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THE DIOCESE OF MUTARE. MARCH 2011
THE CARMELITES IN ZIMBABWE. MARCH 2011
We ended the year 2010 by thanking God for his many graces and blessings during 2010 and began
the year 2011 by asking God’s blessing on all our People, Families, Relatives and on all our Brothers
and Sisters.
Sister Huberta Kuipa, Carmelite Sister, died at the Motherhouse Mutare on the 14 th January 2011
and was buried at Triashill Mission on the 17 th of January. Sister Huberta was a great example to
everybody as she endured with great patience many years of ill-health. May her soul rest in the peace
of the Lord.
Father Robbie MacCabe, O.Carm, Kenya, visited Zimbabwe from the 3 rd of February to the 2 nd of
March 2011. During his visit, Robbie visited many of our Houses and Missions. He ministered at
Regina Coeli Mission from 1962 to 1977 as Priest and Medical Doctor. On the 24 th of February with
J. McGrath, Robbie returned to Regina for a visit and met with some of the nursing staff who are still
serving the people at Regina Coeli Hospital. Father Robbie was present at the Priestly Ordination of
Lovemore Gutu and Christopher Chifamba at Saint Kilian’s Mission on the 26 th of February.
The planning of a new Carmelite Formation Centre at Nyazura, on the Rusape-Mutare road began
during February 2011. Planning permission from the Makoni Rural District Council has been
approved. The Commissary Provincial and the Committee designated to deal with the Nyazura
Project are continuing their planning and investigations.
Father Simplisio Manyika, Sister Evelyn Kadzere and all the Superiors and Regional Superiors
attended the AGM of the CMRS at Wadzanai, Harare from the 8 th to the 10 th of February 2011.
Father Martin Kilmurray, Provincial of the Irish Province of Carmelites visited Zimbabwe from the
12 th of February to the 2 nd of March 2011. Father Martin attended the Commissariat AGM and social
evening at the Diocesan Training Centre on the 15 th of February, the Commissariat Council Meeting
on the 16 th of February, the Board of Governors Meeting, Holy Trinity College, Harare, on the 18 th ,
the Kriste Mambo Advisory Board Meeting on the 23 rd and the Formation Commission Meeting on
the 24 th of February. Father Martin also joined with Bishop Muchabaiwa, Father Simplisio Manyika,
the Chifamba family, the Gutu family, over sixty priests, many Sisters, our Carmelite Brothers,
member of the Carmelite Family and a great number of the faithful at Saint Kilian’s Mission for the
Priestly Ordination of Christopher Chifamba and Lovemore Gutu on the 26 th of February. Father
Lovemore is to continue ministry at Saint Kilian’s Mission, Makoni and Father Christopher at Saint
Joseph’s Mission, Mutare.
Fathers Martin Kilmurray and Simplisio Manyika, on behalf of the Province and Commissariat,
presented 100 breviaries to Sister Evelyn Kadzere, Mother General of the Carmelite Sisters in Mutare
on the 25 th of February 2011. The Sisters can now pray well as they continue to prepare for their
Golden Jubilee during September!!
Father Philemon Kuyengwa has been appointed Prior and Parish Priest at Kriste Mambo and on his
return from Kenya, Father Wiseman Musemwa has been appointed Director of Postulants at Kriste
Mambo. Father Owen Kudumba will be going to Tangaza College, Nairobi during August 2011.
Father Jimmy Nyangadi is now Priest in charge at Saint Kilian’s Mission.
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