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Deaconess Mother Theano
On this holy day of March 3, 2020, the sun of your earthly life fell asleep on the blessed slopes of Katanga, Theano, daughter of the Congo Mission. But your God-bearing soul, accompanied by angels, rose for a journey to heavenly eternity.
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You went there as a successor to Deaconess Phoebe of St. Paul the Apostle. You went there like a flying swan coming from afar in July 1987. You went there like a sunny dream dressed in feelings of compassionate affection. You went there bearing multiple gifts from God, especially your heartfelt love for the African brothers, a clear waterfall of Christ’s living water in their thirsty desolate souls.
It was with feelings of gratitude that our blessed Spirit-bearing Shepherd, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II, honored you and by the laying on of hands, he made you a deaconess of the Mission.
Now the days of Africa drenched in sweat from the toil of the natives and the few Missionaries, drop by drop, follow the path to the past, leaving indelible memories of love to those who planted their bodies as guests in this land of martyrdom, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen!
