Episode-2022-2: An American Jesuit Professor's Trip to the Middle of Nowhere in Africa
01/10/22 • 33 min
Fr Bill O'Neill, S. J. shares the story of his journey from being a University professor in Santa Clara, California, to serving his brothers and sisters at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He speaks of why we need the mysticism of open eyes to see our naked humanity in the conditions of the refugees. He makes a passionate appeal to all people of the need to accompany our brothers and sisters who suffer; and the joyful privilege of being led to Jesus through these brothers and sisters in this refugee camp that is called Kakuma in Swahili, meaning 'nowhere.'
Fr Bill O'Neill, S. J. shares the story of his journey from being a University professor in Santa Clara, California, to serving his brothers and sisters at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He speaks of why we need the mysticism of open eyes to see our naked humanity in the conditions of the refugees. He makes a passionate appeal to all people of the need to accompany our brothers and sisters who suffer; and the joyful privilege of being led to Jesus through these brothers and sisters in this refugee camp that is called Kakuma in Swahili, meaning 'nowhere.'
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