Dar es Salaam, 21 September, 2021 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The Episcopal ministry is a call to a mission of witnessing the Gospel, and not a call to status, two newly ordained Bishops in Tanzania have been told.
In his homily during the Episcopal ordination of Bishop Henry Mchamungu and Bishop Stephano Musomba who were appointed as Auxiliary Bishops in Tanzania’s Dar-es-Salaam Archdiocese on July 7, Archbishop Jude Thaddeaus Ruwa'ichi underscored the need for Bishops to imitate Jesus Christ who “devoted himself to his people.”
“Being a Bishop is a mission, not an honor and it is not a title,” Archbishop Ruwa'ichi said during the Tuesday, September 21 Eucharistic celebration.
The mission begins with “laying on of hands” and continues with “testimony of life” the Tanzanian Archbishop said.
“In the second reading, we see Paul and his student Timothy. Paul urges Timothy to kindle the power, the spirit and the grace bestowed upon him by the laying on of hands,” the Tanzanian Archbishop said in reference to St. Paul’s letter to Timothy.