Religious in Solwezi reflect on Consecrated Life

Priests, women and men religious in Zambia’s Diocese of Solwezi have recently attended a workshop on the Year of Consecrated Life

The workshop held at Bishop Potani Guest wing in Solwezi began with a day of recollection and later a discussion, sharing and reflection on a Pope Francis’s document on Consecrated Life. Lastly, a paper on “Consecrated Life in Africa: Chances and Challenges” was presented.

The workshop was conducted by Fr. Serge St. Arnenult, a Missionary of Africa priest and a Sr. Chanda Nsofwa who is a Salesian religious sister. On the vigil of the first Sunday of Advent of 29 November 2014, Pope Francis declared and proclaimed a Year of Consecrated Life which coincides with fiftieth anniversary of promulgation of the Second Vatican Council document, Perfectae Caritatis. This document promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 is the “Decree on the adaption and Renewal of Religious Life and deals with institutes of consecrated life in the Church.

In the Diocese of Solwezi, the institutes of consecrated life are Franciscan Missionary Sisters/Brothers of Service, Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi, Sisters of St. John the Baptist, Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz, Franciscan Conventual Friars, Franciscan Capuchin Friars, Sisters of the Child Jesus, Sisters of the Holy Cross and Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.

(Fr. Wilbroad Musonda, Diocese of Solwezi Communications Office)

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