KENYA: Bishop Muheria urges CUEA staff and students to inculcate in themselves a love and admiration of nature
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| Rt Rev Anthony Muheria |
The Bishop member of the Board of
Trustees of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) Rt Rev Anthony
Muheria has urged CUEA staff and students alike to inculcate in themselves a
love and admiration of nature.
Speaking during the convocation
Ceremony held at CUEA- Lang’ata Main campus on August 27, 2015 where he was the
chief guest at the event, Bishop Muheria,
while quoting Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Laudato Si, reminded the
CUEA community not to be enslaved in a Technocracy, where technology dictates
life, emptying man of the capacity of relating and engaging nature.
Ceremony held at CUEA- Lang’ata Main campus on August 27, 2015 where he was the
chief guest at the event, Bishop Muheria,
while quoting Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Laudato Si, reminded the
CUEA community not to be enslaved in a Technocracy, where technology dictates
life, emptying man of the capacity of relating and engaging nature.
He urged staff and students to
look for possibilities of creating more human relationships with others and
with God.
look for possibilities of creating more human relationships with others and
with God.
“We are greatly challenged by the
emptying of the capacity to wonder that technology, digital connectedness has
produced in society. We seem not to have time, or to have lost the capacity to
stand in awe before a sunset or sun rise, or to contemplate the beauty of
nature and landscapes, to wonder at the small things around us of nature: the
engineering prowess of the ant in the air-conditioned ant hill, the
connectedness of nature where a honey seeker, a bird, talks to a badger, an
animal,” he said adding that “We need to rediscover the beauty of music and
discover Beauty itself because it is a doorway to the Truth.”
emptying of the capacity to wonder that technology, digital connectedness has
produced in society. We seem not to have time, or to have lost the capacity to
stand in awe before a sunset or sun rise, or to contemplate the beauty of
nature and landscapes, to wonder at the small things around us of nature: the
engineering prowess of the ant in the air-conditioned ant hill, the
connectedness of nature where a honey seeker, a bird, talks to a badger, an
animal,” he said adding that “We need to rediscover the beauty of music and
discover Beauty itself because it is a doorway to the Truth.”
Bishop Muheria also warned
against situations whereby students are taught for the sake of passing exams.
“If we are only to teach them how to pass exams we would have betrayed the very
spirit of University, we would have dehumanized them, de-perfecting their very humanity,” he said.
against situations whereby students are taught for the sake of passing exams.
“If we are only to teach them how to pass exams we would have betrayed the very
spirit of University, we would have dehumanized them, de-perfecting their very humanity,” he said.
He noted that the Catholic
Identity the university was insisting on, should be seen through transmission
of human values and qualities, transforming boys and girls to competent
leaders, into virtuous, ethical and upright people, based on the Catholic
style.
Identity the university was insisting on, should be seen through transmission
of human values and qualities, transforming boys and girls to competent
leaders, into virtuous, ethical and upright people, based on the Catholic
style.
SOURCE:
AMECEA Online News Reporter
AMECEA Online News Reporter
