Abuja, 20 August, 2024 / 4:58 pm (ACI Africa).
The Eucharist has the power to “transform” Nigeria into a society that upholds moral values and altruism, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has said.
Archbishop Kaigama, who was presiding over Holy Mass at St. Theresa’s Wumba Parish of his Metropolitan See on August 18 also weighed in on recent happenings in the West African nation, including the abduction of medical students en route to a Catholic Conference and the Catholic Bishops’ caution against abuses during liturgical celebrations.
“For us Catholics, the Eucharist should be a very effective means to help us transform our society; to arrest the degeneration of moral values, criminality, and inhuman treatment to people, corruption by those in authority as well as the corruption found even among the poor; businessmen and women hiking the prices of things or selling fake items,” he said in his August 18 homily.
The Nigerian Catholic Archbishop added, “Up to today, many incidences show the continuous degeneration of security. Last Thursday, 18 students from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos were kidnapped along the Otukpo-Enugu highway in Benue State.”
He said that the Eucharist is also an effective means to restore sanity in the families of the West African nation, which he noted are negatively affected by a degeneration in moral values and a lack of appropriate and proper parental guidance.
