Sunday,
May 24, 2015: Pentecost!
We
celebrate today, Pentecost Sunday, the memory of the gift of the Holy Spirit on
Mary and the Apostles.
In
Bozoum too it was a great celebration, with large attendance.
On
this day the Catechumens receive the Oil, a sign of God, a strength given for
the journey toward the sacrament of Baptism. We also did celebrate a Wedding. It
was a special wedding: a Christian man married a Muslim woman! In this time of
tension and hate, it’s so beautiful to see people who have the courage to go
beyond and make such a beautiful choice. Pentecost,
with the gift of tongues, recalls to my mind also all the people who help me
for the blog translation: Regina for German, Fr Raffaele for English, Fr Juan for
Spanish and Martin, Terezie and Ludmilla for Czech. Thank you for your
availability! At present, beside the first rains, it’s
MANGO time. Mango is a very good fruit, a blessing with this kind of weather,
because while the work in the fields begins,
the food instead starts to run low. A mango is a generous tree and
everybody take advantage of its fruits, adults and children alike. By now the
radio antenna stands on top of the Sisters hill and from the top of its 50
meters it will broadcast (we hope) beautiful good news and it will help people in
receiving information and formation. During this week, we are starting to
distribute PAM food (a FAO branch involved in food and nourishment) to the area
schools: more than 14 thousands children of about 60 elementary schools will
receive rice, beans, oil and salt. This food will help them to better attend
school. The #3 of the Bozoum newspaper is available at the news-stand but you
could also read it here for free:
To
conclude, I say a big thanks to all that, in one way or another, wished me the
best and prayed for me. My birthday was on Wednesday as, on the same very day,
it was the anniversary of my Ordination! As we say here: MERCI NA NZAPA (thanks
God!).
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