Tangaza Update(Merry Christmas)
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2015
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T
he past month has been extremely busy. Regarding
Tangaza’s
application
for
a university charter,
on 20 November 2015 we finally managed to submit
all of the remaining required documents to the Commission
for University Education.
We
were told that
the
Commission is already committed to
other tasks
until
Christmas,
but that they
hope
to get
back
to
us
early
next
year to begin scheduling inspections,
giving
us feedback
and so on.
So we are very grateful that
one
major step in the process is complete. Our
conversations
with Marist International University
College,
about
possible
modes of partnership, are
also
ongoing.
But
perhaps the most important event was one
we
hadn’t
initiated
ourselves,
namely,
Pope Francis’s
visit
to
Kenya during our
last week
of
classes. In order
that the Tangaza
family
could
be free to attend
the
public Mass on November 26, we closed the college
on
that day
and
shifted
the
Thursday
classes
to
the
following
Monday.
Tangaza
was
well represented
during
the three days. Fr.
Patrick Mwania, Dean of
the
School of Theology,
was one of the commentators
on NTV.
Many of our priest-lecturers concelebrated,
and
many religious
connected with
Tangaza
were
at
the
St.
Mary’s
gathering, where
our
Fr.
Fe-
lix Phiri spoke as head of RSCK. Our choir sang at
the Mass and at the meeting with the youth in Kasarani. Our students volunteered, and were among the
few selected to serve near the main altar, because of
Tangaza’s good reputation. The college’s name was
mentioned several times, and the large candle-holder
we made and donated (shaped like the map of Kenya
and painted in the colours of the Kenyan flag)
featured prominently in Kasarani. We ran an advert
welcoming the pope in the Daily Nation. We even had
a stone blessed by Pope Francis which we hope to position
prominently,
with a plaque, somewhere within
the
compound.
All
in all,
it
was a graced moment
for
Tangaza
and
for Kenya. May
the blessings
of the
Pope’s
visit continue
to
enrich
us!
And
may you
all
have
a most blessed Christmas and happy New Year!
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Christmas, ERP/IMIS, TANSA