Maputo, 14 May, 2024 / 10:11 pm (ACI Africa).
Bishop Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua has called upon pilgrims in the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Namaacha, Mozambique, to pray for peace and reconciliation in the Southern African nation.
In his Sunday, May 12 homily, the conclusion of the pilgrimage, the Auxiliary Bishop of Mozambique’s Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo said, “As Christians who live in a country like ours with its joys and challenges, at the feet of Mary, we will place everything that makes us happy and sad.”
“Let us continue asking for the gift of peace, reconciliation, conversion and fraternity,” Bishop Muananoua emphasized during the May 12 celebration that brought together more than 15,000 pilgrims from 43 Catholic Parishes of Maputo Archdiocese.
The Mozambican Catholic Bishop described the pilgrimage as “a moment of prayer, of penance that should lead us to a profound conversion.”
“It is in the spirit of a deep prayer that leads us to a true conversion of life that we recommend our pilgrims to live the pilgrimage with the rosary in their hands, the name of Mary on their lips and the song of God's mercy in their hearts, so that we can live and walk together knowing each other as brothers and sisters,” Bishop Muananoua said.
