Bishop Mathias Ssekamanya, drops by for a visit !

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This past Monday, the Due Pini Communtiy was honored to welcome Most Rev. Mathias Ssekamanya, bishop of the diocese of Lugazi (Uganda).  This visit had no purpose other than getting to know one another.

In a couple of months, two priests from the Province of Africa, both Congolese, will be opening a community in the bishop's diocese and taking responsibility for a parish, in the village of Kyavakade.  These brothers have been living in the diocese for the last seven months in order to learn the local language in view of their future ministry. Supporting the new parish, which will be in Assumptionist hands, became the source of an appeal from the General Council that went out to all Assumptionist parishes worldwide. The newly erected diocese (barely 15 years old) is struggling financially to meet all of the pastoral challenges it is facing.  Given our presence in Kenya and Tanzania,  Uganda will become the third country in East Africa where our brothers are laboring as missionaries.

After dinner, for nearly an hour, Bishop Mathias spoke to a combined audience of Assumptionists and Oblates, who will also be establishing a community there, of his young diocese and addressed the issues he considers to be most urgent such as education, health, and the spiritual life of lay ministers.

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