BISHOP DOMINIC CELEBRATES MAY DAY AT MOUNT CARMEL
The Most Rev. Dominic Yeboah Nyarko, the Catholic Bishop of Techiman, celebrates May Day with Students and Staff of Mount Carmel Girl’s Senior High School. The May Day Celebration coincided with the Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker. The Bishop had the opportunity to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on 45 students of the school.

In his homily, the bishop congratulated the candidates for allowing themselves to be formed and taught for this sacrament. He expressed gratitude to Rev. Fr. Martin Oduro Bilson, the Chaplain of this school and his team of catechists and teachers, who volunteered to catechize and prepare these candidates adequately for the sacrament of confirmation.

The Bishop explained that every first day of May (otherwise known as May Day or Labor Day), has long been dedicated to all working people all over the world. It was Pope Pius XII who instituted the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, on this May Day to provide for all workers, a saintly example to enable us to grasp the meaning and the divine purpose of human labor.

The Department of Human Development (DHD) and the Diocesan Development Office (DDO) and Caritas, of the Catholic Diocese of Techiman, have concluded the deanery level stakeholder engagements towards the formation of Caritas Techiman at the St. Paul’s Cathedral Social Center. The deanery level discussions brought together the Bishop and his Curia, Priests, Pastoral Council Members; Youth Council, Women Council and Laity Council Executives of all the parishes in the diocese, to meet at their respective deanery centers to learn about Caritas and its operations and to share their opinions towards the formation of caritas in the Diocese.
The DHD and Caritas Office of the Diocese have earmarked the whole of 2018 to interact with all stakeholders in the diocese, to educate them on the Church’s ministry of charity, and need for all Catholics to contribute to support the church in responding to human emergencies and ensuring the integral development of every human person.

The Pax Romana Catholic Students of Kintampo College of Health and Well-being, in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana, have elected into office, new Executives for the next academic year. Presiding over the handing over ceremony on behalf of the Chaplain of the Catholic Students, Rev. Fr. Joachim Takyia, the Secretary to the Catholic Bishop of Techiman, congratulated both the outgoing and incoming executives and exhorted them to emulate Christ the Good Shepherd. Fr. Joachim encouraged the new Executives to develop and very good and loving relationship with their fellow Catholics in the College. They, like Christ, should work hard to 'know their sheep and the sheep to know them'; they should lay down their lives for the sheep and protect them from ‘wolves’ (cf. John 10:14-16).

Rev. Fr. Joachim Takyia, on behalf of the Bishop and the Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary Commitium of the Catholic Diocese of Techiman, inaugurates the Mary, Morning Star Praesidium of the St. Peter’s Church at Sansama. The new Legion of Mary Praesidium consists of over forty devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The inauguration forms part of the Diocesan Commitium’s plan to make the Legion of Mary devotional group more active, well appreciated and patronized by many Catholics, especially the youth.