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Oktoba 25,2015 Tanzania tutavuna tulichopanda

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Kweli, aliyekubuhu katika uovu anaweza kumfunda mwana awe malaika? Au mwalimu juha wa mazuzu anaweza kuandaa na kutoa mwanafunzi gwiji? Jambazi anathubutu kumkemea kibaka?
 
Kweli fukara aliyejifahari katika hali yake anaweza kumuongoza mjasiriamali katika umaridadi wa kutafuta neema? 
 
Haya ni baadhi ya maswali wengi tumekuwa tunajiuliza kwa kutafakari mitihani inayotukabili. Maswali kama haya tumeyasikia yakiulizwa kwa namna mbalimbali katika semi, methali na hata vioja vya kisa mkasa. 
 
Uchaguzi huu pia una vioja vyake. Kutokana na uchu wa kusaka kura kuna mambo tunayashuhudia ambayo hakika yanaibua maswali mengi, tena sana.
 
Hivi karibuni mgombewa wa Chadema anayeungwa mkono na Ukawa, Edward Lowassa, ameshutumiwa na hasimu wake kwa kutoa ahadi ambayo inatafsiriwa kuingilia uhuru wa mahakama na kubashiria kuivunja katiba ya nchi. Mgombea huyo, pamoja na mambo mengine, aliahidi kumwachia huru mtu fulani aliyetiwa hatiani na mahakama wapo atachaguliwa kuwa Rais.
 
Naye mgombea wa CCM, Dk. John Magufuli, amekuwa akimwaga ahadi ambazo baadhi zinaelekea kuvunja sheria na haki za wengine. Miongoni mwake ni ahadi ya kunyang’anya watu mali zao au kuwapa wananchi faida ambayo huna mamlaka nayo. 
 
Kwa lugha za wachambuzi ni kwamba wagombea wa aina hii wanakosolewa kwa kutoa, bila haya, ahadi hewa wakati wakitambua fika kuwa unachokisema hatotenda. Hawa ndio aina ya watu waliokomaa kuturubuni watuongoze, sisi wananchi ambao tunasaka bado masihi wa kutuvusha kuelekea kwenye Tanzania tarajiwa, Tanzania yenye neema.
 
 Wapo miongoni mwetu waliohoji ombwe ama uhaba/ukavu wa uongozi nchini Tanzania. Tutakuaje na viongozi bomba kama desturi imekuwa kuongoza kwa njia ambazo ni za kihuni, yaani ambazo hazifikii wala kukidhi viwango vya ustaarabu?

Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Guardian Angel Prayer #2 (This is an old Guardian Angel Prayer)
O Holy Angel,
attendant of my wretched soul
and of mine afflicted life,
forsake me not, a sinner,
neither depart from me for mine inconstancy.
Give no place to the evil demon to subdue me
with the oppression of this mortal body;
but take me by my wretched and outstretched hand,
and lead me in the way of salvation.
Yea, O holy Angel of God,
the guardian and protector
of my hapless soul and body,
forgive me all things
whatsoever wherewith I have troubled thee,
all the days of my life,
and if I have sinned in anything this day.
Shelter me in this present night,
and keep me from every affront of the enemy,
lest I anger God by any sin;
and intercede with the Lord in my behalf,
that He might strengthen me in the fear of Him,
and make me a worthy servant of His goodness.

Amen

Daily Reading for Wednesday, September 30th, 2015


Reading 1, Nehemiah 2:1-8

1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, since I was in charge of the wine, I took the wine and offered it to the king. Now, he had never seen me looking depressed before.
2 So the king said to me, 'Why are you looking depressed? You are not sick! This must be a sadness of the heart.' Thoroughly alarmed by this,
3 I said to the king, 'May the king live for ever! How can I not look depressed when the city where the tombs of my ancestors are lies in ruins and its gates have been burnt down?'
4 The king then said to me, 'What would you like me to do?' Praying to the God of heaven,
5 I said to the king, 'If the king approves and your servant enjoys your favour, send me to Judah, to the city of the tombs of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.'
6 The king -- with the queen sitting beside him-said, 'How long will your journey take, and when will you come back?' Once I had given him a definite time, the king approved my mission.
7 I then said to the king, 'If the king approves, may I be given orders for the governors of Transeuphrates to let me pass through on my way to Judah?
8 Also an order for Asaph, keeper of the king's forest, to supply me with timber for the beams of the gates of the citadel of the Temple, for the city walls and for the house which I am to occupy?' These the king granted me because the kindly hand of my God was over me.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion.
2 On the poplars there we had hung up our harps.
3 For there our gaolers had asked us to sing them a song, our captors to make merry, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'
4 How could we sing a song of Yahweh on alien soil?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither!
6 May my tongue remain stuck to my palate if I do not keep you in mind, if I do not count Jerusalem the greatest of my joys.

Gospel, Luke 9:57-62

57 As they travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, 'I will follow you wherever you go.'
58 Jesus answered, 'Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.'
59 Another to whom he said, 'Follow me,' replied, 'Let me go and bury my father first.'
60 But he answered, 'Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty is to go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.'
61 Another said, 'I will follow you, sir, but first let me go and say good -- bye to my people at home.'
62 Jesus said to him, 'Once the hand is laid on the plough, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'

St. Jerome

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Image of St. Jerome

Facts

Feastday: September 30
Patron of Librarians
Birth: 331
Death: 420

St. Jerome, who was born Eusebius Hieronymous Sophronius, was the most learned of the Fathers of the Western Church. He was born about the year 342 at Stridonius, a small town at the head of the Adriatic, near the episcopal city of Aquileia. His father, a Christian, took care that his son was well instructed at home, then sent him to Rome, where the young man's teachers were the famous pagan grammarian Donatus and Victorinus, a Christian rhetorician. Jerome's native tongue was the Illyrian dialect, but at Rome he became fluent in Latin and Greek, and read the literatures of those languages with great pleasure. His aptitude for oratory was such that he may have considered law as a career. He acquired many worldly ideas, made little effort to check his pleasure-loving instincts, and lost much of the piety that had been instilled in him at home. Yet in spite of the pagan and hedonistic influences around him, Jerome was baptized by Pope Liberius in 360. He tells us that "it was my custom on Sundays to visit, with friends of my own age and tastes, the tombs of the martyrs and Apostles, going down into those subterranean galleries whose walls on both sides preserve the relics of the dead." Here he enjoyed deciphering the inscriptions.