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There are times, in our lives, when God allows things to happen and we ask: “ why has it to be this way?” The innocent who suffer. The young children who die. The parents taken way from their family by sickness and death. The cripple who drags himself on the street. The poor and the weak who suffer from injustice. […]

Grey hair portrays wisdom. In the days of yore our great grandparents would sit around a fire place and narrate educative stories to the youngsters. These stories made them very brave and determined to face the future. They were taught how to overcome difficulties and thereafter instill good into them. However, it’s sad that everything has vanished and perished in the wilderness. We began to wait for a renaissance which I think to be a dream.

In the early years of the 19^th Century, there was a young gentleman named John Melchior Bosco. Through sheer hard work and persistent studies he was ordained a Priest for abandoned youth. He eventually came up with the idea of The Oratory where he could gather them on a Sunday for Christian upbringing. He gave ample time for games apart from music and Sunday instruction. But a singular feature of the day was “The Good-Night-Talk” before the boys could head for slumber. And to this day the Salesians of Don Bosco have been faithful to this Tradition of the Good Night. Is this not the renaissance I have been dreaming of? 

This is a typical Sunday Mass at Don Bosco CALM-Kira. Our boys are in their best attire. Outsiders; men, women and children dressed in colorful outfits also join us in the Eucharistic Worship. Gradually our beautiful Chapel of Don Bosco, a marvel to behold at fills up. The hymn is sung and the eyes are turned to the procession that comes in. In comparison with all other churches, at Don Bosco CALM everyone participates in the singing bit the choristers or the congregation and this makes the Mass our own Mass. The faithful always erupt into singing to the top of their voices to the accompaniment of the piano, guitar and drums.

Suddenly the faithful feel sorry for their sins thereafter comes the Word of the Lord where Jesus Christ talks to us Himself through the Priest. The Word touches our hearts and calls for our spiritual transition. Nevertheless some words make us smile or even laugh because they seem interesting.

  On a very cold morning he woke up and said, “God, when am I finishing this O’ level journey?” and indeed he had nothing to do other than putting on his uniform and going to school. Time never stood still, by now he was in vacation saying, “God when is this vacation going to end?”On the 20th of March […]

Suddenly on a Saturday morning, Fr Jean Marie wakes up and orders the children to shave off their hair. Everyone is surprised and in suspense they also ask, “What is wrong with Father  Jean Marie” not until later that they understand it is general cleanliness that he wants of us.I may say that the hair upstairs reflects the hair downstairs […]

The confrere of the four houses of Uganda were punctual for the first quarterly retreat of this  2014.Fr.arasu the Rector of Kamuli was already there in the chapel  of Namugongo, welcoming all the forteen confrere of this country. With a brief introduction and a short prayer. Fr.Arasu started the talk on “Don Bosco Mystic and Educator” which was an appropriate topic for the day. As he talked, he strengthened his  points with few frames from the power point programme he had prepared for this occasion. He concluded his talk with a moving prayer , he projected on the screen.

As we know, with passage of time things get old and so they need to either be replaced or renovated. The first renovation is the painting of “house five” dormitory. All the boys who were sleeping in the house, were shifted to other houses that is to say, house one, house two and house four leaving out house three for visitors. The renovation involved painting of the walls, the ceiling and the doors too. It aims at making the houses clean and bringing it to its original appearance. This worker was carried out by engineer Oneni Fred who is a past pupil of St John Bosco Vocational Training Center Bombo owned by the Salesians and assisted by Mawejje Steven who is a boy of the place and also a past pupil of Bombo.

 

Before all else we are sincerely grateful to the Salesians of Don Bosco CALM apart for having provided  us with board and lodge, generously paid our school fees from senior One to senior Four. And because of this good support, we completed senior four with a second  grade. We cannot forget the school authorities of Majorine College who helped us […]

It was on 3 of December 2013 a Tuesday when we officially had our holiday. Actually we were supposed to have it on 2 of December but due to load- shedding that day, staff members were not able to prepare the traveling documents and which were processed on the following day.On 3 of December, we woke up early in the morning and had some home work till 9:00 am, Uncle Paul the organizer told us to prepare  ourselves saying  he wanted to go to town. So he gave us money for  transport.