Miara-dalana Blog

The Road to Fianarantsoa Continues The next day we continued our journey toward Fianarantsoa for the installation of a new coadjutor bishop. As we drove from the Diocese of Port-Bergé toward the capital of Antananarivo, the landscape slowly began to change. The hot, flat lowlands gradually gave way to rolling green hills and the quiet mountains of the highlands. With each hour on the road, the air grew cooler, bringing welcome relief from the flies and oppressive heat of Port

After the journey from Mandritsara, I had a day to rest and recover at the junior seminary. It was a joy to spend time with the young seminarians and to pray the office with them. I had fun trying to use a few words of Malagasy, and I think they had fun trying to use some of the English they had learned at the seminary. I tried to give them a few words of encouragement, “I know the seminary is long, but try to enjoy your time in formation. Keep a strong prayer life, and God w

I woke up early, said my goodbyes to the people at Holy Family Parish, and then Fr. Gabriel took me to the “bush taxi” station. The next MEP brother priest on my list was Bishop George, the bishop of the Diocese of Port-Bergé (Boriziny). Mandritsara is in the Diocese of Port-Bergé, and I was travelling to the city that bears the diocese’s name. When we arrived, the taxi wasn’t ready to leave yet, so Fr. Gabriel bought me a cup of some very suspicious-looking coffee at the tax