Karonga, 12 March, 2024 / 7:50 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) have launched Vocations Sunday in anticipation of this year’s Sunday, April 21 event, with a call to conversion and the fostering of “new evangelization”.
In his homily during the March 10 event that Malawi’s Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) organized at St. Martin de Porres Ngerenge Parish of Karonga Diocese, the Vocations Director of the Malawian Episcopal See said that as the Church marks the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Christians in Malawi need to embrace new evangelization and assess their lifestyle in view of conversion.
In a Monday, March 11 report about the launch, Fr. Bernard Silungwe is said to have “wondered as to why after years of Christian existence in the country, Christians are still embracing syncretism and double-standard-ness of life.”
The Vocations Director of Karonga Diocese, who represented the Local Ordinary, Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka alluded to superficiality among the baptized, saying, “Maybe we have only accepted faith so that we may be honoured Christian Burial when all is said and done.”
The Malawian Catholic Priest called upon the youth in Malawi to take their formal education pursuits seriously and include God in their daily endeavours. He said, “Education is key to your future, and remember Grace builds on nature.”
