20th Anniversary
My Dearest Friends
On
the 30th of April 2015, I will celebrate my 20th
Anniversary of priestly ordination. Allow me to share something personal. I
want to give thanks to God for the gift of the priesthood of Jesus Christ that I
have been privileged to share with you for the past twenty years.
In
the greater picture of things, 20 years is small amount of time. However in
today's world and context, every single day of priestly fidelity is cause for
thanksgiving and prayer. My context, a priest evangelizing in an Islamic
country for twenty years - A diocesan clergy living in a war zone country like
Sudan.
All
in all these years has gone very fast. Every year whenever I celebrate my
ordination anniversary I ask myself these questions: What was the highlight of
the these past years ? what was my most
significant moment? The great highlight
of my priestly life is the cross. I learned about the meaning of the way of the
cross. The cross represents the standard by which we endeavor to persevere when
we are being persecuted.
In
the last years of my priestly life I experienced a terrible set back, an
internal persecution and dislike by the administration. But thinking of Jesus
and his cross " And he who does not take his cross and follow after me is
not worthy of me" (Mt. 10: 38) I keep carrying on my cross – carrying on
my vocation as priest.
I struggle every year for
been an Ideal priest, in the likeness and image of our Lord. But in front of
temptations I fall again destroying the image of Christ. So the inner struggle
continue I want to be good but I can not
be good and the result of that inner struggle
always tells me you are wasting time you have failed …but when I look at
the disciples who have been chosen I
wake up again to continue ..
Dear please remember me this day and pray
for my vocation thanks
my 20th priestly anniversary
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