Celebration of the Feast of the Consecrated Life on the 3rd of February 2024 in Lilongwe, Malawi

In 1997, Pope Saint John-Paul II instituted a day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life. This feast is celebrated in the Catholic Church every February 2nd. In the archdiocese of Lilongwe, this celebration is often arranged on a convenient day after the 2nd of February for all the consecrated men and women to meet together and have a day of recollection and gathering. This year, we celebrated this feast on the 3rd of February 2024.

Celebration in Merrivale

On the 2nd of October, Bishop Jan De Groef started his homily in our Chapel saying: ‘I guess this celebration was not intentionally planned to take place in October, month of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in whose patronage we are placed’.

Celebrations in Merrivale

We are happy that on 6th June 2020 our five brothers Jallet Thomas Miguel (Moz), Twizere Emery (DRC), Hussen Elias Abdi (Eth), Ouedraogo Yewoaya Christian (Bfa), and Rioba James (Ken) made their final commitment to the society and were ordained deacons…

Work has to be valued…

Our confrere James Ngahy is the director of the Centre for Social Concern in Kanengo (Lilongwe – Malawi). He was born in the land of Ujamaa and has therefore in his DNA the ideals of the African Socialism as dreamed of and planned by the Father of the Nation, Julius Nyerere. At the occasion of the 2020 Workers’ Day, celebrated in confinement in the whole world, he gives us his reflections on work today.