Silent Industrious Man
The present book “Understanding the silent industrious man: Blessed Jpseph Allamano” combines biographical data with today’s challenging times. It endeavors to re-read the teaching of the Blessed Joseph Allamano, Founder of the Consolata Missionaries, in the context of globalization and inter-culturality, the new face of his Institute, both in its members composition and inner life, and its outgoing Mission.
Many are the new interesting insights, expressed with live images, intelligent considerations and philosophical support.
Fr. Jonah M. Makau is a Consolata Missionary from Kenya. He was born in 1978 in Machakos. He studied Philosophy in the Consolata Institute, affiliated to the Urbaniana University (Roma). He studied theology in Tangaza College of Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He got a masters in pastoral theology in Salesian University, Turin (Italy). Currently he is in charge of the initial stage of the Consolata Missionaries formation in Tanzania.
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FOREWORD
In the last 30 years literature about Blessed Joseph Allamano has greatly thrived: a monumental biography, short biographies, the publication of all the letters he wrote, small books, theses, reflections, articles. They have enriched our knowledge of his personality and activity in various sectors of apostolate.
The present book, written by Fr. Jonah Makau, leans heavily on the available material and draws from it, manifesting familiarity with many sources. But its particular perspective adds much to the wealth of the existing writings. The author has in mind formation, seminary educators, and the students in formation. The book combines biographical data with today’s challenging times. It endeavors to re-read the teaching of the Blessed Founder in the context of globalization and inter-culturality, the new face of the Institute, both in its members composition and inner life, and its outgoing Mission. Many are the new interesting insights, expressed with live images, intelligent considerations and philosophical support.
The Blessed Founder clearly stands out as Father and Teacher. Father by the spirit and spirituality infused in his family of all times. That ‘spirit’ which he frequently spoke about, and of which he jealously considered himself the only proprietor and dispenser. Teacher, mostly through his life, and not just by imparting lessons and indicating ways and methods. Hence the ‘silent man’, indeed, speaks loudly. He speaks with his life. He is constantly present to our eyes and heart as a credible witness and a model to imitate. He was and lived what he taught, drawing from his personal experience. And greatly experienced he was!
The self-references are not self-gratifications but instructive indications for life and Mission. Blessed Joseph Allamano, as Father and Teacher, in all humility could rightly say like St. Paul: imitate me. Just as Jesus invited his followers to learn from him gentleness and humility of heart (Mt. 11:29). These, according to all the witnesses who knew the Blessed Founder, were his two typical traits. Typical traits…that he wanted engraved in the hearts and evangelization of his missionary sons and daughters.
FR. JOSEPH INVERARDI, IMC
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- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
When we hear of the word ‘visionary’, the word that comes into our minds is ‘prophet’. Why? Because prophets are the people who are said to see visions, and especially of the time to come. Some dictionaries give thinker, seer, futurist, inventor, ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
God gave man a duty to conquer the earth and rule the living things that he had created (Gen. 1:29). This means that man is meant to be a change maker. To be so requires careful planning and the execution of what is planned, so as to make a difference ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
We have heard the saying “show me your friend and I will tell you who you are”. Maybe we have never thought much about it, but when the scripture emphasizes it saying “for as a man is, so is his friend” (Sirach 6:1417), then we take time to think. ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
The Holy book tells us that it is when people think it is peaceful that the worst happens. At the beginning of 1913, Fr. Allamano received a decree entrusting the Kaffa Apostolic Prefecture to the Consolata Missionary Institute. It was truly a piece ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
(a) Gentleness One peculiar quality that was noted by all who passed in the life of Fr. Allamano was the fact that he was among other things a very gentle man. Generally, when we speak of gentleness, the words that come in our minds include tenderness, ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
The will of God is a complex topic; however it is possible to speak about it from hindsight. Between 1919 and 1922, several events which can now be attributed to the will of God took place in Fr. Allamano’s life. At the beginning of 1919, having ended ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
Good ideas are useful if they are put into practice, otherwise they remain just like that – good ideas. Fr. Allamano’s intention to start and succeed in establishing his missionary Institute needed a strong person on the ground. It would have been ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
(a) Deformation for reformation To form is to give shape to something. In truth, to form involves removal of certain things on a substrate so as to be left with the desired figure. It also involves putting or adding something on a substrate so as to ...
- Dettagli
- P. Jonah Mulwa Makau IMC
- Silent Industrious Man
Fr. Joseph Allamano lived and died as a diocesan priest of Turin. He was always proud to be so. Even as he founded the missionary Institute, he felt obliged to remain true to his identity as a diocesan priest. Interestingly, today we can affirm that ...