Dear Friends,
I wish to congratulate Fr. Nyawir for finally making it to priesthood. I believe he shall do everything possible to make his calling a success. I do appreciate the cautionary approach most of us are taking of course its a new thing and we need to control our emotions and indeed use our brains.
REDEEMED ROMAN CATHOLIC, OR REFORMED ROMAN CATHOLIC whatever you want to call it even RENEGADE ROMAN CATHOLIC it still ends up being RRC! What I want to say is this, Nyawir deserved this, at least he never defected to any of the noise making so called pentecostal church like societies, he was patient and finally got a place he can rest and worship his God. What would you have done, having been denied your desire to be a priest seven years after struggling? When you go to address your problems with the relevant authorities they do not listen to you instead they excommunicate you from the church, there is no need for the Cardinal Njue to excommunicate him now, they had done it before. It is time the mainstream church realized that we are continuosly getting options and if they play it hard, we shall not have cassoc wearers in our pulpit. Treat people equally and restpect other peoples opinion however divergent they may be.
I have known the family of the Nyawirs for quite a long time apart from Fr. Nyawir, i knew the late Paul Nyawir, Orusi, Okullo and the parents. This family was a blessed familiy if I have to say this......Getting a family where more than two sons aspire to be priests is not easy especially when they are also the JARUOS Museveni was referring to who believe that the sons must get married in order to carry on the family lineage. The kind of stigma people label on you when you fail to be a priest when all along for seven years they have known that you have been working towards being a priest is DEADLY. I am glad Nyawir never went to a depression but kept on working and praying that one day God shall make his dream come true.
My Brothers and Sisters, let us not pretend that we do not know completely what has been going on....... I may be wrong in assuming this, however, how many people have been expelled from our seminaries because they come from the wrong families or regions? How many have been expelled because they do not agree with some things, or basically because they do not say yes to everything they are told...........DIVERGENCE in opinion is a healthy thing in the society and the superious ( you will excuse my language I never entered those seminaries ) whom we assume to have mastered phylosophy and theology should not find it offending if they are put on the defensive.
Last but not least, I want to talk about the Late Paul Nyawir, the brother to Fr. Nyawir, I had the oppoturnity of meeting with him a number of times when he was alive and even at his death bed at the Nairobi Hospital. This was a gentleman with a strong desire to serve God and his people, was patient however, was frustrated by the forces that be............when he was dying he was called a priest I do not know if that was the right title, I never attended his burial I could not take it. I do not understand why an african has to take seven or more years to become a priest when an american takes a shorter time to be one. How many of you have met Former american marines or teachers who became priests latter after studying for less than the so called seven years? Does it mean we are daft? There is a problem and it MUST be addressed. If we don't then our churches and cathedrals will be converted to museums and hostels as is the case in some parts of Europe.
God bless you all and take time before you join the RENEGADE ROMAN CATHOLIC church but if you have to, I wish you well.
Regards,
Emmanuel Okwach
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