"Our vocation is to serve the least of the brethren", Sr Nkechi Iwuoha on the Mission of the African Catholic Sister Today

03/20/23 • 28 min

Sr Nkechi Iwuoha PHJC, is a Provincial Counselor of the American Province of the Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ and a missionary who has worked in three continents. In this conversation, she reflects on her vocation and ministry to the least of the brethren, and her current leadership roles in the Catholic Church in the U.S.A. She invites us all to embrace the call to serve the poor and to listen to the cries of those who are suffering in the world today. Her important leadership role in the U.S Catholic church today is an example of how African sisters are contributing significantly in the shape of the world church today.

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Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent: Come, Walk in the Light of Christ

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The blind man in the Gospel represents those who are seeking goodness and search for the light in all things and eventually find the light in Christ. He was born blind and was suffering until Jesus found him and restored his sight. Even though this man endured this condition from his birth to adulthood, it is obvious in the narrative that he was a very positive man with an open mind and was seeking goodness in his own painful circumstances.

In the dialogue with the detractors of Jesus after his healing, the blind man was positive: he affirmed that the work that Jesus did is a great deed; that this deed is of and from God, and that only someone from God could do such works of miracles because “it is unheard of that a person ever opened the eyes of a man born blind.” You too can be cured of your spiritual blindness if you are open to encountering Jesus. The whole earth is like God’s burning bush, and each of us is invited to pay attention to the voice of God speaking to us through the signs of the times from this burning bush. Like the blind man, may we be led to the light? Unlike the blind Pharisees, may we be open to the light; and unlike the crowd, may we make a move towards Jesus and affirm him as the Light from God sent to banish the darkness in the world and manifesting to us the face of the God of love, mercy, and compassion.

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" My Vocation is an invitation to fight for justice for widows, and the poor, and to show the way to African young people" says Sr Leonida Katunge

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Sr Leonida Katunge is the Director of Programs for the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network, and coordinator of the Building Bridges Initiatives of Pope Francis for young Catholics in Africa. She is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a sacramental theologian and teacher, and a humanitarian. In this conversation, she shares with us how she is able to combine these different hats; her vision for young Catholics in Africa; her work with different dicasteries at the Vatican in creating spaces for women to encounter each other in the church, and to find their own voice and vocations within the church.