I WILL ENTER THE GATES OF HEAVEN DANCING
"I am convinced that holiness exists
among the people that are here among you...
in the people of Rwanda, in your marriages, in your families,
I'm convinced of this.
One of my fondest desires is to be able to beatify
a couple as soon as possible.
There is a great need!
So all I should wish for you, is that this canonized couple
come from Rwanda.
That would be a sign of your church's spiritual maturity."
Pope John Paul II Rwanda - September 8, 1990
This is Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba's home.
A house...
...they lived in from 1989...
...until 1994.
When I come here, I feel like I'm coming home,
as if I'm coming to meet my parents.
This is the chapel.
This was a garage which was converted into a chapel.
The most important thing in a chapel is the tabernacle...
...which was here.
Like this.
And this is the place where we would see...
...Cyprien and Daphrose dancing while praising.
According to what Cyrdar told us...
When the soldiers came, there were dad, mom,
six of the brothers and sisters,
a cousin's daughter who'd spent the night,
and another girl who worked in the house.
So, 10 people.
So they spent the last night before their death in prayer.
We know this from a brother who could reach them on the phone in the morning.
I didn't get the chance to join them.
So when their murderers arrived, they were the first targets,
so it had all been pre-meditated.
They felt these were their final moments, so Daphrose asked to pray...
...to the Most Blessed Sacrament one last time.
That's when a soldier struck her with the butt of his rifle,
probably like this,
and broke her collar bone.
Then the soldier went to the Tabernacle and fired shots.
Even when I entered the chapel, the bullet shots were still visible.
And so they took all the Hosts...
...and threw them on the ground.
This really showed a hatred for the faith,
and they were lined up in their garden, in two rows,
and that's how they were assassinated.
All of them were shot.
Even the young ones.
Even the youngest...
...who was probably 4 or 5 years old.
When my little brother, who survived, saw them fall,
he was shot in the shoulder and fell too.
Then he took some of his blood
and smeared it on his forehead.
And when they came to ensure that everybody was dead, he played dead.
When they left, he told the others: "Get up, they're gone".
He thought they were also playing dead.
This is when he realised that he was...
...the only one still alive.
And then he called us.
Their death did not surprise me.
Because...
...they were the champions of the marginalised.
I'm not at all surprised that they were at the top of the list
of people who were to be eliminated.
For a long time the beauty of this land remained unknown to me.
Its ugliness too.
This is the oldest photo...
...dating back to 1963.
It's a photo of my mother.
She was still a young girl; she wasn't married to my dad yet.
She grew up in a strongly Christian family.
I believe her dad was a catechist.
This is a picture of Cyprien Rugamba, who is...
...at the Major Seminary in Nyakibanda.
He's wearing a seminarian cassock.
His mother, who didn't want him to become a priest,
would make fun of him every time she'd see him by saying:
"Ah, my lady!"
While studying philosophy, he learned about the existentialists
and materialists who denied the existence of God.
He alienated himself from the faith.
As he himself would say, he wanted to put God in his head,
understand him and grasp him, but God would escape him.
He left the seminary in 1959,
as Rwandan society was beginning to change.
All of Africa was in a decolonization phase.
The educated also began
to question the education they had received.
At some point, he composed probably the most beautiful and romantic poem
of the Rwandan language.
Rugamba was in love at that time.
He was completely smitten with a woman named Xavérina,
who was actually my mother's cousin...
...but she was murdered in 1963,
in the massacres that took place in the region of Cyanika.
And Cyprien insisted on staying close to this family
and asked them to marry Daphrose.
And it was in 1965, two years later...
...that my parents' marriage took place.
But, in a way, it was more like a...
...an arrangement between two families.
If it weren't for the culture, they wouldn't have met.
That's why what happened next in my parents' story is quite surprising.
Very surprising, actually.
In Rwandan culture, this is something very serious.
A wife who is "given back" is a grave insult to the wife's family...
...an insult, as well as a bad omen...
...for the woman herself.
We had a little brother named Serge.
And when dad came to visit mum who'd given birth to Serge,
he saw a crucifix in the bedroom.
He grabbed it and broke it in two.
He was absolutely furious. He just couldn't stand...
...the sight of it.
And mum... She began to cry and began to pray.
At some point, he really became...
...a fierce atheist.
It is really...
...at that time, a strong and protesting side of my father...
...of Rugamba,
that we find in his songs and in his poetry.
With all her husband put her through before he converted...
...she suffered a lot, but her suffering...
...was very fruitful because she knew how to offer it up.
Her suffering was an offering that gained her...
... her husband's conversion.
Rugamba was someone who was present during the transition phase.
He was able to meet the last overseers of pre-colonial Rwanda,
before they disappeared.
He really absorbed it.
The traditional culture inspired him.
He had a very deep knowledge of it, in an almost encyclopedic way.
He would tell us:
"When I welcome the young ones who come here, I mix them all together:
Hutus, Tutsis and Twas."
And he would say: "They complete each other so well".
He was able to harmonise all these rich elements of the Rwandans
and place them at the service of culture.
"Instead of looking for what divides us,
we should look for what complements us."
This is who Cyprien Rugamba was.
A man who loved his country; who was proud of being Rwandan
and who wanted young people to receive this heritage.
He lost his appetite and couldn't nourish himself properly.
He had lost his sense of touch, couldn't hear.
He had lost his sense of hearing
and all his other senses followed, even his sight.
During this period, since Daphrose was a Christian,
she prayed and cared for her husband.
Cyprien told me: "After everything I did to her,
she didn't leave me, even when I got sick.
Instead, she took care of me.
This is why her God will be my God."
Once on the plane,
he felt a power...
...invade him.
He felt better and said: "I don't know what's going on.
I think, I feel something changing in me."
They spent some days in Belgium and he came back a different man.
And then...
His conversion happened.
It's strange to say this, but it happened through a song.
A song I had composed myself.
It came to me like an inspiration.
And I felt I was being overrun, in a way by...
...by...
...by the Lord. And for the first time...
...since I began composing,
I started singing to Him,
I began to recognise Him as the Great King
who would welcome me into His kingdom.
And from that moment on,
the Lord has never ceased to enlighten and attract me.
And this is how it all started.
She was thrilled, you could tell. She was always smiling.
In fact, it was like the reward...
...for her patience.
His wife...
...really experienced a martyrdom at home.
And her husband was aware of this
And never ceased begging her forgiveness.
And then what immediately changed, in a radical way, was that...
...Cyprien and Daphrose became inseparable.
When one would get close to them, one could already feel a great love.
In all my life, I've rarely seen a couple...
...so intimate.
With such a complicity words can't express.
We saw dad...
...begin to help mum with the housework.
He'd wash the dishes. We had never seen that.
Cyprien shared with some of us...
...a very powerful moment in his life: one day, as he was praying,
he heard a voice calling out to him, but that only he himself heard
He even turned around, looking for someone.
The voice said to him:
"I will, through you, by your life, accomplish a work of redemption."
He heard that three times in a row and it was etched in his heart.
They loved Jesus with all their hearts, with all their being,
they were really passionate for the Lord.
They wanted to serve the Lord, to be witnesses of his love,
and specifically this wounded, merciful love.
This is when they met brothers and sisters
through whom they understood they could live and grow in their call.
So, there were 4 of us who began:
Basilissa, Cyprien, Daphrose and myself,
small fraternal gatherings every month.
I'm amazed by the fact that the Emmanuel Community
began without knowing the Evil One's or God's plans for Rwanda.
It was born one week, seven days,
before a war broke out in Rwanda.
I think that Cyprien and Daphrose were symbols of unity.
They talked to the members of the community and told them:
You are neither Hutu, Tutsie,
nor Twa. You are brothers and sisters.
You don't belong to any party, you belong to the party of Jesus.
These were children who were dirty, beaten...
who were taken for little bandits, delinquents.
But with her Christian mindset, she had an eye of compassion towards them
and she would speak with them. She thought:
These kids are smart, what could we do for them?
They started with just 20.000 Rwandan Francs of their money.
They paid for the children to bathe wash their clothes and be clean.
Afterwards, she'd take the time to speak to them
and show them that they were like any other kids.
He was always very aware of the danger the country was facing, but...
...in a positively dynamic way...
...he tried to convert as many people as possible with a call to love.
His last songs have love as a recurring subject.
He really wrote a lot of songs about it!
Without a doubt, it was in a sense, a way out for him.
I exult with joy
because I will enter the New Jerusalem
where the King awaits me.
There were some surprising events the day before he died.
He was rehearsing a song with his choir
a song about the heavenly Jerusalem:
"How will I enter the heavenly Jerusalem..."
We were singing when...
...all of the a sudden, he said: "Oh no!
It isn't like this,
it isn't like this that we'll enter Jerusalem!"
They say he said:
"I'll show you how I'm going to enter Jerusalem"
and he started dancing.
The night before he died.
The community never stopped growing, right up to today because of...
...a certain reputation among the many Rwandan communities.
It gained in legitimacy because
there were many accounts of uprightness,
of heroic acts during the genocide.
Cyprien and Daphrose are one of many examples,
and this has touched many hearts.
Today, we number around 1200 members.
This is the second largest Emmanuel Community,
after the Community in France.
I mention them all the time and I tell people:
"You should pray to Cyprien and Daphrose."
A short story of an experience I had:
There was a woman I told:
"Here is a prayer, I'll give you this prayer and you can pray."
She had a particular intention.
And so she began to pray a novena,
and in the middle of the night of the second day,
she awoke and told me:
"There was a black woman in my bedroom,
I recognised her as being the one on the picture!"
And Daphrose apparently told her things that were very precious for her.
For a long time, I couldn't step foot inside a church.
And I was surprised to find myself in many situations where...
...things seemed to me to be very complicated and I had no solution.
So I invoked them.
I do not even know what it means.
I know they are here in a certain way...
...and that...
and that we journey together.
This film does not presume that they will be beatified.
Thank you for your prayers, donations and testimonies.
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