The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee next July 2019.
The theme for the Golden Jubilee celebrations with be: “Church, Family of God in Africa, Celebrate your Jubilee! Proclaim, Meet and Welcome Christ your saviour".
A prayer in preparation to the Golden Jubilee celebrations is being distributed to all the Bishops' Conferences in the continent.
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Prayer for the Golden Jubilee of the
Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar
(SECAM)
God our Father,
we praise you for your infinite goodness
for the Church in Africa and Madagascar,
particularly for the gift of SECAM.
We thank you for the first missionaries.
In your eternal wisdom, you have blessed our Continent
with much human, spiritual and natural resources;
for this we thank you and we glorify you.
As we celebrate the fifty years of SECAM,
we acknowledge our sins and pray for repentance
from our failings of bad governance, corruption,
violence and misuse of all your gifts.
Give us greater love for our continent;
help us to celebrate its rich and natural resources
with sincere gratitude in our hearts
and help us to use it for the good and well-being
of all the people of Africa and beyond.
Almighty God, send us a fresh outpouring of your Holy Spirit in this year of jubilee, for a veritable conversion and reconciliation among ourselves, in order to bear greater witness to Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Mary Immaculate, Queen of Africa, pray for us!
All you Holy Martyrs of Uganda
and Saints of Africa and Madagascar,
pray for us!
Amen!
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