Walking with the Poor, Spring 2024
As the first hints of Spring are in the air, I am pleased to welcome you to the fourth edition of our Walking with the Poor newsletter. Although springtime brings new life and new energy, we live in difficult times, and I pray that we may have the fortitude and courage to meet the current challenges with faith in the love of God and the blessings of the Holy Spirit.
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- March 11, 2024Spiritans respond to latest flooding in Kenya ~ December 2023
The Spiritans have secured two emergency grants, each to the value of €15,000, from Misean Cara for support to pastoralist and farmer families in Kenya who have been affected by recent flood damage. The floods follow El Niño rains that began in early November and which have now affected a number of countries in east Africa.
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- December 10, 2023Welcome to Confrères on Studies:
Welcome to Abraham Akpen Jov (Nigeria NNE) and Maxwell Atuguba (Ghana), doing MA studies in International Peacebuilding, Security & Development Practice, and Crispin Mbumba Kawanga (DRC) doing English language studies. All three are resident in St Mary’s community.
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- December 4, 2023Orientation Course N° 5 for Incoming Pastoral Ministry Workers
Participating, along with a total of sixteen others, in this two-week course was a wonderful opportunity for me to learn and to share. It increased my motivation and satisfaction as a minister of God and has pushed me to serve. The course enabled me to accept the complexity of the Irish Church, integrating myself into this new reality so that my ministry in Ireland is the mission of God and not ‘the mission of oneself.’...
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