A New Facebook Page For Divine Mercy Shrine In Kiabakari

Welcome to the brand-new Facebook page of the Divine Mercy Shrine in Kiabakari. Click here.

Living In An Artificial Internet Bubble Tailored Just For You

Diocesan Synod Of Musoma On Facebook

An official Facebook page for Diocesan Synod of Musoma about to begin on Pentecost Sunday has just been launched, being a complimentary of the official page of the Synod which can be accessed here. Feel free to like the page (click here). Your prayers and participation in the synodal works are highly appreciated. May Lord's Will be done through the proceedings of the Synod. Good work of deacon William Bahitwa, working as webmaster of the pages.

Divine Mercy Sunday Preparations

Less than three weeks left till the annual pilgrimage to the Diocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kiabakari. From Friday, April 5th, till Sunday, April 7th, the pilgrims from near and far together with the faithful from Kiabakari will celebrate their living faith and hope in Divine Mercy, praying, meditating, reflecting, experiencing God's Infinite Mercy and Love and learning how to live it and share with their neighbors.

I have begun preparations for this important event in the life of the Shrine long time ago. Today I ironed out the program for the three day long celebrations. Working on spiritual talks, services, liturgy and so forth. Logistics and catering comes in as well, as we continue with meetings to make sure everything is ready for the influx of hundreds of pilgrims, some of them coming from Kenya, Uganda, some from distant destinations in Tanzania.

I have created also an event on Facebook for those of you who are no strangers to this social network. Find the details of the event, relevant pictures and videos here.

But I will be more happy if you could come in person to Kiabakari to join us in the celebration of God's Goodness, Love and Mercy embracing us and transforming in a very special and powerful manner during those three holy days on top of Divine Mercy Hill in Kiabakari. Welcome!

Reactivation

As the period of total focus on two important events is over - the fundraising dinner in Dar es Salaam and Faith Awakening parochial retreat - I am reactivating my Facebook account to reconnect with friends and enable people to follow Kiabakari again and the development of the place. I am not sure if I am going to be as active as I was before, this I cannot promise, but at least the profile remains open and active now. God bless us all this wonderful Fifth Sunday of Lent as we eye the upcoming Palm Sunday and the Holy Week with consecutive Novena to Divine Mercy and Divine Mercy Sunday itself.

Twitter

For my Facebook friends who want to stay in touch with me this time when I am off Facebook, please, follow me at www.twitter.com/WojciechAK simply by clicking the Twitter button in the right sidebar of this blog.

Welcome!

Off Facebook

Just to let you know who interact with me on Facebook that I decided to deactivate my account on Facebook during Lent season. This is time to go to spiritual desert and focus on the challenges of the season. See you later at Easter.

Silver Jubilee of Priesthood

Yesterday I had a unique opportunity to see and feel how it may look like next year when I will be celebrating my silver jubilee of priestly ordination. My sisters, Denise and Thomas, frater William and the chairman of the parish lay council, together with myself - drove to Kigera-Etuma village, some 20 km beyond Musoma, in Nyegina parish, to the home village of Father Godfried Maruru, a priest of Diocese of Musoma and my friend, who celebrated yesterday his silver jubilee of priesthood...

Mixed Feelings

As much as I like the idea of creating the Facebook page (here) and YouTube channel (here) for the soon-to-be-beatified Holy Father John Paul II, applauding the concept of making this remarkable holy man and the genuine teaching of the Magisterium of the Church closer to the world, especially the world of non-believers or followers of other than Catholicism creeds, yet the disappointment at the contents of both sites make me bit worried that people browsing the internet and coming across or just visiting the pages for the first time, may be a bit disenchanted with what's little on offer in them... Hopefully, the responsible for both pages will make sure soon they are attractive, full of good stuff, attracting interest and audience. This is what I wish, checking both pages as I write these words...

Under The Tanzanian Sun

This is just a quick post for those of my noble readers who have no access to my Facebook profile and photo albums there. If you wish to see the beauty of Tanzania, its people, landscapes, wildlife and flora, please visit this link. For more pictures, please visit my photo albums gallery here. I hope you will enjoy it.

Fundacja Kiabakari

If you are on Facebook, please add Fundacja Kiabakari to the list of your friends. Together we can make a difference not only in the virtual world, but also and mainly by joining our hearts and hands in supporting noble causes - both present and projected - of our Foundation in Kiabakari. Thank you in advance for your friendship and commitment!

Technology Leap

Where are we heading? I wonder...

When I arrived first to Tanzania in January 1991, things in technology and communication field were galaxies apart from what we have now at our disposal...

The only means of communication back then was a simple humble letter which I wrote to my parents, drove 40 kilometers to Musoma Post Office, posted it and waited for three weeks to get home to them. Then another three weeks of patient wait for their reply to get back to me, driving to Musoma to check the box in the Post Office from time to time...aaah, a genuine school of patience!

Oh, yeah, I forgot about a phone. In order for 'ET phone home' thing, I had to inform the operator that I wish to call home. Then waited till he/she succeded in connection. It could take a few minutes up to a day or two in bad cases...

Now, at this very moment, I'm in my bed typing this post on my iPhone and - once I'm done - will send it via email and it will show on my blog as a post! Technology leap of cosmic proportions in a span of twenty years!

The other day a friend of mine asked a question on Facebook: 'Who else is using a laptop while sitting in a  toilet?' Give me a break! Yet it was a quite sincere inquiry...And....surprise, surprise! He got a lot   acknowledgements! Looks like we are many these days not only reading books, newspapers or magazines while in a chamber...things have become more severe - texting, calling, internet browsing, working on spreadsheets, reports etc is a quite common feature now...

Hmmm, think about those muscle cramps sitting for long time doing some serious work on a laptop forgetting you are long done down there...yikes!

Ok, at least I won't have any muscle cramps composing this message. Set horizontally and comfortably in bed, watching some funny YouTube video on the phone in the meantime, replying to emails, sending texts
all over the world and listening to some soothing music I downloaded on iTunes...

Imagine, what you can do these days with this mobile phone thingy! Online banking, sending and receiving money, paying for utilities, gaming, working on office applications, keeping up with your tight schedule using clever notes/to-dos/calendar applications, checking weather forecast wherever you want to, chatting, taking photos and videos and posting them online, you name it!

I need to pinch myself from time to time to remind myself that I am still in the same place where I was writing those simple, humble letters and waited for six weeks to get a reply...just two mere decades ago...

Yet, sadly, those days, when I really felt so far far away from home are gone forever...and with them that feeling of adventure and survival mode kind of a missionary life...


Ok, where is this 'send' button? Ah, yeah, right here...

Catch you later! Over and out!