“It goes to you as parents, to let your children know what to stand for, if you as a parent do not stand for something, then even your children will stand for anything,” Fr. Kimani said in his Tuesday, August 1 homily, and added, “Let them know the ‘hows’ and the ‘whats’ of life.”
He said, “If they do not know the reason why they are in school; why they should go to church, and how they should behave, then they will stand for anything. Let’s be there as parents for the children to guide them and show them who they are.”
“If parents are responsible and able to answer their actions to their children including the reasons for their friends and also the kind friends their children have, even in the prisons where I work, we shall have very few people,” he said.
He said that the good morals of parents well initiated in their children will contribute to a country with stable families; and a church with stable christians devoid of hypocrisy and pretension.
In his August 1 homily, Fr. Kimani highlighted the evils in society, including alcoholism and drug abuse, and said the school plays the role of imparting knowledge to the learners in order to differentiate between good and evil.
He explained, “We go to school to sharpen the wisdom that God has granted us. We have been given this wisdom by God, but we sharpen it through books, through the knowledge that we acquire, the skills that we get from school in order to solve problems and know the difference between good and evil.”
Fr. Kimani said that schools play a vital role in sharpening learners because contemporary society is uncertain about the difference between good and evil. He added, “We are in a society where everyone is seeing what is good as evil and what is evil as good.”
He, however, lamented that knowledge acquired in schools can be useless if not used well in helping the weak and the vulnerable just like power without control is useless.
Fr. Kimani encouraged the learners awarded at the Nairobi-based school to support and help those who will not be awarded and to journey with them in their academics.
Silas Mwale Isenjia is a Kenyan journalist with a great zeal and interest for Catholic Church related communication. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communication from Moi University in Kenya. Silas has vast experience in the Media production industry. He currently works as a Journalist for ACI Africa.
