The Dean of the Kaneshie Deanery of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, Very Rev. Fr. Peter Kofi Atsu, has urged Christians especially Catholics to allow the Holy Spirit to permeate them to live a Christ-like, holy and righteous lives.
Preaching the homily at Our Lady of the Assumption (OLA) Catholic Church at New Achimota on Pentecost Sunday, June 5, he urged Catholics to make good use of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and talents God had bestowed on them.
“Put all your gifts of the Holy Spirit into common good, identify your gifts and talents and put them into good use for the good of the Church,” he stated, reminding them that God had given each and every one peculiar gifts which needs to be explored.
The Mass was to canonically install the new Parish Priest of OLA, Rev. Fr. Francisco José de Sousa Machado, a Comboni Missionary of the Heart of Jesus.
The OLA Parish has three outstations, St. Daniel Comboni, Tantra Hills; Immaculate Heart of Mary, Chantan and St. Cecilia, Ofankor North.
The Kaneshie Dean, who is the Priest-in-charge of St. Benedict Catholic Church at Ofankor, Accra, reminded the OLA parishioners the need for them to glorify God in their bodies by avoiding immoral acts in order to allow the Holy Spirit to work in them.
“Don’t use your body anyhow, be holy because God is holy and if you want the Holy Spirit to work in you well, then you have to live a good moral life,” he stated.
Fr. Atsu asked the faithful to allow the Holy Spirit to work in them so that they can live good Christian lives devoid of gossips, petty quarrelling, fighting, insults and backbiting, urging them to rather energise the Holy Spirit with their time.
“Everybody with the Holy Spirit must be an organized person. You cannot do things anyhow” he stressed, adding that “Your way of life will tell if the Holy Spirit is working in you.”
He advised the people of God of OLA Parish to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them to become better Christians, urging them also to give much of their time to things of God by frequently participating in spiritual activities organised by the Church, involving themselves in the reading and sharing of the Word of God, and always visiting the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle.
He, however, lamented that instead of some Christians going to Church to have a vigil with the Lord, they rather preferred to give more time to drinking and enjoying live band music, appealing to Catholics to desist from such acts and focus on the Lord.
Advising the parishioners to live as children of God, the Dean urged them to strive to bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit which includes Love, joy, peace, faith, generosity holiness and chastity.
By Damian Avevor
