Missionaries of Africa

Africa – a song to sensitize…

Posted on 23/05/201823/05/2018 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

“AFRICA”
Text of Luciano Somma
Music of Fabio Volpe
Ed. AGOSMUSIC- Vignola (Modena)

Sguardo di ragazzo dalla pelle scura Solo la miseria vedi intorno a te Sogni la tua barca che ti porti via Verso il tuo destino che chissà com’è.	A dark-skinned boy’s look All you see around you is misery You dream of your boat taking you away Towards your destiny, which nobody knows what it will be.
Troppa fame C’è nella tua Africa Terra che profuma di mistero Brucia senza scampo Già da secoli Questo continente troppo nero	There is too much hunger In your Africa, Earth that smells of mystery, It’s been burning without escape For centuries This continent too black.
Eppure canti E la tua musica va Oltre il cielo oltre il mare Ma chi t’ascolterà Tu lo sai che però La tua vita da vivere Irta e piena di ostacoli Clandestina sarà.	And yet you sing And your music goes Beyond the sky, beyond the sea, But who will listen to you ? And yet you know that Your life that you have to live, fraught and full of obstacles, Will be clandestine.
Brucia come brucia La tua Africa È una beffa il sole da lassù Padri missionari Per te pregano Mentre troppi sono I tuoi tabù.	Burns as it burns Your Africa ! The sun from up there is a mockery ! Missionary Fathers Pray for you Even though too many are your taboos.
E ti chiedi spesso che sarà domani Vedi un cielo scuro, scuro più di te, e negli occhi cresce la malinconia mentre solo Dio ti può dir perché.	And you often ask yourself what will be tomorrow made of. You see a dark sky, darker than you, and melancholy grows in the eyes while only God can tell you why.
Troppo fame …	There is too much hunger …

The Petit Echo on your Kindle

Posted on 18/05/201818/05/2018 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

The Petit Echo nr 1090 d’avril 2018 is now available for download into your Kindle.

Procedure:

Download the file
Connect your Kndle to your computer (USB cable).
Open you file explorer and transfer / copy the downloaded file in the foler “Documents” of your Kindle.
That’s it. Simple !

And here is the file : Petit Echo nr 1090 – 2018/04

You can also read that file on your computer, in a very convenient way, with the excellent open source free software “CALLIBRE”, which you can download HERE.

Gaetano Scremin : 1942 – 2018 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Father Gaetano Scremin was the oldest son of Gino Scremin and Fioretto Amabile. He was born in Valdagno in the Province of Vicenza on the 13th March 1942. His father worked at the Marzotto textile factory in Valdagno. He entered the junior seminary of the White Fathers in Treviglio, near Milan and did his secondary school studies at Parella about 40 kms north of Turin in the Piedmont Region. He studied Philosophy in Gargagnago not far from Verona. He went to Gap Continue reading “Gaetano Scremin : 1942 – 2018 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”

Renaud Perron : 1924 – 2018 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Renaud was born on the 21st July 1924 at St-Isidore d’Aukland in the Diocese of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Canada. He attended the convent primary school in Martinville before going on to the St-Charles Borromeo Seminary for his secondary school education. He entered the postulancy of the White Fathers at Everell on the 4th September 1947 where he did his first year of Theology. It was noted that Continue reading “Renaud Perron : 1924 – 2018 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”

Maurice Borrmans : 1925 – 2017 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Maurice was born on the 22nd October 1925 in Lille where his parents were in business. He was the only boy in a family of four children. It was during his secondary schooling, at Notre Dame des Dunes at Dunkirk and at the College Jeanne d’Arc in Lille that saw the first glimmering of his missionary vocation, which matured thanks to his scouting activities and the testimony of Charles de Foucauld revealed in the book by René Bazin.

Maurice was barely seventeen when Continue reading “Maurice Borrmans : 1925 – 2017 (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”

Maria Wennekamp aka ‘Mama Alphonsa’ (1881 – 1972) (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Solid foundations of a church

On the 27th October 2017, the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania celebrated the 125th anniversary of Kashozi Parish, the first Church in the diocese. The Missionaries of Africa who had begun this parish were represented at the celebration. Sisters Victoria Gaa, Amani Ndatabaye and Maria Sakina of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa represented the East and Central Africa Entity of MSOLA.

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Publications of Confreres (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

Posted on 18/05/201818/05/2018 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Karlijn Demasure, Stéphane Joulain & Kenneth Phillips, Perspectives and Challenges in Pastoral Care for Child Sex Offenders, in Counselling and Spirituality 35/2, St Paul University, Ottawa (2016), pp. 51-73.

Stéphane Joulain, Combattre l’abus sexuel des enfants. Qui abuse ? Pourquoi ? Comment soigner ? Paris (Desclée de Brouwer), 2018, 294p.

Adriano Mamadou Sawadogo, Solo Dio è vincitore. La mia conversione non è une vittoria né una sconfitta, ma opera di Dio, 2017, 71p.

Mamdou Adrien Sawadogo, Dieu seul l’emporte, Témoignage, Edition Croix du Salut, 2017, 60p.

Adrien Sawaogo, Gott hat mich ergriffen. Von Islam zum Christentum. Weder Sieg noch Niederlage, Media Maria, 2017.

Frans Bouwen, L’oecuménisme à Jérusalem et en Terres sainte, in Proche-Orient Chrétien, Tome 67, 2017, fasc.3/4, pp. 294-310.

Serge Desouter, Maansverduistering over het Avondland. Mogelijkheden en Onmogelijkheden van de multiculturele Samenleving, (Éclipse lunaire sur les pays du crépuscule. Possibilités et impossibilités d’une société multiculturelle), s.l., 2018, 236p.

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Combattre l’abus sexuel des enfants (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Stéphane Joulain, Combattre l’abus sexuel des enfants, Qui abuse ? Pourquoi ? Comment soigner?, Desclée de Brouwer, 2018, ISBN : 978-2-220-09204-1, 294 pages, 19 €

The scandal of child sexual abuse is well out into the open nowadays. Knowing that the risk of abuse exists everywhere, particularly Continue reading “Combattre l’abus sexuel des enfants (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”

Readings: La joie de l’Amour expérimentée par des familles (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Nicholaus Segeja and Emmanuel Wabanhu, The Echo of Amoris Lætitia in Africa: Towards living the “Joy ofLove experienced by families” in the Church, Published by CUEA Press, Nairobi 2017 387pps.

The Post-Synod Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Lætitia, which was unveiled in Rome, on the 19th March 2016, the Feast of St. Joseph, during the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, was eagerly awaited by many in the Catholic Church and beyond. The impact of the Exhortation helped highlight the desire to respond to the challenges of marriage and family life Continue reading “Readings: La joie de l’Amour expérimentée par des familles (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”

Dégonfler des baudruches (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)

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Jean-Michel Laurent, Dégonfler des baudruches. Pensées pour inviter à penser, collection « Béthanie », Fidélité, Namur-Paris, 30 octobre 2017, 128 pages, 9.50 €

Here is a little book somewhat out of the ordinary! It is a collection of thoughts and reflections that the author has jotted down over time (1993 is quoted on page 70). Altogether, 134 thoughts, sometimes very short (1 phrase) or something Continue reading “Dégonfler des baudruches (PE nr 1090 – 2018/04)”