BY ISAAC MUMBERE & JOACKIM KULE MUHESI
The need for the Christians to embrace the gospel of love, forgiveness and peace promotion in families today dominated the Ash Wednesday sermons of some church leaders in Kasese district.
Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance, prayer, and fasting, where Christians reflect on their mortality and seek forgiveness for their sins while lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.
It is traditionally observed by Catholics and some Protestant denominations.
At Our Lady of Assumption Kasese Cathedral Parish in Kasese town, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kasese, the Rt. Rev. Francis Acquirinus Kibira while leading the mass told the congregation to be passionate about love, giving and promoting peace as they begin the lent season.
Bishop Kibira noted that lent season majorly emphasizes charity, prayer, giving and fasting so as to imitate and move along with Jesus Christ in his journey of suffering.
The Prelate also urged the Christians to give ample time to God through committing all their plights to him for resolutions, adding that they needed to bless their children, husbands and wives as they pray together.
While at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Sub-dean, Ven. Robert Ziwa encouraged the Christians to use the lent season that started today to forgive, love and promote peace in their respective communities.
In his preaching, Ven. Ziwa also told the Christians to use the period of 40 days to emulate the life of Jesus Christ who endured the sufferings and temptations while in the wilderness.
He revealed that as Christians in South Diocese, they would use the first four days of the lent season to throng Mt. Tabor where they would hold special prayers meant to dedicate their programs to God for his blessing.
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