{"id":21493,"date":"2017-03-22T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=21493"},"modified":"2017-03-28T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:38:37","slug":"congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &#8211; Murcadha O&#8217; Flaherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong>CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Contemplative community of religious Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who pray for persecuted Christians will have their future ensured by a new well, after a chronic shortage of water threatened their survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know how we were going to survive after the collapse of our old well a year ago,\u201d Sr Mahele Mwamini, the Prioress of the Discalced Carmelites at the Glorious Saint Joseph Convent, Kinshasa, told Catholic charity <em>Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ACN responded to the Sisters\u2019 urgent request by providing a grant to enable the well to be deepened so it reaches a new water source. During 2017\u2019s dry season the well will be extended by another 100 feet (30 metres) to a new depth of more than 160 feet (50 metres) to ensure it will reach enough water to supply the convent\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>Sr Mwamini said: \u201cWe are committed to praying for the Church, but especially for those who need our prayers the most \u2013 the priests and the Christians persecuted because of their faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate plea to <em>Aid to the Church in Need <\/em>she described the crisis they were facing: \u201cOur well that provided water has collapsed. We haven\u2019t had a single drop since February 2016. Our convent is suffering from this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cPreviously we did sell a few vegetables, to help the community be more self-sufficient and support unemployed mothers and their children including with their school fees. But now with this water shortage, we have no more vegetables and we are forced to buy them for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lack of the water from the well made it difficult for the Sisters to bake Eucharistic bread and to maintain their small farm. Sr Mwamini said: \u201cIt was difficult <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapvaltrexbuy.com\">www.cheapvaltrexbuy.com\/<\/a> [without water]\u2026 to prepare the unleavened bread for Communion and tend our small barn with pigs, our chicken coop, our rabbit hatch, our small vegetable garden and ourselves \u2013 it was disaster.\u201d \u00a0She added: \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how we would survive. Since the well\u2019s collapse we have used a small old hand pump which has already undergone several repairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The water shortage meant the convent had to stop the spiritual retreats they ran: \u201cThere were people who came to us for a time for healing or retreats, but due to the lack of drinking water we were obliged to tell them that it would be impossible for them to come and spend time in prayer with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Sr Mwamini spoke with optimism: \u201cThe new well will ensure drinking water, our resource-generating activities and retreats as well as our needs for cleaning, domestic and hygiene needs.\u201d Also benefitting will be \u201cmothers without work who buy vegetables, chickens and pigs for re-sale to enable them to support the needs of their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fr Saverio Cannistr<strong>\u00e0<\/strong>, General Superior of the Discalced Carmelites, said: \u201cWe are thankful that this project ensures that these contemplative nuns can live in peace, that they are not further disturbed by the lack of drinking water and so that they can continue to support the Church with their prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanking ACN benefactors for their support Sr Mwamini said: \u201cMay the Lord bless you and fill you with abundant grace\u2026 this kind assistance that you give us enables us to achieve a drilled well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the 12 Sisters, whose ages vary between 32 and 81 years old, she added: \u201cWe are touched by your care that you have shown to our suffering and by your willingness to do all that you have done to help us. May God bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Murcadha O Flaherty<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &nbsp; A Contemplative community of religious Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who pray for persecuted Christians will have their future ensured by a new well, after a chronic shortage of water threatened their survival. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how we were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O&#039; Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O&#039; Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &nbsp; A Contemplative community of religious Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who pray for persecuted Christians will have their future ensured by a new well, after a chronic shortage of water threatened their survival. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how we were...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-22T08:15:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-28T07:38:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"525\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ACN Malta Media\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ACN Malta Media\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/\",\"name\":\"CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O' Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-22T08:15:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-28T07:38:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/3c01ab68e03f1b76347f9f6ac439a9d2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg\",\"width\":525,\"height\":392},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &#8211; Murcadha O&#8217; Flaherty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/\",\"name\":\"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\",\"description\":\"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/3c01ab68e03f1b76347f9f6ac439a9d2\",\"name\":\"ACN Malta Media\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93fb625be2ad6b7f825159f4ef11b098?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93fb625be2ad6b7f825159f4ef11b098?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"ACN Malta Media\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/author\/admin2\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O' Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O' Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","og_description":"CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &nbsp; A Contemplative community of religious Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who pray for persecuted Christians will have their future ensured by a new well, after a chronic shortage of water threatened their survival. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how we were...","og_url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/","og_site_name":"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","article_published_time":"2017-03-22T08:15:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-03-28T07:38:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":525,"height":392,"url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"ACN Malta Media","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ACN Malta Media","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/","url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/","name":"CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa - Murcadha O' Flaherty - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg","datePublished":"2017-03-22T08:15:03+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-28T07:38:37+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/3c01ab68e03f1b76347f9f6ac439a9d2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/New-well-for-the-monastery-Carmel-du-Glorieux-Saint-Joseph-Kinshasav2.jpg","width":525,"height":392},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/22\/congo-spring-water-welling-glorious-kinshasa-murcadha-o-flaherty\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CONGO &#8211; A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa &#8211; Murcadha O&#8217; Flaherty"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#website","url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/","name":"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","description":"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/3c01ab68e03f1b76347f9f6ac439a9d2","name":"ACN Malta Media","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93fb625be2ad6b7f825159f4ef11b098?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93fb625be2ad6b7f825159f4ef11b098?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"ACN Malta Media"},"url":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/author\/admin2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21501,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21493\/revisions\/21501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}