Gitega

Burundi, temporary and perpetual professions, new novices and renewal of vows

Jean de Dieu, Amos, Melance and Aimé are the four novices who completed their novitiate and made their temporary profession before the Superior General of the Doctrinaries, Father Sergio La Pegna, on August 24 in Gitega, Burundi, during the Mass presided over by Msgr. Jean Ntagwara, Bishop Emeritus of Bubanza. During the same Mass, seven young men made their perpetual profession: Richard, the Congolese Patrice, Cyprien, Bernard, Jean Claude, Libère and Bertrand. The following day, in the chapel of [...]

By |2024-08-29T08:21:59+02:0029 August 2024|Burundi, Italy|
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The “father Santoro” house has been inaugurated in Kirundo, but much still remains to be done

p. Chadrack Matthiew Dunia, dc The Kirundo project for the construction of the house for the Doctrinaries community and for the rooms for catechesis continues in phases, but the first big step has been taken. The house of the fathers dedicated to Father Santoro was inaugurated on March 9th. The works, which began at the end of May 2023, are almost finished. We encountered many difficulties but they did not prevent us from continuing to the current level. I [...]

By |2024-09-02T12:33:12+02:0026 March 2024|Burundi|
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Lent: Cavaillon in aid of Burundi

During Lent last year the children of the catechism class, the students of the La Salle St Charles school, the young people and all the parishioners of Cavaillon supported the missions of the congregation of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine in Burundi. This year the project continues to build a multipurpose room in Gitega, which will host catechism and the boys and girls who live on the hill and who do not have electricity at home: so they will be [...]

By |2024-09-02T18:17:54+02:0014 February 2024|Burundi, France|
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From Provence a bowl of rice for India and Burundi

Lent has always been a privileged time to open your eyes and heart to the many poverties that exist in the world. In fact, there are three pillars on which the Lenten journey rests: prayer, fasting and sharing. The parishioners of Cavaillon-Les-Vignères-Cheval Blanc-Robion and the boys of the Catholic Lasallian School "Saint Charles" were urged to open their hearts to the proposals of Father Paolo De Leo, responsible for the projects of the Doctrinal missions in India and Burundi. Catechism [...]

By |2023-04-06T11:57:27+02:005 April 2023|France, Italy|
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Burundi, lay doctrinaires pilgrims to Muyaga

The lay doctrinaires who refer to the parish in the Ruziba district of Bujumbura and to the house of Gitega, which houses the Novitiate and the Theological Studentate, have organized a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Muyaga in the diocese of Ruyigi in the east of the country. , in preparation for the canonization of the founder Cesare De Bus. The 72 pilgrims chose Muyaga because it was the first parish in Burundi, founded [...]

By |2022-03-11T16:44:56+01:0011 March 2022|Burundi|
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