Nassau County N.Y. Catholic: Congo

Lord

The heart of the Christian community is our Triune Lord: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Geography, history, and numbers are not the heart, but probably I will type mostly on these topics. As the internet already provides many encouraging spiritual guides and discouraging contentious forums, I intend to offer neither.
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Bukavu

The front page of today's New York Times, 11.26.2012, carries frightful reports of fighting in the eastern or northeastern Congo. I note that this has a connection to Long Island. The Blue Point Ursulines, who have staffed schools in the diocese of Rockville Centre, have origins from Tildonk, Belgium. The same Tildonk Ursulines have a vice-province in the Congo, at Bukavu, a large city towards which the rebels are moving. An article about the troubles is linked here.
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Yesterday, the lector at St. William the Abbot parish read a petition about the Ursulines in the Congo. Today's news, unfortunately, narrates chaos, war, and suffering.