"We must get our Hands Dirty" to deal with the Challenges of our Community, Diocese and Nation"
"We must get our Hands Dirty" to deal with the Challenges of our Community, Diocese and Nation"
By Ernesto Joseph
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura – Yambio together with his priests, minor and major seminarians gathered at the Bishop’s secretariat curia for general cleaning. Bishop Eduardo leading by example told the local that they “must get their hands dirty to deal with the challenges of our community, Diocese and nation”.
Speaking in an interview, His Lordship Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said that it is necessary to work, fix the roads, and make our houses decent because that is where we live. The Bishop further stressed that as South Sudanese; we must learn how to work because it’s the first commandment from God, “God told us to work, tilt the land and subdue”, the Bishop lamented.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro
The Bishop, who was working alongside the seminarians in preparation for the 8th anniversary of Bishop Joseph Gasi day, said that the seminarians are his students and he had to teach them how to work. Stressing on the idea of work, the Bishop said, “solution is better that real talking and it is we to change our place and we have got to do it ourselves”.
The Bishop further stressed that work helps in transformation of places, insisting that white collar jobs will take us nowhere and for South Sudanese, we have to work as though South Sudan is just born and to love our country, we must do the best for it.
In a nutshell, the Bishop said that he had handled the hoe and there was nothing wrong with it. “My hope is that we should be able to build our country with our hands, let’s do it ourselves”, he concluded.
