Blantyre, 20 April, 2024 / 8:45 pm (ACI Africa).
The Chairman of the Pastoral Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) is urging the members of the Clergy to focus more on catechesis to ensure the faithful understand the Catholic faith rather than focusing on “administrative issues.”
In his remarks at the start of a three-day meeting of Pastoral Coordinators from across the southeastern African nation, Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka said priests must focus on evangelization as their main mission.
“As pastoral agents, you have a duty. I challenge you to ask yourselves; Do our people know our faith? Do they live their faith? Do they proclaim and defend the faith?” Bishop Mtumbuka said.
He added, “We must regret that we haven’t attached sufficient importance to catechesis. We have drained much energy on administrative issues. These we must do, but evangelization ought to be a top priority.”
“We must not only be satisfied and happy to merely see churches full of Christians. Rather, they must be full of changed people,” said the Local Ordinary of Malawi’s Karonga Diocese that is hosting the meeting.
