The mission of the Church is clarified in Luke 4:18-19 as Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour”(NRSV).
Here the poor will be lifted up from their abject poverty. Captives will be released from their sins and all other forms of bondage – physical, economic, and political. Jesus is the light for all those who are blind (John 8:12) and his followers will also be a light for others (Matt 5:14-16).
Jesus proclaims the “acceptable year”, thus signaling the redemption of the oppressed. Such a Jubilee must include the social concerns of all people (Archdiocese of Cape Coast Synodal Acts, 2006:5).
Rev. Alexander Addae Ofori, born on March 04, 1994, in Twifo Ampenkro, and his hometown is Ahenema Kokobeng in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is the sixth of Eight children born to Mr. Kwame Ofori (of blessed memory) and Mrs. Mercy Ackom. His early education took place at various…
A short ceremony has been held at the Cape Coast Catholic Secretariat during which the Archbishop, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle presented assorted food and other items to some vulnerable people in the Archdiocese as the Church’s contribution to mitigate the harsh effects of Covid-19 on them.
1. Introductory greeting: Christ has risen! He has risen indeed. Halleluiah! Halleluiah!! Halleluiah!!! . I greet you in these words because we are still within the holy season of Easter, the forty days that the Risen Lord Jesus Christ spent with his disciples after his Resurrection from the tomb. Dearly…
BY: Fr. Charles Arthur The Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, has ordained 13 young men into the Order of Deacons with a call on them to be Christ-like in the discharge of their duties. The call was made in his homily at St. Matthew’s Catholic…
