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Mothering Sunday: Bishop Tasks Mothers on Their Children

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has charged the mothers to spend more time with their children in order to ensure proper up-bringing as well as help in reducing vices in the society.
Bishop Ezeokafor, who gave the charge during a holy mass to mark this year’s mothering Sunday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, the Anambra State capital, stated that the role of mothers in family building cannot be over-emphasised, as they performed the bulk of domestic chores including the task of raising the children.
He said men were too busy most times to attend to the children but mothers should play back-up roles for their husbands, by being around for the children so as to show them love, care and attention so that they would not be led astray by negative influence .
The Catholic prelate also stressed the dire need for mothers to endeavour to monitor their children even while they were in school as he believed that teachers alone could not shoulder the responsibility of training and nurturing of children.
Bishop Ezeokafor further explained that the church is celebrating mothers to appreciate and encourage them in the task of raising children, stressing that mothering Sunday was a day to glorify mothers all over the world.
He was of the opinion that if the society was good, it implied that mothers have done their job.

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