Another intense week!
On Sunday the 13th we celebrated
Confirmation sacrament for over 120 people, here in Bozoum.
UnfortunAtely, due to his age and sickness the Archibishop didn't make
it so he delegated to me to Oder them.
We had a grand Mass,
with dances and songs alternating intense praying moments for these kids
and adults who received the Holy Ghost's gift.
These days
we're also organizing year end for public schools, which have been able
to function and host 15000 kids thanks to the help of Czeck republic and
Unicef. This morning I red Pope Francis speech "often we ask ourselves
which kind of world will we leave to our children?" Perhaps it could be
best to ask "which kinda children will we leave in this world?"
On
Tuesday we celebrated the Madonna of Carmel day in all our communities,
so I travelled around in Bouar, then Bangui, for over 1140 km
In
Bangui I had the chance to meet over 10000 refugees hosted in our
convent since December 2013 they have been living for almost 8 months of
unstable lifestyle, under tents, in very difficult condition. We tried
to understand together the possibility for them to go back home in the
foreseeable future. It's their big dream, however it clashes with the
harsh reality made of violence and high risk of getting killed....
Hopefully there will be more military actions to make the capital safer
Our
long journey home was full of events. We came across several
Antibalaka's barriers, a hundred trucks convoy going back to Cameroon
escorted by French and Rwandese soldiers.
We also had to stop
200 km from destination because the heavy rain of the morning literally
took over a bridge: the iron tube for water waste had been dragged down
for over 30 meters, so only a tiny eart made bridge had left.... Few
small cars with much difficulty can cross over a small passage that
kids built nearby the road, however it takes at least 40 minutes and
there's high risk of getting swamped.
After 4 hours I decided to give it a shot. A quick sign of the cross, holding my breath we managed to cross it
Thanks to The Lord we made it!
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