The Most Rev. Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, SVD, the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi Diocese, has told thousands of students to make productive use of the gifts and talents God had bestowed on them.
Addressing the students who had gathered at the Sacred Heart Shrine at Dzodze Tornu in in the Volta Region of Ghana on June 30, 2024, he reminded the students that they were embedded with so many gifts which they could use to work with in order to succeed.
Every year, apart from the main Diocesan annual Pilgrimage, students gather at the Sacred Heart Shrine to pray for God’s protection and guidance.
The purpose is to ask for God’s blessing for all final year students as the end one phase of their lives and prepare to enter another.
In a homily during the Eucharistic Celebration, he encouraged the students to look up to God and trust in their capabilities and cautioned them not to let their gifts die out, since without using them would make them inactive and eventually die out.
Bishop Kumordji challenged the final year students to show the skills and gifts they have acquired while in school, to the world as everybody would be expecting to see something new in them.
He urged the faithful, especially the final year students to touch Jesus with faith and get answers to their troubles and difficulties.
“Many of us are pressing around Jesus but have not been touching him,” he observed.
He told the students not to remain where they were but progress in life and urged them to repeat the word, “Talita Kum” whenever they faced challenges, difficulties and discouragements.
To the teachers, he told them not to tell any student that he or she would never pass.
Bishop Kumordji assured the faithful that they were at the right place and that they would never go back the same. He blessed all final year students, since they were the main focus for the annual Pilgrimage by students to the Grotto.
In his Welcome Address, Rev Fr. Mark Etse, the In-Charge of Dzodze Tornu Sacred Heart Shrine, recalled the establishment of the Shrine, which happened 42 years ago under the Episcopate of Most Rev. Francis A.K. Lodonu, the then Bishop of Keta-Ho Diocese.
He told the faithful to remain focused during the celebration to have personal encounter with Christ.
Present at the event were some Priests and Religious Sisters in the Diocese, heads of schools and teachers.
By Sr. Agnes Mercy Nyatsoe, SMMC (Sister Communicator)
