Born the youngest of nine children in Uganda, East Africa, Father Mugagga Lule knows through personal experience the importance of hard work and helping those in need. The Henderson resident and current Parochial Vicar of Guardian Angel Cathedral, Father Mugagga has done much to encourage others to open their hearts throughout his 15 year career providing spiritual guidance and caring for others.  He has taught in seminary, high school, done parish work and, in particular, spent a great deal of time assisting disadvantaged children.

Specifically, Father Mugagga has channeled his efforts in relieving the growing orphan problems in Uganda, an estimated two million new orphans in the past 20 years, mostly due to AIDS. In 1997 he founded  the St. Elizabeth Girl’s Academy and Home, to assist orphaned girls by empowering them with vocational training skills in catering, tailoring, home economics, computer skills, agriculture, and the breeding of livestock. Students receive needed physical and emotional support as well as weekly counseling and guidance sessions

Says Father Lule, “Success does not depend on any one person, but by every person fulfilling their responsibility to give back to the whole.  As humans we are independent, but we are not meant to live in solitude, but in a living and loving communion with others.”