By Ovat Abeng
The Bishop of Ekwulobia Catholic Dioceses, His Eminence Peter Ebele Cardinal Okpalaeke, has given parental failure, community failure and failure of the Church as reasons why there’s increased in marriage crashes in the world today.
He said training of children on the ways of God from infantry to the riping staged of getting married remain the only solution to curb what he described as marriage menace.
Cardinal Okpalaeke, disclosed this while speaking to Journalists during the 45th Wedding Anniversary ceremony of Chief Paulinus Nwafor and his wife Lolo Nwafor.
According to him, “marriage should be a thing of joy. To the best of my knowledged, marriages are constantly crashing today because such couple have lost sense of family.
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“The crises you are seeing in marriages today, is a reflection of failure; failure of the parents, failure of the community, failure of the Church and other Institutions that are supposed to be a nurturing place or ground for those that would eventually get married. Institutions have failure. Individuals have lost sense of family. Many of the crashes couples today were not well prepared before entering into marriage life. Family as domestic Church, somehow has failed.
“Good family provide good husband/wife, provide good Reverend Fathers and Sisters.”
Okpalaeke while admonishing Christians to be followers of Christ, showing love of Christ and living a Christ-like life, also harped on the importance of having good intentions which he noted matter a lot to God, reminding the people to always put God first in their daily activities.
The celebrants, Chief Paulinus Nwafor (aged 85) and his lovely wife, Lolo Nwafor (aged 65), in their unanimous speeches, appreciated God for the gift of being alive to witness the day and expressed satisfaction with what God has bestowed on him and his wife, forty five years.
Also in his appreciation, one of the sons of the family and a serving Priest at the Ekwulobia Catholic Diocese, Rev. Emmanuel Nwafor, said the celebration had become an annual routine in their family to celebrate God’s abundant grace and mercies.
He urged Christian faithful to imbibe the spirit of celebrating their parents while they are still alive.
The event that took place at Chief Nwafor’s compound Ezioko village-Oko, in Orumba North local government area of the State, on Friday, was also grace by the Bishop of Awka Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, Labour Party Chieftain, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, family, friends and other well wishers.
