Hervé Tougma renouvelle sa Déclaration d’intention à Jérusalem

By Dominique Arnauld, M.Afr, Jérusalem

Thank you and “Bonne fête” à vous aussi!

Ce soir, 26 novembre 2014, Cletus Atindaana, David Elweu et Hervé Tougma renouvellent leur Déclaration d’intention et reçoivent le ministère de l’acolytat.

Réjouissez-vous avec nous!

Note:

Hervé a fait son stage apostolique à Chezi au Malawi. Il poursuit sa deuxième année d’étude en théologie à Jérusalem.

Nous nous réjouissons avec Cletus, David et Hervé.

Missionary Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa

By Michel Meunier, M.Afr

25^th – 26^th October 2014

On Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 4pm, around 250 people came from fifty (50) different parishes (out of 120 parishes in the whole archdiocese). Not bad, for a first time! But we got the quality, if not the expected quantity: we had aimed at five delegates from each parish, which would have amounted to 600! The M.Afr who took part were Jan DeGroef (Bishop), Didier Michon, Christophe Boyer, Martin Somda (stagiaire), Seán O’Leary and Michel Meunier.

The AIMS of the Congress were:

• to explore ways for us, the Church, to fulfil our vocation of proclaiming the Gospel / Mission
• to move from maintenance to being on mission (enlarge our tent)
• to celebrate our baptismal call together
• to take back to our parishes the motivation to move forward on mission

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Link: Missionary Congress in October 2014 in South Africa

Newsletter South Africa no 45 – November 2014

 

Missionary Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa

By Martin Somda, Stagiaire in Henley Parish, South Africa

Should it still be said today “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few”, while thousands of thousands are getting baptised and confirmed every year? Yes, the sad reality is that the workers are still few. And here we see a contrast: While many receive Baptism and Confirmation, few are ready to be sent as workers in the harvest of the Lord. Why is it so? This is a question to everybody. Through the zeal of some missionaries, among whom our M.Afr. confrères, the Archdiocese of Johannesburg thinks one of the reasons might be lack of awareness; to work in the harvest of the Lord, we are called to be sent and to take up our crosses and follow Jesus, the first missionary per excellence. To help its different parishes to come to a greater awareness of their missionary call as per their baptism, the Missionary Group of the archdiocese of Johannesburg organised a MISSIONARY CONGRESS with the theme: “ENLARGE THE SPACE OF YOUR TENT” from the prophet Isaiah (54:2).

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Bonne fête – Happy Lavigerie Day

To the entire family of Lavigerie; relatives and Friends of M.Afr such as MIMSAF, MSOLA Sisters, students, stagiaires, Deacons, Brothers and Fathers, we wish you all a Happy Lavigerie Day.

Born in 1825 in Bayonne, France, the Cardinal Charles Lavigerie died today the 26th November in St. Eugène, Algeria, in 1892.