San Damiano Novitiate House - OFM Conv. Zambia

San Damiano Novitiate House - OFM Conv. Zambia San Damiano Novitiate House is a formation House of the Conventual Franciscans in Zambia.

During the Novitiate year, the novice is helped to deepen his understanding of the divine call to religious life and to the basic meaning and requirements of how to live this call in the Conventual Franciscan Fraternity.

23/08/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

ISAIAH 66:18-21, PSALM 116, HEBREWS 12:5-7.11-13, LUKE 13:22-30
We celebrate today the 21st Sunday in ordinary time year C. The readings invite us to reflect on God’s salvation and the need to strive in order to be saved. We are reminded that salvation is open to all but entry into God’s kingdom is strictly for those who commit themselves and live according to its demand. In the first reading we hear about the revelation of God’s universal salvation. Israel was chosen by God to bring salvation to other nations. Initially, Israel thought they were the only one God will save. However, through their disobedience and exile experiences, they slowly began to realize that God’s salvation includes all nations. In the passage, after settling down from exile, prophet Isaiah envisions universal gathering of nations to witness God’s glory and proclaim it to others; they will worship God, offer sacrifices and some will be set apart as priests of God. In today’s gospel, Jesus is asked, ‘will only a few be saved?’ During Jesus’ time, some believed that only Jews (Isaiah 60:21) will be saved while others believed that only the remnant (few) of Israel will be saved (Isaiah 10:22). In our passage, Jesus’ response does not focus on who or how many will be saved but on how one ought to strive in order to be saved. For Jesus, God’s salvation is open to all but entry into the kingdom belongs to those who strive to live according to the kingdom principles. Disciples are thus called to utilize the opportunity before the door is closed. In addition, to be saved it is not a matter of mere acquaintance with Jesus and his teaching but a life based on a personal relationship with him. Therefore, those whose life is based on mere acquaintances without conversion (workers of iniquities - sinners) and striving will be denied entry into the kingdom. Our second reading summarizes what striving for salvation entails. In the passage, believers are encouraged to persevere in faith amidst the constant suffering of life. According to the author, God sometimes uses suffering as means of training and disciplining his children in order to draw them closer to himself and make them holy. Believers are thus urged to persevere and embrace suffering as part of spiritual growth in holiness.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we continue reflecting on Jesus’ teaching on discipleship in relation to the kingdom of God. In today’s gospel, Jesus corrects the misconception which even many today believe that eternal life is only for the chosen few or for everyone provided that they are Christians or believers. We are reminded that salvation is open to all (free gift of God) but entry into God’s kingdom is for those who strive. In the teaching, Jesus reminds us of the danger of complacency in faith. Today, Christianity is reduced to mere presumption without true conversion and commitment. We claim to know and follow Christ (we attend mass or service, we participate in church activities, we give alms, fast and pray) and yet still live a tepid life that permits everything including sin; we do everything that unbelievers do, we dress like anyone else, we live like the rest. Believers have become spectators of God’s message of salvation and not active participants, we take delight in God’s gifts than in knowing and relating with him at a personal level, we embrace all the good things about God or what God does for us but abandon him when suffering or challenges of life come, we advocate for the change in others and in the world and yet not ready to see change in ourselves. We are challenged that belonging to a particular church or group does not guarantee salvation. Salvation is a free gift of God but it also demands personal conversion, perseverance and communion with Jesus. As such, having a tepid faith and living a life of sin without repentance breaks communion with Jesus and cuts one from eternal life with him. May we grow in our personal relationship with Jesus through repentance, prayer, perseverance and acts of love.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Friar Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

16/08/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

JEREMIAH 38:4-6.8-10, PSALM 40:2-4. 18, HEBREWS 12:1-4, LUKE 12:49-53

We celebrated today the 20th Sunday in ordinary time year C. Today’s reading invite us to reflect on our faith and its demand in following Christ. The readings remind us that discipleship is not an easy enterprise but a life commitment that involves struggles, pains, persecution, and rejection. As disciples, we are called to be steadfast in our faith no matter the cost. In the first reading Jeremiah is put in the miry cistern and left to die due to his prophetic message. This was when Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem. King Zedekiah was afraid and started making alliances with other nations to fight the Babylonians. Prophet Jeremiah advised the King to surrender to the Babylonians and that people should repent from sins. However, the king’s princes convinced King Zedekiah to fight back and ordered that Jeremiah be imprisoned in the miry cistern and left to die. Jeremiah was rescued by God through the help of Ebed-melech, a Cush*te. In the second reading, believers are invited to imitate true witnesses of faith in God. Believers are thus called to lay aside sinful acts, hold on to their faith and look up to Jesus as the pioneer and perfecter of their faith who endured the shame of the cross and sits at God’s glory. In the gospel passage, Jesus continues to teach his disciples on the way to Jerusalem about discipleship. In today’s passage, Jesus whom we know to be the bringer of peace (Isaiah 9:1-7) and unity talks about bringing fire and division. Such words baffles us. In the bible, fire is used symbolically to mean divine presence or God’s glory (Genesis 15:17, Deuteronomy 4:24, Leviticus 9:24), purification (Isaiah 1:25, Jeremiah 9:7, Malachi 3:1-3, 1 Peter 1:7-8), divine revelation (Exodus 3), judgement (Isaiah 30: 30, 2 Peter 3:7). Jesus’s use of fire and division fulfils his prophetic role as ‘a sign of contradiction’ (Luke 2:34). This means that Jesus message of the kingdom is like a purifying fire that sets apart those who accept it from those who refuse. Fire will eventually lead to final judgment and salvation.
My dear brothers and sisters, today’s liturgy invites us to reflect on Christian discipleship and its costly demand. The readings reminds us that the journey of faith is not an easy enterprise but rather a demanding and a challenging one. It is demanding in that it calls for a total transformation of the whole person. As such, one’s perception, vision, goals, beliefs and orientation are changed. He or she becomes a new person driven by divine vision and perspective and not the worldly one. Faith life is challenging in that at times it comes with oppositions, rejection, tribulations and even death. This reality of faith as demanding and challenging is what we have witnessed in our readings today; Jeremiah suffers and was left to die for speaking God word’s against his peoples wishes and idolatry lifestyle…believers in the second reading are called to lay aside sin and imitate Christ who endured the cross…the gospel speaks of fire that purifies and sets apart those who follow Jesus from those who deny him. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, our Christian vocation is a constant submission to God fire (Spirit) which purifies us from sin and all that compromises our Christian morals and values. It is a life that set us apart from certain habits, practices, values, traditions and inclinations that are contrary to God’s laws even if they are considered to be important or cherished by our families, society or the world. Authentic Christian life sets us apart and inflame us with divine love and truth without compromise even if when others oppose it. As a result, opposition, rejection, persecution and sometimes death (2 Corinthians 4:1-18) will be part of our experience. Nevertheless, God is always with us, fighting for us and that he gives us his peace and joy amidst difficulties. May we all be transformed by God’s word and live our Christian life zealously and with authenticity. May our lives, families, societies, countries and the world be changed for the better through our Christian witnessing.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Friar Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

09/08/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

WISDOM 18:6-9, PSALMS 33:1. 12. 18-20. 22, HEBREWS 11:1-2.8-18, LUKE 12:32-48

We celebrate today the 19th Sunday in ordinary time year C. Today’s readings invite us to have faith in God from whom we have our true identity and purpose, and find true riches. The first reading from the book of wisdom recalls Israel's glorious experience on the night of Passover before leaving Egypt to the Promised Land. The Israelites trusted in God’s promise of deliverance from Egyptian slavery. The Israelites were delivered by God while their enemy was punished. The author thus seeks to encourage fellow Jews going through similar form of slavery to trust God, who will deliver them as he delivered their ancestors from Egypt. The second reading from the letter to the Hebrews talks about faith and its consequential blessings. According to the author, faith is the assurance of the things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. The author cites Abraham and Sarah as model of faith who believed God amidst the impossibilities and uncertainties of life. Their faith, obedience and perseverance made them righteous before God and enabled them to experience God’s abundant blessings. The author thus invites believers to walk by faith and wait upon God who fulfils promises as he did to Abraham and Sarah, their ancestors in faith. Our gospel passage continues from last week’s passage on the dangers of avarice. In last week’s gospel, Jesus admonished his listeners that life does not depend on one’s abundant possessions (which remain when one dies) but on one’s good relationship with God and with others. In today’s gospel, Jesus continues to invite his disciples not to be afraid in that God wants to give them his kingdom. Disciples are called to a radical detachment from material possession, sell their possessions and give alms. Further, Jesus invites them to be vigilant, remain faithful and act responsibly as they wait for his second coming. Those who will be vigilant and faithful will be rewarded and those who act irresponsible will be punished.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we are living in a world where people are identified by what they have and not by who they are; by material possessions or position in society. The more wealth one possesses, the more power and control he/she has. It is a culture that hungers to accumulate more wealth, more power, more pleasure and more fame devoid of the moral repercussions. It is a culture of identity crisis in which people wants to be anything they feel like; a culture in which moral norms depend on individual preferences and not divine law; a culture that pushes religion or God away and embrace all sorts of ideologies including those that compromise their identity or dignity. In his response to the question asked about what surprise him about humanity, Dalai Lama once said, ‘a person sacrifices his health in order to make money and them sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, and them he dies as having never lived.’ Christians too are entangled in such cultural tendencies to want more possessions, more power and more fame at the expense of their faith and moral values. To escape such restlessness for material possessions, we are invited to have faith in God through whom we have life and purpose. A faith that trusts God amidst challenges, confusions and uncertainties of life. Faith keeps us in touch with our true identity as children of God and heirs to his kingdom; faith enables us to live in right relationship with God and with others; faith makes us focus on things that really matter; faith makes us stay awake and prepare for the ultimate end of our earthly life and look forward to eternal life with God.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Friar Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual.)

02/08/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

ECCLESIASTES 1:2, 2:21-23, PSALM 90: 3-6. 12-14. 17, COLOSSIANS 3:1-5, 9-11, LUKE 12:13-21

We celebrate today the 18th Sunday in ordinary time year C. The readings invite us to reflect on life and the end to which all our human work and pursuit come to. The readings reminds us that if our pursuits and wealth isolate us from God and from others, our life becomes meaningless. We are therefore invited to put God at the center our life and build a relationship with him and with others. In the first reading, the author reflects on the futility of life that seeks happiness and fulfilment in wealth or material possession. The author uses the word ‘vanity’, in Hebrew is ‘hevel’ meaning, ‘breath’ or ‘v***r’ signifying something that is transient, futile and empty. Thus vanity of vanities means nothing last forever… all is like a breath or v***r that disappears instantly. The author goes on to cite an example on how one toils and acquires wealth but leaves all for others to enjoy at his death. The gospel passage presents similar sentiments of trust in material possessions than in God. The parables comes after someone approached Jesus asking him to be an arbitrator over the possession with his brother. Jesus refused and admonished him and other listeners on the dangers of idolizing material possessions as the ultimate fulfilment in one’s life. In the parable, Jesus does not condemn riches nor planning for one’s future, but rather calls him ‘rich fool’ in that he made his abundant harvest or achievements as his ultimate end and source of fulfilment. In other words, his wealth became the center of his life… not God or others. He forgot that life as well as his abundant harvest are God’s gifts and that they are transitory. God therefore took his life and he could not enjoy his rich harvest. The passage concludes with an assertion that true riches lie in investing one’s effort and life in God… in virtuous living and in right relationship with God. In the second reading, St. Paul exhorts the Colossians to focus on things where Christ is and not on earthly things. By virtue of their death and rising with Christ in baptism, believers are a new creation in Christ. As such, they are to align their life in accordance with their new identity in Christ. Believers are therefore invited to detach themselves from sin and earthly things (fornication, impurity, guilty passion, greed, idolatry, and lies) and attach themselves to heavenly things that lasts and gives true fulfilment.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, every person desires to live a good life and to be happy. As such, we invest all our efforts, time and energy pursuing things that can give us happiness and fulfillment. We go to college, work, do business, join politics and engage in various forms of work to earn our living, to be happy and find fulfilment. We often associate happiness and fulfilment with material things. If happiness and fulfilment is found in material possessions, the affluent and celebrities live a happy and peaceful…Do they? Putting material possessions at the center of our lives makes us develop an insatiable desire for more and often times make us think we can achieve on our own… without God and others. When such pursuit is not attained, we feel lonely, empty, frustrated and hopeless. In addition, when we absorb ourselves in material possessions, we forget that material things as well as our life are transitory. Material possession can help us to enhance our life but they cannot prevent us from sickness or dying. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, our liturgy today does not condemn riches or handwork to improve our livelihood and be happy, but rather to have a right attitude towards riches or material possession. Riches or material possession should neither be the center nor goal of our life but rather God should be. God is the source of our life and the ultimate goal of our existence (Acts 17:28). We are called to build our relationship with God, live in righteousness and share what we have with others. Let us reflect on these question; what drives me in life? In what things do I invest my time and effort? Do material possession detach me from God or from others?

Have a blessed Sunday

(Friar Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

26/07/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

GENESIS 18:20-32, PSALM 138:1-3. 6-8, COLOSSIANS 2:12-14, LUKE 11:1-13

We celebrate today the 17th Sunday in ordinary time year C. The readings invite us to reflect on prayer as an important component of our life. Prayer is not just asking God for our needs but also reflects our intimate relationship with Him. Our intimate relationship with God can be nurtured through relentless prayer of confidence and trust in God. In prayer, we encounter a loving Father who knows us and takes care of our welfare. In the first reading, Abraham pleads to God not to destroy the cities of S***m and Gomorrah for the sake of the few righteous ones. Abraham’s boldness to bargain with God does not only reveal his profound confidence and trust in God’s loving-mercy but also expresses his intimate relationship with Him. Prayer is thus a relationship based on love and trust in God and the channel through which we communicate to God about our welfare and that of others. Our gospel passage expresses similar approach to God in prayer. The gospel of Luke presents Jesus always at prayer (Luke 3:21-22, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 29, 22:32, 41-44, 23:46) and thus makes him as a model of prayer for believers. In our gospel, after Jesus finished praying, one of his disciples asked him to teach them to pray as John taught his disciples. The disciples perhaps want to imitate Jesus, their master’s prayer life and intimacy with God. In the Lucan short form of ‘Our Father’, Jesus presents a profound and intimate kind of prayer his disciples ought to have. Luke begins the prayer addressing God as ‘Father’ and not ‘Our Father’ (Mathew 6:9-15), expressing intimacy with God. In the prayer, God’s holiness is revered and that his kingdom ought to reign in human hearts and in the world. Jesus also teaches them to depend on God for their daily needs (material and spiritual) for he loves them and cares for them. In prayer, disciples are to ask for God’s forgiveness and learn to forgive others as they are forgiven. The prayer invites them to ask for God’s help of not succumbing to temptation. Jesus further invites them to be persistent in prayer, in that through prayer, they will experience God’s generous gift of the Holy Spirit which surpasses human gifts. St. Paul in the second reading shows how believer’s intimacy with God has been made possible through baptism – a participation in the death and resurrection of Christ. In baptism, believers have been buried with Christ and raised to new life. As such, believers have their sins forgiven and are able to approach God with confidence and trust as his children.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today’s readings invite us to be men and women of prayer. Prayer is an important component of our faith life. Our life, both physical and spiritual depend on God in that in Him we live, move and have our being (Acts 17:28). As such, we need to be in touch with him always through prayer in order to experience his loving mercy and live with him. Prayer is therefore not just a communication with God or asking something from him but it is also an expression of our intimate relationship with Him; prayer should not be seasonal or situational…it should be constant and persistent (Matthew 26:41, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). In prayer, we come to know God and live in intimate relationship with Him, we come to understand fully our identity as His sons and daughters and the authority we have in Him (John 1:12, 20:17, Romans 8:15-17, Galatians 3:26), we adore and behold God’s Holiness through whom we are sanctified, we make request for our daily needs both corporal and spiritual, through whom we acknowledge our weakness and sins, ask for mercy and show mercy to others, through whom we find the grace to overcome temptations and remain faithful to him amidst temptations or life challenges. Our relationship with God can only thrive and become fruitful when we learn to pray every day without ceasing. The opposite is also true, our relationship with God can become ineffective when we stop praying. May Jesus teach us to pray in Spirit and in truth so that we can live in right relationship with God.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Fr. Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

19/07/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

16TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

GENESIS 18:1-10, PSALM 15:1-5, COLOSSIANS 1:24-28, LUKE 10:38-42

We celebrate today the 16th Sunday in ordinary time year C. The readings invite us to reflect on true Christian service of hospitality centered on listening to Christ Word. By listening to Christ’s Word, we are transformed and formed into vessels of his divine work of salvation for others. In the first reading, Abraham shows hospitality to God through three mysterious men. Despite not knowing the three visitors, Abraham welcomed them, prepared water to wash their feed and provided them with milk and food. As a consequence of his hospitality, Abraham was promised a son the following year. In our gospel passage, Jesus is hosted and welcomed in the house of Martha and Mary. In the house, we are told that Mary sat at Jesus’ feet, listening to his teaching while Martha was distracted with much serving. Martha them asked Jesus to tell Martha to assist her. However, Jesus scolds Martha for being distracted and anxious in her service and that her sister Mary has chosen the better part which will not be taken away from her. Jesus does not disregard Martha’s service but that in her service, she was distracted and anxious and thus she lost concentration. Mary on the other hand was focused by sitting at Jesus’ feet listening to his teaching…a posture of discipleship. In the second reading, we see Paul’s life as a perfect model of true discipleship. St. Paul writes in prison exhorting Colossians to hold on to their Christian faith and not to follow false teaching. Paul sets himself as an example on how he has labored in proclaiming the mystery of God’s salvation amidst suffering for their sake and the body of Christ without giving up. Paul thus sees his suffering as a means to continue spreading God’s saving message to all humanity.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today’s liturgy invites us to reflect on our Christian service of hospitality centered on sitting at Christ feet and listening to him. In the Bible, sitting at the feet signifies learning as a disciple from the teacher (Acts 22:3). In last week’s gospel of the good Samaritan, Jesus’ taught us that the love of God and neighbour can be lived concretely by reaching out to those in need regardless of their social, religious or ethnical affiliation. In today’s gospel, Jesus connects service with the theme of listening to his teaching or word. Martha who was doing service is scolded not because her work was unnecessary but that her service was filled with distractions which made her anxious and thus fail to focus in service. By exalting Mary’s action of sitting at his feet and listening to his teaching, Jesus seeks to remind us that we can learn true service when we sit at his feet and listen to his Words which are spirits and life (John 6:63). Our Christian vocation is a daily invitation to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn. Sitting at Jesus’s feet and listening to him is a perfect hospitality (like Abraham) we can give to God who comes to us in our faith journey. At Jesus’s feet, we are called to focus on him and give all that we are and have. When we do that, we will experience his gentle embrace of love which; understands our human weakness and struggles, nourishes our souls, fills our emptiness and longings, guides and directs our live towards things that matters most in life, fulfils our hope in moments of despair and uncertainties. Furthermore, at Jesus’ feet, we are conformed to the person of Christ like Paul and thus become true servant of others even in times of life challenges. Nevertheless, like Martha, we are overwhelmed by many responsibilities which often make us anxious, distracted, exhausted, frustrated and neglected. In such moments we feel discouraged and lose focus on the Lord we are serving; we begin to work for the Lord and not work with Him. We are therefore invited to nourish our faith at Jesus’ word from whom our life activities draw inspiration and strength from. In other words, when God becomes the only necessary need, our life will become orderly, peaceful and that we will learn to serve others with love
without complaining or feel agitated.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Fr. Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

12/07/2025

SUNDAY READINGS REFLECTION

15TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C

DEUTERONOMY 30:10-14, PSALM 69:14.17. 30-31. 33-37, COLOSSIANS 1:15-20, LUKE 10:25-37

We celebrate today the 15th Sunday in ordinary time year C. The readings invite us to reflect on God’s love and our love him for him and our fellow human beings. God revealed and demonstrated his love through Christ’s paschal mysteries and invites us to love others selflessly and unconditional (1 John 3:16). In the first reading, Moses in his farewell discourse (before his death) implores the Israelites to remain faithful to God’s commandments. Moses tells them that God’s commandments is neither hard nor remote from them but that it is imbedded in their being…in their mouth and in their hearts. By keeping God’s commandments, they acknowledge God’s love revealed to them and respond with willing heart to live according to it and thus remain faithful to the Covenant. In the second reading, Paul expounds on the mystery of God’s selfless love centered on Christ Jesus. Paul implores believers not to follow the false teaching prevalent at that time concerning cosmic spirits believed to control the universe, human beings and alleged to be powerful. In the Christological hymn, Paul presents Christ’s divine identity and superiority over cosmic spirits; Christ is superior to cosmic spirits in that he is the embodiment of God’s presence through whom all things (both visible and invisible) exists. As a result, all created things are subject to him and that he has dominion and power over them. Furthermore, Christ is the head of the Church and that through his death on the cross, they have been reconciled and have life in God. In the gospel, Jesus gives a practical way of keeping God’s commandment of love through good actions that goes beyond laws and rituals. In the passage, Jesus responds to the lawyers testing question with regard to how he can inherit eternal life. Jesus responds with a question on what the Law says…the lawyer responds by quoting Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 which summarize the Law as ‘love of God and neighbour’. To justify himself, the lawyer asks who his neighbour is (probably thinking of a neighbour as fellow Jew). In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus does not tell the lawyer who is his neighbour is but on how he can be a neighbour to others. For Jesus, to inherit eternal life, one ought to go beyond legalism, rituals or ethnic boundaries and be a good neighbour to all especially those in need. In other words, sharing in God life implies imitating God’s selfless and unconditional love that embraces all and wills for their good.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today’s readings invites us to reflect on our love for God and neighbour. Love is the deepest desire of every person. We all want to love and to be loved. The Bible tells us that God is love and that whoever dwells in God ought to love others (1 John 4:7-21). The questions we can ask are; how do we know that we love God? Who should we love? Do those who hate us or have done bad things deserve our love? Many of us think we love God and others because; we pray and fast, we go to church and participate in church programs, we offer financial or material support to the church, we give alms to the poor. All the above activities are indeed pious acts of love for God and others. Nevertheless, our love for God and others will become genuine and fruitful when we begin to reflect God’s selfless and unconditional love (Romans 5:8, 15; John 3:16, 1 John 3:16. 4:9, Luke 6:27-36) in our relationship with others; when we begin to break all forms of barriers that divide us (race, ethnicity, religious, social, political or financial status); when we begin to love, pray and forgive all those who have injured us; when we begin to help others regardless of their identity or status in life; when we begin to heal, console and give hope to others even when our wounds are fresh and painful; when we create time for the people we love and all who need our help despite our busy schedule and various commitments; when we begin to share our resources fairly with others no matter how big or small they are; when we begin to push to the peripheral all forms of injustice, hatred, discord, war, conflict and pave way for peace, unity and respect for human dignity; when we begin to fight and support agendas or laws that promotes the common good and not our selfish motives; when we begin to show sympathy and empathy to the weakness, suffering or pain of others and are moved to help them; when we go an extra mile in helping others even when they do not deserve it; when we are driven by values and ideologies that promotes and safeguards human life and creation, and looks forward with hope to a better future together. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, let us open our hearts to receive God’s love from whom we can learn to love others selflessly and unconditional. May we as Jesus instructed the lawyer to imitate the Good Samaritan by becoming a neighbour to others especially those in need.

Have a blessed Sunday

(Friar Vincent Sichande, Ofm. Conventual)

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