REPORT ON THE 2022/2023 NOVICES’DAY CELEBRATION HELD ON 28TH DECEMBER, 2022 AT ST PAUL’S PRIORY, OYIGBO
This auspicious occasion began with the Holy Mass of the Holy Innocents celebrated by Friar Paschal Ugwu, OP with Friars James Olawale Rasaki as first cantor/lector while Friars Paul Chukwu, Nicodemus Okezie and Dominic Mbomson as second cantor, sacristan and organist respectively. The homilist Friar Paschal reminded us that we all have an “inner Herod” which he likened to ego. He said we must learn to curtail it as it goes a long way in defining our actions and behaviours. He went on to challenge the novices to prove themselves different from some of the negative obtainable (unquenchable taste for power, pleasure and possession) existent among religious by following the prime example of the Holy Innocents who witnessed for Christ with their lives.
As traditional, the day was also marked with the friar-priests playing the role of waiters at table which they carried out with gusto and diligence. The colourful day continued with the early morning football game staged between the novices and priest-friars which ended in a walloping of the novices with a score line of 5-1. The floor for the indoor games comprising of table tennis, draft, scrabble, card, ludo etc. were opened as at 3:30pm as invited guests joined along amidst music, food and other merriment. The crescendo of the event began with the vespers and consequently the programme of event proper. In the vespers, the Prior of the day Bro Elisha Udang, OP in his reflection reminded us of the love of God shown to us through Christ’s incarnation and how we must respond adequately to this love by being true witnesses through the quality of our lives using the Holy Innocents as exemplars.
The evening programme went underway as the novices gave a plethora of presentations and performances ranging from songs, drama jokes and dances amidst the cheers and note of appreciation from the audience made up of the in-house friars, DYHM, LDF, members of parish liturgical groups as well as youth and children. Before the programme came to an end the novices presented their project which comprises of two large marker boards and 20 hymns books to aid the parish catechism and choir apostolate. To the glory of God the programme came to a halt with the final remarks and benediction delivered by the Conventual Prior, Friar Lawrence Ejembi, OP.
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