The 25-25 Duo

We have a back-to-back celebration this year, two important events taking place in 2009. The first one belongs to Fr. James Mailady, the second to SVD Kenya-Tanzania province. One can call it ‘The 25-25 Duo’, for both refer to the maturing of God’s gift that was received a quarter of a century ago. For Fr. [...]

Fr. James’ 25th Sacerdotal Anniversary

He is one of our former provincial superiors. After his term of serving the Society as head of Ken-Tan Province from 2002 to 2005, he retreated into a village and assumed the life of a missionary country boy. His name is Fr. James Mailady and he is marking a milestone in his life this year.
 
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SVD confreres attend Chrism Mass in Nairobi

Twelve was the number of confreres who showed up at the Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi for the Chrism Mass last Holy Thursday. The event’s main celebrant was no less than the Cardinal himself, Archbishop John Njue.
 
For the 12 confreres, it was some sort of mini-gathering, and a happy one as they renewed their priesthood [...]

Food donations: From Kayole to Dol Dol

Rain has become the byword in Kenya nowadays, not for its ubiquitous presence, but the lack of it. In many places in the country, crops are failing as drought creeps in. And with rivers drying up, thousands of people have to walk a few kilometres more to fetch water. It’s one big tragic reality that [...]

Mission Secretaries’ Workshop ‘09 in Angola

The AFRAM mission secretaries are up with enthusiasm after  their just-concluded workshop in Angola. Fr. William Owire, Ken-Tan’s own mission secretrary, reports that they have “resolved in the meeting to exchange information among the mission secretaries and opened g-mail address for all the mission offices, so that, if one is not in the office, information will always remain there.”
Hmmmnn… [...]

Celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph Freinademetz with a song

In our province, the feast of St. Joseph Freinademetz was marked this year on several occasions. First, there was the inauguration of Divine Word High School (DWHS). Then, Ruai parish, which is under the patronage of St. Joseph Freinademetz, chose the Sunday following Jan. 29 (hence, Feb 1, 2009) to celebrate their Patron Saint’s feast.  Between [...]

Blessing of DWHS on the Feast of St. Joseph Freinademetz, SVD

 

On January 29, 2009, the Feast of Saint Joseph Freinademetz, SVD, the Ken-Tan province marked the day with the blessing and the inauguration of the Divine Word High School in Katani. Bishop Martin Kivuva of Machakos Diocese graced the occasion and was the main celebrant of the mass. Confreres were around, so too were some [...]

Provincial Assembly & Launching of Silver Jubilee Year

On the 15th of the January 2009, on the occasion of the Feast of our Founder St Arnold Janssen, confreres in Kenya and from Tanzania trooped to CFC-Langata for the provincial assembly. Besides those who are out of the country at the moment, and also Bro. Lawrence Kibaara who was travelling to Brazil, everyone else [...]

Message from Fr. Thaddeus (Brazil)

This has been a delicious food for my soul this morning. After a 38-hr journey from the Amazon down to Sao Paulo, I am really happy about the KTz blog. Nice to read from our guys abroad. I was also amazed to see a photo of the SVDs who attended my brother’s funeral. It was [...]

Message from Fr. Francis (Ecuador)

Hi confreres, greetings from Ecuador! Thanks for keeping me informed about the happenings in the KENTAN PROV.
 
I am very fine and now I am also planning to travel to Kenya next month for my holidays. I will be leaving Ecuador on 12Feb, and will be in Kenya my motherland on 13 at 0500hrs. Hope [...]