Bayanga Didi |
How nice.2
The work of completing the final pieces of the chapels have continued during the past few days.
Saturday
afternoon I left for Bayanga Didi. Along the way I stopped in the
village of Samba Bougoulou, where they have a small church dedicated to
Mary Mother of the Church.
Here we have chosen to depict
Pentecost: Mary is with the Apostles, at the moment when the Holy Spirit
descends. On one side is the Tower of Babel, which represents the
confusion of tongues and the division of humanity, and on the other side
is the crowd of Jerusalem, who listened to the Apostles speaking "each
in their own language".
I arrived in Yoro around 4 pm, where we
had a meeting with the catechists of the area, to prepare a great
conference: a great meeting of the Christians of the villages in the
sector, who will have a beautiful experience of faith from April 7th to
10th, which will include catechesis and prayer.
Around 6 pm I
arrived in Bayanga Didi, despite a fallen tree that forced us to clear
our way through with the ax that I always carry in the car with me.
The
chapel here is dedicated to Mary Mother of Mercy. The depiction we
chose for this chapel was the Wedding at Cana: Mary realizes that the
wine has run out, and that the feast is in danger of being ruined. She
asks Jesus to do something and initially he was reluctant but in the end
he transforms the water into wine, thus working his first miracle.
Sunday
morning I celebrated Mass here, and I chose the gospel of the miracle
at Cana, to explain the painting and, above all, the meaning of Mary,
Mother of Mercy.
Samba Bougoulou |