{"id":1489,"date":"2017-07-30T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-07-30T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T10:55:52","slug":"bishop-pates-launches-new-catechism-commissions-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/bishop-pates-launches-new-catechism-commissions-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Pates Launches the  New Catechism and Commissions All to Spread It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Diocese of Karonga has to day, the 29th July, 2017, launched the newly published basic \u00a0catechism book entitled;\u00a0<em>Kasambizgani Mitundu Yose. <\/em>The launch was presided over by\u00a0Bishop Richard Pates of the Catholic Diocese of De Moines who was accompanied by Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga Diocese<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bishop Pates has also commissioned priests, catechists and all \u00a0faithful to go forth and teach it. \u00a0This auspicious occasion took place at St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral of the Diocese of Karonga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also present at the occasion were priests from all the 9 parishes in the Diocese, communication \u00a0secretaries from the Catholic Secretariat in Lilongwe, and from other 7 dioceses in Malawi, the religious; men and women, lay leaders and the Catholic faithful at large.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In his homily and speech, Bishop Pates reiterated the significance of sharing and growing the gift of faith that God has given to His people. He highlighted that catechism is the tool with which \u00a0Catholic Christians can use to grow and spread the faith. In his words, Bishop Mtumbuka indicated that the catechism has been developed in way that makes it easy for readers to grasp the most essential aspects of their faith by using question and answer method of presentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This basic catechism has been developed by translating the English version of the catechism \u00a0used in the Universal Church , into Tumbuka; the liturgical language of the Diocese of Karonga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In order to ensure that every Christian \u00a0in the diocese accesses \u00a0and owns this very important book, the Diocese is selling the book at only K\u00a01,500. This book can be found at the Diocesan bookshop at St. Mary&#8217;s Parish and in bookshops in other parishes of the Diocese.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-170 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cat-2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasambizgani Mitundu Yose: Ivyo Mu Khristu Wali Yose Wakwenera Kumanya Book 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Karonga has to day, the 29th July, 2017, launched the newly published basic \u00a0catechism book entitled;\u00a0Kasambizgani Mitundu Yose. The launch was presided over by\u00a0Bishop Richard Pates of the Catholic Diocese of De Moines who was accompanied by Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga Diocese Bishop Pates has also commissioned priests, catechists and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}