Catholics of Our Lady of Assumption (OLA) Parish and her three Outstations have been advised to exercise regularly in order to stay healthy and strong and to reduce weight and other unwanted materials such as fats and cholesterol from the body to enhance their health.
Mr. Carlos Fugar, an Aerobics instructor, who gave the advice at a two-hour Health Walk as part of OLA’s year-long 40th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, September 17, 2022, stressed the need to live healthy lifestyles to prevent diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
He noted that regular exercise could also make parishioners stay healthy to contribute to the growth of the OLA Church and her three Outstations.
He urged them to use their weekends for exercising to relax the body to prevent illnesses, adding that “regular exercising plays a major role in boosting your health”.
According to Mr. Fugar, who is a member of the OLA Parish Health Committee and Chairman of the Social Events and Functions Sub-Committee of OLA 40th Anniversary Steering Committee, regular exercises could also protect the body from being attacked by diseases such as high blood pressure and obesity.
The health walk attended by over 200 parishioners from OLA, St. Daniel Comboni, Tantra Hills, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Chantan and St. Cecilia, Ofankor North, all Outstations of OLA, sought to encourage Catholics and non-Catholics alike on healthy lifestyle and share the love of Jesus Christ to many that did not know Him.
Among the participants were Very Rev. Fr. Francisco Kofi Machado, MCCJ and Rev. Fr. Bonaventure Gnaha, MCCJ, Parish Priest and Assistant respectively of OLA Parish.
The event, which started from the OLA Church compound through some streets of New Achimota was charaterised with brass band music, dancing. They also embarked on an Evangelisation drive with the sharing of leaflets with Bible quotations.
Mr. Francis Ackah, Chairman of the 40th Anniversary Steering Committee urged the parishioners to avail themselves for subsequent Anniversary Health Walks and also participated in all spiritual, health and social activities planned for the Ruby Jubilee which would be climaxed next year.
The OLA Parish begun its celebration of 40th Anniversary with a launch on August 21, 2022. The Church was started on Monday, August 15, 1983, the Solemnity of Assumption, by a group of Catholics living in and around New Achimota. The first Mass was celebrated by Very Rev. Fr. Joseph Tetteh Addy. The Parish had been shepherded by the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus for the past 21 years (2001-2022)
By Damian Avevor//Newswatchgh.com
