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.
The Christian Mothers’ Association of the Catholic Diocese of Techiman climaxes their Annual Diocesan Conference at the Our Lady of Calvary Grotto. This year’s Diocesan Conference was under the theme: Overcoming the Storms of Life as Christian Mothers. The Conference offered the Christian Mothers, the opportunity to prepare themselves spiritually and adequately for the celebration of Easter. There were various talks and programs that empowered the faith and health of the Christian Mothers and challenged them to stand firm in faith in moments of trials.
In both his Keynote Address at the opening ceremony and the Homily at the climax Mass, the Most Rev. Dominic Yeboah Nyarko, Catholic Bishop of Techiman, encouraged the Christian Mothers to know that, like the Apostles who were also tossed by heavy windstorm on the sea (Matt 8:23-27; Mark 4:36-41; Luke 8:22-25), storms are inevitable in the lives of Christians.