Posted on 02/01/2023 7:37:45 PM PST by MurphsLaw
More than one million people attended Pope Francis’ Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.
The Mass in Kinshasa, DRC’s capital city, took place on the airfield of the N’Dolo Airport on the second day of the pope’s trip to two countries in central and east Africa.
Catholics attended a prayer vigil with confessions and music the night of Jan. 31; some people who traveled from far away stayed at the airport all night until the morning Mass on Feb. 1.
People gathered in the field hours before the start of Mass at 9:30 a.m. local time. Catholics danced and sang songs, including a joyful chant of “Maman Maria,” which means “Mama Mary” in French, as they awaited Pope Francis’ arrival.
According to statistics from the Vatican, there are more than 52 million Catholics in the DRC, almost half of the total population of more than 105 million people.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass in French, the official language of DRC, and Lingala, the Bantu-based creole spoken in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and by millions of speakers across Central Africa.
The pope delivered his homily in Italian with French translations for the Mass, which was celebrated according to the Zaire Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
The Zaire Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is an inculturated Mass formally approved in 1988 for the dioceses of what was then known as the Republic of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Pilgrims used umbrellas, hats, and even sheets of paper to shade themselves from the sun as temperatures soared into the low 90s Fahrenheit.
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Soundtrack..... Gettin’ Down Wit Frank....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlkTSKqE_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8
So the Zaire Inculturated form of the Roman Rite is AOK.
But the Traditional Latin Mass is not?
I just thought you would be happy that Vatican 2
didn't dampen the turn out...
You were pinged to the following post:
Mythbusting: “African Catholicism is a Vatican II Success Story”
” there are more than 52 million Catholics in the DRC, almost half of the total population of more than 105 million people.”
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About the same number of Catholics there as there are in the US.
Our Leftist TV news “star” “Joy Reid’s father was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and her late mother was a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana. Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the Congo. She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado.”
a million blacks and nobody was even shot, let alone killed...
see, it can be done
Dancing on a wing & a prayer waiting for the Pope, N’dolo airport Kinshasa
Learn - and understand-
from what CS Lewis said 80 years ago:
"we are still teething.
The outer world, no doubt, thinks just the opposite.
It thinks we are dying of old age.
But it has thought that very often before.
Again and again it has thought Christianity was dying,
dying by persecutions from without and corruptions from within,
by the rise of Mohammedanism, the rise of the physical sciences,
the rise of great anti-Christian revolutionary movements.
But every time the world has been disappointed.
Its first disappointment was over the crucifixion.
The Man came to life again. In a sense—and I quite realise how frightfully unfair it must seem to them—
that has been happening ever since.
They keep on killing the thing that He started:
and each time, just as they are patting down the earth on its grave, they suddenly hear that it is still alive and has even broken out in some new place."
C.S. Lewis wasn’t even a Catholic.
So I’m not surprised you’re quoting him.
Barron, likewise, sources non-catholic authors more than he does the catholic ones.
You can't, or don't, even recognize Joy of Faith anymore ... do you ?
Bringing Jesus down from heaven to nail him on the cross again, then drink his blood and eat his flesh. Not a good idea.
Dear Catholics, Jesus already sacrificed himself. No need to do it over and over
It's a shame you don't.
Do you believe the Holy Spirit is speaking to us in Bergoglio's evil Sin-Nods, as Bergolio claims?
Is the Holy Spirit really telling us that He has changed His mind and homosexual activity and extramarital sex are no longer mortal sins?
You mean out of the bog field
and WHAT St. Paul, as told to him by Jesus, preached to his Christians:
23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,
that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said,
“This is my body which is for[c] you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
YOU proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Rover- so in fact, you can see, IT'S MORE than just a "good idea" as you say.
Please, get rid of the Protestantism part, and just keep the Christianity.
It will keep you from being misguided.
So are you saying then,
that CS Lewis is NOT going to Heaven, on that day- because he was not Catholic?
Are you?
Dare we hope Hell is empty?
Is no differnet than:
Dare we hope Jesus Christ was a liar?
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