{"id":12971,"date":"2017-10-18T03:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2017-10-18T03:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:19:42","slug":"message-of-fr-gilbert-rukondo-m-afr-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/message-of-fr-gilbert-rukondo-m-afr-from-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Message of Fr Gilbert Rukondo, M.Afr, from Nigeria."},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Rukundo sent a message from Nigeria sharing with us his missionary life. Here below a short presentation of himself (in English) and his story (in French).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"02I was born in Rwanda in 1982. After my secondary school, I started my studies in philosophy in the Democratic Republic of Congo at \u2018La Ruzizi\u2019 formation Centre from 2004 to 2007. Then, in 2007-2008, I did my spiritual year at Kasama situated in the Northern Part of Zambia. From there, I went to Malawi where I spent two years between 2008 and 2010 for my pastoral experience. I learnt Chichewa at Mua when Serge St-Arneault was in charge of our language course. I still have the certificate he awarded us at the end of our language course<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"SergeInterestingly, Stephen Kajendran, Didus Baguma and myself, we arrived at Mua the day before the Kungoni cultural day<\/a>. It was very colourful only that I could not understand what was happening. At Mua, we were in the community with Serge, Julio Feliu<\/a> and Claude Boucher. After it, I joined the community of Chezi<\/a> on the top of the mountain between the capital Lilongwe and Lake Malawi. It was in November 2010.\u00a0I stayed with Andr\u00e9 Bilodeau, Jean Arnaud<\/a> and Michel Sanou who left soon after my arrival for his studies. Then Serge St-Arneault joined us sometimes in May of the same year.<\/p>\n

\"SistersChezi was a beautiful place to be. Moving around to various churches was challenging but I liked it and I felt that people loved me. I had a nice community that trusted and supported me. I also appreciated visiting the orphanage under the care of the Sisters of Mary Mediatrix<\/strong>. I enjoyed as well the organisation of Malawi as a Sector, the moments of meetings and celebrations of various events.<\/p>\n

I remember the day I renewed my declaration of intent<\/strong>! It was a great day for me, many confreres came from Lilongwe to grace it and Martin Onyango called it a “mini-ordination”. By the way, the binocular you gave me is still functional. I have it still. Life in Malawi was great. Thank you for those years we shared. Zikomo kwambiri!<\/p>\n\n\t\t