tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29515104675960437332024-03-05T05:28:06.703+00:00Linda@UsNews from the United Society in IrelandLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-35887301323509864882016-08-30T18:29:00.002+01:002016-08-30T18:29:24.497+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Linda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-2889345356407885952016-08-05T07:47:00.003+01:002016-08-05T07:47:43.961+01:00Changes at USPG<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPFVNu3mHHDXAQBDwXCQn3o71-8dObUOCrwhL2MChV0o9Pa0nH9j2Y13ZSJpAET1GOF0SwT5c9h9Ujo607TW3Cl_qrY1LRsOOfrw4YIqySvHZezHYtmYXEkj8zfnHI8DnFLj6PngfPw8/s1600/Final+press+statement%252C+2016+08+05+pdf-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPFVNu3mHHDXAQBDwXCQn3o71-8dObUOCrwhL2MChV0o9Pa0nH9j2Y13ZSJpAET1GOF0SwT5c9h9Ujo607TW3Cl_qrY1LRsOOfrw4YIqySvHZezHYtmYXEkj8zfnHI8DnFLj6PngfPw8/s640/Final+press+statement%252C+2016+08+05+pdf-1.jpg" width="452" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged0DrIuzGeVzjiKqUPCq03PHtjgIiE-71VFyoZ_ZlqXg3fBbWbqOkN3U-lvdkCAjMFXorBBuwna76tC9tVUlRtDsLhkxP8JS3xOkyee37aWk8S9gzpSRhkcmQl3fLrbnrXehg94M2G2U/s1600/Final+press+statement%252C+2016+08+05+pdf-2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged0DrIuzGeVzjiKqUPCq03PHtjgIiE-71VFyoZ_ZlqXg3fBbWbqOkN3U-lvdkCAjMFXorBBuwna76tC9tVUlRtDsLhkxP8JS3xOkyee37aWk8S9gzpSRhkcmQl3fLrbnrXehg94M2G2U/s640/Final+press+statement%252C+2016+08+05+pdf-2.jpg" width="452" /></a>Linda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-48339967884134877202016-04-18T18:53:00.000+01:002016-04-18T19:00:27.970+01:00Mandla's lobola<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">As is traditional in Swaziland, Mandla Mdluli has paid cows to the family of his fiancée, Gugu Magagula. This took place over the course of the weekend of 15-17 April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From Friday evening Mandla’s relatives and friends began to arrive at the Magagula homestead,outside Matsapha. The visiting men slept in a specially erected tent, and the women stayed indoors. </span><br />
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On Saturday morning the negotiations about the number of cows required were finalised (the number was already agreed). We arrived in time for the end of the negotiations, and were shown into a room where many people were seated on the floor. Mandla was there, wrapped in a heavy blanket. The blankets had been given as gifts to the senior members of the Mdluli family, and Mandla was required to wear the blanket for the whole weekend. It was very hot (30<span style="font-family: "lucida grande"; line-height: normal;">º</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">?) in the crowded room and as all the conversation was in siSwati we were rather lost. Eventually there was some long praying and we were told that all was arranged. We all got into cars and went to view the cattle, which were on a nearby, but more rural, homestead, belonging to Gugu’s grandmother. The cows were inspected and deemed to be suitable, so it was back into the cars and back to the homestead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Almost immediately, two cows were slaughtered on the homestead; one provided by the Mdluli family and one by the Magagula family. The cows were tied to a tree and killed, skinned, cleaned and cut into pieces. Everyone watched and commented, with instructions coming from all sides. Small children were quite happily watching or playing nearby. It felt a long way from home to be sitting in the bright sunshine beside basins of entrails and clouds of flies, in the smoke of the cooking fires, making small talk with Mandla’s aunt - the senior member of the family. (Many unprintable pictures were taken.) Once the beasts had been removed it was acceptable for us to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On Sunday morning, after the 8am service in All Saints, Mbabane, we returned to the Magagula homestead. We were surprised to find a marquee erected, and a church service as the first item of business. The temperature in the marquee was high - and Mandla still wrapped in his blanket. Interspersed with wonderful singing, Auntie Mdluli did some robust praying, and Fr Wandile preached a lively sermon of great passion, in siSwati naturally, about promises. Mandla and Gugu came forward and were prayed over by Fr Mthet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The main organiser for Mandla’s side was our good friend Hamilton Curtis, and it was good to meet many friends there, including Hamilton’s wife and daughter, Fr Malo, Diocesan Secretary, and Bishop Ellinah’s son, daughter-in-law and grandson, who had come from South Africa to support Mandla. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">All in all it was a great weekend. While it was strange to us in terms of culture, it was also much more “churchy” than events involving young adults in Ireland. It was a real privilege to have been included, and we were the objects of some benign curiosity. Swazi people are warm and welcoming, and we were well looked after, with people making sure we had chairs, could see, had food etc. </span></div>
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Mandla says the Swazi Government have declared a National Disaster in the face of the on-going drought. “We have received a bit of rain in the past few days, still not enough to put to an end the current situation. In today’s newspaper it is reported that “Water woes will last for the next six months in Mbabane”. Government is currently supplying water to 16 Counties mainly in the Lubombo and Shiselweni regions. I will tell you my experience that on January 20<span style="font-size: 9.3px; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> I went to the wholesaler to quote for a 50kg bag of mealie meal. It was E292 and I went back on February 10<span style="font-size: 9.3px; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> to buy it and the new price was E427. It is craziness. The country will have over 60% loss in maize production which means we will have to import more than 150,000 thousand tons of maize, hundreds of farmers could loose their jobs, more than 50% of farmers will have their livelihoods wiped out.”</div>
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Tiekie agrees. “Most subsistence farmers couldn’t plant maize because of the dry ground. When a little rain came they planted their own seed, which will take too long to ripen. They couldn’t afford to buy quicker growing seed. So as bad as things are now, it will be much worse in April and May, when there will be no harvest. Some homesteads have planted cabbages, but it is still too dry for them to thrive. Half the country’s cattle are already dead; the maize harvest will only be 10% of what is required. People will starve, especially in the rural areas. Another complications that the sugar companies are not irrigating their crops and so government revenue will be seriously down when they are facing this crisis.”</div>
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The Epiphany Agreement was signed in Jerusalem last month by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Archbishop of Jerusalem. The agreement officially establishes the link between the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the Diocese of Jerusalem. It pledges that the people of both dioceses will journey together as brothers and sisters in Christ on a common pilgrimage of faith and discipleship. </div>
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The drive took us through a landscape of brown and red. Everywhere was dry and dusty. In the distance there were red clouds of dust following behind vehicles on the gravel roads. The smell of death is in the air in Swaziland; the roadsides are littered with dead cows, in various stages of decomposition. In one place we passed a small cow, skin and bone, standing in the middle of the road, too weak even to step out of the way of passing traffic.</div>
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The further south we travelled, and the lower we went, the hotter it got. Over 50 degrees in Mpandesane, getting out of the air-conditioned car was like stepping into an oven. As well as delivering food for the care points, Mandla was distributing gifts of clothing and toys from Limerick & Killaloe Diocese, which had travelled in the container with the carrot washer. He was happy to be able to bring some surprises on his last visit before Christmas. Coats and sweaters and shoes were given out by approximate size, and immediately put on.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: white;">"Reports from Swaziland tell of serious drought and high temperatures.<br />In fact the situation here is described as a National Disaster.<br />The media has reported that many families are losing their cows while other families are not able to plant anything.<br /><br />Most Swazis are subsistence farmers who grow maize and other crops to feed and raise their families while also rearing cattle to sell and educate their children. In Swazi tradition a man’s cattle reflects his wealth and most Swazis have a sentimental attachment to their livestock. It is for that reason that the death of cattle owing to drought is an emotional trauma to most families as well as financial ruin. A large proportion of rural households practice subsistence agriculture. About 66 percent of the population is unable to meet basic food needs, while 43 per cent live in chronic poverty.<br /><br />We have to ask the question is this drought and lack of rain a Swazi problem and are they the ones who caused it? <br /><br />“Last month was the hottest October in modern history and the first ten months of the year have also been at record levels, US government scientists said this afternoon. (18 November)<br />The latest data means that 2015 is firmly on pace for being the most scorching since 1880, as global warming concerns mount ahead of key climate talks in Paris later this month.<br />October marked the sixth month in a row that heat records were shattered worldwide, said the monthly report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).<br />"The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for October 2015 was the highest for October since record keeping began in 1880," said NOAA.”<br /><br />The situation in Malkerns:<br /><br />The average monthly maximum temperature for<br />August: 23.8C⁰<br />September: 25.4C⁰<br />October: 25.4C⁰<br /><br />Actual maximum average temperature in 2015 measured at the farm in Luyengo:<br />August: 29C⁰<br />September: 29C⁰<br />October: 36C⁰<br /><br />The average monthly rainfall in Malkerns for:<br />August: 20mm<br />September: 44mm<br />October: 98mm<br /><br />Actual rainfall measured at Luyengo farm for:<br />August: 6mm<br />September: 12mm<br />October: 38mm<br /><br />The situation in the Makerns Valley is exaggerated by the ongoing repairs to the canal, necessitating periodic closure.<br /><br />I went to see the very origin of the canal at the Usuthu river, 12 km from the farm. The river has practically no flow. Normally 50% of the water from the river is directed towards the canal. This canal feeds the entire Malkerns valley, all farms, all households and all businesses. The latest rationing proposals include the complete closure of the canal for periods of 2 weeks, that is if some rain will fall, otherwise there will be no water at all from the canal. At the moment the position is close to catastrophic. The farm is alive, but only thanks to the reservoir, and Tiekie’s careful rationing strategy."<br /><br />Please support the Diocese of Swaziland as it continues to serve the people of Swaziland in these difficult days.</span></span></h1>
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With recent investment in new machinery, including a fine seed planter, and the farm achieving ever higher yields, the future looks bright. Plans are afoot to increase the piggery to 30 sows later this year - the current pigs can’t eat all the vegetable waste produced.</div>
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Just today we heard that the carrot washer, sponsored by Limerick Diocese and built by students John and Brenda from Tralee IT, has left Durban by train and will arrive in Swaziland over the weekend. Unloading is scheduled for Monday afternoon - photos will follow!</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Entitled ‘A Walk with Christ’, the young people, aged 20 to 33 from parishes throughout Swaziland, will walk from Mpandesane in the south to Manzini in the north. They leave on Tuesday and aim to complete the journey in one week.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The participants want to raise awareness about the challenges facing schools and school children in Swaziland, in particular the shortage of food supplies for school meals and the prohibitive costs of secondary school fees and educational materials.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of you may have followed the young people on Facebook: The walkers - Bahambi. Their journey was physically difficult, as they moved from low veld to high veld, and emotionally challenging. The walkers were mostly unemployed young people, with good and generous hearts. They seek ways to help others despite having almost no resources of their own. They worked in the homesteads of the poor and elderly; they visited schools and taught life skills through drama and workshops; they enjoyed the fellowship they shared with each other and with those they met along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before they left they sought sponsorship from The United Society and other partners, as well as from local businesses and supporters. The funds they have raised are now being spent on school uniforms for the many schoolchildren, particularly in rural schools, whose families (if they have family) cannot afford to buy uniforms. Pencil cases, generously donated in Ireland, are also being given out as the team visit schools to bring uniforms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for your continued interest in and support for the work of The United Society, as we journey alongside the Diocese of Swaziland. Have a look at these photographs - with your help and encouragement the young people of Swaziland can move mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Linda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-29696553510316682272014-09-22T12:09:00.000+01:002014-09-22T12:09:51.824+01:00300 years of The United Society<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14 Sept: Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14 Sept: Jan de Bruijn and Dean Victor Stacey lay a wreath at the memorial to Charles Inglis</td></tr>
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<br />Linda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-12435168041770546192014-09-14T09:49:00.000+01:002014-09-14T09:49:06.923+01:00Invitation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St Patrick's<br />
Dublin<br />
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Christ Church<br />
Dublin<br />
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St Brigid's<br />
Kildare<br />
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St Patrick's<br />
Trim<br />
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St Canice's<br />
Kilkenny<br />
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St Laserian's<br />
Old Leighlin<br />
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St Enda's<br />
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Holy Trinity, Waterford<br />
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St John's, CashelLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-60622566353413326622014-08-16T13:46:00.000+01:002014-08-16T13:46:42.711+01:00Bikers on a Mission: Day 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St Fin Barre's, Cork<br />
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St Colman's, Cloyne<br />
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St Carthage's, LismoreLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-70292696455663422912014-08-16T09:54:00.000+01:002014-08-16T09:54:18.108+01:00Bikers on a Mission: Day 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St Mary's, Limerick<br />
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St Fachtna's, RossLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-71895564224435727022014-08-15T07:51:00.000+01:002014-08-15T07:51:50.001+01:00Bikers on a Mission: Day 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St Mary's, Tuam<br />
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St Brendan's, Clonfert<br />
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St Fachtnan's, Kilfenora<br />
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St Flannan's, KillaloeLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-20087178290893651692014-08-14T21:15:00.000+01:002014-08-14T21:25:43.272+01:00Bikers on a Mission: Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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St Eunan's, Raphoe<br />
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St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast<br />
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Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn<br />
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Holy Trinity, Dromore<br />
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St Patrick's, ArmaghLinda@USPGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109963804855906941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951510467596043733.post-91930253941536262882014-08-13T09:45:00.000+01:002014-08-13T09:45:36.887+01:00Bikers on a Mission: Departure from St Anne's Cathedral Belfast.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now that we are all home safely, I can enjoy the photographs gathered along the route. Here departure from St Anne's Cathedral on 1 August. We were glad to have Bishop Alan and Bishop Harold with us.<br />
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