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AMECEA: A Church Not on Holiday: A Priest’s Reflection on Pastoral Care During COVID-19

Posted on April 20, 2020 by mbererere

Fr Emmanuel Chimombo, AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator With the current situation of COVID-19, various institutions including schools, Churches and other public places were closed. For a Catholic priest and parishioners, the most disturbing of all has probably been the call to cancel Church worship services. I recall one priest recently saying, “All Churches have now been closed more than thirt...
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AMECEA: Online Small Christian Communities, Sure Way to Give One Another Social-Spiritual Support During Unprecedented Times of Coronavirus

Posted on April 4, 2020April 20, 2020 by mbererere

By Andrew Kaufa smm Introduction What Pope Francis is doing following the cancellation of public masses and the Wednesday General Audiences in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus through physical contact continues to challenge our traditional ways of interacting and praying together: he is now using the Vatican’s media, i.e. the radio, television and YouTube, to remain connected with...
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Theological Accompaniment of the Laity in Africa – From the Perspective of Small Christian Communities (SCCs)

Posted on January 7, 2020 by mbererere

By Joseph G. Healey A Book Review of Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, (ed.), The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 2016 by Léo Lushombo in the March, 2018 issue of the important American theological journal Theological Studies has this very challenging statement: If the model or paradigm of the future is that of Small ...
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Summary of Small Reflection Groups During Tangaza Symposium in February, 2019

Posted on January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 by mbererere

Small Reflection Groups 3:10 p.m. to 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 Tangaza University College Nairobi, Kenya Selection of the 10 Topics/Themes There were 10 Topics/Themes for the Small Reflection Groups[1] during the Tuesday afternoon session of the symposium. This February, 2019 symposium built on the themes of the February, 2017 symposium. See Giuseppe Caramazza and Eleanor ...
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SCCs Course Outline for Theology for the Laity Certificate Program – 2020

Posted on January 7, 2020 by mbererere

SCCs Course Outline Theology for the Laity Certificate Program – 2020 Classroom 1: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hekima University College (Jesuit School of Theology) Nairobi, Kenya The Small Christian Community Pastoral, Ecclesial Model of Church in Africa Today Week One (Tuesday, 7 January, 2020): Self-introduction of participants. Introduction to Small Christian Communities (SCCs). Situating SC...
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Small Christian Communities as Promoters of Social Justice

Posted on January 7, 2020 by mbererere

By Joseph G. Healey, MM A Catholic lay woman in a Small Christian Community (referred to as SCC) in Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Nairobi Archdiocese, Kenya said: “In our traditional African family and society we women are second class. This is reinforced by patriarchal African customs. In our hierarchical, clerical Catholic Church we women feel at the bottom. But in our weekly SCCs as we...
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2019

Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by mbererere

Baptized and Sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World Dear Brothers and Sisters, For the month of October 2019, I have asked that the whole Church revive her missionary awareness and commitment as we commemorate the centenary of the Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud of Pope Benedict XV (30 November 1919). Its farsighted and prophetic vision of the apostolate has made me realize once ag...
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POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION -TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF GOD

Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by mbererere

CHRISTUS VIVIT OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF GOD 1. Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life. The very first words, then, that I would like to say to every young Christian are these: Christ is alive and he wants you to be alive! 2. He is in you, he ...
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 53rd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY

Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by mbererere

« “We are members one of another” (Eph 4,25). From social network communities to the human community » Dear Brothers and Sisters, Ever since the internet first became available, the Church has always sought to promote its use in the service of the encounter between persons, and of solidarity among all. With this Message I would like to invite you once again to reflect on the founda...
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Final Document of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment

Posted on January 12, 2019January 17, 2019 by mbererere

Content: INTRODUCTION PREAMBLE PART I “HE WALKED WITH THEM” Chapter 1 A Listening Church Chapter II Three crucial Elements Chapter III Identity and relations Chapter IV Being young Today PART II “THEIR EYES WERE OPENED” Chapter I The gift of Youth Chapter II The Mystery of Vocation Chapter III The mission to accompany Chapter IV The Art of Discernment PART III THEY SET OFF WITHOUT DEL...
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