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Download News Letter NL 2020 NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY&MARCH_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 12/02/2020 11:28 Page 1 Bishop Mendy’s New Year Message: Ash Wednesday Restoring the culture of peace ‘A handful of dust’ Page 4 Page 19 Volume 44 No. 1 FEBRUARY & MARCH 2020 D50 The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER Incorporating The Catholic Newsletter Congratulations on your Second Episcopal Anniversary THOUGHTS, PRAYERS & READINGS FOR MASS EVERY SUNDAY, Page 14 Most Revd Dr Gabriel Mendy CSSp NL 2020 NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY&MARCH_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 12/02/2020 11:28 Page 2 2 DIOCESE OF BANJUL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY / MARCH 2020 AllALL Branches BRANCHES open OPEN to TO the THE public PUBLIC now. NOW OPEN FROM Mondays to Saturdays: 8.30am to 8.00pm OPEN FROM MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS: 8:30am to 8:00pm 50th Kairaba Avenue, Tel: 4399144, 4378489 50 KAIRABA AVENUE - Telephone: 4399144, 4378489 1. Bakau New Town 6868820 20. Kairaba Avenue 6868801 2. Bakoteh 6868816 21. Kaw Junction L/Kunda 6868861 3. Barra, North Bank Region 6868858 22. Kololi Highway 6868832 4. Banjul Leman Street 6868806 23. Lamin Village Opp Galp 6868815 5. Bansang 6969915 24. Latrikunda Sabiji 6868847 6. Basse Santa Su 6868839 25. London Corner 6868807 7. Basse Highway 6969865 26. Old Jeshwang 6868831 8. Brikama Nyambai 6968874 27. Old Yundum Market 6868843 9. Brikama Hawla Kunda 6868810 28. Sanyang 6868824 10. Brusubi Mini Market 6868819 29. Sayer Jobe Avenue 6868808 11. Brusubi Galp Station 6969873 30. Serrekunda Bartess 6868836 12. Bundung 6868821 31. Serekunda Mosque Road 6868814 13. Busumballa 6868827 32. Soma 6868837 14. Churchill’s Town 6868817 33. Sukuta 6868856 15. Cooperative 6868822 34. Tabokoto 6868813 16. Dippakunda 6868812 35. Tallinding 6868809 17. Fajara 6868825 36. Westfield Opp. World Mobile 6868910 18. Farafenni 6868838 37. Westfield Next to Church 6868864 19. Kanifing Estate 6868842 NL 2020 NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY&MARCH_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 12/02/2020 11:28 Page 3 DIOCESE OF BANJUL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY / MARCH 2020 3 By way of introduction Noteworthy Days THREE days in particular this February merit our attention. numerous Muslim brothers The first comes at the beginning of the month. 2nd February and sisters. We should is ‘Candlemas’ – the Presentation of the Infant Christ in the be actively aware of the Temple. It’s a feast day generally overlooked; but not this need for continuing national year, because it falls on a Sunday. development, and our At Candlemas, the Mass is preceded by a procession of the Christian commitment to do faithful bearing lighted candles. The candles symbolise our all we can to contribute to homage to Christ as the Light of the World – ‘the light to peace, harmony and inter- lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel’. dependence across the We, the candle-bearers, must surely seek to show the light whole nation. of Christ to others, and so play our own part, however humble, And what is the third in bringing about his kingdom. significant day in February? Let us pray that the celebration of Candlemas will It is, of course, Ash Wednesday, the 26th day of the month. encourage us in our witness to light, peace and the service of On that day, our churches will be full – commendably so. others. But Ash Wednesday is just a beginning. It marks the start of The second significant day in February is Tuesday 18th Lent. Lent is an insistent invitation for us all, singly and February – Independence Day. together, to think less of ourselves and more of others. Above Most Gambians have an awareness of ‘family’, of being all, to grow closer to Our Lord as the Way, the Truth and the part of a nation with a sense of its own destiny. There’s Life. considerable economic, social and cultural variety in our country, but we’re bound together by our common Lord, free me from myself nationhood. Or at least, that is our aspiration. Bishop Gabriel To be able to serve you, Mendy, in his New Year Message, has reminded us of our To be able to love you, need to maintain our traditional culture of peace. To succeed in listening to you The Catholic community in The Gambia, and indeed the In every brother or sister you make me meet. wider Christian community, have played an honourable role (G. Volpi) in our country’s development, in harmony with our more The Pope’s Prayer Intentions IN THIS ISSUE 3 By way of Introduction February - Listening to 4 Here & There migrants’ cries Most Rev. Bishop Mendy’s New’s Year Message We pray that the cries of our migrant brothers and sisters, 6 Children’s Colouring Page victims of criminal trafficking, Prayers for our Priests may be heard and considered. 7 The Gambia Christian Council Family Circle March - Catholics in 8 Priests in the Diocese of Banjul China We pray that the Church in 9 Parish/Church Feasts Calendar 2020 China may persevere in its faithfulness to the Gospel, and 10 Gambian Christian Anniversaries grow in unity. 11 Times of Sunday Mass 12 Most Rev. Bishop Mendy’s Christmas Message 14 Sunday Reflections: February & March 19 ‘Ash Wednesday: A handful of dust First published Palm Sunday 1976 20 Lent: Challenges & Opportunities The Diocese of Banjul Newsletter 21 Making your confesssions Incorporating The Catholic Newsletter 22 The Way of the Cross FEBRUARY - MARCH 2020 Volume 44, No. 1 Published by The Gambia Pastoral Institute 23 Some Weekday Celebrations: February & March 33 Kairaba Avenue, PMB 296, Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa 24 Daily Mass Readings: February & March Telephone 4394847 Email [email protected] Editor Fr Peter S. Lopez Editorial Consultant David Somers 25 Fee-moi Gambia Layout Betty Quacoo Answers to Do-You-Know Henry Gomez & Frédéric Diatta Production 26 End-Piece: Matthew’s inspired account of the Son of David NL 2020 NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY&MARCH_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 12/02/2020 11:28 Page 4 4 DIOCESE OF BANJUL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY / MARCH 2020 Various sites were considered, including Bwiam and Juffure, and eventually it was decided to establish the shrine at Kunkujang, where Fr John Sharpe was Parish Priest. Here there The original, indefatigable shrine committee prepared the football field at Kunkujang, imported seating and engaged the NEWS FROM AROUND THE DIOCESE help of the Public Works Department (PWD), the Fire Service and the Red Cross. Developments After that first pilgrimage it was realised that extended facilities were needed. Bishop Cleary provided a D50,000 loan (a large sum in those days). An outdoor altar plinth was built. Fr Sharpe designed seating around the altar, and local labour made lots of slabs. After three years or so, the Presentation Sisters identified a new site for the grotto. Pilgrimage of peace For some time there were problems with the lease originally ON Saturday 7th December great crowds of Gambian agreed with the Alkalo for a plot of some 80 by 500 metres. Catholics and many others gathered from across the country The lease was resented by some local farmers, but after and beyond to Kunkujang Mariama in the Western Region. prolonged efforts the matter was settled, and lease documents It was the 33rd national pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our lodged with Bishop Cleary. Lady Queen of Peace, the first having been held in 1987. The shrine church subsequently built at Kunkujang seats The annual pilgrimage is held on the Saturday nearest to over 1,200 worshippers, and cost more than D200,000. It was 8th December – the Solemnity of the Immaculate designed by Cyril Ashby, a retired Irish civil engineer. He did Conception. not live to see the opening of the church, which contains a Origins plaque to his memory. At Pentecost every year since 1888 a Marian pilgrimage The church is distinguished by murals by Eleanor Yates, an has taken place to the Shrine of Our Lady of Deliverance at American artist Fr Sharpe met by chance when she was Poponguine, on Senegal’s ‘Petite Côte’. It was not until decorating a village church in Ireland. 1986, almost a hundred years after the first pilgrimage to In recent years, in addition to the December pilgrimage, a Poponguine, that a group of lay people suggested to Bishop second pilgrimage to Kunkujang Mariama has been held on the Michael Cleary that a Marian shrine could – and should – be first Saturday in Lent. established in The Gambia. Restoring the culture of peace The New Year Message of the Bishop of Banjul, the Most Revd Dr Gabriel Mendy CSSp SINCE 1st January 1967, the Catholic Church has observed Awakening our collective the World Day of Peace every New Year’s Day to promote memory peace throughout the world and address ongoing conflicts, The observance of World Day wars, crimes and injustice against humanity. of Peace is, therefore, intended to In accordance with this tradition, the Diocese of Banjul also awaken our collective memory, observes World Day of Peace on this first day of January conscience, dignity and decency 2020. The Catholic Church celebrates both the feast of Mary, as human beings and motivate us Mother of God and World Day of Peace on New Year’s Day. to work towards true and stable This year is the 53rd World Day of Peace and the title of peace in societies and nations Pope Francis’ message is ‘A Journey of Hope, Dialogue, around the world. Reconciliation, and Ecological Conversion. The Church On this day, we observe the observes World Day of Peace on New Year’s Day because it 53rd anniversary of World Day of Peace, my message to you, marks the end of a period and cycle of events. At the same my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, our Muslim neighbours, time, it begins a new era full of hopes and higher expectations.
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