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The mass presided over by Monsignor Timothée BODIKA, surrounded by several priests, had a special character. Because welcoming five deacons and five priests is a divine grace. During his sermon, the Bishop of Kikwit recalled the role of the deacon and the priest in the Church while inviting the faithful to live in the synodal spirit with their pastors. Everything ended in a fraternal atmosphere with blessings that these ordained offered to their family members and the faithful.

On Friday, July 5, 2024, all of Buta had the joy of welcoming His Eminence Fridolin Cardinal AMBONGO and His Excellency the Apostolic Nuncio, who came for the episcopal ordination of His Excellency Mgr Martin BANGA, new Bishop of Buta.

The Cantate Domino Jury is an initiative of Father Jean-Marie KONDE in 2016 in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa. Under the legal cover of his Peace on Earth Foundation, this jury is a para-pastoral activity to encourage choirs in decent competitions of emulation.

Eleven years later, the faithful of Yapele can beat their chests with pride for having completed this great project under the masterly hand of their current parish priest, Father Capistran. This is the reason that necessitated the trip of the Archbishop of Bangui, His Eminence Cardinal Nzapalainga, for the dedication of the new church.

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.