By Lydia O'Kane
M’miyezi ingapo yapitayi, anthu padziko lonse lapansi asintha kukhala moyo, kugwira ntchito komanso kupemphera chifukwa cha mliri wa coronavirus.
Koma sizinayimitse ulendo wamasiku anayi wapachaka wa French National Pilgrimage kupita ku Lourdes kuti uchitike.
Lachitatu, 147th kusindikiza kwa ulendowu kudayamba ndi Misa Yoyera mu Tchalitchi cha St Bernadette.
Mwambowu, womwe umakonzedwa ndi Mpingo wa Assumptionists, umachokera ku 12-16 August ndipo uli ndi mutu wake: "Kupita ku Gwero la Chikondi".
Ngakhale ulendowu ukupitilirabe, kope ili siliwona unyinji wazaka zam'mbuyomu chifukwa choletsa kusamvana.
Odwala sali okha
Fr Vincent Cabanac ndi director of French National Pilgrimage. Adafotokozanso kuti ngakhale pali zovuta za mliriwu, ulendo wachaka chino ndi "malo ochezera" omwe akufuna kupitilirabe.
Chaka chino, padzakhala nthumwi za amwendamnjira 500 okha omwe adzakhale nawo pamwambowu. Koma apaulendo ena azitha kutsatira zochitika zonse zazikulu pa intaneti, ndipo omwe akudwala azithanso kukhala nawo paulendowu kudzera pa wailesi ndi kanema wawayilesi.
Sitikufuna kuti odwala "adzimve okha," adatero National Director, ndichifukwa chake padzakhala kulumikizana kwa digito kuchokera kwa iwo kupita ku Sanctuary.
Ngakhale COVID-19 yasintha mawonekedwe a msonkhanowu, padakali zochitika zambiri m'masiku anayiwa. Pulogalamuyi imaphatikizapo kubwerezabwereza kwa Rosary, makonsati, maulendo, maulendo ndi maumboni.
Zoletsa zilipo
Pazifukwa zaumoyo, komanso kulemekeza kutalikirana kwakuthupi komanso kucheza, kusamba sikutheka pa Malo Opatulika pakadali pano. Koma Fr Cabanac akuwonetsa kuti mophiphiritsa, anthu atha kubwera kumalo osambira ndipo azitha kusamba kumaso ndi m'manja.
Ulendo wa Cardinal Parolin
Poyitanira okonza za ulendo wa dziko lino, mlembi wa boma la Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin ayendera kachisi wa ku Lourdes kukatsogolera mwambo wa Misa ya Phwando la Kukwera kwa Yesu pa Ogasiti 15.
Adayitanidwa kukachisiko kusanachitike mliri wa coronavirus.
Aka ndi ulendo wachitatu wa Cardinal ku Lourdes chikhalireni mlembi woona za boma ku Vatican. Mu 2017 adayendera kachisi ngati woimira Papa Francis pa Tsiku la Odwala Padziko Lonse; ndi mu 2018 kwa St Francis de Sales Days.
Polankhula za kupezeka kwa Cardinal Parolin ku Lourdes, Fr Cabanac adati, "Ndichizindikiro chofunikira kwambiri kwa ife kuti Cardinal adzabwera." Ndi kukhalapo kwake akupereka chilimbikitso chokhulupirika ndi chodzichepetsa.
“Kadinala,” anatero Wansembe Wokhulupirira, “akupereka uthenga wamphamvu wa pemphero osati kwa dziko la France lokha komanso dziko lonse lapansi, kusonyeza cholinga chake kuno ku Grotto of Massabielle ndipo ulendo umenewu udzakhala wofunika kwambiri kwa ife, kwa France ndi kwa anthu onse. Mpingo.”
