Pope Francis: Congolese Rite a Model for Other Churches

“The Congolese rite of the Eucharistic celebration is certainly the fruit of missionary preaching under the African sun and which was collected at dawn. In its triple fidelity to the faith and to the apostolic tradition, to the intimate nature of the Catholic liturgy itself, and finally to the religious genius and the African and Congolese cultural heritage, the Missel Romain pour les Diocèses du Zaïre is the only ‘inculturated’ Roman missal, born of the liturgical reform of Vatican II.”

Source: Vatican News

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