Episode 8: Sr. Jane Wakahiu - For I Know the Plans I have for You: Servant Leadership Personified

11/19/21 • 30 min

Sr. Jane Wakahiu LSOSF takes us on the journey of her life. Her deep faith and its call to service nurtured by her parents at a tender age, led to her fiat to a life as a Little Sister of St Francis. Since then, she has continued to serve in a number of different and increasingly demanding roles that she has executed with great finesse and grace.
Her ministerial experiences have given her an advantageous insight into the lives of African Catholic Sisters, and she shares the wisdom and knowledge she has gleaned with this encounters.

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Episode 7: Fr. Peter Knox - An African Ecologist Responds to the Message of COP26

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"Climate change is not only bad news for Africa, it is bad news for the world." With these words, Jesuit priest, scientist, ecologist, and environmental ethicist, Peter Knox, dissects for us what was achieved at the just concluded UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. He tells the story of our wounded earth and invites us to listen to the cries of the earth and the lamentation of the poor. He makes a passionate appeal to every one that we should care for the poor and the vulnerable of this world and invites everyone to embrace the path of ecological conversion, a central appeal of Pope Francis in Laudato Si' for the flourishing of people and the earth, our common home.

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Episode 9: Sr. Mary Justine Naluggya - What is Canon Law and what does it mean in the life of the Church?

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Sr. Mary Justine Naluggya, recently joined the rarified ranks of African women who possess a doctorate in Canon Law when she graduated this summer. Despite not knowing much about canon law, she responded to an invitation to pursue studies in theology that led her down this path as part of the mutual discernment of the common good that the vow of obedience demands.
Her academic journey started at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and led her to mastering the Italian language in order to pursue her terminal studies, another exemplary feat.
We hear about the charism of reparation that is the cornerstone of their congregation that works to restore the dignity of all people. The Institute of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix - Ggogonya - has grown from a presence in Uganda only, to other African countries and beyond.
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