Your call to the entire world CLM for the future of the presence of CLM in Mongoumba mission (Central African Republic) and in Carapira (Mozambique) is an urgent call to mission ad gentes, particularly for African CLM.
The African Committee meeting last Thursday 8 January 2015 was with you in prayer to impact your distress call. We ask the Lord of the harvest to give, in collaboration with the MCCJ and Comboni Sisters, the first African CLM, capable and available to go to mission according to the Comboni’s Plan for the Regeneration of Africa, expressed in the slogan “save Africa with Africa”.
We want the presence of the CLM in those nice missions of Mongoumba and Carapira along with Comboni missionaries (fathers and sisters). We launch a pathetic appeal to the Africans CLM to follow footsteps the Europeans and Americans CLM. We hope to see them get out of their country voluntarily, and respond to the call of the Lord who sends us to Africa to “make common cause” with the poor and the most abandoned in the Central African Republic and Mozambique.
We should not allowed, the closing of those two missions that give us enthusiasm to go further. Meanwhile, we ask the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Daniel Comboni so that, the Lord of the harvest provide us people who ensure over, we inviting you to be calm.
Given that there are groups of CLM(s) who have prepared laity in the domains of health, education, help, pastoral, Justice and Peace …, we invited those groups to prioritize the discernment of vocation for the mission ad gentes. This responsibility concerns the provincial coordinators and chaplains and must be done within the conditions and the requirements.
Finally, we would like to remind all CLM from Africa that their ” first priority and contribution of to the missionary activity of the Church, is an own self donation, to be sent to the mission” (Mt 28: 16-20).
Fraternal Greetings
The African Committee of the LMC
- Dido Likambo Kwadje (LMC Congo)
- Innocent Mweteise Kabareme (LMC Ouganda)
- Marcia Costa (LMC Mozambique)
- Mumbere Musanga Joseph (Superieur de la Province du Congo)
- José Luis Rodríguez López (Superieur de la Province de Mozambique)
