Magazine

Permanent URI for this collectionhttp://192.168.4.170:4000/handle/20.500.12342/155

Welcome to Magazine collection

Browse

Filters

1993 - 19982

Settings

Has files: YesSubject: search.filters.subject.Inculturation

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Tangaza Vision(Fed Up With Inculturation Talk!)
    (Tangaza University College, 1993) Tangaza University College
    We have been friends=that is what I most think about as I clean my office, answer phone calls, greet visitors these days dropping by. We have been friends .... May 18th 1988 Fr. Luciano Odorico, SDB, the second rector of Tangaza showed me the rector's office, room A 10, at Tangaza. He handed me the keys to the door and said, "I haven't really used it yet, you see it has only a desk in it" --it was a bare room otherwise. Then he showed me the Constitu­tions of Tangaza, the section on the rector, article 4.55: "it shall be the duty of the rector to maintain unity and harmony of purpose ... " "This is the4 most important thing you have to do," Fr. Odorico V said. "Unity and harmony of purpose"--"He is to see to it that all departments are operated efficiently and according to proper academic and educational standards [art. 4.l]." So the Constitutions say. They don't say much how you are supposed to do all that--"maintain unity and harmony of pur­pose" ... make sure "all departments are operated efficiently and according to proper standards." How? How? I was eight months in Africa, eight months a missionary. What did I know. So I thought, maybe start by making friends with those who know something. Try to make everyone feel at home, so they can share what they have, share who they are. Maybe something good will happen ... And so I tried ... we tried. To make a friend, start by being a friend--not judging or criticizing, but visiting, asking, listening. And so our friendship grew. So we grew to­ gether. We did not always agree. It is easy for strangers to agree--the agreeableness of con­ventional politeness and conformity is easier for mere acquaintances and fellow travellers than it is for friends. Social amenity is easy when you share nothing of any importance. For friends it is another matter indeed. It would be easier to agree if we all shared a common culture, a common tongue; com­mon customs. But how· could we ever agree if we cannot even begin to understand one another.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Tangaza Vision ( The light has Dawn)
    (Tangaza University College, 1998-05) Tangaza University College
    One of life's most crucial question which has often been asked is: where do we find inner peace in the midst of a troubled and troubling world? Every time and everywhere we see wars, violence of all kinds and abandonment. Whenever we see pictures of refugee children on TV or even hear stories of their tragic loss of parents, We were moved with tears. Abandonment could as well be experienced in our countries in various ways and forms. Many a time in our daily bulletin either in the front, center or back page, local newscasters have never fail to tell of new born children being abandoned on doorsteps or elsewhere, their parents being nowhere to be found. Moreover, in the lives of many ordinary people, evidence is there of people being abandoned emotionally by families or friends. All of these lacks inner peace. Preoccupied with the thoughts and worries about these traumatic experiences we are drowned in the big ocean of our thoughts. Such that, they blinds us to the immediate graces that fill our day, to the God who is always revealing himself in all creation. We therefore, lack that wisdom that should enable us see God where he may be found. Today, the only answer we have is Christ who in his own humanity has tasted abandonment or hurt. He is like us in all things, but sin. Yet in the faces of these, his response was not to despair. Instead, he showed and expressed his wonderful belief and self surrender in the Father's loving kindness. But he did not trust in vain, because he was raised to glory. Thus, becoming the consoler of all who have been abandoned in one way or the other. He is the "way" for the poor of this age who might feel neglected or isolated. By ~ sending his Holy Spirit, he also invite us to reach through the darkness and grasp the life giving hand of God. Hence, as a small sign of gratitude to God for his gift of the Holy Spirit to us, Tangaza Vision Magazine have decided in this issue to focus more on the aspect of moral and spiritual issues with special attention to the Ordinary situation in our world of today. Being the magazine of a theological, social, educational and Spiritual formation, that should not be neglected. We are called to be bearer and witness to God''s Spirit in the world around us. We are not to be timid Christians or theologians nor are we to saunter in this great mystery of life. If we can in our daily prayerful relationship with God, grow confident of his everlasting presence and love for us, then, our gratefulness for his gifts of Holy Spirit becomes manifest. Finally, our Special thanks to all our writers and to all who in one way or the other has contributed to the success of our past and present publications. We wish all, a happy and graceful year of the Holy Spirit.