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Mothers of the English Chapel of Antananarivo standing together outside the chapel after the Sunday service, several of them holding young children.
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Family & generations·6 August 2026·5 min read

A commandment with a promise

Twice a year the chapel gathers its mothers, and then its fathers, outside for a photograph. Here is what we believe those two Sundays are for — and why the honour owed to parents was never meant to stop at the front door.

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