Sub-Saharan Africa, 09 February, 2021 / 6:17 pm (ACI Africa).
For years, Carmelite Sisters in Malawi’s Catholic Diocese of Zomba have been working under difficult conditions to bake hosts, which they sell to make a living and to support the deprived in the Malawian Diocese.
According to the leadership of the Pontifical Charity Organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the Religious Sisters have been working in the Southeastern African country since 2003 and spend time praying, especially for the sanctification of the members of the Clergy in the country.
“At present there are eleven Sisters living there, their lives devoted entirely to a life of prayer and contemplation,” the leadership of ACN notes in a report published Monday, February 8, and adds in reference to the Carmelite Sisters, “They are praying for the salvation of the whole world and especially for the sanctification of Priests. And there are a number of young women who would like to join them.”
According to the Pontifical charity organization, the Religious Sisters work among “very poor” people in the South of Malawi; the poor depend on the Religious Congregation for their survival. The people, ACN notes, struggle to survive owing to lengthy dry seasons experienced in the region.
“The local Catholic faithful are delighted at the presence of the Sisters and they are also happy to support them, to the extent of their possibilities. But they are very poor. The dry season lasts here for eight months of the year. And so, it is often the Sisters themselves who end up sharing, albeit gladly, the little they have with the poor who come knocking at their door,” the leadership of the Catholic charity says.
