Catholics to attend church on Saturday

  1. Posted on Friday 3 October 2008 - 12:18
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    Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    Catholics in Ghana will not go to church on Election Day, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, to enable them exercise their franchise instead this will happen in the evening of Saturday Dec 6. The decision was reached by the Catholic Bishop Conference. They urged Ghanaians to live in peace because they are one people.
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    The church has decided to hold church service on Sunday, Dec. 7 in the evening of Saturday, Dec. 6, in line with liturgical norms which dictate that “the observance of Sunday and of solemnities begins with the evening of the preceding day,” the Daily Graphic reported.

    The date for this year’s general election, which falls on a Sunday, has generated serious concerns among the Christian community in view of the day being a sacred one to Christianity.

    Some churches and Christians have even requested a change in the date for the elections but the Electoral Commission (EC) has remained resolute.

    Sunday, December 7, 2008 is a special day on the Christian calendar and for the Catholic faith in particular because it marks the celebration of the Lord’s Supper or Mass, during which a priest presides in the person of Christ to celebrate the memory of the Lord, a ritual popularly known as the Eucharist.

    “Sunday has a special place in our life. We grant a general dispensation and urge the priests and faithful to ensure the celebration of the Eucharist of Sunday, December 7, 2008 in the evening of Saturday, December 6, 2008...,” the Catholic Bishops said in the Pastoral Letter signed by its President the Most Rev Lucas Abadamloora.

    The Catholic Bishops said the church strongly believed that authentic democracy was possible only in a state ruled by law and on the basis of a correct conception of the human person.

    They urged Christians to work vigorously to ensure that humanity become capable of rectifying the distortions of society and direct it to God.

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