Catholic mothers in Nigeria have been enjoined to use the opportunity provided by the Mother’s Day celebration to pray for Christians in Northern Nigeria, who are currently undergoing excruciating tribulations.

This is contained in the 2014 Mother’s Day message of the President, National Council of Catholic Women Organization (NCCWO), Chief Mrs. Christiana V. Kehinde to Nigerian women with the theme: The Role of the Catholic Women today”.

The message was relayed by the President Okigwe Diocesan Council Catholic Women Organization (ODCCWO), Barr. Lady Chisara Egwim-Chima at St. Ita’s Parish Ibeme, Isiala Mbano LGA, Okigwe Diocese.

The message recalled with grave concern the unprecedented carnage, destruction of property, especially churches and other public institutions being perpetrated by the Boko Haram fundamentalists and urged mothers all over Nigeria to engage in relentless prayers for God to intervene and save the country from disintegration.

She further enjoined Catholic mothers to imbibe the virtues of humility, self-respect, respect for husband and all other constituted authorities.

She charged Catholic mothers to be prayerful but should desist from gallivanting from one prayer house to another in search of miracles, but should rather protect the doctrine of the Catholic Church which, she asserted, offers all opportunities to attain salvation. The paper condemned gossip and other social vices capable of tarnishing the image of the church and urged mothers to desist from them.

The message further encouraged mothers to liaise with their husbands to achieve family economic liability and sustenance. It condemned indolence which she said retards family progress.

Shortly after presenting the message, this reporter cornered the Okigwe Diocesan CWO President, Lady Egwim-Chima for an interview which centred among other issues on the intractable near-nude dress code of the youths which incidentally has caught up with the young and middle-aged mothers, to which she had this to say, “Mothers must shun immodest dressing because it places them at a moral and psychological disadvantaged position to reprimand their erring children”. On women and politics, the learned mother endorsed participation of Catholic mothers in politics with the view to bringing the Catholic faith to bear on the polity but quickly added, “such participants should resist the temptations of bribery, corruption and sexual permissiveness which such exposure might present”, pointing out that politics in itself is not a dirty game except when the players play it dirty.

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