Tangaza Update(A Great Success)
Date
2015-10
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
T
he Conference on Consecrated Life, organized by
the School of Theology of TUC and the Commission
for the Clergy and Religious of the Kenya Conference of
Catholic Bishops in collaboration with the Association
of Sisterhoods of Kenya and the Religious Superiors’
Conference of Kenya was a great success. The quality
of the presentations was excellent and everybody was
very happy. The conference, which was graced by the
Vatican-based Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes
of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life,
João Cardinal Bráz de Aviz, attracted well over 2000
participants from different religious congregations and
societies of apostolic life all over Kenya and beyond.
The three-day conference was organized
in response to the call of the Congregation for Institutes
of
Consecrated Life
and
Societies of
Apostolic
Life for schools of higher learning staffed
mainly by religious and affiliated to a pontifical institute
to hold colloquia on
issues pertaining to
religious
life
during
the
Year
of
Consecrated
Life.
The events of the conference were in two parts.
The first part which took place at Pope Paul VI Learning
Resource Centre of the Catholic University of Eastern
Africa (CUEA) from 23rd to 25th Sept comprised on
inputs from selected speakers and discussions around
the theme “Consecrated Life in Africa Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow.”
The
topics for presentation by
selected
church
leaders, followed
by
forums for discussion,
included Living
the
Evangelical Counsels
in
October 2015
East Africa; Charismatic Maturity: A Persistent Challenge
for
Consecrated Life
in
Africa;
Juridical
Considerations
in the Dismissal of Religious in the African
Context;
Doing
Formation in East Africa:
Contexts,
Struggles,
Possibilities;
Mutuae
Relationes:
On the
Relationship
between
Bishops and Religious; Religious
Life in the Vernacular:
Challenge, Revelation;
and
The
Prophetic Character of
the Consecrated Life.
The second part of the conference was a colourful
prayer
service
in
commemoration
of
persons
considered
“Saints” and
“Martyrs” among the consecrated
in
the Church of Kenya, followed by the concluding
Eucharistic celebration which took place at
Tangaza University College grounds and was presided
over by his Eminence Cardinal Bráz de Aviz assisted
by his Eminence Berhaneyesus Cardinal Souraphel,
Archbishop of Addis Ababa, Chairman of AMECEA
and Chancellor of CUEA, his Excellency Archbishop
Charles Daniel Balvo, Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya
and South Sudan and his Lordship Bishop Anthony
Ireri Mukobo, Chairman Commission for Clergy
and Religious of the Kenya Commission of Catholic
Bishops together with members of the Tangaza Gov-
erning Council and administration as concelebrants.
We hope to give a complete summary of the
proceedings of the conference in the next issue of the
Tangaza Update.
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Success, Leadership, Back to School, Radicalization, Youth