Viana, 21 July, 2024 / 5:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Thousands of pilgrims are expected to participate in the 2024 pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Muxima scheduled to begin on August 30 in Angola’s Catholic Diocese of Viana, the Local Ordinary has said.
Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo, who was speaking to journalists after an audience with the Governor of Luanda Province, Manuel Homem, highlighted some of the innovations for this year’s spiritual event to be realized under the theme, “With Mary, let us live the Year of Prayer in Faith.”
“This year thousands of people are expected to take part in this religious event,” Bishop Sumbelelo told journalists on Tuesday, July 16, and added, “This year, we want to introduce fireworks to show the population that the pilgrimage also has a touristic aspect that we would like to promote.”
Pilgrims are set to arrive in the village of Muxima on August 29 and ushered into “catechesis and religious celebrations” ahead of Holy Mass to officially open the pilgrimage on August 31, he said about the spiritual event scheduled to conclude on September 1.
The Angolan Catholic Bishop also spoke about the pilgrimage logo, which he said would be moved in a procession through some of the suffragan Dioceses in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda, including the Dioceses of Caxito and Viana.
