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        <title><![CDATA[Spiritual Life through Reflections, Meditations and Contemplations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some meditations, reflections and contemplations according to the Christian tradition which attempt to go beyond the ordinariness of life]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Important Notice!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, I am very grateful to all those who continue to consult and read on this website. Unfortunately, I have been unable to run two different websites on the same time. Therefore, I strongly recommend to all those who are interested to pursue... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Guardian Angels]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Guardian Angels Feast Day on the 2 nd of October The Greek term ANGELOS gave ANGEL in English and means MESSENGER, a walking and running swiftly one, he is to be sent in order to carry a verbal or written message to a precise addressee. This term... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Proclaiming the Gospel and Life]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here is an article which was published in the Magazine 'Petit Echo' of the Missionaries of Africa, January 2013 Proclaiming the Gospel and Life A Preliminary Draft of an Inventory of Socio-cultural Values in Tanzania ‘In Encounter and Dialogue with believers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Journalistic Interview - February 2013]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here is the translation of an article published in a local newspaper called ‘Orne Combattante’, on February 14 th 2013, without the cuts imposed by the format of the journal. Orne Combattante: How have you decided to go for a mission in Tanzania? Why... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Message and News, End of the Year 2012]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[October 25 th 2012 Dear friends and benefactors, Here comes the time to offer you some news! I do hope that you are well and that this finishing year 2012 has been kind to you. Presently, I am still serving the rural parish of Kasamwa, within the area... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Butterfly]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[One day, a little hole appeared from the cocoon. A man who happened to be passing by stopped for long hours in order to witness to what was to happen next. The butterfly was making efforts to get out of the cocoon passing by this tiny hole. After quite... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mantra of Life and Death]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, there was a teacher, a guru who had many followers. They came from all over to listen, to learn wisdom and enlightenment and to be liberated from their desires and needs. There were classes and one-on-one apprenticeships. At the end... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Jeweller]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Jeweller Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a small kingdom. It wasn’t great, and it wasn’t really known for any of its resources or people. But the king did have a diamond, a great perfect diamond that had been in his family for generations.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Publication of a Collection of Tanzanian Proverbs]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sometimes around Easter 2012, a book entitled ‘Nchi za Ng’wanza Hutangaza Injili’ (The Countries of Ng’wanza Announce Life) will be published in Swahili. Here is a translation of its introduction which offers a presentation of the book together with some... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Missionary Apostolate in Kasamwa (Tanzania)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dear friends and benefactors, First of all I would like to wish happy New Year to all of you! We do not know what is in store for us in this year 2012 but indeed we hope for the best! A new year is an occasion for me to give some news. I still work in... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Missionary Family in Tanzania]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Missionaries of Africa – Tanzania West Sector This is a picture taken in Nyakahoja (Mwanza, Tanzania) on the 6th of October 2011 at the occasion of a ‘sector meeting’. Sitting from left to right : Br. Lito Doguiles (from the Philippines, now in Tabora),... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Prayer and Daily Life: Fighting Against Colour Thieves!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[L e t ’s f i g h t ag a i n s t c o l o u r thie v e s ! L e t ’ s c o l o u r o u r day s ! What is the impact of prayer in our daily life ? A faithful reader of this website (which is mainly about Christian spirituality) has recently challenged me to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Enduring Violence and Discrimination Against the Albino People in East Africa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Each and every human being is created in the image and likeness of God: a mission There is a social phenomenon particularly heartbreaking which is presently exercised against a social minority in Tanzania where I am residing for more than ten years: violence... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Christmas in Tanzania]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Christmas in Tanzania December. People from the different villages surrounding Kasamwa (Tanzania) prepare themselves for Christmas festivities. Families are enjoying the presence of their respective children as December is the period of some extended... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Matthew 22: 15-22 or Jesus’ Restoration of the Spiritual Realm]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Matthew 22: 15-22 or Jesus’ Restoration of the Spiritual Realm 29 th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A The Gospel Text ‘Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Crisis of the Donkeys]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Crisis of the Donkeys I usually avoid the ‘copy and paste’ easy solution in order to feed article for a blogsite. However, I resolved myself for this exception because of its importance in today’s economy. This article was found in French on the excellent... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Easy Mistakes About Glory]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Easy Mistakes About Glory *** “Glory and Honour to You O Jesus Christ!” *** “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the Beginning and Ever shall be, World without End!” *** “Through Him, With Him and In Him, In the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Matthew 5:9-10 : Is Justice and Peace for Children of God Only?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Is Justice and Peace for Children of God Only? Witches in 2011 June 2011. I received a phone call from a Catechist of a village situated about 30 kilometres away from the mission. A young man of about 30 years old had just passed away. He had some responsibilities... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Net and Web: Catching Fish or Promoting Humanity?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Net and Web: Catching Fish or Promoting Humanity? The English term ‘Internet’ stems from the root ‘net’ which initially is a trap as for instance, a ‘fish-trap’. Also, the word ‘web’ conveys the same idea if we remember what a ‘cobweb’ or a ‘spider web’... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[It is in the stomach that food does its work]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is in the stomach that food does its work A Simplistic Proverb? It is not always wise to trust one’s own feelings. More than once I made this experience and the last time I did so, it was about an African proverb which I first found to be too simplistic... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Matthew 3, 17: Baptism as a tool promoting freedom and dignity]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Matthew 3, 17: Baptism as a tool promoting freedom and dignity to use without restraint Child of one’s surrounding or child of one’s God? It is the story of an eagle egg which one day fell down from its nest. A passer-by picked it up, as it was untarnished... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Those who bath in the same pound cannot hide the secrets of their bodies]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[‘Those who bath in the same pound cannot hide the secrets of their bodies’ Let us consider the proverb which says in the Kizinza language (North-West Tanzania): ‘abooga echambo chimo, tibeseleka nzuula,’ and which could be translated into the English:... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Big Fish Are Best Caught With Big Fish-Hooks]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Big Fish Are Best Caught With Big Fish-Hooks A proverb from the Kerewe language (North-West Tanzania) says ‘emphiempango ekukwatwa nilobho ihango’ which could be translated into English as follows: ‘big fish are caught with big fish hooks’. As Ukerewe... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Margaret: Compared Stories]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Margaret: Compared Stories Saint Margaret: An Old Story (from The Golden Legend as reported in Wikipedia) Saint Margaret the Virgin also known as Margaret of Antioch (died in 304) is remembered in the Western Churches on July 20 th and in the Eastern... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[God's Best Friends]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Could it Be That Trees are God’s Best Friends? Extracts from a letter from the Reverend Father Auguste Durand, Spiritan Missionary to his cousins and friends, Father Charles Angot (Parish Priest of Randonnai, Orne) and his sister Louise. This letter was... ]]></description>
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