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| Rt Rev Anthony Muheria |
The Bishop member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) Rt Rev Anthony Muheria has urged CUEA staff and students alike to inculcate in themselves a love and admiration of nature.
Speaking during the convocation Ceremony held at CUEA- Lang’ata Main campus on August 27, 2015 where he was the chief guest at the event, Bishop Muheria, while quoting Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Laudato Si, reminded the CUEA community not to be enslaved in a Technocracy, where technology dictates life, emptying man of the capacity of relating and engaging nature.
He urged staff and students to look for possibilities of creating more human relationships with others and with God.
“We are greatly challenged by the emptying of the capacity to wonder that technology, digital connectedness has produced in society. We seem not to have time, or to have lost the capacity to stand in awe before a sunset or sun rise, or to contemplate the beauty of nature and landscapes, to wonder at the small things around us of nature: the engineering prowess of the ant in the air-conditioned ant hill, the connectedness of nature where a honey seeker, a bird, talks to a badger, an animal,” he said adding that “We need to rediscover the beauty of music and discover Beauty itself because it is a doorway to the Truth.”
Bishop Muheria also warned against situations whereby students are taught for the sake of passing exams. “If we are only to teach them how to pass exams we would have betrayed the very spirit of University, we would have dehumanized them, de-perfecting their very humanity,” he said.
He noted that the Catholic Identity the university was insisting on, should be seen through transmission of human values and qualities, transforming boys and girls to competent leaders, into virtuous, ethical and upright people, based on the Catholic style.
SOURCE: AMECEA Online News Reporter
