Three new boreholes in Congo (DRC)
Three new boreholes with electric pump and tank, the Brotherhood’s offering for the people of Bunia
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As Dying, and Behold We Live
In the 1760s, a Hieromonk of Mount Athos, with simplicity in faith, with great fervor and love for his enslaved brothers of our nation, would open another chapter in the modern Ecclesiastical History of Greece, introducing the presence of monasticism in contemporary missionary work. It was that ascetic yet simultaneously filled with boundless love, figure…
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Another place of martyrdom
“Following CODECO’s massacre of 17 civilians in Djugu, ADF terrorists in turn killed mercilessly 11 Congolese in Irumu. Faced with the silence of the state authorities, Ituri continues its descent into hell. Mined by local and foreign militias, the area has become a real site of bloody raids, as has North Kivu. … …
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The chains of pain
When the Gadarenes were running in awe to see the healing of their brother-in-law by Jesus, they probably never expected that they would be in for two great surprises. The first, that they would see their formerly possessed countryman, who until yesterday had been wandering the deserts, naked, with the chains that held him back…
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A New Sun is rising in Bunia
Within the boundaries of the newly established Diocese of Kisangani, in what is otherwise known as Upper Zaire (Congo) or Stanleyville District, on the Eastern border of the Congo with Uganda, in a district that traditionally also bears the name of the “Great East” of the Congo, lies one of the three largest cities in…
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Humility and Love in Africa
If you ever arm yourself against a passion, ally with this virtue.” Because “Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet”(psalm 90:13), that is , as I myself would say, this virtue is stronger than sin and despair and treads down the devil and…
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You are the Temple of the Living God
Thus saith the Lord, ‘The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest? All these things My hand has made, and so all these things came to me, declares the Lord; but this is the one…
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The first church in Eastern Congo
“O Lord, support Your Holy Church, which You have purchased with Your most precious blood”. Each one of us could agree that the foundation of a Sacred Church is a universal event. This is so because every Sacred Church is to become the center of the Church gatherings especially of those future Eucharistic congregations, which…
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Hospitality in the Land of the Meek-Hearted
“Wherefore, children, let us not faint, nor deem that the time is long, or that we are doing something great, for the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us… Nor let us think, as we look at the world, that we have…
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In the Arms of Africa
“My brethren, we celebrate together for the first time in this place where I have been brought by the Grace of God and the mandate of our Venerable Patriarch, whom I thank, along with you all, from the bottom of my heart. We celebrate Easter, our first common Resurrection service but in a different light;…
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Mission in the Covid era
Many people ask many times, what could be the greatest qualification one could have to do a mission. And we all struggle to be trained with the appropriate education, to learn languages, to do planning, calculations, savings, to fortify ourselves in general from all sides in order to “succeed”. But we forget to ask the…
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The Truth
The Church is the natural space of love and peace, and it is wonderful when this House of God is experienced thus, and only thus. It is this God who willingly humbled himself so as to leave this unique legacy on the Wood of the Cross, admitting first into His heavenly Kingdom neither a prophet,…
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Where God Really Wanted…
Wherever one serves the Lord and the Church, it is there that he finds joy and rest. This is the law and the criterion. The distinguishing feature which makes the man truly attracted and renders him unable to resist this inconsolable power, this mystical calling which will not hesitate to ask for even the ultimate…
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Two worlds of strangers – two worlds of witnesses
This is the miracle of Faith. Two worlds of strangers. Two worlds so far away. Yet united under the umbrella of God’s Love. They witness and confess daily the miracle of our living Faith. Here in Athos. Here at the mission…
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Christmas at Toulear
I came in the evening to the beloved town of Sakaraha in Toulear. I came, even though yesterday the fever and exhaustion from my illness, which has been going on for two months now, left no room for my calculations and decisions. 2 months confined to the house I begged God to claim me to…
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Our little birds are leaving singing
The sight I saw before me was tragic: an 8-month-old infant with skin that looked 70 years old. Soft and wrinkled. I asked the father what the child was eating and he replied mostly rice. A Catholic nun sparingly gives him milk. I told them that the child definitely needs milk. In the afternoon I went to a pharmacy and bought him special milk for infants…
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My son…
We sit with Him near the sea, where the famous Mozambique Channel unites with its wild waves our world, the land of Madagascar with the other related and troubled world of Mozambique, the land of Africa…
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Remember our brother
But the mission is not only a beautiful and joyful series of events but a reality that is often harsh and which often hides unexpected sadness for those who experience its truth…
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The Riches of the Mission
I’m not promising you bars of gold and embossing. I have nothing like that to give you. I will give you a rod in your hands to carry and support you on your long marches through the dust and mud. Like the simple reed the Lord bore before that supreme sacrifice on the cross…
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Who are you? – Work in 6 acts
His moist eyes make out a black figure walking up and down the corridor. The walk is mechanical. He stoops forward to the door of the operating room for a moment. He leaves, he comes. But who pays attention. Through the pain and wonderment, the young man’s voice can slowly be heard asking: “Who are you?”
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Mauritius: The “paradises” and Paradise
New missionary effort begins on the island of Mauritius
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The works of your hands
Fr. Polycarp Mikrajananitis speaks about the orphanage being built in Antananarivo, Madagascar
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In the captivity of pain
This path of mission must be walked on the basis of two fundamental laws – that of love for God and one’s fellow man and that of love for suffering. The second flows from the first, which in turn is the first precept of the spiritual law of the Gospel. During one of the services…
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Psychic rebirths in southern Madagascar
We are in Mahatsandri, the southernmost tip of beautiful Madagascar. Another home on earth. A homeland that Christ commanded us in the gospel to see as our own and not a foreign one. . When you travel through the innermost regions of the Toliar region, which is, I confess, the region that overwhelms me, you…
