Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Benin City, Most Rev.
Augustine Akubeze, has decried the indecent dress culture, especially
among female Catholic youths at mass, saying it is a sacrilege to the
religious sanctity and sacredness of the church.
At the recent rededication of the reconstructed main church building of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Benin City, Edo State, Akubeze lamented that youths and members of the church have abused the high standards and sacredness that Christ portrayed while on earth.
Thanking God for using the Parish Priest of the Church, Rev. Paul Enow, to complete the edifice, the Archbishop urged other parishes to emulate him, noting that the renovation and reconstruction of the church building will serve as an opportunity for the church to attract converts.”
“Many Christians have altogether abandoned religious practices that were meant to remind us that we are in God’s presence when we enter the Church. This includes such little things as dressing decently to church. Genuflecting or bowing to the Altar or the tabernacle before taking ones seat or before leaving the church,” he said.
Akubeze noted: “The loss of sense of sacredness in sacred buildings and church worship may be one of the reasons young people no longer uphold the need to dress decently to church, respect the Catholic traditions and others, saying Catholic faithful should renew their faith in the church, as it is a house of prayer apart from cultivating habits that will make them have an encounter with God in their daily lives as true worshippers.”
At the recent rededication of the reconstructed main church building of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Benin City, Edo State, Akubeze lamented that youths and members of the church have abused the high standards and sacredness that Christ portrayed while on earth.
Thanking God for using the Parish Priest of the Church, Rev. Paul Enow, to complete the edifice, the Archbishop urged other parishes to emulate him, noting that the renovation and reconstruction of the church building will serve as an opportunity for the church to attract converts.”
“Many Christians have altogether abandoned religious practices that were meant to remind us that we are in God’s presence when we enter the Church. This includes such little things as dressing decently to church. Genuflecting or bowing to the Altar or the tabernacle before taking ones seat or before leaving the church,” he said.
Akubeze noted: “The loss of sense of sacredness in sacred buildings and church worship may be one of the reasons young people no longer uphold the need to dress decently to church, respect the Catholic traditions and others, saying Catholic faithful should renew their faith in the church, as it is a house of prayer apart from cultivating habits that will make them have an encounter with God in their daily lives as true worshippers.”
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