The Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle says the Archdiocese of Cape Coast has resolved to develop a 10-year strategic pastoral plan.
According to him, this will be in fulfilment of the Catholic mission in the country.
Most Rev. Palmer-Buckle was speaking at the commencement of a 5-day Synod in Cape Coast which paves the way for the 150th Anniversary of the Catholic Mission in Ghana which will be on the theme: “Let your light so shine in the sight of men, that seeing your good works, they may give glory to your heavenly Father!”.
He noted that through the synod he and his co –Shepherds will play the role of listening attentively and in silence to the Holy Spirit in order to know with the help of God what the spirit is saying to the church with regards to the catholic mission.
He added that “at the end of the 5-day stay we shall collate the outcomes into propositions or resolutions for future work into a 10-year strategic Pastoral development plan of the archdiocese.”
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Delivering his address, the chairman of the occasion and a member of the Archdiocesan Administrative Board, Sir Knight Prof. Anthony Annan Prah spoke on the theme and said it is the responsibility of the catholic church to sustain and continue the mission of the church in the rapidly changing and complex social setting of today’s central region and Ghana as a whole.
“We are sent into a world that is not now friendly and have also destroyed our environment. A world where there is poverty, anger, political and religious division but in all these we are to go and evangelize and let our light shine”, he said.
On her part, the Central Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assan in a speech read on her behalf by a representative from her ministry urged the Catholic Church to propagate its doctrines into society to restore the fast-depleting human dignity in Ghana
According to her the Universality of the Catholic Church projects it as one important institution that could spearhead the restoration of human dignity.
She, therefore, urged the church to treat as a matter of urgency as part of your missionary assignment, the propagation of the church’s social teachings adding that “It is my firm conviction that if Catholics and all believers of Christ will adopt and practice these social teaching principles in their various homes and workplaces, the world and Ghana, in particular, will be a peaceful and less stressful place to live in”.
The Synod is being held under the theme: “Baptized and Sent”: Our call to Holiness and Mission in Archdiocese of Cape Coast.
Present at the ceremony were the Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, Archbishop Henryk Mieczyslaw Jagodzinski; Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Cardinal Philippe Ouedraogo, Oguaamanhene Osabarima Kwesi Atta II; The Muslim Brotherhood among others.
Source: Aba Aikins Appah/ ATLFMNEWS
