The visit of the Founder to Tshikapa in September 2018
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"Two Houses in Tshikapa"
The visit of the Founder to Tshikapa
in September 2018
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The members of the Family Missionary Saint Nicodemus living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, together with their Founder and Superior General, priest Thomas Boca, in the Chapel of the Community House of Tshikapa, on 4 September 2018. They are the Friars Junstin Munjenje, David Tshitenge , Valentin Nkongolo, Clément Tshiela and Emery Mapesa, standing and from left to right, as well as the Novices François Tsheleka, Valery Mutela, Jean Marie Mbikayi and Jean Benoit Kankalongo, crouched and from left to right. Together with them is the Abbé Albert Magasin, Parish Vicar of the Saint Augustine Parish in Tshikapa and the Sister Marie Tshilomba Lukadi, Foundress and Superior General of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Tshikapa.
From Saturday 1 September 2018 until the following Wednesday 5, the Founder and Superior General of the Family Missionary Saint Nicodemus - Association Clerical, association in view of becoming a Religious Institute of diocesan right, was in Tshikapa, in the Diocese of Luebo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he met his Confreres living in Africa.
On the occasion, in agreement with the Bishop of the Diocese of Luebo, H. E. Mons. Pierre-Célestin Tshitoko Mamba, the entrance to the fourth year of temporary aggregation of Friars Justin Munjenje and Emery Mapesa was celebrated, as well as the entrance in Novitiate of the
four Postulants François Tsheleka, Valery Mutela, Jean Marie Mbikayi and Jean Benoit Kankalongo.
The celebration took place on 4 September 2018 in the Chapel of the House of Community, with the participation of the Parish Vicar of the Saint Augustine Parish, Abbé Albert Magasin, and the Sister Marie Tshilomba Lukadi, Foundress and Superior General of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Tshikapa.
Together with her there were also some of her Sisters and four of the five children living in the family home run by the same Dominican Sisters. Were also present the Nicodemins Friars
The Friars of the Missionary Family saint Nicodemus living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, together with their Founder and Superior General, priest Thomas Boca, in front of the Chapel of the Tshikapa’s Community House, on 4 September 2018. Together with them are present the Abbé Albert Magasin, Parish Vicar of the Saint Augustine Parish in Tshikapa, Sister Marie Tshilomba Lukadi, Foundress and Superior General of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Tshikapa, with some of her sisters and four of the five children living in the house family managed by the Sisters themselves.
Clément Tshiela, David Tshitenge and Valentin Nkongolo; they, as also the Friar Vincent Versaci who lives in Italy with the Founder, are completing their period of temporary aggregation to the Nicodemine Association, and are waiting to be able to issue the profession of definitive aggregation.
In the photo, the Friar Vincenzo Versaci, returning from work with the Company’s uniform in which he serves.
During the celebration the duty of the religious was emphasized: to seek communion with Jesus, a communion that passes through the meekness and the humility; to commit oneself to having control of one's own body, in particular the commitment to live in chastity and continence; to be vigilant, that is, to live constantly in charity, which, while it is a pledge of personal salvation, at the same time is a light of life for men, inasmuch as it manifests and indicates the presence of God.
For their part, the Professed and the Novices have proposed themselves: to persevere in prayer and penance; to form with the confreres a true community of love in the truth and the justice, in the respect and the patience, in the service and in the humility; to witness the Gospel at every moment of life, with the words and the deeds, and to know and implement the rules of life indicated in the
Constitutions.
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