Fr Peter Phiri sends news from his parish in Malawi. Many St. Alban’s and St. Hugh’s parishioners will know Fr Peter as over the last few years he has worked in our parishes during some summers to give our own priests a well-earned break.
The parish of St. Peter and St. Paul is located in Chilobwe Township which is in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre. St Peter and St. Paul was established in 1975 as a sub parish of St. Pius. The parish was only created in its own right in September 2012. During the celebrations His Grace Archbishop Tarcizio Ziyaye commended the parishioners for working together to find a house for the priest and furnish it. The parish has a catholic population of 13,000.
Fr Peter sent a couple of pictures of the Christmas 2012 celebrations in his parish.
- Four girls representing the roles of the angels in the Christmas story.
- Altar Servers and Liturgical Girls, together with the four angels.
The Holy Week and the Easter celebrations in Chilobwe as in every Catholic Parish represent the highlight of year. From the Palm Sunday processions moving through the passover meal, to the passion and crucifixion of Christ. The celebrations were well attended by the catholic community. The Way of the Cross procession was over one kilometer long and took three hours to commemorate.
- Palm Sunday Mass…
- …commemorates Christ’s entry into Jerusalem
- …where Christ was greeted with Palms
- Palms are blessed for the faithful
- A live chicken was part of the Palm Sunday offering.
- The Good Friday ‘Way of Cross’ witness was over 1km long
- Christians from many traditions joined together
- On Good Friday women wore purple, a sign of mourning and grief, grief for the passion, suffering and death of Jesus Christ
- Fr Peter carried the heavy cross at the beginning.
Published May 2013, for more information you can contact Fr Peter by email: Fr Peter email.
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