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L’expérience de guerre et de troubles peut amener les sentiments forts comme la colère, la tristesse, le deuil et la frayeur. En plus de poser des difficultés pour voir la plénitude de la vie que Jésus est venu nous apporter, ces sentiments peuvent amener au stress et au traumatisme. Mais cela n’arrive pas à tout…
How can we be effective people who are helping others? Do we have the qualities or potentials to help others? And who are we to counsel others? It is with these 3 fundamental questions that Ms Iganasia Mbata, a psychologist, counselor and lecturer at the University of Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania introduced the participants of ICOF 2017…
Under the general theme “Graceful Transition” Fr James Kulwa Shimbala (SMA) took us through several topics: ADDICTION AWARENESS PREVENTION; SIGNATURE STRENGTHS; AND GRIEF, LOSS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT. This helped us to once more become more aware of our strengths and weaknesses and that as human beings we carry a treasure in earthen vessels. Given that…
On Friday 14th July 2O17, as we continue to soar together, Fr. James Shimbala (SMA) lead us into fruitful discussion on “challenges of faith in Africa”. The day was introduced by identifying and discussing major challenges of the faith of today in our current situations. Fear of witchcraft, tribalism/racism and xenophobia, materialism, power-strife, poverty to…
From the 24th to 25th July 2017, we were blessed with a rare opportunity of receiving a short but rich and empowering session on financial management from an experienced man, Mr Philip Mbati, who works for Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA). Through his able facilitation, we discovered the complexity of the financial world and explored accessible…
On Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4 respectively, we spent time with the Encyclical Letter of the Holy Father Francis, “Laudato Sί”, subtitled “On the care for our common Home”. Fr. Gerard M. Nnamunga CSSP led us through this very rich document, focusing on the reality of “Ecocide”, which is so evident in…
Using the document “Evangeli Gaudium” as the main focus of the content for the inputs in our retreat, the retreat director, Fr Gerard, accompanied us through 7 days of spiritual journey to rediscover and renew our appreciation of the Joy of the Gospel that we are called to bring to the world as it was…
The next input, after THEORY U, of the ICOF “Life Renewal Program 2017” was on “SCRIPTURE AND MISSION”. In Fr. Rosario, sma, expertise style, the participants were taken through the Scriptures and were shown how NATURE GIVES HUMANITY ITS IDENTITY and for WHAT REASONS WE DO MISSION. Nature gives us our identity, defines our sense…
When successful leaders manage to operate with heightened level of energy and a sure sense of future possibility, it is because they develop a capacity to come nearer to that source, where they experience the future as if it were “wanting to be born”. This experience described by Otto Schemer as “presencing” allows them to…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2004″ img_size=”full” el_class=”img-responsive”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga, born in Medellín (Colombia) in 1938. Entered the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) in 1956. After obtaining his Master in Philosophy and Classical Letters he was sent as a missionary to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1964 for three years after which he resumed his studies…
