I was born and raised in Tanzania. I often asked myself why God showed me favour, why He called me to go forth from my country to a foreign country. But I am now at a time of life where I do not ask such questions, I simply say, here am I, send me. And God has sent me to you! Pray with me that I may be found worthy to take, hold, lift up and drink from the cup our Lord drank to the very end, everyday of my life.
My soul rejoices because you are my first parish community as a newly ordained priest. I pray that you will see my pastoral charity, authority in Word and Sacraments as commissioned by God, such that it is not to the person of my priesthood that you respond to, but to Christ himself acting through me.