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The St. Daniel Comboni’s Feast in Juba
Friday, October 24, 2014
The feast of St. Daniel Comboni – on October 10 – in South Sudan and Sudan is always a great event. Besides being a solemnity for the Church in all the dioceses, it is also a moment of holidays and different activities organized by the parishes and other groups in a number of villages and towns. In several of our missions it was a time of great joy and of being together. The Mass was celebrated in Juba, in the Cathedral of St. Theresa, in Kator area, followed by various activities that involved many people. In the picture: Paulino Lukudu Loro, archbishop of the diocese of Juba, and a Comboni Missionary.
Fr. Salvatore
Pacifico.
Fr. Salvatore Pacifico and Sr. Elena Balatti, CMS, in our Comboni House in Juba, in the presence of hundreds of religious, bishops, apostolic administrator, diocesan priests, ambassadors and other friends, presented the Comboni’s Plan in a double re-reading from the point of view of the Comboni Missionaries and of the Comboni Sisters. The Eucharist was presided over by Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro who stressed the immense and great work done by our ancestors in the faith in the land of our Funder and the need to continue to follow the steps of those who have preceded us.
Centre for human, pastoral and spiritual formation
On Saturday 11 October 2014, Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro, archbishop of the diocese of Juba, and a Comboni Missionary, together with other bishops and the apostolic administrator, unveiled the project for the construction of a National Centre for Human and Spiritual Formation in the presence of special guests, among whom the Ambassador of EU and many religious and Christians. The Centre is going to be built by the Religious Association of Superiors of South Sudan (RSASS) in Kit, near our first mission of Rejaf (1919), in the diocese of Juba, just 15 km from the city centre.
The chairperson of the association is Fr. Daniele Moschetti, the provincial. A funds raising committee is already working for this purpose and contacting several organizations. It is hoped that the Centre may be completed within two years. It will become a centre for human and spiritual formation and peace, reconciliation and trauma healing for the people of South Sudan. It will be managed and cared for by a religious community belonging to RSASS and living in the centre and it will offer spiritual retreats, workshops and training. South Sudan is still remaining very poor in term of infrastructures and this Centre will be unique for its nature in all the country.
“Servants of the Gospel”
This book represented a good occasion for a great mission promotion in the parishes of Juba and South Sudan at large. Two thousand copies of the English Edition have already been sold and a re-print was made for another 1.500 copies, which have already been put on sale.
The book, prepared in collaboration with the four provinces of MCCJ and CMS of Sudan and South Sudan, presents the intensive and great work done by St. Daniele Comboni and other 40 missionaries who have trailed in his footsteps, following the inspiration of the Plan for the Regeneration of Africa in the last 150 years in these two countries. The same book was also published in Italian, by Editrice Dissensi, with the title “Servitori del Vangelo”. The book was presented by Fr. Pacifico Salvatore in a number of Italian towns (Milan, Genoa, Turin, Vicenza, Pescara, Camerino, Macerata…) to parishes or missionary groups that accompany the work of the Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan. The presentation of the book was also a good occasion to speak of the 150 Years of the Plan for the Regeneration of Africa and to present the current situation of South Sudan.