Activities of the Board of Directors 2018
Dear friends of the Mission, This annual account is not an account of our deeds and efforts, but it is your account, material and spiritual. We simply directed all that you gave us according to the needs that arose in each missionary scale. Each one of you, whether more or less, gave what you could,…
Saint John the Baptist: a model of missionary work
The story of St. John does not begin at his birth – as is the case with ordinary people – but as an integral part of God’s plan, as an essential part in the work of His Divine Economy, it first appears in the Old Testament, among those foretold by the prophet Malachi: “Behold, I…
Memories from Fr. Cosmas of Gregoriou
On January 27, 30 years will have been completed since the unexpected departure for the Lord of the pioneer missionary priest Fr.Cosmas of Gregoriou, who with his unparalleled diligence watered the roots of the Orthodox Mission and made it grow deeper and settle in the land of Katanga, in Southern Congo. From the very first…
The container of your love
Snapshots from the loading of a container with 25 tons of humanitarian aid for our missionary team in Ivory Coast on Sunday 27 January
Energizing the Mission
It has been years since His Eminence Metropolitan of Kinshasa started to knock on doors imploring assistance in a matter that is self-evident: the financial sustainability of the only Theological School that exists in Africa…
Incense Scent in the Heart of Africa
Where the sky smiles and the earth assents, there is a miracle unfolding in front of you, as Orthodoxy takes its first steady steps! This time we are here in Southern Congo at the Holy Diocese of Katanga, whose see is in Kolwezi. Reaching this destination, you behold a small organized city: St. George’s Church,…
Thoughts on Mission
Traveling to Africa for the first time, I came across an unprecedented landscape… An awesome scenery of rare beauty and uniqueness was unwinding in front of me, but at the same time unknown and dangerous, perhaps because of the many diseases that plague the black continent. It seems that varied and intense feelings are generated…
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…
