Kampala, 12 April, 2023 / 9:07 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Uganda Episcopal Conference (UEC) have called on the people of God in the East African country to avoid situations that are likely to distract their focus on the Risen Christ.
In their Easter 2023 Message, UEC members dissuade the people of God from habits such as corruption, indifference, injustice, insubordination, immorality, selfishness, and violence, noting that such habits are “incompatible with the people who have risen with Christ and are led by the Spirit.”
“With Christ's death, we have died to sin and with his resurrection, we have risen to new life… Therefore, the spirit of anger, alienation, hatred, greed, intolerance, corruption, indifference, injustice, insubordination, immorality, selfishness, and violence are incompatible with the people who have risen with Christ and are led by the Spirit,” Catholic Bishops in Uganda say in their April 8 message signed by Bishop Joseph Anthony Zziwa, the UEC Chairman.
They add, “When one opts to live by the influence of the flesh alone, he or she remains in the tomb; then that person does not rise with Christ.”
“Beware of any ideology or behavior that distracts you from our focus on the Risen Christ,” the UEC members say in the message signed by the Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese.
