Die vraag krijg ik de laatste tijd vaak te horen en om eerlijk te zijn week ik het ook niet precies. Ik weet dat ik 8 weken met Michael optrek, de oprichter van Catholic Worker Movement Uganda. We beginnen met een week in Wakiso waar een deel van de gemeenschap permanent woont. Vanuit daar maken we ons ook klaar om op reis te gaan langs verschillende scholen en tehuizen om 'peace talks' te geven aan de kids.
Ik kijk er echt super naar uit en ik hoop ook een boel te leren.
Of ik veel toegang heb tot internet weet ik niet maar ik hoop je op deze manier wel een beetje op de hoogte te houden van mijn avonturen.
Dit is wat de Catholic Worker Uganda schrijft over haar activiteiten en visie op het werk:
The Uganda Catholic Worker Community is a catholic Christian ministry of women and men who offer to be of service to the helpless, poor, destitute children in Uganda. It is Africa's first Catholic Worker Community and works in service of the helpless and the poor. Members of the Uganda catholic Worker come from many different backgrounds. Some were homeless, some poor. Others were rich or privileged. We are Black, white, young and old. Our ministry services include among others: REACH OUT, VOLUNTARY POVERTY, PEACEFULL PROTEST AGANIST WAR & VIOLENCE, CLOTHES COLLECTION, PRISON MINISTRY ETC. All these and more are aimed at being of service to the poor and helpless people. Our prison Ministry is at the moment only active in Wakiso District and include visitation and advocacy with prisoners, especially those innocently accused and those on death row.
In all our work, we are called to practice hospitality and friendliness. We are not here to simply provide services, but to share God's love, mercy and compassion with our oppressed brothers and sisters. The following excerpt may be helpful in understanding hospitable service:
“This is the ideal of hospitality: being sister to sister, brother to brother, children to the same Parent. Not scientific social work-hospitality. Not haughty superior dealing with ‘problem cases’-hospitality. Not condescending judge dealing with errant accused-hospitality. No, hospitality is derived from the Latin word for ‘guest.’ It expresses a relationship between equal people: host and guest. It is bound by the rules of courtesy and human companionship, and ruled by the law of charity.
There are always men and women who need hospitality, for one reason or another. There are, in an imperfect world of imperfect men and women, always those who need a calling back to life, a restoration of personality. There are always those lonely people, in all times, in all places, who need the knowledge of being respected as men and women, of living with other men and women with dignity, of sharing their own burdens with others and bearing some of the burdens for others.
Hospitality reminds people that they are sisters and brothers, children of God, dependent on others and capable of being depended on by others.
It is not a specialized work, requiring scientific training. It is something for everyone to practice according to the measure they are able to do so.
The charm of hospitality, because it is peculiarly human, appeals to all people…It is not surprising that often God should use the hospitality people give each other as an instrument of God's grace.”
John Cogley, The Catholic Worker, October 1947
Ik kijk er echt super naar uit en ik hoop ook een boel te leren.
Of ik veel toegang heb tot internet weet ik niet maar ik hoop je op deze manier wel een beetje op de hoogte te houden van mijn avonturen.
Dit is wat de Catholic Worker Uganda schrijft over haar activiteiten en visie op het werk:
The Uganda Catholic Worker Community is a catholic Christian ministry of women and men who offer to be of service to the helpless, poor, destitute children in Uganda. It is Africa's first Catholic Worker Community and works in service of the helpless and the poor. Members of the Uganda catholic Worker come from many different backgrounds. Some were homeless, some poor. Others were rich or privileged. We are Black, white, young and old. Our ministry services include among others: REACH OUT, VOLUNTARY POVERTY, PEACEFULL PROTEST AGANIST WAR & VIOLENCE, CLOTHES COLLECTION, PRISON MINISTRY ETC. All these and more are aimed at being of service to the poor and helpless people. Our prison Ministry is at the moment only active in Wakiso District and include visitation and advocacy with prisoners, especially those innocently accused and those on death row.
In all our work, we are called to practice hospitality and friendliness. We are not here to simply provide services, but to share God's love, mercy and compassion with our oppressed brothers and sisters. The following excerpt may be helpful in understanding hospitable service:
“This is the ideal of hospitality: being sister to sister, brother to brother, children to the same Parent. Not scientific social work-hospitality. Not haughty superior dealing with ‘problem cases’-hospitality. Not condescending judge dealing with errant accused-hospitality. No, hospitality is derived from the Latin word for ‘guest.’ It expresses a relationship between equal people: host and guest. It is bound by the rules of courtesy and human companionship, and ruled by the law of charity.
There are always men and women who need hospitality, for one reason or another. There are, in an imperfect world of imperfect men and women, always those who need a calling back to life, a restoration of personality. There are always those lonely people, in all times, in all places, who need the knowledge of being respected as men and women, of living with other men and women with dignity, of sharing their own burdens with others and bearing some of the burdens for others.
Hospitality reminds people that they are sisters and brothers, children of God, dependent on others and capable of being depended on by others.
It is not a specialized work, requiring scientific training. It is something for everyone to practice according to the measure they are able to do so.
The charm of hospitality, because it is peculiarly human, appeals to all people…It is not surprising that often God should use the hospitality people give each other as an instrument of God's grace.”
John Cogley, The Catholic Worker, October 1947
