Newsletter from Africa – December 2013
December, 2013 Dear Friends of Africa. As I look back over the past 12 months it is with heartfelt gratitude for your loyal support and your faith in our […]
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Newsletter from Africa – October 2013
Dear Friends of Africa, Mazinde Juu, Tanzania, Oct.2013 On November 21st 1960 I arrived at my mission post in what was then known as Tanganyika Territory. I was transferred […]
Newsletter from Africa – Sept 2013
DEAR FRIENDS OF AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 2013 The following story has a beginning some twenty or more years ago and is still unfolding. It is the story of the odyssey […]
Newsletter from Africa – March 2013
March 2013 Dear Friends of Africa, In the early 1980s I was recruited by the Ministry of Education […]
Newsletter from Africa – 2013 January
Dear Friends of Africa, January 15, 2013 Here in Magamba, in the Usambara Mountains of Tanga region, we had hopes of starting a secondary school for African girls, but […]
Newsletter from Africa – June 2012
JUNE 2012 Dear Friends of Tanzania, When I recollect the events of this day what comes to my mind are the words of the […]
Christmas 2014 – Abbot Joel
Abbey 2014 Christmas – Mass during the day – ABC Isaiah 57:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-6 John 1:1-18 A word is a very powerful thing! Think of it. When someone gives a […]
5th Sunday Ordinary Time – A – Abbot Joel
Abbey 2014 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – A Isaiah 58:7–10 1 Corinthians 2:1–5 Matthew 5:13–16 Today Jesus is all about discipleship. He is clarifying and also calling us to […]
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – A – Abbot Joel
Abbey 2014 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – A Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 I Corinthians 1:1-3 John 1:29-34 The color of the season may be green. It may be Ordinary Time […]
25th Sunday Ord Time-C – Abbot Joel
Abbey 22 September 2013 25th Ordinary Sunday – C Amos 8:4-7 I Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 Prophets were not people to be messed with. And Amos was one of those […]