"Human life - your life - and its humdrum, ordinary business, have a meaning which is divine, which belongs to eternity.”(Saint Josemaría)
Opus Dei started in Kenya in 1958, by the direct impulse of St. Josemaría Escrivá. It was the first country on the African Continent where faithful of Opus Dei were to go.
In his third encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” meaning “Brothers all,” the pope compiles and categorises the main proposals of the social discourses of his pontificate, in Rome and during his trips. This solemn magisterium, addressed to all Catholics, can be summarised under five keys.
The late Dr. Margaret Ogola published what is perhaps her best known novel - The River and the Source - in 1994. I inescapably got to read it after it was added to our English syllabus compulsory literature reading. And read it we did, and sat questions on it in my end of high-school examinations. For me, however, that exam was the beginning - the source - of another continuing adventure.
The day of recollection is a time for prayer and reflection on some topics of our spiritual life.