I was saying to my husband that it won’t be long before Africa will send missionaries to America. I didn’t know they’d stop by Ireland first.
We have an African priest from Kenya who is assigned to our parish. He is the most humble, the most holy Jesus loving man I have ever encountered. He attracts a crowd of people after every Mass. People wait in line to speak to him.
His homilies are beautiful and when he speaks it feels like Jesus is speaking to me through him.
I’m thinking black Irish. LOL
We’ve had African priests in the United States for a couple of decades at least. The Diocese of Tulsa has several. Once a diocese has one African, it’s not unusual for more to come, either those already ordained or seminarians.
The first time our Father Amaliri got up for his homily and started to sing in Ibo, it threw the staid Midwestern congregation for a loop, but they warmed up to him big time.