Association of Diocesan priests
in Togo celebrates Golden Jubile
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Bishop Benoît Alowonou, of the Diocese of Kpalimé in Togo,
has told a gathering of diocesan clergy celebrating the association’s golden
jubilee that diocesan priests of Togo have gone through happy and challenging
times.
Recowa-Cerao – Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire
Bishop Alowonou was speaking at the Pope Saint John Paul II
Major Seminary in Togo’s capital, Lome, the venue of the golden jubilee
celebrations. The theme of the festivities was, ”Achievements and Challenges of
the Fraternidade de Sacerdotes Diocesanos do Togo (FPDT)
50 Years after.”
Priests gather to pray together
“The most important thing is that after fifty years of
progress, the language of fraternity still gathers the diocesan priests in an
annual assembly to pray together and to deliver the hand of the Lord,” said the
Togolese prelate, Bishop Alowonou.
Priestly encounters are also an instrument of evangelization
Founded in 1970, FPDT brings together more than 400 priests
from the seven dioceses of the West African country in an annual general
assembly.
“The fraternity of priests is not only a gathering, but it
is also our vocation as priests (and) ministers of Sacraments,” the Local
Ordinary of Togo’s Kpalimé diocese said, further describing the annual
encounters as “an instrument of work and evangelization.”
No priest can carry out the mission in isolation
FPDT seeks to respond to the recommendations of the Second
Vatican Council, reminding the clergy of the need to be intimately bound
together in sacramental fraternity by virtue of their ordination to the
priesthood.
In this regard, no priest can carry out his mission in
isolation; one cannot do without joining forces with fellow priests.
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