By
Nkengasong Calesta*
Over
six thousand Catholic Christians –mostly delegates from across Cameroon,
yesterday Saturday October 5 converged on Small Soppo-Buea, to glorify the Almighty
God on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the Year of Faith.
A
host of Cameroon’s Catholic bishops attended the ceremony whose chief
celebrant was Emeritus Archbishop of Douala,Christian Cardinal Tumi,sitting in for the Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon ,His Excellency Mgr. Piero Pioppo, who was absent.
The celebration started
from Thursday, October 3 to Saturday October 5, 2013 at the Regina Pacis
Cathedral in Small Soppo
In
his welcome address, Bishop
Immanuel Bushu of the Diocese of Buea expressed
happiness for the choice of Buea which is first
Catholic Diocese in the Country, as host for the important ceremony.
He
briefed the congregation on the significance of the Year of Faith,
decreed last year by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, to be observed world-wide by
Catholic Christians from October 4, 2012 to November 24, 2013.
Drawing
inspiration from Luke 10: 17-24, Cardinal Tumi in his homily, urged the
Christians to live by faith and to profess and defend their faith everywhere
Cardinal
Tumi went further to ask the Christians to
love those who hate them and do good to all, adding that their reward will be
great since God is good even to the ungrateful
“It is not enough to profess the faith, live
the faith, celebrate the faith and also pray it; prayer is a gift from God and
prayer and faith go together,” the distinguished clergyman
told the large audience of faithfuls.
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