Oyo, 25 December, 2021 / 3:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The youth who aspire to become parents in the future like Mary and Joseph ought to know that good parents are made and are products of mentorship and prayer, a Catholic Bishop in Nigeria has said.
“We must teach our youths that good parents are made, not born. In order to be a good parent one day, one must be formed through prayer, knowledge of the word of God, information and mentorship,” Bishop Emmanuel Badejo said in his message published Wednesday, November 24.
Unfortunately, Bishop Badejo noted in the message published on the website of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), “many youths might not ordinarily enjoy that possibility. So, Churches, families, schools and society must come to the rescue.”
For the current society to recover from the present challenge of “pervasive youth delinquency”, criminality and restiveness, the Nigerian Bishop further said, there is need for good parents to step up and take the responsibility of nurturing the youth into responsible parenthood.
“There is no school equal to a decent home, and no teachers equal to honest and virtuous parents,” he said, and added, “It is not only a worthwhile venture for good families to form good parents for their children; it is also a life-saving enterprise, for they will reap what they sow.”
