Pope Francis meets the youth, catechists, priests, religious and bishops of the Congo

1. Pope Francis in the Congo– 2

2. PROGRAMME OF POPE FRANCIS’ VISIT
TO CONGO AND SUDAN
ROME - KINSHASA
7:55 Departure by airplane from Rome/Fiumicino
International Airport to Kinshasa
Greeting to journalists on the flight to Kinshasa
15:00 Arrival at Kinshasa “Ndjili” International Airport
15:00 Official Welcome
16:30 Welcome Ceremony at the “Palais de la Nation”
16:45 Courtesy Visit to the President of the Republic in the
“Salle Présidentielle” of the “Palais de la Nation”
17:30 Meeting with Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic
Corps in the garden of the
“Palais de la Nation”
Wednesday, 1st February 2023
KINSHASA
9:30 Holy Mass at “Ndolo” Airport
16:30 Meeting with Victims from the Eastern Part of the
Country at the Apostolic Nunciature
18:30 Meeting with Representatives from some Charities at
the Apostolic Nunciature
Thursday, 2nd February 2023
KINSHASA
9:30 Meeting with Young People and Catechists in Martyrs’
Stadium
16:30 Prayer Meeting with Priests, Deacons, Consecrated
Persons and Seminarians in the Cathedral
“Notre Dame du Congo”
18:30 Private meeting with Members of the Society of Jesus at
the Apostolic Nunciature
Friday, 3rd February 2023
KINSHASA - JUBA
8:30 Meeting with Bishops at CENCO
10:10 Farewell Ceremony at Kinshasa “Ndjili” International
Airport
10:40 Departure by airplane from Kinshasa “Ndjili” International
Airport to Juba
The Holy Father is making the Journey to South Sudan
together with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland
15:00 Arrival at Juba International Airport
15:00 Welcome Ceremony
15:45 Courtesy Visit to the President of the Republic at the
Presidential Palace
16:15 Meeting with The Vice-Presidents of the Republic
17:00 Meeting with Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic
Corps in the garden of the Presidential Palace
Saturday, 4 February 2023
JUBA
9:00 Meeting with Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Consecrated
Persons and Seminarians in the Cathedral of Saint Therese
11:00 Private meeting with Members of the Society of Jesus at the
Apostolic Nunciature
16:30 Meeting with internally Displaced Persons in the
“Freedom Hall”
18:00 Ecumenical Prayer at “John Garang” Mausoleum
Sunday, 5 February 2023
JUBA - ROME
8:45 Holy Mass at “John Garang” Mausoleum
11:00 Farewell Ceremony at Juba International Airport
11:30 Departure by airplane from Juba International Airport to
Rome
17:30 Arrival at Rome Fiumicino International Airport

3. MEETING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND CATECHISTS
Martyrs’ Stadium (Kinshasa) - Wednesday, 2 February 2023

4. Those who pray grow inwardly; they are able to lift their gaze
on high and to remember that we are made for heaven.

5. The Holy Spirit is the driving force of peace, the true power of
peace. That is why prayer is the most powerful weapon there is. It
brings you the consolation and hope that come from God. It always
opens up new possibilities and helps you overcome all your fears

6. Life in community is the way to make us feel good
about ourselves and to be faithful to our true calling.

7. try to spend time together and experience the beauty of letting others
amaze you with their stories and their experiences. - hold hands with
whoever is beside you. Imagine yourselves as one Church, a single people.

8. Blessed Isidore
Bakanja, Blessed
Marie-Clémentine
Anuarite, and Saint
Kizito and his
companions

9. They were witnesses of the faith, martyrs who never
succumbed to the logic of violence, but proclaimed
by their lives the power of love and forgiveness.

10. Blessed Isidore
Bakanja, your
brother who was
brutally tortured
because he
refused to conceal
his piety and
proposed
Christianity to
other young
people

11. Floribert Bwana
Chui, who fifteen
years ago, at only
twenty-six years
old, was killed in
Goma for having
blocked the passage
of spoiled foodstuffs
that would have
been harmful for
people’s health

12. Christians cannot fail to be
honest; otherwise, they betray
their identity - “Do not be
overcome by evil; but overcome
evil with good” (Rom 12:21).

13. To forgive does not mean forgetting the past; it means refusing to
repeat it. To forgive is to change the course of history. It is to raise up
those who have fallen. It is to accept the idea that no one is perfect
and that everyone, not just myself, has the right to make a new start.

14. Those who forgive bring Jesus even to places where
he is not welcomed; they bring love to places where
love is rejected. Those who forgive build the future

15. Every time we confess our sins, we receive in our hearts the power that
changes history. God always forgives us, always and freely! And we
are then told, as the Gospel says: to “go and do likewise” (Lk 10:37)

16. SERVICE - What can I do for others? In other words,
how can I serve the Church, my community, my country?

17. PRAYER MEETING WITH PRIESTS, DEACONS,
CONSECRATED PERSONS AND SEMINARIANS
Cathedral “Notre Dame du Congo” (Kinshasa) - Wednesday, 2 February 2023
we feel enveloped by his light, comforted by his Spirit,
encouraged by his word and sustained by his love

18. Cardinal Ambongo’s words of welcome,

19. it is a mission to act as signs of Christ’s presence,
his unconditional love, his reconciliation and forgiveness,
and his compassionate concern for the needs of the poor.

20. If we experience our vocation in this way, we will always
have challenges to face and temptations to overcome -
mediocrity, worldly comfort, and superficiality

21. Prayer takes the focus off ourselves, it opens us up to God, and it puts
us back on our feet because it puts us in his hands. It creates in us the
space to be able to experience God’s closeness, so that his word
becomes familiar to us and, through us, to all those whom we meet.

22. How beautiful it is,… to be transparent in our intentions and free from
compromise with money, joyfully embracing evangelical poverty

23. they need priests and religious who are educated,
well trained and passionate about the Gospel

24. “your witness to living together in peace, over ethnic and racial lines,
can touch hearts” (Africae Munus, 108). – Benedicto XVI

25. We need the ability to be flexible, to overcome
rigidity, and to cultivate a docile spirit that
refuses to yield to bitterness and resentment

26. MEETING with the BISHOPS of the CONGO -
CENCO (Kinshasa) - Friday, 3rd February 2023

27. Yours is a Church present in the lived history of this people, deeply
rooted in its daily life, and in the forefront of charity. It is a community
capable of attracting others, filled with infectious enthusiasm and
therefore, like your forests, with plenty of “oxygen”. Thank you,
because you are a lung that helps the universal Church breathe!

28. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jer 1:5).
We who have been called to be shepherds of God’s People,
to rely on this closeness of the Lord, “to form ourselves in
prayer”, and to spend a good deal of time in his presence.

29. they must touch wounds and communicate
God’s closeness, so that people can realize
their dignity as his beloved children and
learn to walk with their heads held high,

30. let us become in turn channels of consolation and reconciliation
for others, to heal the wounds of those who suffer, to ease the
pain of those who weep, to lift up the poor and to set individuals
free from manifold forms of slavery and oppression.

31. “There is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my
bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot” (Jer 20:9).

32. We are called, then, to pluck up the poisonous plants of
hatred and selfishness, anger, resentment and violence;
to break down the altars erected to money and corruption;

33. to build a coexistence based on justice, truth and peace; and finally, to plant the
seeds of rebirth, so that tomorrow’s Congo will truly be what the Lord dreams of:
a blessed and happy land, no longer exploited, oppressed and drenched in blood

34. priests are those closest to the Bishop, concern for pastoral workers and
encourage-ment to work together in a synodal spirit. And witness, since the
Church’s pastors must first and foremost be credible, particularly in their work
of fostering communion, in their moral life and in their administration of goods.

35. The governance of the Bishop must be that of a pastor; in front
of the flock, in the midst of the flock, and behind the flock. –
the Servant of God Archbishop Christophe Munzihirwa, a courageous
shepherd and prophetic voice, who defended his people by offering
his life. “What can we still do these days? Let us remain firm in faith

36. I think of the benefit I personally derived from knowing Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo
Pasinya. - Be witnesses of mercy and reconciliation amid the violence unleashed not
only by the exploitation of resources and by ethnic and tribal conflicts, but also and
above all by the dark power of the evil one, the enemy of God and humanity.

37. You have had the patience to wait for a new year, you are good!
Thank you for this! You had to work twice as hard, because the first
visit was cancelled, but I know that you will forgive the Pope!

38. Always
forgive in the
Sacrament of
Reconciliation.
In this way,
you will sow
forgiveness for
society as a
whole.

40. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 1-11-2022
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
All Souls Day
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating
weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Conscience
Christ is Alive
Deus Caritas est 1,2– Benedict XVI
Fatima, History of the Apparitiions
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Freedom
Grace and Justification
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Human Community
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Kingdom of Christ
Saint Leo the Great
Saint Luke, evangelist
Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Mary Magdalen
Saint Mark, evangelist
Saint Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Saint Martin de Porres
Saint Martin of Tours
Sain Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Saints Nazario and Celso
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint Jean Baptiste MarieaVianney, Curé of Ars
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcuta
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Saing Peter Claver
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
Saint Stephen, proto-martyr
Saint Thomas Becket
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of John Baptist
Signs of hope
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
The Chursh, Mother and Teacher
Valentine
Vocation to Beatitude
Virgin of Guadalupe – Apparitions
Virgin of the Pillar and Hispaniic feast day
Virgin of Sheshan, China
Vocation – mconnor@legionaries.org
WMoFamilies Rome 2022 – festval of families
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Life in Christ
Love and Marriage 12,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Mary – Doctrine and dogmas
Mary in the bible
Martyrs of Korea
Martyrs of North America and Canada
Medjugore Santuario Mariano
Merit and Holiness
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Moral Law
Morality of Human Acts
Passions
Pope Francis in Bahrain
Pope Francis in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in Hungary, Slovaquia
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Passions
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the
Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 1,2,3
Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr
Saint Agnes of Rome, virgin and martyr
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Andrew, Apostle
Saint Anthony of the desert, Egypt
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Bruno, fuunder of the Carthusians
Saaint Columbanus 1,2
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Cecilia
Saint Faustina Kowalska and thee divine mercy
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis Xaviour
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James, apostle
Saint John, apsotle and evangelist
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla
Saint Joseph

41. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 1-11-2022
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la
Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Conciencia
Cristo Vive
Deus Caritas est 1,2– Benedicto XVI
Dia de todos los difuntos
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Encuentro Mundial de Familias Roma 2022 – festival de las familias
Espíritu Santo
Fatima – Historia de las apariciones
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la
iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
La Iglesia, Madre y Maestra
La Comunidad Humana
La Vida en Cristo
San José, obrero, marido, padre
San Juan, apostol y evangelista
San Juan Ma Vianney, Curé de’Ars
San Juan Crisostom
San Juan de la Cruz
San Juan N. Neumann, obispo de Philadelphia
San Juan Pablo II, Karol Wojtyla
San Leon Magno
San Lucas, evangelista
San Mateo, Apóstol y Evangelista
San Martin de Porres
San Martin de Tours
San Mateo, Apostol y Evangelista
San Maximiliano Kolbe
Santa Teresa de Calcuta
Santos Marta, Maria, y Lazaro
Santos Simon y Judaa Tadeo, aposttoles
San Nazario e Celso
San Padre Pio de Pietralcina
San Patricio e Irlanda
San Pedro Claver
San Roberto Belarmino
Santiago Apóstol
San Tomás Becket
SanTomás de Aquino
Santos Zacarias e Isabel, padres de Juan Bautista
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vida en Cristo
Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico
Virgen de Pilar – fiesta de la hispanidad
Virgen de Sheshan, China
Virtud
Vocación a la bienaventuranza
Vocación – www.vocación.org
Vocación a evangelizar
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Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Ley Moral
Libertad
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
María y la Biblia
Martires de Corea
Martires de Nor America y Canada
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Moralidad de actos humanos
Pasiones
Papa Francisco en Baréin
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Hugaría e Eslovaquia
Queridas Amazoznia 1,2,3,4
El Reino de Cristo
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1, 2, 3
Santa Agata, virgen y martir
San Alberto Magno
San Andrés, Apostol
Sant Antonio de l Deserto, Egipto
San Antonio de Padua
San Bruno, fundador del Cartujo
San Carlos Borromeo
San Columbanus 1,2
San Esteban, proto-martir
San Francisco de Asis 1,2,3,4
San Francisco de Sales
San Francisco Javier
Santa Faustina Kowalska, y la divina misericordia
Santa Cecilia
Sant Inés de Roma, virgen y martir
Saint Margaret,Queen of Scotland
Santa Maria Goretti
Santa María Magdalena
Santa Teresa de Lisieux
San Marco, evangelista
San Ignacio de Loyola