Two millennia ago, the apostles followed Christ. They left everything, and their lives were never again the same. The path taken by the apostles is s… - Robert Sarah

No prophet ever encountered God without withdrawing into solitude and silence. Moses, Elijah, and John the Baptist encountered God in the great silence of the desert. Today, too, monks seek God in solitude and silence. I am speaking, not just about geographical solitude or movement, but about an interior state. It is not enough to be quiet, either. It is necessary to become silence. For, even before the desert, the solitude and the silence, God is already in man. The true desert is within us, in our soul. Strengthened with this knowledge, we can understand how silence is indispensable if we are to find God. The Father waits for his children in their own hearts.

The idea that would enclose the Magisterium in a beautiful casket, detaching it from pastoral practice that might evolve according to circumstances, fashions and passions, is a form of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly affirm that the Church of Africa will firmly oppose any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and the Magisterium.

The Holy Spirit is the One Who, through the imposition of hands and the anointing of the sacred chrism during Confirmation, clothes the Christian with divine strength and makes him become the fragrance of Christ in every place.