8 of us are loaded into the landrover at 730 am. Heading towards Nachingwea where 80 people will be confirmed. Confirmation is celebrated here as an important right of passage. Parties that compare with Canada's wedding receptions are held by families for friends and neighbours. Bishop Barry will preach, celebrate and confirm half of the candidates. I will administer at communion again today--an important statement as they prepare to discuss again at their next synod the possibility of ordination of women. Bishop Patrick's son Peter is with us--he is recovering from malaria. The vendors are already out and about in the first village we pass through. The women already walking with the day's first load of water or wood on their heads.
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I find myself amazed, as I read and hear, by the apparent joy and ability to celebrate both in faith and in life. Of course, as Barry and Janet move about the Diocese, they are attending 'celebratory events'. I wonset what life is like, if the spirits of the people are just as 'high', on an 'ordinary' day. Michael+
ReplyDeleteThanks for your posts Janet. They are powerful. I almost feel the dryness as I read them. It's great to be able to "follow" your travels this way.
ReplyDeleteGod bless, Nick