Thursday, February 28, 2013
SOMA HOTUBA YA PAPA JANA YA KUWAAGA WAKATOLIKI WOTE DUNIANI
Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood!
Distinguished Authorities!
Dear brothers and sisters!
Thank you for coming in such large numbers to this last General Audience of my pontificate.
Like the Apostle Paul in the biblical text that we have heard, I feel in my heart the paramount duty to thank God, who guides the Church and makes her grow: who sows His Word and thus nourishes the faith in His people. At this moment my spirit reaches out to embrace the whole Church throughout the world, and I thank God for the “news” that in these years of Petrine ministry I have been able to receive regarding the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity that circulates in the body of the Church – charity that makes the Church to live in love – and of the hope that opens for us the way towards the fullness of life, and directs us towards the heavenly homeland.
I feel I [ought to] carry everyone in prayer, in a present that is God’s, where I recall every meeting, every voyage, every pastoral visit. I gather everyone and every thing in prayerful recollection, in order to entrust them to the Lord: in order that we might have full knowledge of His will, with every wisdom and spiritual understanding, and in order that we might comport ourselves in a manner that is worthy of Him, of His, bearing fruit in every good work (cf. Col 1:9-10).
At this time, I have within myself a great trust [in God], because I know – all of us know – that the Gospel’s word of truth is the strength of the Church: it is her life. The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith, this is my joy.
When, almost eight years ago, on April 19th, [2005], I agreed to take on the Petrine ministry, I held steadfast in this certainty, which has always accompanied me. In that moment, as I have already stated several times, the words that resounded in my heart were: “Lord, what do you ask of me? It a great weight that You place on my shoulders, but, if You ask me, at your word I will throw out the nets, sure that you will guide me” – and the Lord really has guided me. He has been close to me: daily could I feel His presence. [These years] have been a stretch of the Church’s pilgrim way, which has seen moments joy and light, but also difficult moments. I have felt like St. Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us, as in the whole history of the Church it has ever been - and the Lord seemed to sleep. Nevertheless, I always knew that the Lord is in the barque, that the barque of the Church is not mine, not ours, but His - and He shall not let her sink. It is He, who steers her: to be sure, he does so also through men of His choosing, for He desired that it be so. This was and is a certainty that nothing can tarnish. It is for this reason, that today my heart is filled with gratitude to God, for never did He leave me or the Church without His consolation, His light, His love.
We are in the Year of Faith, which I desired in order to strengthen our own faith in God in a context that seems to push faith more and more toward the margins of life. I would like to invite everyone to renew firm trust in the Lord. I would like that we all, entrust ourselves as children to the arms of God, and rest assured that those arms support us and us to walk every day, even in times of struggle. I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave His Son for us and showed us His boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian. In a beautiful prayer to be recited daily in the morning says, “I adore you, my God, I love you with all my heart. I thank You for having created me, for having made me a Christian.” Yes, we are happy for the gift of faith: it is the most precious good, that no one can take from us! Let us thank God for this every day, with prayer and with a coherent Christian life. God loves us, but He also expects that we love Him!
At this time, however, it is not only God, whom I desire to thank. A Pope is not alone in guiding St. Peter’s barque, even if it is his first responsibility – and I have not ever felt myself alone in bearing either the joys or the weight of the Petrine ministry. The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the Church, have helped me and been close to me. First of all you, dear Brother Cardinals: your wisdom, your counsels, your friendship, were all precious to me. My collaborators, starting with my Secretary of State, who accompanied me faithfully over the years, the Secretariat of State and the whole Roman Curia, as well as all those who, in various areas, give their service to the Holy See: the many faces which never emerge, but remain in the background, in silence, in their daily commitment, with a spirit of faith and humility. They have been for me a sure and reliable support. A special thought [goes] to the Church of Rome, my diocese! I can not forget the Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, the consecrated persons and the entire People of God: in pastoral visits, in public encounters, at Audiences, in traveling, I have always received great care and deep affection; I also loved each and every one, without exception, with that pastoral charity which is the heart of every shepherd, especially the Bishop of Rome, the Successor of the Apostle Peter. Every day I carried each of you in my prayers, with the father's heart.
I wish my greetings and my thanks to reach everyone: the heart of a Pope expands to [embrace] the whole world. I would like to express my gratitude to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See, which makes present the great family of nations. Here I also think of all those who work for good communication, whom I thank for their important service.
At this point I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to all the many people throughout the whole world, who, in recent weeks have sent me moving tokens of concern, friendship and prayer. Yes, the Pope is never alone: now I experience this [truth] again in a way so great as to touch my very heart. The Pope belongs to everyone, and so many people feel very close to him. It’s true that I receive letters from the world's greatest figures - from the Heads of State, religious leaders, representatives of the world of culture and so on. I also receive many letters from ordinary people who write to me simply from their heart and let me feel their affection, which is born of our being together in Christ Jesus, in the Church. These people do not write me as one might write, for example, to a prince or a great figure one does not know. They write as brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, with the sense of very affectionate family ties. Here, one can touch what the Church is – not an organization, not an association for religious or humanitarian purposes, but a living body, a community of brothers and sisters in the Body of Jesus Christ, who unites us all. To experience the Church in this way and almost be able to touch with one’s hands the power of His truth and His love, is a source of joy, in a time in which many speak of its decline.
In recent months, I felt that my strength had decreased, and I asked God with insistence in prayer to enlighten me with His light to make me take the right decision – not for my sake, but for the good of the Church. I have taken this step in full awareness of its severity and also its novelty, but with a deep peace of mind. Loving the Church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the Church and not one’s own.
Here allow me to return once again to April 19, 2005. The gravity of the decision was precisely in the fact that from that moment on I was committed always and forever by the Lord. Always – he, who assumes the Petrine ministry no longer has any privacy. He belongs always and totally to everyone, to the whole Church. His life is, so to speak, totally deprived of the private sphere. I have felt, and I feel even in this very moment, that one receives one’s life precisely when he offers it as a gift. I said before that many people who love the Lord also love the Successor of Saint Peter and are fond of him, that the Pope has truly brothers and sisters, sons and daughters all over the world, and that he feels safe in the embrace of their communion, because he no longer belongs to himself, but he belongs to all and all are truly his own.
The “always” is also a “forever” - there is no returning to private life. My decision to forgo the exercise of active ministry, does not revoke this. I do not return to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences and so on. I do not abandon the cross, but remain in a new way near to the Crucified Lord. I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the Church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter’s bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as Pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.
I thank each and every one of you for the respect and understanding with which you have welcomed this important decision. I continue to accompany the Church on her way through prayer and reflection, with the dedication to the Lord and to His Bride, which I have hitherto tried to live daily and that I would live forever. I ask you to remember me before God, and above all to pray for the Cardinals, who are called to so important a task, and for the new Successor of Peter, that the Lord might accompany him with the light and the power of His Spirit.
Let us invoke the maternal intercession of Mary, Mother of God and of the Church, that she might accompany each of us and the whole ecclesial community: to her we entrust ourselves, with deep trust.
Dear friends! God guides His Church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the Church and the world. In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that He does not abandon us, that He is near to us and that He surrounds us with His love.
Thank you!
PAPA BENEDICTI LEO NDIO ANASTAAFU RASMI
MNYIKA ALIA NA MGAO WA UMEME
Mbunge wa jimbo la Ubungo-Chadema Mh John Mnyika-
Nchi imeingia tena katika mgawo wa umeme kinyume na ahadi iliyotolewa na Waziri wa Nishati na Madini Prof Sospeter Muhongo bungeni tarehe 28 Julai 2012. Hali hiyo ni matokeo ya Serikali kutozingatia tahadhari niliyoitoa bungeni tarehe 27 Julai 2012 kwa niaba ya Kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani na kwa nyakati mbalimbali kwa nafasi yangu ya Waziri Kivuli wa Nishati na Madini juu ya hali tete iliyotarajiwa kuwepo na hatua zinazopaswa kuchukuliwa katika utekelezaji wa mpango wa dharura wa umeme.
Ikiwa ni sehemu ya wajibu wa kibunge wa kuisimamia Serikali nawataka viongozi na watendaji wa Wizara ya Nishati na Madini na Shirika la Umeme Nchini (TANESCO) kuacha kuficha hali ya mambo na kuwaeleza ukweli wananchi kuhusu mgawo wa umeme uliojitokeza na hatua za haraka zinazochukuliwa kurekebisha hali hiyo.
Iwapo Wizara na TANESCO hawatatoa matangazo ya ukweli kwa wananchi, kwa nafasi yangu ya Waziri Kivuli wa Nishati na Madini nitaeleza vyanzo vya mgawo wa umeme uliojitokeza ili hatua ziweze kuchukuliwa wakati huu ambapo wajumbe wa kamati ya nishati na madini wenye wajibu wa kuisimamia Serikali kwa niaba ya Bunge katika sekta hizo nyeti hawajateuliwa.
Aidha, pamoja na kutoa maelezo kuhusu mgawo wa umeme, Wizara ya Nishati na Madini na TANESCO watumie nafasi hiyo pia kueleza hatua zilizochukuliwa kuhusu ukaguzi wa awamu ya pili kuhusu tuhuma za ufisadi katika ununuzi wa vifaa na uzalishaji wa umeme wa dharura ikiwemo kuhusu mafuta mazito ya kuendeshea mitambo ya kufua umeme.
Ikumbukwe kwamba mwanzoni mwezi Agosti 2012 Ofisi ya Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu za Serikali (NAOT) iliunda timu ya wakaguzi kufanya ukaguzi maalum wa hesabu za Shirika la Umeme (TANESCO) kufuatia tuhuma za ubadhirifu wa fedha za umma zilitajwa bungeni na Waziri Kivuli wa Nishati na Madini katika maoni ya Kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani tarehe 27 Julai 2012 na Waziri wa Nishati na Madini wakati wa majumuisho ya hoja ya Serikali tarehe 28 Julai 2012.
Wizara ya Nishati na Madini na TANESCO waeleze pia hatua iliyofikiwa kuhusu uchunguzi mwingine uliofanywa na Mamlaka ya Udhibiti wa Ununuzi wa Umma (PPRA) kuanzia mwezi Agosti 2012 wa mchakato wa ununuzi wa mafuta mazito ya kuendeshea mitambo ya kufua umeme wa dharura kutokana na tuhuma mbalimbali zilizotolewa bungeni kuhusu ununuzi huo suala ambalo Kambi Rasmi ya Upinzani ilitaka pia tarehe 27 Julai 2012 liundiwe kamati teule ya Bunge ili uchunguzi wa kina uweze kufanyika.
Wenu katika uwakilishi wa wananchi,
John Mnyika (Mb)
Waziri Kivuli wa Nishati na Madini
LINEX AFANYA KWELI AMVISHA PETE DEMU WA KIDHUNGU.JIONEE PICHA ZAKE NA PETE YAKE
Weekend hii, mtu mzima Sunday Mjeda aka Linex aka Mr VOA (Voice Of Africa),
alifanya yake kwa kumvisha pete mpenzi wake, ambae ni ambae ni mwenyeji wa Finland anaeitwa Suvi.
Linex aliamua kufanya kimya kimya tena wakiwa wawili tu,
kwasababu hakutaka kujionyesha, na anaamini ile ni kitu
very personal haikuhitaji manjonjo mengi...all in all This is Diamond hii
inakutakia kila la kheri...!!
HII NDIO KAULI YA SIMBA JUU YA UBINGWA MWAKA HUU
Post hii ni maalum kwa kauli ya Simba kuhusu uwezekano wa club hiyo kuchukua ubingwa.
Afisa habari Ezekiel Kamwaga amesema “ubingwa wa kimahesabu bado Simba inaweza ikatetea ubingwa wa Tanzania bara, kwenye raundi ya kwanza baada ya mechi nne kama sasa hivi… Simba ilikua inaizidi Yanga kwa pointi 8 lakini ligi ilipomalizika raundi ya kwanza Yanga iliizidi Simba kwa pointi 6, kwa hiyo kimahesabu bado Simba inaweza kutoka ilipo na ikaizidi Yanga kwa pointi na kuchukua ubingwa”
Pamoja na hayo Kamwaga amesema “ukiangalia katika mazingira ya kawaida kwa hali tuliyonayo sasa hivi ni vigumu sana kwa Simba kutetea ubingwa wake wa ligi kuu lakini kimahesabu inawezekana”
WAWILI WAFA MAJI DAR
Watu wa wawili wasiofahamika wa jinsia ya kiume na ya kike wamekutwa wamekufa maji maeneo ya MBWENI katika manispaa ya KINONDONI Jijini Dar es salaam
Akidibitisha kutokea kwa tukio hilo kamanda wa polisi mkoa wa kinondoni asp CHARLES KENYELA amesema Miili ya watu hao imekutwa ikiwa inaelea kwenye maji ufukweni mwa bahari ya hindi siku ya jumanne tarehe 27.02.2013 mnamo saa 12;30 ikiwa imearibika na baadhi ya viungo vikiwa havionekani
Hata hivyo amesema baada askari kufika katika eneo hilo walishindwa kuopoa miili hiyo baada ya maji kuwa mengi na jitihada za kuopoa miili hiyo bado zinaendelea
/YM REPORTING
MTANZANIA APEWA UWAZIRI RWANDA
RAIS Paul Kagame wa Rwanda amemteua Mtanzania, Profesa Silas Lwakabamba kuwa Waziri wa Miundombinu wa nchi hiyo katika mabadiliko ya Baraza la Mawaziri yaliyofanyika Jumatatu iliyopita.
Kabla ya uteuzi huo, Profesa Rwakabamba alikuwa Mkuu wa Chuo Kikuu cha Taifa cha Rwanda. Ni mmoja wa mawaziri wanaoingiza sura mpya katika Baraza la Rais Kagame ambalo amelifanyia mabadiliko kwa kuunda wizara nyingine mpya.Sura nyingine mpya katika Baraza hilo ambalo liliapishwa juzi Ikulu ya Rwanda ni pamoja na Seraphine Mukantabana (Wakimbizi na Menejimenti ya Maafa) na Oda Gasinzigwa (Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu- Familia na Jinsia).Akizungumza kwa simu na mwandishi wetu jana, mdogo wa Profesa Rwakabamba, Timothy Rwamushaija anayeishi Dar es Salaam, alisema ndugu yake alizaliwa katika Kijiji cha Bushagara, Wilaya ya Muleba mkoani Kagera.
Alisema Profesa Rwakabamba alikuwa Mtanzania aliyeamua kuchukua uraia wa Rwanda na wote baba yao ni Mzee Titus Rwamushaija... “Huyu ni kaka yangu wa tumbo moja na kwa kweli tumefurahi sana kwa mafanikio yake sisi kama wanafamilia.”
Naibu Makamu Mkuu - Taaluma wa Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam(UDSM), Profesa Makenya Maboko alisema Profesa Rwakabamba alifanya kazi katika chuo hicho na aliondoka akiwa Mkuu wa Kitivo cha Uhandisi.
“Aliondoka wakati Kagame alipoingia madarakani na alikwenda kuongoza Taasisi ya Teknolojia ya Kigali (KIST) kabla ya kwenda katika Chuo Kikuu cha Kigali,” alisema Profesa Maboko.
Msomi huyo alikwenda Rwanda mwaka 1997, baada ya kuombwa na Rais Kagame ambaye alikwenda UDSM kuwaomba baadhi ya wahadhiri kwenda Kigali kufungua chuo kikuu katika taifa lake baada ya kumalizika vita ya wenyewe kwa wenyewe mwaka 1994.
Profesa Rwakabamba alikuwa Mkuu wa kwanza wa KIST na kukifanya kuwa miongoni mwa vyuo bora barani Afrika kwa masuala ya teknolojia jambo lililomfurahisha Rais Kagame.
Baada ya mafanikio hayo, Rais Kagame alimteua kuwa Mkuu wa Chuo Kikuu cha Taifa cha Rwanda, Butare ambako pia alijizolea sifa baada ya kusimamia vyema ujenzi wa mabweni kwa wingi na kiongozi huyo alimtunukia uraia wa nchi hiyo kama zawadi.
Hata hivyo, Profesa Rwakabamba atakuwa amelazimika kuukana uraia wa Tanzania kwa kuwa katiba ya nchi hairuhusu uraia wa nchi mbili.
Profesa Rwakabamba alipata elimu ya msingi huko Muleba na akajiunga na Shule ya Sekondari ya Ihungo.
Baada ya hapo, alijiunga na Chuo Kikuu cha Leeds, Uingereza na kupata Shahada ya Uhandisi mwaka 1971 na 1975 alipata Shahada ya Uzamivu katika fani hiyohiyo.
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