Cape Town, 23 July, 2021 / 7:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The Auxiliary Bishop of South Africa’s Cape Town Archdiocese has called upon the people of God in the Southern African country to change their lifestyles by adhering to COVID-19 containment measures, which the government has put in place “to prevent loss of life.”
“In concrete terms in our struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, we have to show a change in lifestyle,” Bishop Sylvester David says in his Friday, July 23 prayer and reflection, and adds, “Christians are called to model the right behavior by embracing all the restrictions that have been recommended to us in order to prevent loss of life.”
Bishop David related observing COVID-19 containment measures and love saying, “The best way in which we can show love to those around us is to keep them safe.”
“Accountability before God to whom our sacrifice is offered, is also accountability before the neighbor,” the member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) says in his reflection, underscoring the fact that adhering to COVID-19 preventive measures is being “our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.”
He explains, “The first question to fly into the face of the creator came from the murderous Cain who asked if he was his brother’s keeper. Throughout the Bible God answers that question by telling us we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.”
