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Cameroon, I’m here again!
By Sr. Emma de Guzman icm
A couple of years ago, life came to a halt for Sr. Emma de Guzman – a sister of Fr. Efren de Guzman who used to write the Angola Diary – when she underwent a bypass operation and had to go back to the Philippines to rest. Now, she’s back in action as if nothing happened at all.
YOUTH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
(Do you know where we’re going to . . ?)
By Felicidad D. Javier ‘Liit’ Javier last appeared in Misyon in the March-April 2008 issue when she recalled her time as an Associate Missionary of the Assumption in Cameroon. People nowadays trek the lonely road of isolation . . . fewer risks, no commitment . . . just me and my selfishness and the concept of my world behind the walls of reality and enveloped in many painful realizations.
‘AFRICA’ IN CUBAO
By Sr Emma de Guzman ICM
After 30 years in
To the beat of drums, shouts of joy, clapping of hands and swaying dances, we celebrated an African Mass on Sunday, 27 February. Everything was African except the place -
‘We love you,
‘JESUS, JE T’AIME’ ‘JESUS, I LOVE YOU’
By: Sr. Francesca San Diego
St. Paul Sisters Rediscover the Vision of their Founder.
Sr. Francesca San Diego is a Filipino- a Sister of St. Paul- working with nomadic people in Cameroon. There she and her companions continue the original plan of their founder working with the poorest of the poor...
Skinned or Scalded
When I decided to be a religious, I also wanted to be a missionary nun. I was filled with the desire to offer my life to serve our sisters and brothers in far-off lands who had not heard our good news and I was ready to be skinned or scalded” in the process. Twenty-six years after-and eight years of mission life in Cameroon, Africa brought the reality and deeper meaning of sacrifice; of death and of resurrection.
Koza: Thank You and Goodbye!
By: Pedro Morelos Peñaranda, CICM
Concluding Pedro Peñaranda’s reflections on his trial period as a CICM seminarian in Cameroon
Koza, Thank You and Goodbye!
Fr. Pedro Peñaranda, CICM
Continuing Pedro Peñaranda’s reflection on his trial period as a seminarian in Cameroon.
Double Irony
In Koza, among the Mafas people, it is the traditional chiefs and soothsayers at their side who make all the decisions be it on the social level (sowing, harvest, disputes of all kinds) or on the personal level such as marriage and sickness. The State is virtually non-existence for the Mafas except for the annual burden of taxes they have to remit with much difficulty even if these taxes never return to them in terms of social services. To pay t heir taxes, the men usually leave their mountains and villages during the dry season to get menial job in the cities of Maroua and Garuao, or, ironically, for those who have no identity cards, in Nigeria.
Koza: Thank You and Goodbye!
Fr. Pedro Peñaranda, CICM
Continuing Pedro Peñaranda’s reflection on his trial period as a seminarian in Cameroon.
Koza, Thank You and Goodbye!
By: Fr. Pedro Marcelos Peñaranda
