The President of the Conference of the Major Superiors of Religious, Ghana (CMSRG), Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Paul Saa-Dade Ennin, SMA, has urged Africans, especially Ghanaians to start life anew to let the black star of Africa shine again.
In a Christmas and New Message to the people of God, he said Christmas is the time to shun appetite for foreign goods and promote a taste for local ones, saying that “The Black star of Africa must shine again.”
According to Fr. Ennin, the birth of Christ inaugurates the hope of a new beginning, a new era, “in the beginning was the Word… through Him all things were made”.
He stated that it was no coincidence that Christmas is celebrated at the time of the year when the sun overcomes the longest night in the year, adding, for “in Him is life and the life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it”.
He was of the view that the current economic hardship offered Ghanaians a favourable occasion to start afresh, to begin anew, to create new opportunities and to rekindle new dreams and fresh hopes.
Fr. Ennin opined that this economic hardship is a time to look within, to dig deep into our local resources and indigenous knowledge and expertise to create new economic structures and political systems.
He encouraged Ghanaians and all people of good will to develop new mentality switch and aptitude upgrade amid the economic hardship that would be capable of the best, stressing, “We deserve the best, and we can create the best.”
“It is time to shun mediocrity and champion Excellence, to put the common good above partisan interest, to rebuild the Ghana everyone wants, he stated, noting, it was time for a new beginning in the Spirit of the Word made flesh who was in the beginning, and who is life and truth.
By Sr. Agnes Mercy Nyatsoe, SMMC//Newswatchgh.com
