By Christian Carlassare – The students of the Comboni Secondary School in Juba animated the Holy Eucharist at St Therese Cathedral in Kator on the feast of St. Daniele Comboni last Tuesday, 10 October 2017.<\/p>\n
The Celebration was presided by the Apostolic Nuncio for Kenya and South Sudan, his Excellency bishop Charles D. Balvo. In his homily he pointed out that the construction of the Church is a very demanding task that requires time and also the commitment of many workers.<\/p>\n
Saint Daniel Comboni conceived a great plan and started off the work, and now we join in into the same work. Unfortunately there have been times in which the work has been torn apart by conflict. However, we must never despair and be confident to offer our contribution to the mission of the Church.<\/p>\n
After the Celebration, the congregation was invited to share a meal at the premises of the secondary school, followed by an afternoon entertainment.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Education of Jubek state and the American ambassador attended the event where speeches, songs, dramas and dances were alternated and entertained all the guests.<\/p>\n
Fr Louis Okot, the Provincial Superior of the Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan, also addressed the students and assembly stressing the importance of education and encouraging the commitment and creativity of the youth.<\/p>\n
Some of the students participated to a contest on poem writing and art. Fr Louis had the joy to award the best three in the two disciplines.<\/p>\n
The winning poems were written by Lifu Suzie William (S1B) and carried the title Missionary activity of St Daniel Comboni.<\/p>\n
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Missionary activity of St Daniel Comboni<\/strong><\/p>\n Author: Lifu Suzie William<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We lived in a world<\/p>\n of agony and depression<\/p>\n where tears rolled down our cheeks<\/p>\n because our homeland<\/p>\n was not home anymore<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Until a young and noble man<\/p>\n came to our rescue<\/p>\n with a splendid mission<\/p>\n for he had a vision<\/p>\n of a new generation<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He went through difficulties<\/p>\n calamities and tragedies<\/p>\n but never did he cease<\/p>\n for it was Africa or death<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He stumbled and fell<\/p>\n but raised up still<\/p>\n and remained persistent<\/p>\n for he had faith<\/p>\n in what lay ahead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day by day<\/p>\n hoped for the best<\/p>\n and today we all rest<\/p>\n in the tremendous harvest<\/p>\n of his great work<\/p>\n Daniel Comboni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Christian Carlassare – The students of the Comboni Secondary School in Juba animated the Holy Eucharist at St Therese Cathedral in Kator on the feast of St. Daniele Comboni last Tuesday, 10 October 2017. The Celebration was presided by the Apostolic Nuncio for Kenya and South Sudan, his Excellency bishop Charles D. Balvo. In his homily he pointed out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-articles","category-comboni-missionaries","category-various-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/combonisouthsudan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}