is no...

It was the 122nd death anniversary of our Founder Cardinal Charles  Lavigerie. Various groups of people were invited including all t he  religious congregations attending the Philosophical Center of Jinja  (PCJ). The family relatives of our confreres and students living  around Jinja were also invited. The Eucharistic celebration was  presided by Fr. Gerard Chabanon, our Ugandan Sector Superior. The  celebration commenced with procession. Fr. Gerard explained more about  our Founder and the charism of the Missionaries of Africa.  The  congregation gathered in the hall after mass. We listened the speech  of our rector and the chairman of the students. Lavigerie’s invitation  “few people, too few people have the ultimate vocation: humanity” was  highlighted. The different teams of Lavigerie formation house (Mapera,  Kiwanuka, Tobi Kizza, and Amans) prepared different kinds of drama for  the guest on our fou...

When one is born, there is no awareness if one has a talent and skill until the advance in age. A talent and skill is something in born and it needs to be nurtured in a practical and authentic manner. Some talents are inborn and others are out of practice which applies the same to a skill. The art of talents and skills need to be practiced and developed out of compassion and passion. It is supposed to be done in a discipline and a consistence manner, in order to glow and shine. We can attend better schools, have high scores in academics, and have all sorts of successful options in life, but without our skills and talents, we cannot make a good doctor, priest, nurse, teacher, student, architecture, pilot, just to mention but a few. Our talents and skills interconnect us with real life experience and make us to serve our people in a good and productive way. It makes us to explore more, advance and enhance our daily lives to earn a living and bond our relationship to the peopl...

With the acquaintance of Palmer Parker’s quote that, we are deeply an interconnected species, who need to embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to the ecosphere, members of Lavigerie House embrace the simple premise of being part of a whole and seeing the whole in part of themselves.  This inspiration lies behind the creation of a splendid environment. The flowers that blossom with grace in front of the chapel, the flowers of new respire in front the apartments and the verdant foliage of green grass and green trees disseminate the compound with peace, love and sustenance of its beauty. The beauty personified in our compound serves to offer impressive meditations, and thus a journey to the beautiful. The aptitude of caring for, taming or interrelating finely with our ecosystem is expressible in: We do gardening; where we plant vegetables for our consumption. We also plant fruits such as pawpaws, oranges and guavas. We plant and...