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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