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Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (MSOLA)

OUR SEARCH FOR GOD
Pray with the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa

Sr. Columba, in the chapel of the Arusha community (Tanzania).

You can participate in our mission through prayer.

Join us in our prayer for Africa, so that Justice and Peace may reign in the continent and the Good News be brought there.

Join the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa in their prayer for vocations Ask God that many young women from all around the world, may answer His call and become Missionaries to bring the GOOD NEWS to all people.

Since the very beginning of our MSOLA history, we have been placed under the protection of Our Lady of Africa.


Prayer to Our Lady of Africa

Our Lady of Africa
Mother of Jesus and Our Mother,
Remember all the peoples of Africa.

You were present with the Apostles
at the beginning of the Church.
Be with the apostles of today
that they may proclaim
the Good News of Jesus Christ, your Son.

Help us to know and love Jesus.
Help us to follow Him faithfully.
Help us to care for one another.

Our Lady of Africa,
May your Son, Jesus Christ,
choose and send new missionaries
to Africa and to the
whole world.

 

Our Lady of Africa, drawing by Sr. Gloria Sedes, MSOLA



Prayer for Vocations

God of our Ancestors, Lord of all peoples,Master of the Harvest,

Through the intercession of Our Lady of Africa our protectress and our guide.

Through the intercession of Cardinal Lavigerie,our Founder,who so loved the Church and Africa,

Through the intercession of Mother Marie-Salome who firmly believed that our Congregation was Your work for Africa and who, strong with that conviction, struggled and persevered to save its existence;

Through the intercession of all those who preceded us in our vocation,

We pray you, may your Spirit of fire inflame with love the hearts of an ever growing number of young women from all Nations.May they findin our religious family a way for a total gift of self to Your Love and to the service of Your Kingdom in Africa.

We ask you this in the name of Your beloved Son, Jesus-Christ, who invites us to pray You,Master of the Harvest, to send workers to Your Harvest.AMEN


The story of the statue of
OUR LADY OF AFRICA in Algiers

The statue of Our Lady of Africa was offered in 1840 by the Children of Mary of Lyon (France) to the first Bishop of Algiers.This Bishop decided then to build a church to Our Lady of Africa, as the people of Algeria liked to go there for pilgrimages to honour Mary.

Finally it was Cardinal Charles Lavigerie who installed the statue of Our Lady of Africa in the new church, on May 4th, 1873.On 30th April, 1876, Pope Leo XIII's gift of a precious crown was placed on the Virgin's head and the Church was declared a basilica. The statue was clothed in a rich white robe and blue mantle embroidered with gold thread in the way the Algerians do. Later this original robe was replaced by an Algerian artist, a devout Moslem, who deeply venerated the mother of the great prophet Jesus.

To this day, April 30th remains the day on which is celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Africa.In 1967 Frank Borman, one of the first American Astronauts to go to the moon, left an engraved stone in the basilica (as many pilgrims do) in memory of his pilgrimage.

The sanctuary of Our Lady of Africa has always been important to the Missionaries of Africa (formerly known as "White Fathers" and "White Sisters") who were sent from there to the rest of this great continent.

From Algeria, the source of living water flowed out to all of Africa.

Pray with the world: thie season - Way of the Cross with the victims of terrorism

 

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