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Sunday, October 9, 2005: The Assumptionists mourn Archbishop MBOGHA
KAMBALE CHARLES, A.A. (1942-2005)
The oldest of the African Augustians of the Assumption, archbishop
Mbogha Kambale Charles, A.A. died in Bukavu (Eastern D.R Congo)
on Sunday October 9, 2005, at 2.37 a.m. local time. The illness
(High Blood Pressure stroke) that led him to his death started
in June 2001, during the Eucharistic celebration of his intronisation
as Archbishop of Bukavu. Since that day, Archbishop Charles has
been under medication and following rehabilitation exercices,
but accomplishing his mission, the better he could, as the Pastor
and the Seer of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kivu. During these
four long years of his life, Archbishop Charles revealed himself
as a man of great faith. In a country where every illness or every
ill fate is attributed to bad spirits or bad peoples called sorcerers,
Archbishop Charles evangelized the faithful of his Archdiocese
by his faith, his hope, and his unfailing love towards all, always
asking his hearers not to forget that suffering and sickness is
part of our life, and that Jesus, in his death and resurrection,
had shown us how to overcome suffering and death in our life.
Archbishop Charles was for his priests a real father and a model
and a witness of ministry in time of sorrow. For his assumptionists
brothers, he was an educator and a promoter of the inculturation
of the assumptionist religious life into the African culture.
For Four Years (1998-2002), the bishops of Congo elected him the
President of the Episcopal Committee for Religious Life. As assumptionist,
Father Charles occupied all the posts of responsibility, in schools,
in houses of formation, and in parishes. With a heart of a father
and of an educator, Archbishop Charles was helping many young
congolese men and women to pay their school fees and get a good
education because he believed only education in all its forms
will transform Congo into a better place to live. The African
Province has lost its elder but as the elder precedes us into
God’s Kingdom, we know he will continue to play his role
of elder among many and intercede for the Province of Africa,
the Assumptionist family, and the many dioceses he served as a
bishop. Born at Lubango-Kilubo (Diocese of Butembo-Beni, Nord-Kivu,
D.R.Congo) in 1942 and ordained priest in 1969, Charles Mbogha
Kambale joined the Augustinians of the Assumption (a.a) in 1972.
Bishop of Wamba (1990-1995) and later of Isiro-Niangara (1996-
2001), he had become Archbishop of Bukavu in June 2001. Archbishop
Charles Mbogha Kambale’s funeral will take place on Wednesday,
October 12, in the Cathedral of Bukavu (Sud-Kivu, D.R.Congo),
local Catholic Church where he was serving as archbishop. (Fr.
Vincent K. Machozi, a.a., Boston, MA)
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Congolese
around the world mourn Archbishop Charles, a.a
0ctober 9, 2005, at 4 p.m., in Butembo
(Congo): The great assumption family and many friends of
the assumptionists celebrated the Eucharist in memory of their
brother Charles in the chapel of the Oblates Sisters “ Malkia
Wa Mbingu”.
October 10, 2005 at 8 p.m. in Kinshasa
(Congo): The formation house “ Emmanuel d' Alzon”
where Archbishop Charles lived for a long time as a superior and
for his convalescence, organized a wake and celebrated the Eucharist
in memory of the elder brother Charles.
October 10, 2005 at 10 a.m. in Bukavu (Congo):
Celebration of the Eucharist by Bishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga of
Uvira,
October 11, 2005, at 10 a.m. in Bukavu
(Congo): Celebration of the Eucharist by Fr. Jean-Marie
Meso, aa, Provincial of the Assumptionist Province of Africa
October 12, 2005 at 2 p.m. in Bukavu (Congo):
Inhumation of Archbishop Charles!
May his Soul rest in Peace!
October 12, 2005 at 4 p.m. in Due Pini,
Rome (Italy): Celebration of the Eucharist by the General
House of the Assumptionists and Congolese friends living in Rome
October 12, 2005 at 7 p.m. in Washington,
DC, (USA): Celebration of the Eucharist in Mary Queen of
the Angels parish by Fr. Jean Marie Kabongo, omi.
October 14, 2005, at 4.p.m. in Nairobi,
Kenya: The Assumptionist brothers, the sisters of the Religious
of the Assumption, the Orantes sisters, together with their congolese
friends in the Nairobi area, will celebrate a high mass in loving
memory of Archbishop Charles, a.a.
October 16, 2005, at 10.30 a.m. In Saint
Mary’s Parish of LYNN, (Boston), MA, USA: Celebration
of the Eucharist in memory of the archbishop Charles MBOGHA, a.a.,
by the Congolese Catholic Community “Mwinda” of Boston.
Mayemba Bienvenu, s.j., Donatien Cicura Mushamalirwa, s.j., Vincent
Machozi, a.a., and Seminarian Charles Madi, are coordinating the
liturgy. After mass, a reception will be held at Mr Laurent LUKANDA’s
house in Lynn, MA.
October 29, 2005, at 10 p.m. in Madrid,
SPAIN: Celebration of the Eucharist by the Africans of
"Comité de Solidaridad con el África negra"
and the "Friends of Congo.
October 29, 2005 at 7 p.m. in Washington,
DC, USA: Celebration of the Eucharist in the household
of Kambale Pascal by the Congolese and their friends in the Washington
area. We note that Mrs Ange Kambale is the niece of Archbishop
Charles.
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Rev.
Fr. Rene Mihigo, a.a. , Assistant General and Rev. Fr. Meso Paluku,
a.a., Provincial of Africa visited Boston from April 27 to May
10, 2004 |
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After
the Council of the Congregation of the A.A. which took place this
year in Mexico City and in Boston, Massachusetts, Fr. Rene Mihigo
and Meso Paluku spent few days in Boston where Fr. Vincent Machozi
, a.a., is pursuing his studies.
From Left to Right :
Mihigo, Meso, Machozi |
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Banamasina Board Members (From 1/11/04)
- President
: Mr Bienvenu D. BOYAMBA
-Vice- President : Mr. Dominique
MAKOLO
- Secretary : Mr. Jean de la Croix
MBUYI
- Deputy-Secretary: Mr. Baby SHITA
-Treasurer: Mr. Dede MBIKAYI
- Cashier : Mr. Serge MUTAMBA
- Steward: Ms. Chantal KINGUMIKA |
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