Yearly Archives: 2014

This is a typical Sunday Mass at Don Bosco CALM-Kira. Our boys are in their best attire. Outsiders; men, women and children dressed in colorful outfits also join us in the Eucharistic Worship. Gradually our beautiful Chapel of Don Bosco, a marvel to behold at fills up. The hymn is sung and the eyes are turned to the procession that comes in. In comparison with all other churches, at Don Bosco CALM everyone participates in the singing bit the choristers or the congregation and this makes the Mass our own Mass. The faithful always erupt into singing to the top of their voices to the accompaniment of the piano, guitar and drums.

Suddenly the faithful feel sorry for their sins thereafter comes the Word of the Lord where Jesus Christ talks to us Himself through the Priest. The Word touches our hearts and calls for our spiritual transition. Nevertheless some words make us smile or even laugh because they seem interesting.

  On a very cold morning he woke up and said, “God, when am I finishing this O’ level journey?” and indeed he had nothing to do other than putting on his uniform and going to school. Time never stood still, by now he was in vacation saying, “God when is this vacation going to end?”On the 20th of March […]

Suddenly on a Saturday morning, Fr Jean Marie wakes up and orders the children to shave off their hair. Everyone is surprised and in suspense they also ask, “What is wrong with Father  Jean Marie” not until later that they understand it is general cleanliness that he wants of us.I may say that the hair upstairs reflects the hair downstairs […]

The confrere of the four houses of Uganda were punctual for the first quarterly retreat of this  2014.Fr.arasu the Rector of Kamuli was already there in the chapel  of Namugongo, welcoming all the forteen confrere of this country. With a brief introduction and a short prayer. Fr.Arasu started the talk on “Don Bosco Mystic and Educator” which was an appropriate topic for the day. As he talked, he strengthened his  points with few frames from the power point programme he had prepared for this occasion. He concluded his talk with a moving prayer , he projected on the screen.

As we know, with passage of time things get old and so they need to either be replaced or renovated. The first renovation is the painting of “house five” dormitory. All the boys who were sleeping in the house, were shifted to other houses that is to say, house one, house two and house four leaving out house three for visitors. The renovation involved painting of the walls, the ceiling and the doors too. It aims at making the houses clean and bringing it to its original appearance. This worker was carried out by engineer Oneni Fred who is a past pupil of St John Bosco Vocational Training Center Bombo owned by the Salesians and assisted by Mawejje Steven who is a boy of the place and also a past pupil of Bombo.

 

Before all else we are sincerely grateful to the Salesians of Don Bosco CALM apart for having provided  us with board and lodge, generously paid our school fees from senior One to senior Four. And because of this good support, we completed senior four with a second  grade. We cannot forget the school authorities of Majorine College who helped us […]

It was on 3 of December 2013 a Tuesday when we officially had our holiday. Actually we were supposed to have it on 2 of December but due to load- shedding that day, staff members were not able to prepare the traveling documents and which were processed on the following day.On 3 of December, we woke up early in the morning and had some home work till 9:00 am, Uncle Paul the organizer told us to prepare  ourselves saying  he wanted to go to town. So he gave us money for  transport.

The day began as usual with  morning prayers followed by work which was conducted by uncle Paul. After  work, we prepared ourselves for the  Eucharist.  Rev. Fr  Richard was the priest celebrant with  Fr. Jean  Marie being the con celebrant assisted by eight alter servers. The First Reading was taken from Prophet Malachi; it was saying that, the lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his temple. It was read by Kato Ronald a student from St.Mary s.s.s.Namaliga.The Second Reading was taken from Hebrews. It was saying that, it was essential that he showed in this way to be completely like his brothers; it was read by Sadic Bashir also a student of  St. Mary s.s.s  Namaliga. The Gospel was taken from Luke 2:22-40. My eyes have seen your salvation. It was proclaimed by Rev Fr. Jean Marie.

In the homily the Rev. Fr. Richard emphasized on the fact that we have to follow the things the way they are supposed to be giving an example of Jesus himself; he had no sin but he accepted to be baptized, Mary his mother, the mother of Jesus was a virgin and she gave birth to Jesus and she also remained a virgin.  She went to the Temple to give  glory to God so that the scriptures  be fulfilled.