Return of Fr. Luigi Maccalli
SMA News January
Mission of Bangui
Many of the activities involving the SMA confreres have been impacted by the Covid 19. In Kenya for example, parishes have been obliged to halt their activities including public masses. The schools and learning institutions have been suspended and drastic measures have been taken to deal with the impending situation.
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First appeared in December 2019 in China in the metropolis of Wuhan, the coronavirus 2019- COVID 19 then spread worldwide. This cousin of Sars, very contagious, is transmitted through the respiratory tract and has already caused several thousand deaths. In France, at the time this article was written, 7, 560 people died of the virus, including 2, 028 in the retirement nursing homes and hundreds of thousands of infections since March 1.
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Fr. Samuel Mazda belongs to the Nigerian Province of the Society of African Missions. He was ordained on 9 July 2005 in Abuja, Nigeria. He currently works in South Africa and shares his pastoral experience where his first missionary priority has been to reconcile the Montana parish community.
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Inter-Congregations SMA – OLA – MCSC
The people concerned in the missionary activities on 27-30 décembre 2019. From Monday evening to Thursday morning, the SMA-NDA-MCSC session meeting was held in Menton. About twenty participants represented the diversity of the Missionary Family of African Missions: France, Martinique, Poland, India, African countries from Benin and Togo by Nigeria in Congo...
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An icon of the encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus was chosen as the official logo for the worldwide celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God.
The colorful logo is based on an icon written by the late-Benedictine Sr. Marie-Paul Farran, a member of the Our Lady of Calvary Congregation, who lived and worked at its monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
The logo was presented to the press at a Vatican news conference on 17th January, ahead of the newly established Sunday of the Word of God, which is being celebrated on 26th January this year.
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The poor condition of roads made it impossible for me to get to the 3rd mass on time. Hence, I was late for 30min in spite of the four wheel drive car. At a point, I had to leave the car on the way and call for a motorbike to take me to the village. On arrival at the village, Christians were patiently waiting while having entertainment.
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A little boy touched my heart so much on Christmas day. The boy joined the car holding an egg. So I enquired from Fr. Lawrence, what the egg was for, he told me that was the offering of the boy for Christmas. What a generous spirit! The boy spared his one egg for God; indeed God loves the cheerful giver.
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SMA Founder Bsp. Melchior Marion de Brésillac
Message from the Superior General and his councils
The Year of St. Joseph
