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In the Paul VI Hall on June 8, 2024, the fourth edition of parish and diocesan choirs, scholae cantorum, musical chapels, directors and musicians gathered to deepen together the meaning of music at the service of the liturgy. In his speech, the Holy Father praised the sign of spiritual and musical unity noted among the participants who came from different places. They numbered 7,000 choristers and musicians. The Holy Father exhorted them in three terms:

Since February 23, 2024, Father Aurelio has been appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic. It was on Sunday, June 9, 2024 that he was ordained bishop in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Bangui by Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui.

On Monday, June 10, 2024 in Gemena, the official handover of the keys to the multipurpose hall of the diocese of Molegbe in the parish of Notre Dame de Gemena took place.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! The Mass opens with this invocation that brings us without the slightest doubt into divine unity where the Father fills us with his love, the Son pours out his grace on us and the Spirit communicates us with the Father and the Son. There can be no celebration of the divine mystery without evoking the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Eucharist, as the greatest mystery of the Christian faith and the center of all the sacraments, bathes us from beginning to end in the communion of the divine Trinity: the conclusions of the Orations, the Gloria, the Credo, the Preface, the Eucharistic Prayer up to its great Doxology (Through Him with Him and in Him…), the final blessing. The readings of this Sunday bring us more light on this mystery.

It is a tradition in the Archdiocese of Bangui that brings together all regular and secular priests and deacons on Whit Monday with the invitation of the Archbishop. By a press release of May 14 from the Chancellery of the Archdiocese of Bangui, all priests were made aware of the said day and its program.

The Universal Church celebrates the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Our dear Mother is in Heaven. She lived on this planet where we constitute the visible Church, now living with her Son in the invisible Church. In the visible Church, we continue the mission that her Son entrusted to us: to make disciples of all nations; in the invisible Church, our brothers the saints savor victory alongside the angels in the heavenly court of the Almighty Father. This is why we unceasingly join our voices to those of the angels during the Masses with the Gloria and the Sanctus.

Before returning to his Father, He who had no counterfeit in his language, Christ had promised the Spirit of truth to his disciples. In a faith sustained by the words of the Master, the latter remained assiduous in the upper room with the Mother of the Savior. The Spirit descended upon them. From then on, they saw themselves dispossessed of all kinds of fear and possessed a supernatural courage to adopt a new language, to stand in the face of persecutions and to live in complete freedom according to the saving plan of salvation.

In Belgium, he first went to Lumen vitae to meet the leaders of this institution dear to the Church. At the end of his interview with the leader, he was invited to say a word to the students who had come from different dioceses of Africa. Ironically, the Prelate arrived at the right time, during the liturgy course. He took advantage of it, since he was in the field, to insist on the liturgy as a theological science in its own right and goes beyond songs and the celebration of the sacraments. The Father Bishops expect a lot from them to put the fruits of their research at the service of the particular churches.

On the occasion of the Joan of Arc celebrations, Cardinal Dieudonné was the guest of honor of Monsignor Jacques Blaquart, Bishop of Orléans for Loiret. Very moving moments, intense in emotion and spirituality. Meetings with civil authorities, exchanges with the different social classes of the population punctuated his stay. It is practically impossible during the Joan of Arc celebrations not to participate in the parade of May 8. His presence honored this moment. It was on this occasion that he presided over the solemn mass at the Sainte Croix Cathedral in the presence of Monsignor Jacques Blaquart, the Bishop of Mauritius, the Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, originally from Orléans

The University of Kalemie vibrated this Thursday, April 16, 2024 under the intellectual air of His Excellency Monsignor Jean-Christophe Amade Aloma, Bishop of the Diocese of Kalemie-Kirungu (DRC). It is under the theme of The family and its foundation that this conference-debate was built. An intellectual and memorable meeting in this Alma mater which saw the participation of professors, priests, sisters, students and lay intellectuals.

After so much speculation about the letter from the Attorney General of the Court of Cassation to the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Matete, the veil has just been lifted by the meeting of this Thursday, April 16, 2024 with the meeting of the President of the Republic Felix Antoine Tshisekedi and Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo. Following the information published by the Focal Point of Presidential News in its platforms, Cardinal Ambongo gave an interview at the end of these discussions...

From April 28 to May 2, 2024, at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, near Rome, three hundred parish priests identified by the Episcopal Conferences and the Eastern Catholic Churches participated in a worldwide meeting of listening, prayer and discernment promoted by the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Dicastery for the Clergy, in agreement with the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches) and the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, entitled "Parish Priests for the Synod (cfr ECF)