Miara-dalana Blog

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

After a few days of rest at the MEP mother house in Antananarivo, the MEP country superior sent me to go and visit the different missionaries in their missions. MEP missionaries only come home for a bit of rest and to visit their families once every three years, which means that there are many MEP missionaries whom I’ve never even met, and others whom I’ve only met briefly. So the objective of my visits was first to get to know my brother priests serving in Madagascar, and th