Kabale Diocese Vicar General Msgr. John Vianney Sunday Condemns Drug Abuse at the Confirmation 430 Catholics in Buhara Parish.
The Vicar General of Kabale Catholic Diocese Msgr. John Vianney Sunday has called upon Parents who received the Sacrament of Confirmation to desist from Drug Abuse and be Agents of Positive change and Development in their Families and Homes.
Msgr. Sunday made this call today during the Confirmation Mass of 430 Young Boys and Girls into the Catholic Faith at Holy Family Buhara Catholic Parish in Buhara village Buhara Sub county Ndorwa East County Kabale district while representing the Ordinary Bishop of Kabale Diocese Rt. Rev. Callist Rubaramira. He explained that many have continuously committed suicide of their lives through getting addicted to drugs especially through consuming of excessive Alcohol and smoking of the locally grown Tobacco and they slowly by slowly shrink their bodies untill they die, And after death when a post mortem Examination is done, The report indicates ” Body Organ Failure. “
He further told the congregation that Alcoholism leads to Abstract poverty which eventually becomes a beacon of Family break ups, failure of parents to take their Children to schools, Poor relationships, Immorality among them and their Children because they lack good examples to follow and other internal challenges within the family such as witchcraft and sorcery.
Besides that, he also cautioned the new Confirmants to continue respecting their Children parents and stay in the Catholic Church because everything they need can only be found in the Catholic Church and that those places they tend to run to will one day collapse but the Catholic Church will never Just like Martin Luther King told her Mother ” Never leave the Catholic Church though himself personally left it.” That was at the time before his death.
Msgr. Sunday additionally taught them that the Sacrament of Confirmation they have received today makes them pillars of the Catholic Church, it fully supplements the Sacrament of Baptism in giving them the Gift of the Holy Spirit and that those two Sacraments will never be repeated.