18th November 2024 with Cardinal Lavigerie
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Day TWO: Passion for Africa
+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Text from the Cardinal: “I have loved everything about Africa.” It is to you that I am now coming, O my dear Africa. I had sacrificed everything to you seventeen years ago, when compelled by a force that was obviously that of God, I left everything to dedicate myself to your service. Since then, what travels, what exhaustions, what sorrows! I recall them only to forgive and to express once again my invincible hope of seeing the portion of this great continent that once knew the Christian religion, to return fully to the light and the truth, and the one that has hitherto remained immersed in the most frightful barbarity, to come out of its darkness and death. It was to this work that I dedicated my life. But what is a man’s…