Beira, 19 August, 2025 / 6:30 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna of the Catholic Archdiocese of Beira in Mozambique has called upon the Deacon he ordained a Priest to pursue holiness in practising the virtues of simplicity and love.
In his Sunday, August 17 homily during the Priestly Ordination of Deacon Albertino Raimundo Molde, Archbishop Zuanna said that the people of God need Priests, who are at their service, keen on holiness.
“You are called to serve, not to be served. The people do not need powerful Priests, but holy Priests. And holiness is lived through simplicity, through love in small things,” the Mozambican Catholic Archbishop said at St. Francis Xavier Parish of Beira Archdiocese.
He cautioned the Priest-elect against isolating himself from others, saying, “Humility opens the Priest’s heart to his people and prevents him from closing in on himself or distancing from the concrete reality of the community.”
The Argentine member of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (SCI) noted that humility is not weakness but the condition for a Priest to become a bridge between God and the people, and a channel of divine grace.
