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We Don’t Send Invitations to Ourselves

We Don’t Send Invitations to Ourselves


Author Country :Tanzania
Genre Type :True Story
Location :Musoma, Tanzania
Year of Publication :NULL/
Publication :NULL
Sub Theme :Community, Evangelized by the People, Family, Joy/Celebration/
Author Name :Father Joseph Healey, M.M./
Author City :Musoma
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One month our St. Jude Thaddeus Small Christian Community (SCC) in Musoma,
Tanzania started planning a big celebration.  Special invitations were sent out
to priests, Sisters and lay leaders of the other SCCs.  The day before the feast
I mentioned to one of the leaders Semphroza Chacha that I hadn’t received an
invitation.  She answered with a big smile: "You can’t get an invitation. 
You’re a member of our SCC.  We don’t send invitations to ourselves."  Suddenly
I realized that I really belonged.  I was truly part of this SCC — a communion
of extended families in the same neighborhood.  The SCC members had evangelized
me.


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