WORKS OF ST. THERESA OF CALCUTTA CONTINUES IN KENYA

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Following the footsteps of St. Theresa of Calcutta in serving the most vulnerable in the society

The Missionary Sisters of Charity in the Catholic Diocese of Maralal are a happy lot with a renewed faith and zeal to serve the poorest of the poor after their foundress Mother Theresa of Calcutta was made a saint on 4th, September, 2016.

In an exclusive interview with Waumini News Today, Sr. Jane Maria MC said, the sisters received the news of canonization with a lot of joy. “I was so happy that Mother Theresa has been made a saint, I lived with her in Calcutta for a year and I am excited that one of the people I knew personally is a Saint because I am sure she continues praying for me and the others”.

The sisters who follow closely into the footsteps of St. Theresa of Calcutta serve in the remotest and inaccessible villages of Samburu County inhabited by the Samburu, Pokot and Turkana people who are mostly illiterate pastoralists.

According to Sr. Maria MC, they rescue infants as young as one day old whose mothers have died, nurse and feed the elderly, preach to the alcohol addicts at their drinking den and invite them for daily Mass at the sisters’ convent. They also visit different communities to evangelise and to advocate against Female Genital Mutilation and early marriages for young girls. Instead, they encourage parents to educate all children.

Every Saturday two or three sisters led by Sr. Jenny Rozario MC go to a village known as Malasso at the Great Rift Valley which is 8,000 feet above the see level to meet a community who have not been evangelized at all. “It takes us three hours to descend to the valley, we then take about one hour to rest as we wait for the community members to come to the market, after which we take about two hours to tell them about God with the help of a trained local catechist after which it takes us another three hours or more to ascend to the top of the valley.” Sr. Maria MC said.

The Missionary Sisters of Mercy in Maralal are currently educating 11 street children in a boarding school, take care of 15 children between 0- 5 years after which they reunite them with their extended family members or give them for adoption.

Sr. Maria is happy that through their Catechism classes, two primary school going girls from Malasso village in the Great Rift Valley have received the Sacrament of Baptism after successfully attending catechism classes.

 By Rose Achiego, Waumini communication
 

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