New administration under Samia Suluhu gives hope after 5 years of hopelessness

New administration under Samia Suluhu gives hope after 5 years of hopelessness

Siku moja jamaa mmoja alichinja ng'ombe mnono na akachoma vizuri, baadaye akamwambia mke wake: "NENDA NA KAWAALIKE MARAFIKI NA MAJIRANI ZETU WAJE TULE NYAMA."

Basi mke mtu akatoka nje na kuanza kupiga kelele: "OH JAMANI MOTOO, TUNAOMBA MSAADA! MSAADA !! MOTOOO NYUMBANI KWETU !!!"
Kweli ghafla watu walitoka majumbani kwao lakini wengine walijifanya hawasikii chochote.

Basi wale walioingia ndani ya fensi ya nyumba hiyo walijikuta mbele ya "ndafu kubwa" ambapo walikula na kunywa hadi wakasaza.

Lakini baadaye yule jamaa alimgeukia mke wake, akamwuliza: "LAKINI MKE WANGU MBONA WALE ULIOWAALIKA SIWAJUI HATA MMOJA, WENGINE HATA SIJAWAHI KUWAONA. WAKO WAPI MARAFIKI NA MAJIRANI ZETU NILIKUAMBIA UWAAALIKE?"

Mke wake alijibu: "HAWA NDIO MAJIRANI NA MARAFIKI ZETU, WALE WALIOTOKA NYUMBANI KWAO KUTUOKOA SISI NA NYUMBA YETU. WANASTAHILI HESHIMA HII KWA SABABU HAWAKUTARAJIA KUPATA CHOCHOTE KWETU."

NOTE: Akufaaye kwa dhiki ndiye rafiki wa kweli.
 
APRIL 5TH 2023

WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK

FIRST READING
“I hid not my face from shame and spitting” (Third song of the servant of the Lord)
ISAIAH 50: 4 - 9a

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty?

The Word of the Lord.


RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 69: 8 - 10, 21 - 22, 31 and 33 - 34 (R.) 14c, b

R/. In your great mercy, answer me, O God, For a time of your favour.

It is for you that I suffer taunts,
that shame has covered my face.
To my own kin I have become an outcast,
a stranger to the children of my mother.
Zeal for your house consumes me,
and taunts against you fall on me. R/.

Taunts have broken my heart;
here I am in anguish.
I looked for solace, but there was none;
for consolers — not one could I find.
For food they gave me gall;
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. R/.

Then I will praise God’s name with a song;
I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
The poor when they see it will be glad,
and God-seeking hearts will revive;
for the Lord listens to the needy,
and does not spurn his own in their chains. R/.


VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL

Glory and praise to you, O Christ.
Hail, our King: you alone have had mercy on our failings!
Glory and praise to you, O Christ.


GOSPEL
“The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!”
MATTHEW 26: 14 - 25

At that time: One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to such a one, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’ And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve disciples; and as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me. The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Is it I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said so.”

The Gospel of the Lord.
 
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APRIL 6TH 2023

THURSDAY OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

HOLY THURSDAY/ MAUNDY THURSDAY

FIRST READING
The law for the Passover meal.
EXODUS 12: 1 - 8, 11 - 14

In those days: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbour next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening. Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. “In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.”

The Word of the Lord.


RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 116: 12 - 13, 15 and 16bc, 17 - 18 (R.) 1st Cor 10: 16

R/. The cup of blessing is a participation in the blood of Christ.

How can I repay the Lord
for all his goodness to me?
The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the name of the Lord. R/.

How precious in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his faithful.
Your servant am I, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosened my bonds. R/.

A thanksgiving sacrifice I make;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
My vows to the Lord I will fulfil before all his people. R/.


SECOND READING
“As often as you eat this bread and drink the chalice, you proclaim the Lord’s death.”
1ST CORINTHIANS 11: 23 - 26

Brethren: I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the chalice, after supper, saying, “This chalice is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the chalice, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

The Word of the Lord.


VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL
John 13: 34

Glory and praise to you, O Christ.
A new commandment I give to you, says the Lord, that you love one another even as I have loved you.
Glory and praise to you, O Christ.


GOSPEL
“He loved them to the end."
JOHN 13: 1 - 15

Before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not all of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.” When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.”

The Gospel of the Lord.
 
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