Today the Church of Tanzania joined the world church in celebrating the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. On this day, hundreds of religious women and men were able to gather together in their dioceses and celebrate the Holy Mass, a celebration in which the nuns had the opportunity to renew their covenants with God, as they had promised earlier.

In fact, this feast has been a deeply reflective one as the celebrants of the mass, who were bishops, were able to touch on matters that are very fundamental in the life of the nuns. For example, in the archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, Auxiliary Bishop Henry Mchamungu, reminded the nuns of several things that the nuns should consider. Among these things he emphasized are: a nun to ensure that he/she becomes a person of prayer and contemplation, living a community life, living a life of penance, living the charisms of the congregation, living a life of dedication, following the rules and regulations of the place where they are given to do a mission and doing a mission for the benefit of the church.

Since in the archdiocese of Dar es Salaam they have the custom of congratulating nuns who in the relevant year are celebrating their jubilees of religious life, on this day, 12 religious women were congratulated; two golden jubilees (Sr Edmunda & Sr Theonestina) and 10 Silver jubilees (Srs Jadwiga, Anagladness Mrumah, Idda John, Elionora Danghalo, Mariel Kazibure, Florence Pontian, Alistidia Faustine, Veronika Mikoma & Ritha Mary).

The Church in Tanzania is proud to have many religious men and women who, with their various charisms, have been able to carry out different missions in the church and thus be able to manifest Christ to his people. Furthermore, we pray that the Lord of the harvest will continue to bring workers into his field.

Prepared by: PMS National Office