{"id":191,"date":"2017-08-09T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:01:44","slug":"wamama-wachitemwano-women-charity-conclude-annual-retreat-kaseye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wamama-wachitemwano-women-charity-conclude-annual-retreat-kaseye\/","title":{"rendered":"Wamama Wachitemwano (Women of Charity) Conclude their Annual Retreat at Kaseye"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Benjamin Msowoya<\/p>\n

On 6th<\/sup> August 2017, 331 Wamama Wachitemwano, a Devotional Group in the Diocese of Karonga, concluded their annual retreat at St Francis of Assisi Shrine in Kaseye, Chitipa.\u00a0\u00a0 The retreat was organized by the Lay Apostolate Desk and targeted all Wamama Wachitemwano in the Diocese of Karonga.\u00a0\u00a0 The retreat started on \u00a02 \u00a0August 2017 and closed on 6 August with a Eucharistic celebration which was presided over by the Vicar General, Mons. Denis Chitete.<\/p>\n

Since 2016, the Lay Apostolate Desk has been organizing \u00a0annual retreat sessions for all the lay movements and devotional groups in the Diocese.\u00a0 This is aimed at giving some sacred space and time to members of \u00a0lay movements to seriously reflect on their lives.\u00a0 Each lay movement or devotional group is allocated days on which they can have a retreat at St Francis of Assisi Shrine in Kaseye, Chitipa.<\/p>\n

For this year, 2017, the first group to go for the retreats were Wamama Wachitemwano.\u00a0 During their retreat, the women reflected on their lives guided by the following thematic areas.<\/p>\n

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  1. My Father\u2019s House (Kutumbika Nyumba ya Wadada)<\/li>\n
  2. Faith (Chipulikano)<\/li>\n
  3. Responsible Parenthood (Upapi Wahamala Mchikaya)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The women also had time for communal prayers, including Mass, as well as time to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.<\/p>\n

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    By Benjamin Msowoya On 6th August 2017, 331 Wamama Wachitemwano, a Devotional Group in the Diocese of Karonga, concluded their annual retreat at St Francis of Assisi Shrine in Kaseye, Chitipa.\u00a0\u00a0 The retreat was organized by the Lay Apostolate Desk and targeted all Wamama Wachitemwano in the Diocese of Karonga.\u00a0\u00a0 The retreat started on \u00a02 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","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\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/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=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}