After a joyous Easter celebration, no one could have imagined the news that would flood the world and the media on Easter Monday morning. It did not come with the ringing of bells or shrill screams but with silence. The kind of silence that spreads gently across a campus courtyard when history pauses. Word had reached Hekima College that Pope Francis had passed on. A man who had taught us...Read More
Following a rigorous review process, aligned with the Criteria for Appointment and Promotion of Academic Staff set by the Commission for University Education in Kenya, the Hekima University College Academic Committee convened and evaluated the promotion applications from the HUC Lecturers, both from the Jesuit School of Theology and the Peace Studies and International Relations Program and promoted Rev. Dr. Deogratias Rwezaura, SJ, and Rev. Dr. Marcel Uwineza, SJ as...Read More
The Senate of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), to which Hekima University College is a constituent college, has unanimously approved all three programs presented on March 23, 2025, by a team of officials from HUC, led by the Principal, Rev. Dr. Marcel Uwineza, SJ. The news of the program approvals, which include a Bachelor of Arts in Migration, Security, and Diplomacy, a Bachelor of Science in Innovation and...Read More
The Litany of the Saints is a prayer of invocation. Invocation of the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of the intercession of the saints. In other words, the invocation of the power of the heavenly court upon those to be ordained. According to Rev. Father Sebastine Adigwe, SJ, a liturgy lecturer at Hekima University College, the invocation not only occurs at ordination but also at the final vows...Read More
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1534, the sacraments of Holy Orders and Matrimony, which are sacraments of service, are directed towards the salvation of others because they confer a particular mission in the Church and serve to build up the People of God. Lawrence E. Mick, in his book Understanding the Sacrament of Holy Orders, describes this sacrament as the Church’s celebration of three major ministries...Read More
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