SOCIETY OF AFRICAN MISSIONS

Month: January 2016

  • My experience with Ebola

    My experience with Ebola

    I reached Sierra Leone by mid May 2014. I enjoyed the beauty of the country with lot of palm trees and the wonderful flora and fauna that was very familiar to me. It was the season of Mangoes that cheered me up.  In the Archdiocese of Freetown there was a beautiful practice of all the…

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  • My experience in the Priesthood

    My experience in the Priesthood

    « Not to us o Lord, not to us, but to your name give the Glory. » (Psalm 115: 1)I was ordained on the 4th of July 2015, as such at this point of writing, I am still a ‘baby’ in the ministry, that is, six months in the sacred priesthood.

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  • Like the Apostles…

    Like the Apostles…

    LIKE THE APOSTLES… FOLLOWING JESUS SENT BY THE FATHER… “What are you looking for?”… Come, and you will see… So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day” (Jn 1:38-39). The apostles walk with Jesus, sometimes without understanding and acceptance. After his Resurrection and Pentecost they understand his…

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  • Comme les Apôtres…

    Comme les Apôtres…

    Comme les Apôtres… à la suite de Jésus, l’envoyé du Père … « Ayez entre vous les mêmes sentiments qui sont dans le Christ Jésus, Lui de condition divine… » (Phil 2, 5…). . « La communion intime avec le Christ est un élément essentiel de la spiritualité missionnaire. On ne peut comprendre ni vivre…

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  • African Formation Council meets at Calavi / Benin

    African Formation Council meets at Calavi / Benin

    (L to R : Don Phiri, Eric Yapi Yapi, Eugenio, Paul Chataigné, Samuel Agbeme, Sylvere Atta, Eddie Muge,Hervé Abu Yepié, Rginald, Rozario, Narcisse Seka Ogou, James Shimbala, Mohan Arokiyasamy) The African Formation Council met in Calavi for a three day meeting from the 5th to the 7th of January. Members of the council are the…

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  • Fr. Paul Chataigné celebrates his 75 years

    Fr. Paul Chataigné celebrates his 75 years

    Fr. Paul Chataigné marks his 75th birthday in the International Spiritual Year centre in Calavi, Benin. Co-formators and those who had come for African Formation Council meeting celebrated with with Fr. Paul.

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  • Sr. Clémence Ikokpata, OCPSP, speaks…

    Sr. Clémence Ikokpata, OCPSP, speaks…

    I was assigned to the Regional House in September 2014. So then I completed a year of physical presence and service in this house. It is not easy to end up in an environment to which we are not at all used to and to start a newly created position and to organize. The mere…

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