AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutwa: "The Diocese of Grand-Bassam, the gateway to faith"

Thursday, 30 June 2022 missionary animation   development   local churches   prayer  

Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Grand-Bassam (east of Abidjan) has celebrated its 40th anniversary and the significant date has been the reason to launch a year of celebrations that ended this month and marked for the community local Catholic more than a point of arrival, above all, a starting point. "Diocese of Grand-Bassam, gate of faith, listen! - exclaimed Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa during the homily of the thanksgiving mass -. Forty years later, you will feel the breath of the Spirit that invites us to deepen, to widen the space of the tent. Why does the Lord want it to overflow everywhere? You will know how to discern the signs of the times in which we find ourselves and you will respond to your vocation". During the homily of the Holy Mass celebrated in the presence of the civil and political authorities of the city, a large representation of priests, men and women religious and thousands of diocesan faithful, Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa expressed his joy at having celebrated this anniversary and thanked God for the work of the first evangelizers. "On the occasion of this Eucharistic celebration that marks the forty years of existence of the diocese of Grand Bassam, the Lord wants to accompany you in your daily life, to make you collaborators in his work, that of integral human development", the Cardinal added. . The first parish priest of the diocesan Church of Abidjan invited Grand-Bassam to take the opportunity of the Synod on Synodality taking place in the Church to further strengthen the unity of the ecclesial body, to renew effective pastoral action, to take up its challenges , specifically, the construction of the Cathedral. Finally, Cardinal Kutwa addressed his grateful acknowledgment to Archbishop Raymond Ahoua, Bishop of the Diocese of Grand-Bassam for the practicality with which he carries out pastoral care. Grand-Bassam was established as a diocese in 1982. Its first priest, Father Michel Boa Aka, was ordained in 1984 by Monsignor Joseph Akichi, the first Bishop of Grand-Bassam. (SS/EG) (Agenzia Fides, 30/6/2022)


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