TANZANIA: ‘Be brave to face the Challenges of life’ – Apostolic Nuncio Padilla tells Religious
The Outgoing Apostolic Nuncio to Tanzania Most Rev Francisco Montecillo Padilla has asked religious sisters to be brave enough to face the challenges they face in their lives.
Archbishop Padilla was bidding farewell to Women Religious Superiors ((TCAS) during their annual meeting that was held recently at TEC, Kurasini centre in Dar es Salaam, before he takes his new responsibility as Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait.
Most Rev Padilla said that his five-year mission in Tanzania has given him extensive experience through pastoral visits he made in various dioceses. He also thanked for the cooperation and sincere love that he received from them during his mission in the country, adding that he is not an angel and therefore apologized to those whom he did not meet their expectations.
He said that nuns are called to be compassionate as the Heavenly Father is, and to heal the wounds of the society around them bringing them together in God’s mercy.
He has asked them to help each other in solving their problems instead of condemning each other or leave someone to suffer alone. “A nun in your communities should not be left alone as she faces some problems, instead she should be helped; it has to be a task of the whole community to solve it,” said Archbishop Padilla.
He said the Holy Jubilee year of the Divine Mercy provides an invitation to every male and female religious to devout himself or herself to the service of God’s people all over the world.
“The Divine Mercy emphasizes dialogue and discussion in discerning the various challenges of your communities,” he said.
The apostolic nuncio asked for their prayers as he takes his new mission in the Arab countries.
By: Adeline Berchimance, Dar es salaam
