SOUTH SUDAN: Pastoral Coordinator calls on Christians to Endure life Difficulties
The Pastoral Coordinator of the Catholic Diocese of Torit in South Sudan, Father Kamilo Afore has urged the faithful to overcome the challenges of hatred, conflicts and division as people of faith and followers of Christ. Fr Afore said this during his homily at Our Lady of Holy Rosary Church in Torit on Sunday, which was aired on Radio Emmanuel.
While acknowledging that South Sudan is truly faced with numerous challenges, he has made this appeal to the congregation, urging Christians to surrender their grievances to God so as to pave way for the community to live a sustainable peace.
“Brothers and sisters in the Lord, we are all aware of the challenges that we are meeting in life ranging from broken families, broken relationship, quarrels, misunderstanding and conflict, hatred and war, but also hunger and diseases. To overcome all these, it requires to strive for a life characterized by love and solidarity with one another, standing in support of each other as children of one family of God”, he elaborates.
The pastoral coordinator calls on Christians to have hope, put their trust in God and accept Jesus as the bread of life.
“We ought to be hopeful and to trust in God who sustains our lives and wants us to live a kind of life that offers us to in his son Jesus Christ. The Word of God invites us to focus more on Jesus Christ the Living Bread come down from heaven. For us respond to this invitation we must ask ourselves, ‘Who is Jesus for me?’ Let us not take it for granted that we know Jesus”, he said.
Father Afore further advised Christians to understand the what the Eucharist is for them and to accept Jesus Christ as Son of God.
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, the Word was God and the Word became flesh,” Afore concluded.
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