On the land of remote oceans, the Papete diocese, which was directed by Monsignor Jean -Pierre Kotanko, assigned twelve diocese of the jubilee, seven of them on the island of Tahiti. Sandro Lafranconi: “We started thinking about the jubilee of Christmas Eve, when a wonderful anchor was put in the hope of Jesus who does not disappoint you in the scenes of the cradle.”
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Papete diocese covers a vast area that the father Sandro LaFranconi uses an effective comparison to make their greatness understand people who have never been a foot -old in this far part of the world in Oceania, in the accurate French Paulisia: it is the largest diocese of the entire Catholic Church. ” A priest, of Italian origin and a member of the African Association of the African, was in the Sutevinto Islands for years, one of the five archipelago that depends on the diocese: the southern islands, the Tamamoto islands, the island of the islands, the Marmaks islands, and the Marmaks islands.
Human and spiritual accompaniment
The presence of more than a hundred thousand loyalists scattered in small urban clusters separated by thousands of kilometers acquires nearly an adventure taste and the other twenty diocese priests, who must add them fifty deaches. Sure, fewer real needs, but though the local church allows them to be more vibrant than ever. “Archbishop Jean -Pierre Kotanko asked me to ensure my presence in the Diocese of the Hoahin family in Hoahin, San Andres de Rayaia, San Pedro Celesto, and San Clemente de Taha, and any I will also take care of the diocese family in Saint Celesto de Bra Bora.”
Huge distances
In each of the Sotavento Islands, the missionary has a stay in which it can remain a few days and then leave for the next stage. Always trips by plane and lasts a maximum of 45 minutes, but covering huge distances. He says: “When the deacon who accompanies me is unable to go to the diocese, education scientists in these societies are not able to encourage the word that it is on holidays, followed by the distribution of the Eucharist.”
The proximity of the jubilee
On the occasion of the Holy Year, Monsignor Cottanceau referred to the five dioceses of the jubilee on the island of Tahiti and seven others in the rest of the diocese lands: among them, from San Andres, in Ratia, Mukalitah to Italian missionary. “We,”, says Lavangon, we started thinking about the jubilee since the last Christmas night. In the Sutevinto Islands, in fact, a great anchor was placed in the midst of our cradle scenes to be clear during the Christmas period that God born is the anchor of hope that is offered for free. ”
Shared signs
The residents of one of the Suteavinto Islands also prepared five paintings that are largely decorated in which the appointment is highlighted, in French and Tahiti, from Romans 5: 5. These great paintings, according to Father Sandro, “are granted to each of the other islands, so that there is always a tangible sign on the jubilee. But this is only the official side. There is a more important work that has started to understand himself a lot in anything for him or does not look at whether he might interpret it well. Love, understand its weakness.”
Father leniency
The insistence on this retirement also means that you remember that if God does not save the indulgence, then the man’s response must be implemented by the actions of the body and spiritual mercy: “For this reason, after opening the jubilee, we think about making the ruling in every station, in every station of mercy. Also, we will soon try to organize some pilgrimage so that those who cannot go to Tahiti Cathedral, the headquarters of the Archbishop, can at least in our church in San Andres. ”
Hope practice
Hope, the central theme of the jubilee, was practiced in the diocese of the Greats in Papete, above all for a strange side: “Here is a large presence of non -Catholics: from Protestants to the sects. In such a case, talking about hope means believing that, along with divisions, everyone can become one. This jubilee is the possibility to achieve this. ” But not only that. This theological virtue of the local church must implement some of the most impressive social problems in recent years: generalized consumption of drugs and alcohol, especially among young people, and the disintegration of families caused by violence and marital infidelity. “To get out of these irreplaceable human situations, the missionaries are saved,” there is nothing but the anchor of hope, which is God, as the jubilee teaches and remembers. “
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