00:25The
00:27The repeated sessions of kidnapping which I had made me to understand better that the priesthood is a life of
00:36total sacrifice. It's a life of total devotedness. It's a life of actually giving in my all.
00:44I think for the third time I was kidnapped, I understood clearly more than ever before the prostration we take
00:53at the singing of the litany during our priestly ministry when the priest prostrate and hands on every other thing
01:00to God.
01:00The repeated kidnappings have made me to really affirm that sacrificial dimension of the priesthood as a priest and victim.
01:15.
01:16.
01:44First, you can't leave your house too early to catch up with
01:48morning chores or morning activities. Secondly, you're going to have a time to relax in the
01:52evening because you are scared of what may happen to you if you stay on late. Life has
01:56just become so unpredictable. There are places that people cannot go to for fear that they
02:02may be kidnapped, they may be trapped in the midst of gunfire and all of those things. So
02:07it has made life really challenging for the common man here in Bameda in particular and
02:13its environment.
02:18So
02:18you
02:18can't
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02:38The
02:38the
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02:47the
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03:06I've never thought of leaving.
03:08I served in a parish, as parish pastor, when things were really rough.
03:15The kidnappings were at it peaked.
03:17People were killed.
03:18People were rough-handled.
03:20In fact, the seminar with whom I was leaving, the parish at that time was actually killed.
03:25And it was a very traumatic experience, and a lot of people indicated that it was better
03:31I leave.
03:32But I remember that as a pastor, I was supposed to stay there and encourage the people.
03:37So I never left.
04:05We just watched the video.
04:06We watched it.
04:07We watched it, we watched it!
04:09We watched it.
04:10We watched it!
04:11We watched the show, we watched it!
04:19I think of the so many beautiful things that have happened in my life, away from my ordination
04:26to the sacred priesthood, is the coming of the Pope to Cameroon.
04:31The Pope is referred to as a universal pastor, as the vicar of Christ, and as a man of peace.
04:39He is touching down on Bamenda, and this is where I think it means so much to us, that
04:44the Pope has chosen to come to Bamenda, not when Bamenda is safe, not when Bamenda is
04:50peaceful, but in the heart of the violence that exists in Bamenda.
04:55I think that gospel preach is loud enough for the heart of the people of Bamenda.
05:16We do not know what he can do in the heart of the Holy Ghost.
05:19We do not know how much we do not know how much we do in the heart of the Holy
05:22Ghost.
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