Issenye

Yesterday my sisters and I drove to Issenye parish, some 70 kilometers from Kiabakari, on the outskirts of Serengeti National Park. The parish covers a huge area including a sizable chunk of Serengeti itself, as the pastors attends to spiritual need of tourists and staff of a number of hotels and lodges in Serengeti, where he travels regularly to render sacramental and liturgical service. The parish celebrated the Golden Jubilee yesterday, fifty years since she was established back in July 1961 by Maryknoll missioner, Rev. Fr. John Casey, MM.

In Memoriam

Eight years have passed today since my first and only parish priest in the missions - Rev. Father Karol Szlachta, passed away suddenly, hit by a stroke on  a sunny Sunday afternoon, on the day the Holy Mother Church celebrated the Solemnity of Christ the King...

The Cross

Eighteen years ago, on July 5th, 1992, three weeks before the official blessing of Kiabakari mission headquarters (July 28, 1992 by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Apostolic Nuncio in Tanzania that time), we had a special day of the Cross.