He stressed God\u2019s sovereignty over life and human circumstances, noting, \u201cIt is God who gives life. He is the one who gives children to the barren, who raises the poor, and who brings down the proud. God is the one who plans everything. Therefore, we must trust in Him and entrust to Him our faithfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Archbishop Amani went on to recall, \u201cIn God\u2019s time Hannah received Samuel, who became the key to great changes in the nation of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained that Samuel \u201cbecame the prophet who closed the period of the Judges and ushered in the kingdom of Israel\u201d and \u201canointed the first king of Israel, whose name was Saul.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Hannah we learn strong faith,\u201d the Local Ordinary of Arusha since December 2017 said. He also invited the people of God to draw inspiration from Hannah\u2019s husband, Elkanah, who, he noted, did not abandon or blame his wife for not bearing children.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that marital fidelity should not be pegged on whether a couple has children or not, observing that Elkana\u2019s original love remained because \u201che knew who gives children: it is God. He did not abandon his wife because of being childless.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old Tanzanian Catholic Archbishop at the same time condemned the tendency among some members of society to shift the blame onto women who do not bear children, saying, \u201cIn many situations in life, if a woman does not have children, who is considered at fault? People begin to accuse and despise her, saying she has nothing to show for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe woman is often sent away: \u2018Go back home so that I may marry another and have children.\u2019 But Elkanah did not do that. From Elkanah we learn fidelity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in his January 12 homily, Archbishop Amani welcomed the opening of the new secondary school, noting that his Metropolitan See had long desired to have \u201ca place where we could raise and form our young boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why we are here today to bless the school itself and the children who will stay here. This is going to be a center for raising and nurturing our boys,\u201d he said and went on to highlight the spiritual significance of the institution, noting that the celebration of Holy Mass at the school would ensure Christ\u2019s presence in every aspect of school life.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cWe believe that Christ will bless it, protect it, and guide all that will be done here, that everything will be a blessing to those who will live here, the teachers, the students, and all the other stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He stressed God\u2019s sovereignty over life and human circumstances, noting, \u201cIt is God who gives life. He is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[645,647,646,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-24906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-cna","10":"tag-keyword","11":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}