Desire to Know

A Motivating Factor for Discipleship

Rabbi! Where do you Live? Come and see, he replied; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him the rest of the day…. Jn 1:39.

MASS COMMUNICATION

By Mr. Deogratias Mushi

general introduction

I. Cfr. THE AFRICAN SYNOD OF 1994

The following were the 8 points for discussion in this synod:

1. Evangelization
2. Inculturation
3. Dialogue
4. Justice, Peace and Solidarity
5. Means of Social Communication
6. Marriage and Family
7. Small Christian Communities
8. Catechesis of the Laity

In any Communication, the following are the essential pillars:

1. Truthfulness
2. Balance
3. Authenticity

ZIJUE SALA WAKATI WA KUVAA MAVAZI YA IBADA

SALA ZA MWANAIBADA ANAPOVALIA KWA IBADA

(Sala zinazoendana na Mavazi ya Ibada ya Padre anapokuwa anajiandaa kuadhimisha Ibada ya Misa Takatifu.)

Amictus:

Ee Bwana univishe kofia ya chuma ya wokovu ili nipigane dhidi ya mashambulio ya mwovu.

Place this helmet of salvation upon my head so as to enable me to overcome the assaults of the devil.

Alba:

Ee Bwana unioshe mimi na usafishe roho yangu, Nipate kuoshwa katika damu ya mwanakondoo, Na hivyo nipate kufurahia furaha ya milele.

Cleanse me Lord and purify my heart so that being made white in the blood of the lamb, I may have the fluition of everlasting joy.

Cingulum:

Ee Bwana nifunge mimi na mshipi wa usafi na uzime viunoni mwangu tamaa mbaya na hivyo niwe ndani yangu na tunu za kujitawala na usafi wa moyo.

Guard me Lord with this guard of purity and extinguish from my loins every desire of lust that the virtues of countenance and chastity may ever abide in me.

Stola:

 Ee Bwana unijalie Stola ya umilele ambayo ilipotezwa kwa dhambi ya wazazi wetu wa kwanza, japo sistahili kulijongea fumbo lako takatifu, unistahilishe kupokea raha ya milele.

Restore to me this Stole of immortality upon me, which I lost by the fall of our first parents, and although I am unworthy as I approach this Sacred Mystery I may be found worthy of everlasting joy.

Casula:

 Ee Bwana uliyesema “Nira yangu ni laini na mzigo wangu ni mwepesi” nijalie nguvu ya kuuchukua, niweze kupata neema zako.

Lord you said that your yolk is easy and your burden is light; enable me to bear it as to obtain thy favour.

From St Andrew’s Missal

My Classmates at Segerea Senior Seminary

There are about 20 seminarians currently present registered at Segerea seminary to persue Theological studies in Second year 2010/2011. Let's have a short view on their snap:

Man’s Last End

The above title contains two important terms;

-         ‘Man’ who is an animal (living ‘body’) endowed with ‘intellect’ and ‘will.’

-         ‘End’ (Last End) which implies the purpose for which an act is done.

Every agent acts for an end. Man usually acts using his faculties of intellect and will in view of a certain end; a certain ‘good.’ No man really acts to seek evil in itself. Even if he acts that evil is usually sweet-coated by a certain good/pleasure which makes it seem good and desirable while in reality it is not. Hence, we conclude that; every agent, in this case man, acts for a good. In fact the end of everything is a good.

The good for which man acts may be:

-         Relative good

-         Absolute good

Relative good implies the happiness (sometimes pleasure) which man seeks in created beings. Being finite, these creatures cannot provide man with the total satisfaction of happiness he needs. Hence, he will tend to seek it in various creatures and things and never to get it. Most people seek it in material possessions, in lustful pleasure and the like but they never get satisfied for they are just merely relative and temporal good.

Absolute good is only found in God, that is, true and eternal happiness which man seeks is only found in God. Contemplation of God in the beatific vision provides man with the happiness he would not have found in creatures. In God man finds perfection of his happiness for He (God) is the absolute good.

Therefore, we can conclude that, the end which man seeks is God, for He is the absolute good and the happiness upon which man gets satisfied in the beatific vision by contemplating God.