MY DIARY GAME @luchyl : ATTENDING THE MOTHERING SUNDAY (MOTHER'S DAY) CELEBRATION AT ST AMBROSE CATHOLIC PARISH, OGBOR HILL ABA.

in SteemAlive3 years ago (edited)

Happy Mothering Sunday to all Catholic Women/mothers around the world.

It's @luchyl coming your way once again, and I hope you will enjoy reading my post.

INTRODUCTION
In the Calendar of the Catholic Church nationwide, Mothering Sunday (Mother’s day) is usually done after the Easter celebration.
It is a special day where husbands, children, family members and friends and well wishers all come together to celebrate all the mothers.

For this year, the church chose Sunday April 24th, being the Divine Mercy Sunday, as the day to celebrate all the mothers tagged “Mothering Sunday” and the Catholic Diocese of Aba, and my Parish, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, Omoba Road, Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia State, Nigeria in particular was not left out.

To mark the Mothering Sunday, the Catholic Women Organization, (CWO) of St Ambrose Catholic Parish, Ogbor Hill, Aba organized a week long of activities filled with pomp and pageantry ranging from retreat, seminars, football competition, march past, dressing competition etc. where every society is expected to participate actively, then other activities will follow on Sunday, being the D-day.

On Sunday, 24th April, 2022, the event started around 10:40am with the celebration of Mass by the Parish Priest, Rev. Fr Jacob Ugbaja (Önwa).

Being a mothers day, the women were the ones that played the roles of Alter Knights or Alter Servers, Lay Readers, Minister of Hospitality, and the choir. As usual they were all dressed in their general CWO uniforms.

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The Alter Knights

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The Lay Readers

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Entrance procession.

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The Psalmist

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The Choir

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The choir mistress on duty😊

The readings of the day was taken from the book of Acts of the Apostles 5:12-16 for first reading, Revelation 1:9-11a.12-13.17-19 for second reading, Psalms 118:2-4.22-24.25—27a (R. 1) and the Gospel from the book of John 20: 19-31).
The Priest in his homily thanked the mothers for their great sacrifices and good works in the family, the church and the society at large and urged them to continue in their selfless service. He also prayed that God will continue to fill them with His Grace to continue to be good and exemplary mothers.

He noted that without women (mothers), men are incomplete, cf Genesis 2:18-22.
He also went further to say that if a family, church or society is incomplete if a woman is not found there.
He stressed that the duties of women (mothers) in the family, church and the society cannot be over emphasized.

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My Beautiful Mom😍 enjoying her day.

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Mom and I

The highlights of the day was the unveiling and cutting of the mothering Sunday cake, support and donations, award giving to few persons, special thanksgiving procession by the women, the band display.

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Cutting of the cake

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The band display

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Side attraction 😂😂

The President of the CWO, thanked all that came to celebrate them and with them including those who supported them.

After the mass ended around after 2pm, we headed home to continue the celebration.

Thank you for taking out time to read my post.

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 3 years ago 

They really enjoyed themselves, God bless our mothers they're trying in all round

Mother’s are great treasures and deserve to be celebrated over and over. Your pictures that it was a beautiful day. Happy Mother’s Day.

 3 years ago 

Thank you

This was so beautiful, catholic church are known as the church that celebrate mothering day. Thank you for sharing with us

 3 years ago 

You are welcome. Thank you for taking out time to read my post. Cheers.

 3 years ago 

Mothers day is a day to appreciate and encourage our mothers, our hard working mothers and sisters, thank you for sharing your day with us @luchyl

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Oh sweet, so lovely.
The mothering Sunday in my place was awesome just like this. I actually made a post about it as well.

A well detailed post from you here, keep it up.

N. B you can consider checking my posts precisely Diary post on Sunday maybe you can learn something new at least the arrangement of mass readings

 3 years ago 

Thank you.

Mother's deserve more than any other being on Earth because they are the ones that makes life more interesting by giving birth to Rogers and help to develop earth.

 3 years ago 

Sure, and the roles of mothers can never be over emphasized.

That's true dear.

 3 years ago 

Mothers deserves to be honoured and celebrated because of the work they do. I'm glad that you celebrated your mum too. Keep posting quality article in Steemalive Community we appreciate you. But in your next post you can use only for pictures to write your diary games.

Note there is no tags in your post you need to do it immediately to attract curators to your post.

 3 years ago (edited)

Thank you for the kind words.
Please can you explain what you mean by "using only for pictures to write...."

 3 years ago 

Am really sorry for replying late. I have been having low battery since morning. What I mean is this. When making your diary game post, minimum of 4 pictures is okay. You can put others in writing. That makes your post looks neat and also attract votes.

*Note
It's one of the rules from Steemit team

 3 years ago 

Okay, thanks.

 3 years ago 

Hello my dear, good day to you and how are you doing today..

It a pleasure reading through your post and I know that you really had a lovely day with our mothers during the service..

Being a mothers day, the women were the ones that played the roles of Alter Knights or Alter Servers, Lay Readers, Minister of Hospitality, and the choir.

Of a true, the mothering Sunday is one of the services the I really Love in the Anglican Church because as you listed above, it really true and the song that they use to sing on that day is really Good and Lovely to hear.. and on that day, there is always a Joy the flows on the air just like the Christmas ⛄⛄⛄ day...

Thanks once more for sharing such wonderful post with us... Keep on posting and making good contents in the @steemalive community... We love and appreciate you...

 3 years ago 

You are welcome. Thank you for stopping by to read my post. Cheers.

 3 years ago 

Thanks my dear 😊😊😊

 3 years ago 

I love this presentation from the woman of Catholic church. Happy mothers day to you all.

 3 years ago 

Thank you for finding time to read my post and your kind words. Beet wishes.