Nairobi, 11 February, 2020 / 4:48 pm (ACI Africa).
While the global Catholicism marked the World Day for Consecrated Life on Sunday, February 2, the Archdiocese of Nairobi in Kenya marked the celebration Saturday, February 8 with Kenyan Prelates based in country’s capital, Nairobi, reminding the hundreds of religious men and women in attendance about their purpose of life anchored on living for and serving God.
“Our ultimate reason to live as religious men and women is God alone (and eventually) to enter into final life, the life of trinity,” the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Nairobi, David Kamau said at Holy Family Minor Basilica, the venue of the World Day for Consecrated Life celebration for the religious men and women in Kenya, most of whom are based in Nairobi.
“In our life of consecration, we are special threshold in the Church because we allow the love of Jesus to become and by dedicating your entire life to following Christ, you show the real faith, how to worship the Father at all times,” Bishop Kamau added during his homily.
Addressing the clergy, religious men and women, and the laity in attendance, the Auxiliary Bishop emphasized the role of the consecrated in relation to the laity saying, “You remind the faithful that the ultimate reason for our existence is God alone and the final goal of our life is to enter into the life of the trinity.”
“Once we remove that concept from our life, once we remove our reason for religious life that is God alone and to enter into eternal life, we are not different from anybody else,” the 65-year-old Kenyan Prelate said and added, “Once we remove that concept of eternal life, then we are lost, then we don’t have the meaning of our lives.”
