We pray that the Lord of life may give us eyes to contemplate the beauty of creation, hearts to care for it with love, and hands to serve it with justice, renewing in us the Spirit who makes all things new. Let us pray.
Europe
Prayer Intentions of the Comboni Family August 2026
For all those forced to leave their homelands to save their lives: that they may find acceptance and respect, and that society may address the root causes of migration. Let us pray.
Final meeting of the year for the CLM in Poland
The last formation meeting of the CLM in Poland took place this year over the weekend of June 19-21. It was a combined meeting for new candidates discerning their vocation and for the ongoing formation of Comboni Lay Missionaries. As always, there was time for prayer and Mass, but also many other interesting meetings and activities.
We heard the testimonies of Iza and Marzena – our CLM members serving in Kenya on two different missions. Iza works in the newly established mission in Chelopoy, and Marzenka in Kitelakapel, which was the CLM’s first international mission in Kenya. They shared with us their missionary activities. Meetings with our missionaries are always incredibly enriching.
We also had an online meeting with Father Maciek Zieliński, a Comboni missionary who has been with the CLP since its beginning in Poland. He told us about the beginnings of the Movement in Poland, which began with individual lay people who harbored a missionary desire in their hearts, and the openness of the Comboni Missionaries who agreed to accompany them in their discernment and formation. Father Maciek, who has extensive experience with the CLM in Poland, Kenya, and currently in the USA, emphasized the importance of proper discernment during formation.
As on every meeting, we also had a catechesis on St. Daniel Comboni. Since we had new people among us, we wanted to introduce them to the figure and story of our founder. Then we focused on the characteristics of St. Daniel, which we discussed together. We also talked about the congregations he founded and about the CLM. We also addressed our own activities, showing how living Comboni’s charism, modeling his approach, and learning lessons from his actions helps us in our missionary work and in fulfilling our missionary vocation.
There was also time for community building, as we did during the Saturday barbecue 🙂
CLM Poland
Prayer Intentions of the Comboni Family July 2026
We pray for the victims of trafficking: that the Lord break the chains of their slavery, and that, through the intercession of Saint Daniel Comboni and Saint Josephine Bakhita, we may all fight with courage and tenacity against this scourge. Let us pray.
AMANI empowering the poorest and the most abandoned through Kitelakapel integrated community empowerment based organization -BEE keeping project….
Kitelakapel community has 90% of very poor and 10% of middle class consisting mainly teachers and local government officials who earn very poor pay and a few commercial farmers who suffer hot dry weather.
Kitelakapel is under kacheliba Parish-Kenya has 17 villages and 17 elders with a chief who works closely to see on the wellbeing of the people of the community through the Kitelakapel integrated Community Empowerment- Organization and projects, 175 members officially applied and joined the CBO to work together for their community and family households and we still receiving more applicants willing to join the group. The group was formed to empower the local people, the people love unity and self-support groups through which they are able get opportunities, save money, participate in economic activities like farming of animals, plants, Poultry, bee keeping, Mama Mbonga, market trading and other socio-economic activities and with support from AMANI international we are seeing good fruits and testimonies from local communities.
Special gratitude to AMANI….
AMANI is a Kiswahili word that means peace in the Kenyan language…. the more you empower the poor the more you achieve a peaceful and prosperous society.
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new beekeeping project implemented by kitelakapel in konyao, It was amazing and exciting to see the bees on our first day of installation of the bee hives . In the beginning of the project we started with identification and survay of land to start the bee keeping project after several meeetings with the KICE CBO board members ,Comboni Lay missionaries and parish MCCJ ,we agreed to take on 3 acres of land in konyoa town which land belongs to MCCJ kacheliba parish as per the memorum of understanding on the usage of the land and the value of the CBO Bee farming project.
With the donation from AMANI, We finally set up 50 bee hives and fenced them on 3acres of land in konyao –west pokot one hour drive from kitelakape village.
We managed to find support from the officer in charge of Bee farming from the county government ministry of agriculture West Pokot (Mrs Francisca) who guided us on how to fix them and attract bees.
A few local men where hired to carpentery, welding ,construction of the fence and clearing of the land,women breaking small stones for the fence while others making of the bee hives and others installing the bee hives in way they got temporary work and earned some little money to look after their families.We are lucky to also have the host family John Bosco the catetist of a charpel in the area of konyao who helped us with storage of the materials and bee hives and provied us some food during our visits to the beekeeping farm.
The project is being carried out with support of the local agricultural authorities and the community members. Our goal is not only to produce honey but also to create employment opportunities, support local development and promote environmentally friendly practices of Laudato Si.
ASANTE SANA (Thank you very much)…. AMANI from Kitelakapel integrated community Empowerment Community Based Organization and the people.
CLM community of Kitelakapel, Kenya
