CHEVALIER FAMILY JUSTICE AND PEACE, FIRST FRIDAY - AN INTENTION FROM MSC AFRICA

The First Friday of April 2020 is not what we anticipated.  We have the monthly poster. 

However, below the poster is a letter from our Cameroun confrere, Jonas Hassan Mouchi MSC, writing from the formation house in Congo.

Jonas in the NT during his study time in Sydney 2017

We are probably not up to the minute with news from Africa.  This First Friday, their intentions are our intentions.

Jonas writes: Glad to write you. Hope you are well despite the covid.19 pandemonia.

With more than 15millions inhabitants in Kinshasa, the government has taken some important decisions that will impact directly the daily life even if some are very unpopular.

As you in most of our African countries, populations have nothing to expect from the government. They have been forgotten for long time. So they have to face security forces in order to get their bread. And unfortunately the disease is spreading on.

It is a real dilemma in our country. The government has to choose between shutting down everything and face uprising and huge protests or leaving everything normal and face the spread of that disease.

We are locked down in the noviciate over these 2 last weeks and prepared to face weeks to come. Am just worried about the 30days retreat that is supposed to take place and the end of April.

We are waiting these days rain after a unbearable heat wave. 

Greetings for all of you