Avoid “playing comedy of omnipotence”: Catholic Archbishop in Togo to Diocesan Priests

Archbishop Barrigah-Benissan further said when members of the Clergy want to acquire certain powers, they end up “moving away from the true faith.”

“The devil can give you or drag you into the temptation of power, and that is his greatest victory,” the Archbishop said, and added in reference to the evil one, “he can make you do things without you knowing he is the one behind it.”

The local Ordinary of Lomé further called on members of the Clergy in Togo to have “confidence in the Lord and not let ourselves be overcome by panic when faced with situations that we do not understand.”

“God gives His grace according to the need, according to the trial, according to the event. We are not here to do our own will. We are here to do the will of the one who sent us,” he noted.

Archbishop Barrigah-Benissan added, “Our mission is not beautiful because it is easy. And our mission is not less beautiful because it is difficult. The mission is beautiful because it is inhabited by the presence of the one who sends us.”

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The first conviction Priests must cultivate, he went on to say, “is the assurance that the Lord has overcome evil. Don't tremble too much before the devil.”

“It seems now that we are more afraid than our faithful before the demon; it is up to us to reassure them, to tell them that Jesus has triumphed over evil,” the Togolese Archbishop said January 11.

He told Diocesan Priests in Togo, “Let us try to find our assurance in God. Evil exists, we cannot deny it. The devil is at work; no one would think of denying it, but the Lord has clothed us with armor.”

Jude Atemanke is a Cameroonian journalist with a passion for Catholic Church communication. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea in Cameroon. Currently, Jude serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.