A Ghanaian Catholic Priest-in-charge of the St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church at NiiBoiman in Ghana’s Archdiocese of Accra, Rev. Fr. Mathias Gyato, has expressed worry about the breakdown of families in recent times.
He lamented marriages were increasingly becoming unstable due to so many factors including lack of communication among couples.
He said it was not uncommon to see husbands and wives married to their phones, television or computer rather than to each other.
Preaching the Sermon on Sunday, December 26 at the St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church to mark the Solemnity of Holy Family, Fr. Gyato reminded Catholics that the family was the domestic church and therefore must be protected from every vice that threatens it’s survival, adding that without the family, there was no church.
He exhorted couples to decouple themselves from those gadgets that prohibited communication in the homes.
Fr. Gyato stressed that families should pray together as that would also ensure family unity and cohesion.
He said there was the need for mutual trust, love and understanding between couples in much the same way as exhibited by the Holy Family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus.
