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Most Rev. Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle,Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra addressing the congregation during the Golden Jubilee thanksgiving Mass of the St Theresa's Catholic Church at Kaneshie in Accra.
Most Rev. Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle,Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra addressing the congregation during the Golden Jubilee thanksgiving Mass of the St Theresa's Catholic Church at Kaneshie in Accra.

St Theresa’s Catholic Church celebrates golden jubilee

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, Most Rev. Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, has said the way forward to promoting national development is for members of the public to be disciplined and stay away from divisiveness and negative attitudes that undermine national development.

He said it was important for reconciliatory measures to be taken to repair all stale relationships at the national and community levels in order to ensure that the human resource potential of the country is properly harnessed.

“As a people, we need to be conscious of the fact that discipline in all aspects of our national life and upholding Godly principles are what will help build a strong nation,” he said.

He was speaking at a thanksgiving service to climax the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the St Theresa’s Catholic Church in Accra.

The heavily patronised ceremony was held on the theme: “I will spend my Heaven doing Good on Earth.”

Immoral life

Most Rev. Palmer-Buckle underscored the need for the public, especially Christians, to adhere strictly to modest and decent lifestyles and added that God frowned upon people who led immoral lives.

 He stressed that Godly principles of decency frowned on the wearing of dresses that exposed vital parts of the body.

“The Catholic Church enjoins its members to dress in a way that will honour God and bring integrity to the individual.”

“We all know that God has blessed Ghanaian women with good-looking shapes, but the Church is not the place to display the stuff you are made of because short dresses are destructive and offensive,” he said.

Circumspection

Most Rev. Palmer-Buckle further stressed the need for the public, especially people in leadership, to be circumspect in the use of language, saying that the use of abusive words was a recipe for disunity and conflicts in the society.

He added that it was important for employers and employees to strengthen positive work ethics and create a healthy work environment that would be devoid of corruption, pilfering, laziness and other negative work attitudes.

The Archbishop observed that the time had come for all people to renew their relationship with God and with other men by forgiving those who wronged them.

Job creation

Speaking to the Daily Graphic at the event, the Parish Priest of the church, Very Rev. Fr Johannes Mintah-Mensah, underscored the need for the government to roll out policies that would enhance job creation.

According to him, if the problem of teeming unemployed youth was addressed social vices would be curbed.

“I believe that unemployment is the cause of all the social vices we see today. Many of young people are into drugs, armed robbery and other criminal acts as a means to survive.

“If the young people are employed, they will be busy at work and so the tendency to think of doing evil will be reduced,” he said.

He said one area that ought to be explored to create employment opportunities was to formulate policies to boost the agricultural sector.

Collaboration

The Member of Parliament for Okai Koi South, Mr Ahmed Arthur, said building a strong and robust economy required the proper harnessing of the right pool of human resource and collaboration by all stakeholders.

In that light, he called for collaboration from all religious leaders, opinion leaders and other members of the public to support the building of the country.

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