In the Heart of Tanzania - Brossura

Musiol, Jozef

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1470065754 ISBN 13: 9781470065751

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

It is a fascinating story of a missionary in the exotic yet at timesdangerous country of Tanzania. The author, in over 300 pages,describes his experiences of 12 years of work and life inAfrica. The book comprises descriptions of many aspects ofdaily life of the local people and encounters with nature,sometimes charming, others rather dangerous. Mainly, it is adocument how the author tried to fulfill his missionary andSalvatorian vocation. (From the periodical "Salwator" published by Salvatorian Fathers in Cracow, Poland)

Dear Father Joseph, Thank you for giving me the honor of reading themanuscript of your missionary works in Africa. I knew missionariesperformed many various functions in addition to "God's teaching"; youopened up my eyes as to the extent of a missionary's involvement.Truly, you were sent by God to do his work. (Mrs. Trudy Witkoski from Houston, TX)

Dear Fr. Joseph,I would like to thank you for writing down these remembrances. Thebook fascinated both my family and megreatly. It can be read at just one sitting. It definitelybrought us closer to the life of missionaries. It presented thehardship of the lives which people in Africa lead: the extremeconditions you have to deal with on an everyday basis, such asclimatic challenges, the lack of water, and many other problems.How important is the role of missionaries! You have to be notonly priests, but also teachers and doctors; you have to know alittle of everything from every field of work. For example,how helpful your knowledge of mechanics turned out to be. (Mrs. Maria Kopec from Myslowice, Poland)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart and God bless you for writingthe book. It was indeed a great and a greatly demandingadventure. I read the book at one sitting during the Labor Dayweekend. It seemed to me that I knew a little bit about themissionary life from the oral reports given by my priest colleaguesworking in missions, from reading magazines and supporting missionsthrough "Echo" from Africa. However, only after reading the book could Irealize that "I know that I know nothing," or rather, Ihad known nothing up to now about everyday missionary life and itschallenges and hardships. In fact, what you experienced seems to bebeyond the limits of human strength. That constant fight to conqueryourself, sicknesses, attacks of malaria, to face hostile nature,snakes, heat, sweat, and wild animals. One more time, I wish toexpress my deepest admiration. In addition, the book is written in abeautiful, vivid, narrative language. (Rev. Emil Altmajer from New York, NY)

You ask if I have read the book? In fact, I absorbed it. I read itright after I got it, and since then, I have been returning to it like adrunk to a pub. I simply adore what you have written. Of course, ithas certain emotional undertones for me. Some of the facts I rememberfrom your tales, others from your letters. I had the pleasure ofmeeting in person your friends Francis andAndrew. It is really a wonderfulsource for younger missionaries. It strikes with the precision ofnarration and indubitable realism. It also contains a certain dosage ofhumor, however, accompanied by deep reflection and wisdom.(Mrs. Halina Sala, a painter and a college professorat School of Pedagogy in Cracow, Poland)

I read the book with great interest. It lasted for about twomonths, since I deliberately "took this book in doses" - as you do withmedicines - to achieve a better effect. Even though I had heard manytales about Tanzania, your book is something more, I must say. For meit was and still is an inspiration for profound thoughts, an opportunityfor me to rethink deeply the matters of the church, ministry, andpriesthood. (Rev. Joseph Tarnowka, SDS, a parish priest in Liechtenstein)

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Fr. Jozef Musiol, born in Poland, is a member of the Society of the Divine Savior (S.D.S.), doctor of canon law (J.C.D.), member of the American Canon Law Society and Polish-American Priests Association, parish priest and judge in the Diocese of Austin, Texas. After high school, he studied Philosophy and Theology in the Salvatorian Major Seminary in Bagno, and later in the Institute of Theology in Krakow, Poland. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Krakow in June 1972. His first pastoral assignment was in Zakopane in Tatra Mountains, Poland. From 1973 to 1982, he worked as a missionary in Tanzania, East Africa, in different mission stations. In mid 1982 he moved to Rome, Italy where he studied Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a licentiate and a doctorate in Canon Law. He returned to Tanzania in mid-1989 and for four years was a professor of Canon and Liturgical Law in the Inter-Diocesan Major Seminary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. On arrival to the USA in the Fall of 1993, for one year he was an administrator of a parish in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, he was transferred to the Salvatorian Community in Texas, and was appointed a judge of the Austin Diocese Tribunal and a pastor of various parishes. In April 2003, he was elected a regional and local superior of the Polish Salvatorians in the USA and transferred to the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Merrillville, Indiana. After finishing his term in office in the middle of 2006, he was appointed a vice-postulator for the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God, Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, the founder of the Salvatorians. He then moved to Savannah, Georgia to supervise a diocesan investigation of the cause. In May 2007, he came back to the Salvatorian community in Texas. He was reappointed a pastor of a parish and a judge of the Diocese of Austin.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1470065754
• ISBN 13: 9781470065751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 364