Ho, 05 January, 2026 / 5:51 pm (ACI Africa).
The Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Ho in Ghana has observed that many of society’s challenges could be avoided if people chose to be guided by God instead of depending only on human judgement.
In his reflection for the Sunday, January 4 Feast of the Epiphany, Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu said the experience of the three wise men illustrate the limitations of human intelligence when it is not aligned with divine guidance.
He noted that although the three initially discerned Jesus’ birth through the star, they later relied on human logic rather than divine direction. “Their judgment of the sign was for a moment blurred by their human knowledge. Instead of fully relying on the star to guide them, they preferred to use their human knowledge and were led to Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem,” Bishop Fianu said.
He added, “The wise men did not realize the great harm they were causing the child Jesus by informing Herod of what they had discerned through the constellation of the star. Their error led to the death of many innocent babies in and around Bethlehem.”
“We can avoid such disasters if we rely on the Lord to guide us on the path of righteousness,” the member of the congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) observed.
