Bits of the Gospel

DAY THREE Saturday, July 12, 2014 The Youth Congress has gained enough momentum. The young minds are turning more creative and the interest in what is going on around them is now almost palpable. Sr. Hellen, Sr. Cesalia, and Mr. Jackson aka Mpiganaji together with Fr Kirimo and Seminarian Stanley Kobia are also aware of the need to give the young people more and more to satisfy their hunger and thirst for the Word. MORNING ROUTINE: JOGGING, CLEANING, PRAYERS, BREAKFAST... The group leaders with the guidance of the TYCS patron Deo Gratias Kazole of The Great Lakes Secondary School are keen to ensure the morning session of jogging and cleaning go smoothly. It takes longer than expected but when the youth come for Morning Lauds in the Hall, they are ready to recuperate lost time by shortening their breaks. And true to their words, the events of the day go on without interruptions following the schedule. Father and Mother, then children as a Gift! The first topic of the day is the...

The clouds up there are moving, restlessly! Taking a direction known only to them, and the Creator! What a challenge, Oh my people, to be able to foretell the future! We watch him grow, and become a boy. He walks, he cries, he laughs, he sleeps. Never loosing his smile. While all the time he bears in his body, a reason big enough to make him perpetually out of mood! The fate of the poor children, born with handicap. And those others, innocently bearing the scurge of HIV-AIDS! When you look at them grow like other children, with dreams of a bright future. Now you need faith to confirm their dreams! Well, sadly true, sorrow and joy co-exists! And I don't know how, just as I don't know how, the clouds up there move!

A Requirement in the Daily Life of a Cottolengo Follower Introduction A debate concerning the relevance of religious life in the world today arises frequently. This kind of debate is very much found in the environment of secularism and opulence [riches]. In the circles of the poor and middle class, people do not question the validity of religious life: they embrace it, they laud it, they desire it, and actually they seek for it. One can easily see why. Religious life is synonymous with charity, selflessness, self-giving, and concern. I mean, it is synonymous to virtues. In fact, charity is defined in different ways but always retaining the sense of gratuitouness. “True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense,”Emanuel Swedenborg. “Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows,” Moliere. So, therefore, cottolengo followers cannot just look at charity as their distinguishing charact...