Month: June 2025

Being the Executive Director of DBDON

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What am I currently busy with – that has taken me away from academics and even from the public? I managing a Don Bosco NGO in Nairobi: Don Bosco Development Outreach Network. Visit our website for more details: https://dbdon.org/.

The Don Bosco Development and Outreach Network (DBDON) is an NGO operating under the auspices of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), who are registered trustees in Kenya.

DBDON is committed to the advancement of educative pastoral development in Kenya and managing donor-funded projects in alignment with the Salesian charism and the educative pastoral objectives of the SDB.

DBDON develops project proposals to seek funding from various national and international donors to assist the 13 Don Bosco institutions and other agents in Kenya to reach out to over 15,000 children, youth, […]

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Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Trinity – Cycle C Homily

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Feast of the Holy Trinity – Year C
Three Persons in One: The God of relationship
 Social scientists these days are pointing out the increase of spirituality in the contemporary world, a spirituality that is not only distinct but often separate from institutional religion.  According to one author, spirituality refers to individual and personal experiences that are related to “a search for meaning, for unity, for connectedness, for transcendence, and for the highest of human potential.”  This spirituality may or may not include belief in a personal God.  Some of the people, who follow this path of spirituality-outside-religion,  consider ‘god’ in terms of an energy or a universal soul.  What could be lacking in such a position is the belief in God who is a person!
The feast of today, once again reminds us that […]

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