{"id":1126,"date":"2018-08-09T06:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T06:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2018-08-09T06:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T06:09:51","slug":"lay-movements-start-annual-retreats-st-francis-shrine-kaseye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/lay-movements-start-annual-retreats-st-francis-shrine-kaseye\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay Movements Start Their Annual Retreats at St Francis Shrine- Kaseye"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Father Joseph Sikwese<\/span><\/h4>\n

The month of August is a very important month for Ecclesial Movements in the Diocese of Karonga.\u00a0 It is the month in which the Pastoral Commission, through the office of the Lay Apostolate organizes annual retreats for Ecclesial Movements at St. Francis Shrine at Kaseye in Chitipa.<\/p>\n

\"Session
Session of Wamama Wa Chitemwano at St Francis Shrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is one of the very precious moments in my life; I reflect on my life as a Christian. It helps me to refresh and gain more strength for my spiritual life. At first I thought retreats are only for priests and religious.\u201d Commented Catherine Muyaba, a member of \u0174amama \u0175a Chitemwano.<\/p>\n

\"Legion
Legion Mary at the St Francis Shrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The retreats started on 1st<\/sup> August with \u0174amama \u0175a Chitemwano and each movement is allocated five days of retreat. The theme for this year is, \u201cDeepening my faith in my Small Christian Community.\u201d The retreats are officially opened or closed with Mass by the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Martin Anwel Mtumbuka. During the opening Mass for the retreat of the Legion of Mary, the Bishop appealed to the Legionaries to pray for the Church, their priests and families.<\/p>\n

The programme of retreats is as follows:<\/p>\n

1St<\/sup> August to 5th<\/sup> August \u0174amama \u0175a Chitemwano<\/p>\n

6th <\/sup>August to 10th<\/sup> August Legion of Mary<\/p>\n

10th<\/sup> August to 14th<\/sup> August Catholic Elderly Men of the Sacred Heart of Jesus<\/p>\n

15th<\/sup> August to 19th<\/sup> August Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi<\/p>\n

20th<\/sup> August to 24th<\/sup> August Lay Marianists.<\/p>\n

\"Father
Father Joseph Sikwese preaching in one of the sessions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Francis Shrine used to be the Parish Church of St. Michael\u2019s from 1949 until 1999 when the mission centre was moved from Kaseye to Chitipa Boma. In 2015 Bishop Mtumbuka declared Kaseye Church to be Shrine were different groups in the Church can use for retreats or prayers. The Shrine is dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Father Joseph Sikwese The month of August is a very important month for Ecclesial Movements in the Diocese of Karonga.\u00a0 It is the month in which the Pastoral Commission, through the office of the Lay Apostolate organizes annual retreats for Ecclesial Movements at St. Francis Shrine at Kaseye in Chitipa. \u201cThis is one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastoral-commission"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}