Luanda, 10 April, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Catholic Archdiocese of Rwanda has cautioned Catholic Priests against night parties.
In his homily during the Priestly Ordination of Deacon Mário Jorge Fela Pacheco on Sunday, April 7, Archbishop Dias said that the Sacred Ordination of a new Priest is always “a source of enthusiasm and great evolution for a Bishop and for the whole church.”
“The night is not our world. At night we should be in our communities, in our Rectories, and there we share with our brothers our life, our pastoral responsibility, and then we pray, we rest, filling ourselves with Him so that the next morning we can distribute abundant warm bread, smelling good and tasty even without butter,” he said during the Ordination celebration at St. Therese of the Child Jesus Parish of Luanda Archdiocese.
The Angolan Catholic Bishop added, “A Priest is not a party man, a special guest at this dinner and that dinner, no! Our life is a life of recollection.”
“Dear Deacon Mário, always believe in what you preach, teach what you have learned in the faith, what you have learned in the Church, what you have received from the Church, what you have received from priests, saints and teachers, and live what you teach,” he said.
