AFRICAE MUNUS AND CONSECRATED PERSONS

Abstract

Sixteen years after the 1994 Synod, Pope Benedict XVI issued the document Africae Munus to continue the work already begun by Ecclesia in Africa. He expressed that it was my wish that the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, held from 4 to 25 October 2009, should continue the work of the 1994 Assembly, which was intended to be an occasion of hope and resurrection, at the very moment when human events seemed to be tempting Africa to discouragement and despair. It was an Apostolic Exhortation that was aimed at rekindling the fire kindled by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. This paper makes a careful study of the document AFRICAE MUNUS as a new vision of Africa’s commitment to the Lord Jesus, for the purpose of identifying the place of consecrated persons in the document’s new vision for Africa? What is the fundamental contribution of Consecrated Persons towards the realization of this new vision for Africa? These and more are the burdens of this piece.