For me, the mission and pastoral in SMA is a life experience centered on mission, self-sufficiency and community life. It helped me to observe the people in the situation by trying to accept them as they are in their culture. In the priestly retreat, Fr. William Joseph sma, our preacher asked a question "why you want to become a priest and give me five reasons? We thought that we could give many reasons but there was no solid reason. When I came for my first mission here, I understood that we cannot give but we can experience well. 

Here, in my mission, I have learned to welcome the other and their culture without judgment.

I opened myself to understand others and to a new culture without making value judgments.  Learning the local language was a way to enter into the culture of its natives.

 I tried to adapt my commitment to the needs, environment, and culture of the region where I work. This prepared me to respond generously to the mission of SMA priest for the present and future. Thanks to my venerable founder Brésillac and my parish priest, I was immersed in the life of our great SMA missionary family: with a spirit of service, humility, patience, simple life, understanding, obedience, sacrifice and zeal for the mission. 

Bringing the Good News to the poor and to the most abandoned is all my joy, without forgetting that the cross is part of my missionary activity. Because, like a martyr, the missionary is also a witness of the light of Christ in today's world. It is sometimes difficult to do one's will when it is in contradiction with the place. The fact of leaving the parish to go to the Christians and spend time with them in order to be immersed in their realities is still a challenge to be met because it is not obvious here because of the security and also we do not have many natives in the parish and also in the secondary stations. This internal atmosphere is a handicap to my fulfillment in the mission.       

GOOD MISSION TO ALL OF US

Fr. Antony SMA