‘Defective society leads to defective church’

• Rev. Fr. Boasiako (right) and Rev. Fr. Derrick Bressey with

members of the Parish Pastoral Council

The new Parish Priest of Christ the King Catholic Church at Effiakuma in the Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese, Rev. Fr. Eugene Antwi Boasiako, has said that a defective society could lead to a defective church.

He said all societies formed in the church must have time to encounter one another and discuss areas that would make society move forward.

Rev. Fr. Boasiako was addressing the Christ the King Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) at the Parish Hall on how to move the parish forward.

The Parish is made up of St. Augustine at Effia, Immaculate Conception at Anaji and the main station of Effiakuma.

He said if the societies in the church were going down it would have an adverse effect on the entire church because the people in the societies constituted the church, not the building.

Fr. Boasiako advised the PPC members to respect other opinions to arrive at good decisions for the development of the church and society.

He said God’s Kingdom reigned only where peace, joy, love and happiness existed because good men and women would be in this society to preach the Good News of God.

He said Pope Francis’ idea of a Synodal Church was for all Christians to walk or journey together with a common mission and communion without any fear of expression from the smallest creature.

The Parish Priest said members should forget about successes or failures and start the synodal process together to encounter one another, listen and discern because “when one fails, all have failed.”

The President of the PPC, Mr Samuel Kangah said the new Parish Priest was meeting Councillors of diverse professions who were well poised to assist him shepherd his flock in the main parish and the two out stations.

He appealed to the new Parish Priest to work closely with all  committees working on projects in the three churches of the Parish to have them completed especially the on-going Parish Hall Complex at Effiakuma.

From Peter Gbambila, Effiakuma