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Fr. Paul Kunkumbira
The global village has been hard hit by the invisible but ruthless enemy, Corona virus. The standards of living across the world have been pushed to a great change and adjustment. Sadly, many lives of our beloved family and friends have been lost. The virus has left behind a distressed and broken population throughout the village, which is afraid to hold hands, help others out and enjoy the gift of life.
The brokenness and distress that the world has been forced to embrace has not spared the community of priests and the church at large. Our joy in bringing the Blessed Sacrament to the sick, the aged and the prisoners is eliminated forthwith. The love that we experience in interacting with the mass congregants in this anti-social world is gone. The family we cherish for having been invited for meals in our extended Christian homes is sadly quenched. Instead we have been forced to sit back at home, lonely and extremely careful.
The global village has been hard hit by the invisible but ruthless enemy, Corona virus. The standards of living across the world have been pushed to a great change and adjustment. Sadly, many lives of our beloved family and friends have been lost. The virus has left behind a distressed and broken population throughout the village, which is afraid to hold hands, help others out and enjoy the gift of life.
The brokenness and distress that the world has been forced to embrace has not spared the community of priests and the church at large. Our joy in bringing the Blessed Sacrament to the sick, the aged and the prisoners is eliminated forthwith. The love that we experience in interacting with the mass congregants in this anti-social world is gone. The family we cherish for having been invited for meals in our extended Christian homes is sadly quenched. Instead we have been forced to sit back at home, lonely and extremely careful.
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Fr. Gerard Ndemino
I retired from active ministry in April 2015. Late in 2016 I felt a strong urge / impulse to continue with ministry in a different way. I joined the Legion of Mary as a Spiritual Director. I direct three groups. One Presidium is for adults who meet on Mondays in the Parish. A second is for university students who meet on Sundays in the university buildings. A third is for primary school kids who meet on Wednesdays on the school premises.
With the Presidium for adults we are in the process of founding a new Presidium in a nearby secondary school. With the university presidium we have founded one in a nearby Lutheran Hospital for medical students.
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Fr. John Peter Olum
God, the creator of the universe, sustains creation in love!
GOD IS OMNIPOTENT (ALL POWERFUL); OMNIPRESENT (PRESENT EVERYWHERE) and OMNISCIENT (ALL KNOWING). There is no power above him, everything is subject to him.
The Corona Virus has come into the world and is killing many and scaring everybody like a roaring lion. The presence of the Corona Virus is well known to most people living around the globe. Everyone takes the greatest care to avoid attracting the virus by washing their hands, putting on a face mask, maintaining social distance, etc. This virus has certainly changed the life style of the world.
God, the creator of the universe, sustains creation in love!
GOD IS OMNIPOTENT (ALL POWERFUL); OMNIPRESENT (PRESENT EVERYWHERE) and OMNISCIENT (ALL KNOWING). There is no power above him, everything is subject to him.
The Corona Virus has come into the world and is killing many and scaring everybody like a roaring lion. The presence of the Corona Virus is well known to most people living around the globe. Everyone takes the greatest care to avoid attracting the virus by washing their hands, putting on a face mask, maintaining social distance, etc. This virus has certainly changed the life style of the world.
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Fr. Manfred Badum
Dear brothers,
the Corona-Pandemic is bringing so much infection to people all over the world, and thousands are dying. We are praying for the dead, that they will reach the eternal kingdom of God. At the same time we know, that millions of people who are not infected are suffering very badly. Workers are losing their jobs, business people have no income and don’t know if their company will survive, families and relatives cannot get together, loneliness is growing, even sick persons are dying because the hospitals are reserved for Corona-patients (I am aware of this in Germany), and there was no liturgy for many weeks. The consequences of the pandemic are much larger than the number of infected persons.
My reflection is about what the background of this pandemic may be. Did this virus come from animals? Was it made by human beings? Is there a plan in the background? What will God teach us with this event?
Dear brothers,
the Corona-Pandemic is bringing so much infection to people all over the world, and thousands are dying. We are praying for the dead, that they will reach the eternal kingdom of God. At the same time we know, that millions of people who are not infected are suffering very badly. Workers are losing their jobs, business people have no income and don’t know if their company will survive, families and relatives cannot get together, loneliness is growing, even sick persons are dying because the hospitals are reserved for Corona-patients (I am aware of this in Germany), and there was no liturgy for many weeks. The consequences of the pandemic are much larger than the number of infected persons.
My reflection is about what the background of this pandemic may be. Did this virus come from animals? Was it made by human beings? Is there a plan in the background? What will God teach us with this event?
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– FR. DOUG KLEIN
Read Acts 1: 1 – 11; Matthew 28: 16 – 20.
In our Opus Spiritus Sancti we often talk about living out our Easter-Pentecost spirituality. However, between those two celebrations comes the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord. For many years I found it easy to gloss over this feast and quickly move on. Yes, it is important, but I did not see the depth of what God truly wanted to communicate to us through this aspect of who Jesus is to us. I saw it simply as a way to communicate that the Risen Lord was no longer “walking” among us in a physical sense clearly visible to those fortunate disciples to whom he revealed himself and commissioned to go forth and spread the Good News. Jesus, as was appropriate, had “ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.”
Read Acts 1: 1 – 11; Matthew 28: 16 – 20.
In our Opus Spiritus Sancti we often talk about living out our Easter-Pentecost spirituality. However, between those two celebrations comes the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord. For many years I found it easy to gloss over this feast and quickly move on. Yes, it is important, but I did not see the depth of what God truly wanted to communicate to us through this aspect of who Jesus is to us. I saw it simply as a way to communicate that the Risen Lord was no longer “walking” among us in a physical sense clearly visible to those fortunate disciples to whom he revealed himself and commissioned to go forth and spread the Good News. Jesus, as was appropriate, had “ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.”