tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030356781458042182025-01-02T11:59:33.392+01:00Fr Boniface OchiengGOD is GOOD (DIEU est BON)Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-35789268766047771532024-05-07T11:59:00.002+01:002024-05-07T11:59:28.694+01:00COME, FOLLOW ME: THE PATH OF LIFE
From the net I.
Introduction
This is a reflection or meditation
entitled: “Come follow me; the path of
life”. It is inspired by a biblical
text from the Gospel according to Saint
Matthew 4, 18-22.Here, it is a question of the call or vocation of the first 4
Apostles; Andrew, Simon, James and John.We have chosen this titleBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-67087706942786544302024-02-06T13:04:00.002+01:002024-02-06T13:05:05.626+01:00Ivory Coast Catholics on the right track, says the Bishops From the NetDespite the football festive
mood in Ivory Coast, the Archbishops and Bishops of Ivory Coast respected their
traditional plenary Assembly every January.
It was the 124th
Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Ivory Coast known as “Conférence
des Évêques Catholiques de Cote d’Ivoire”, CECC.
The plenary assembly of
the Ivorian prelates, representing 4 Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-54342213972015530282024-02-01T12:48:00.006+01:002024-02-09T11:38:28.428+01:00Consolata Missionaries in Ivory Coast towards the Fifth Conference From Consolata IvoireThe Consolata Missionaries in Ivory Coast had their Annual
Assembly from 22nd January until 29th January 2024 in San
Pedro.
This is an extraordinary encounter of these eleven Missionaries
from six different nationalities (Italy, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
and Argentina), working in three different dioceses across Ivory Coast (Odienne
diocese, San Pedro dioceseBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-81915174927627454562024-01-22T13:47:00.004+01:002024-01-22T13:51:11.154+01:00The Jubilee Year 2025 From the NetThe year 2025 is the Year of the Jubilee!
This is because it will be the year marking the first twenty
five years of the twenty first century.
Therefore, to prepare well for this forth coming year of
Jubilee, His Holiness Pope Francis has declared the year 2024 to be the Year of
Prayer.
The Jubilee Year 2025 is a “special gift of grace” characterized
by repentance and Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-17117304957812366482024-01-20T13:03:00.099+01:002024-01-22T11:41:57.935+01:00La CAN de l’Hospitalité: AKWABAFrom the netLa
grande compétition continentale africaine de football cette année 2024 se
déroule en Côte d’Ivoire, terre de l’hospitalité.Cette 34ème édition de la
Coupe d'Afrique des Nations (CAN) accueillie par les Ivoiriens est la deuxième,
la première, 14ème édition, était organisée en 1984. Elle est surnommée « La
CAN de l'Hospitalité ».En effet, c'est la nation
de l'hospitalité comme Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-39373300057482944032024-01-16T11:24:00.008+01:002024-01-16T11:39:44.041+01:00La CAN de l’Hospitalité: AKWABA From the netThe major African continental football
competition this year 2024 is in Côte
d’Ivoire, the land of hospitality.This
34th edition of Africa Cup of Nations (Coupe
d’Afrique des Nations, CAN) hosted by the Ivorians is the second one, first,
14th edition, was held in 1984. It is dubbed “La CAN de l’Hospitalité”.Indeed it is the nation of hospitality as inscribed in
its National Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-3835338189416214632024-01-09T15:25:00.002+01:002024-01-09T16:09:57.472+01:00Réponds-moi, Fiducia SupplicansFrom the netLe dix-huitième jour du douzième mois de l’année du Seigneur 2023 restera graver
dans le cœur des militants des relations homosexuelles du monde entier. C’est ce
jour-là qu’à travers le Dicastère de la Doctrine de la Foi, dans la déclaration
intitulée Fiducia Supplicans, sur la signification pastorale des bénédictions, le
Pape François a mis en évidence la possibilité de bénir Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-60432670457256408112023-12-23T23:12:00.004+01:002023-12-24T17:33:15.186+01:00Answer me, Fiducia SupplicansFrom the netThe eighteenth day of the twelfth month of the
year of the Lord 2023 will forever remain in the hearts of the same sex relationship
activists worldwide.
It is on this day that, through the Dicastery of
the Doctrine of the Faith, in the document named Fiducia Supplicans,
on the pastoral meaning of blessings, Pope Francis made clear the
possibility of blessing the same sex Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-32778774995522381582023-07-12T19:41:00.048+01:002023-07-12T20:06:14.533+01:00Thunderous slapI personally find this disturbing. That at this precarious period of our history, when every call, through cooperates even spiritual spheres, is to respond to the climate change through tree planting, a president of a republic advocates the cutting of trees with simple reason that “Miti inaoza kwa msitu na watu wanahangaika hawana mbao…” [Trees are rotting in the forest while people are Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-43002280176649195872022-07-09T13:09:00.002+01:002022-07-09T13:09:53.534+01:00Nouvelle Église en Côte d’Ivoire La communauté chrétienne de la paroisse de St Joseph Artisan de Grand Zattry dans le diocèse de San Pedro en Côte d’Ivoire n’oubliera jamais le quatrième jour du sixième mois de l’année deux mille vingt-deux.Ce jour a été marqué par une grande fête de la Consécration de leur nouvelle église paroissiale. Il était aussi le meme jour que quelques chrétiens de cette paroisse précisement 140 Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-66007367306645711342022-07-09T13:06:00.000+01:002022-07-09T13:06:05.017+01:00The New Parish church in Ivory Coast The Christian community of Grand Zattry Parish, San Pedro Diocese in Ivory Coast will never forget the fourth day of the sixth month of the year twenty twenty-two.This day marked the great feast of the Consecration of their new parish church building. It was also the day that some Christians precisely 140 candidates received the Sacrament of Confirmation. This wonderful ceremony was graced by HisBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-63028117960624186962021-07-23T18:35:00.001+01:002021-07-23T18:35:54.684+01:00My sincere point Several reactions came up from an article “Multiple burials leave priests with trauma as Covid ravages villages” published by Mactilda Mbenywe in the Sunday Standard, section National, on the fourth day of July 2021, precisely the third page of that paper.I feel pastorally but above all dogmatically obliged to put down this apology. This is a personal response to those constructive Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-9700949810897785882020-05-04T17:17:00.000+01:002020-05-04T17:24:17.026+01:00Summarized Catechism
Weekly episodes for the Ongoing Catholic faith formation.Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-26227425819148051192020-03-10T14:49:00.000+01:002020-03-10T14:57:24.116+01:00Five new Consolata Deacons
Five Consolata Missionaries ordained to the Diaconate Ministry.
Just twenty-four hours to the celebration of the Feast of Blessed Joseph Allamano our Founder, Kenyan-Uganda Region had the grace to witness five of its members become clergy.
It was the fifteenth day of February the year twenty-twenty that through the imposition of hands of His Lordship Rt. Rev. Virgilio Pante, imc,Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-8528061134317677432020-02-21T08:42:00.000+01:002020-02-21T15:34:16.483+01:00La société moderne appelée à l’obéissance
Le grand historien anglais Arnold Toynbee avait constaté que « le principe d’obéissance est incontestablement un des principes fondamentaux qui régissait la société chrétienne occidentale au moyen âge ». Grâce à ce principe, cette societé chrétienne de moyen âge était stable.
Cependant, on assiste aujourd’hui et surtout chez les jeunes gens à une répudiation de ce principe Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-81778181725093539772020-01-26T13:57:00.000+01:002020-01-26T13:57:20.799+01:00Disguise in Locusts invasion
Opportunities sometimes come in weird ways. Nonetheless, they ought to be grabbed. For, negative experiences do yield also positive result. This desert locust invasion in Kenya is an opportunity in disguise.
Studies reveal that despite widespread destructions caused by most natural calamities such as hurricanes, earthquakes, plagues, floods, volcanic eruptions, storms, etc, there isBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-42118487011467751082020-01-11T08:52:00.002+01:002020-01-11T09:11:54.422+01:00Indeed Catholic Church talks honestly about sex
The Catholic Church is a structured institution. It is very orderly in her teachings as far as their dispensations, in place, time and the persons concern. This makes me have a beef with the article: “Church, let’s honestly talk about sex” published on page 32 of the Sunday Nation, the 29th December 2019 by a Policy Analyst, Scheaffer Okore.
In summary, the author of this article’s mainBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-46199191587955107272020-01-08T13:15:00.000+01:002020-01-08T13:20:59.493+01:00Fare thee well, Guka Fantacci
The words behind the Late Fr. Angelo Fantacii’s Funeral program leaflet are a summary of his life. They partly read; “Dear Fr Angelo, you gave your whole life to the mission of the Father, like a pencil in the hands of the artist: you allowed yourself to be sharpened and used freely until you were finished…”!
Indeed Fr. Angelo Fantacci, imc gave all his 95 years on this earth to be Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-33159342836785831722020-01-02T09:07:00.000+01:002020-01-02T09:07:46.885+01:00Prof. Mutua; slow down on Catholic Doctrines
This is part two of the apologetic response to the article: “For Chrissake,(sic) let Catholics ordain women, priests marry’, published on the ‘Opinion’ section of the Sunday Nation dated December 15th, 2019 by Mr. Makau W. Mutua, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School and the Chairperson of Kenya Human Rights Commission.
As a reminder, part one was Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-89543819464280059352019-12-24T16:35:00.004+01:002019-12-24T16:48:54.067+01:00Prof. Mutua; slow down on Catholic Doctrines
This is an apologetic response to the article on the ‘Opinion’ section of the Sunday Nation dated December 15th, 2019 by Makau W. Mutua, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School and the Chairperson of Kenya Human Rights Commission.
I deeply and sincerely appreciate that the writer of this article, “For Chrissake,(sic) let Catholics ordain women, priests marry’, isBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-8143713663056545232019-12-14T10:26:00.002+01:002019-12-14T10:30:06.739+01:00 Padre Gordon Okoth, imc; Smiling with Angels.
To pen down this piece that honours your departure to heavenly glory omin, wuod Asembo, Goddy, (my brother from Asembo, Gordon), is my perfect way to begin the healing process to the fact that the ground of our beloved ancestors have swallowed your ever smiling face.
Indeed what we are left with are few photos, here and there, and many unprinted memories of your smile, laughter Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-23070110539363424112019-11-25T15:05:00.001+01:002019-11-25T15:05:41.123+01:00Fr. Stallone Michele, imc, Founding padre of Loiyangalani mission
A lodge or a restaurant with a big wooden Cross almost in the middle! For sure this is an unusual place for Crosses, for the latter is normally planted in sacred places such as the Churches, graveyards, etc, for the sake of connecting us with the salvation mystery Jesus accomplished for humanity.
But the story is different in Loiyangalani town, two kilometres East of Lake Turkana, Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-19026016250654101082019-11-24T18:11:00.002+01:002019-11-24T18:21:58.856+01:00Sharpening our Souls
“First saints, then missionaries!” This is no doubt one of Blessed Joseph Allamano’s principal mantra. Holiness indeed is a fundamental requirement for a missionary to face the mission work. But sometimes it normally goes down like a low battery after having worked in mission for certain period of time. Hence the missionary’s need for a spiritual exercise, preferably in common as a religious Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-76001504375860784892019-11-11T08:10:00.001+01:002019-11-11T08:33:52.743+01:00Want a peaceful North Rift Region? Tame our cultural practices
Relative peace is required for societal stability. We all, therefore, want and even dream of a country that all its citizens despite their voluminous differences, tribe, age, physical appearance, colour, creed, race, civilian or not, level of education, gender, etc., cohabit peacefully. This looks very utopic and unattainable, at least in this our time characterised mostly by various Bonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403035678145804218.post-37104066156746348142019-10-16T10:33:00.000+01:002019-10-16T10:57:31.940+01:00Kenya: a malnourished nation
One of the traditional basic needs of human beings is food. It is very helpful for the proper functioning of the body. That is, it provides energy and minerals to help reform the body after its tear and wear. Hence people go a milestone to have it daily on their tables. Otherwise without it, they do not get proper development and good health. It is this reason that food security is among theBonochyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12302100107672436459noreply@blogger.com0