Zero-Zero

Just a quick post on what has just happened. Shortly before 7pm, community superior of my sisters came to me asking for help in picking up two sisters coming to visit us from Shirati, some 120 kilometers from Kiabakari. They sent her a sms asking for pick up at Zero-Zero junction (zero-zero, because all distances in our area are counted starting from that junction) which is exactly between Musoma and Kiabakari, some 20 kilometers from here. This is a junction of Musoma-Mwanza highway which passes through Kiabakari and the highway going to the Kenyan border and beyond to Nairobi and Mombasa....

The Essence

Back to Tarime today for the thanksgiving Mass of the newly ordained priest, Fr. Alfred Kwene. This time at home. It is a custom in the Diocese of Musoma and elsewhere in the world for a newly ordained priest to say his first official public Mass at home parish, shortly after his ordination. While in Poland we customarily celebrate our first public Mass at home parish church on the Sunday following the ordination day, here in the Diocese of Musoma, newly ordained priest celebrates his first Mass literally at home!

Greatest Gift

I have just come back home from Tarime, one of the largest towns in our Mara Region, ‘capital city’ of Tarime district. Located just 16 kilometers from Tanzanian/Kenyan border along the main highway from Mombasa via Nairobi and further on to the junction of Musoma-Mwanza highway (Kiabakari is just 20 kilometers to the south of this junction on the same highway to Mwanza). From Kiabakari to Tarime is 87 kilometers and today it took me one and a half hours of moderate driving to Tarime and back home.