Global Community: Tanzania Summer 2011: 07/07/11

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This blog ("web log") is compiled by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDS to share the stories of our four Sisters who sojourn in Tanzania this summer, June- July 2011. The information below is from their emails; we've edited it for clarity.

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Lupaso: S. Jeanette

The memory of S. Mary Jude is fresh in the joyful clapping of this 86 year old gentleman, Muheya. "She is my friend", he says. Muheya had been sick in bed for three days. He told us he came to the Lupaso area in 1939 to attend the 1st secondary school in southeast Tanzania. He married and stayed here. He has many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. One of his grandsons is a priest in this diocese. He sang a Latin Gregorian hymn for us.

Throughout our trip I realize we stand on the shoulders of the USA Salvatorians that did missionary work here. S. Mary Jude's presence surely lives on the boiling water that rinsed all our dishes.