2021 JPIC-ED Lenten Way of the Cross
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Season of creation (NAD) – week 1
Creation time 2020
Eco-citizen Day at Our Lady of Africa
The Pope challenged for Lent
A major international campaign unveiled on Wednesday, February 6, challenges the Pope to become vegan during the forty days of Lent, which begins in a month. If he accepts, the campaign launched by Million Dollar Vegan will contribute $1 million to the charities chosen by the Pope.
You can read the full story, very complete, instructive and challenging in the French Catholic Newspaper La Croix.
If you have no access, you can download here the PDF of the article (IN FRENCH)..
Senegal: Using scarves on Palm Sunday
Of the West Africa website:
In order to protect nature, Bishop Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar, asked the Catholics of his diocese to use scarves instead of palms for the procession of Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord.
In some parishes, the use of scarves in the place of palms is already nearly ten years old.
But in almost all the other parishes of Dakar, the Archbishop’s message was not well received.
“The people who are looking for the palms had already committed themselves to doing so,” commented Pierre Bassène, another Catholic. According to him, the instructions of the Archbishop of Dakar will be better followed next year.
As he said, the environment suffers from this cutting of palms every year. The most serious thing in Senegal is that there is no culture of reforestation. »
(Excerpts from “in Senegal, the Archbishop of Dakar suggests using scarves instead of twigs” by Charles Senghor, La Croix-Africa, 26/03/18.)
Lenten Way of the Cross 2018
Here is a Way of the Cross prepared by the JPIC coordinators of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and the Missionaries of Africa for Lent 2018.
You can use it individually for your own meditation and at your own pace. By default, the slides change every minute, but you can obviously force the progress.
You must be connected to the Internet to view this slideshow. However, if you want to use it in community M.Afr. or parish, you can download the PDF version here.
Prayer for the end of Creation Season
“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity”.(Mathew Fox,Original Blessing). But our problem today is that we are in mad race to consume. We have almost exploited the planet earth. We have eaten up its bone marrow, liver, lungs, kidneys… We are endangering our existence and we are on our self destruction. […]
Download the prayer programme for celebrating the end of Creation Season :
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