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Jubilation, As CKC Kurudu Women roll out  drums to celebrate Mothers Day  …..Raises funds to purchase Bus

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CKC Kurudu CWO officials cutting cake on Mothers Day celebration
It was celebration galore on Sunday as Catholic Women Organization (CWO) in Christ the King Catholic Church Kurudu joined other parishes in the Abuja archdiocese to celebrate this year’s Mothers Day celebration.

Parish Priest CKC Kurudu, Very Rev.Fr Thaddeus Chike Dim

The occasion which started with Holy Mass celebrated by the Parish Priest, Very Rev Fr Thaddeus Chike Dim witnessed the active participation of women in such sensitive parts like the Alter Servants, Church Wardens, Choir etc.
At the outdoor event proper CMO entertained the their guest with variety of cultural dances, Match-Pass competition and Queenship context in which zone D (St Rita) group won in both contexts
The organization also carried out fund raising activity aimed  at raising funds for the purchase of a bus for group’s travels in and outside the archdiocese.
Speaking in an interview with the  Publisher of Daily Echoes Media, Mr Ignatius Okorocha, The Parish Priest, Very Rev Fr Thaddeus Chike Dim described this year’s Mothers Day celebration as fantastic and special.

Winners of 2025 matchpass competition won by Zone D in jubilation.

According to Fr Dim,” this year’s Mothers Day celebration is very unique because it is a day we celebrate our Mothers, give them respect and honour that are their due.”
He said,”Thank God for all Mothers, God works wonders through our Mothers, starting from the procreation and nurturing of their children .
“They take care of  the family. Not only that, even in the church, women are the pillars in the church. During the time of Jesus, the people who supported Jesus mostly behind the scene, were the women who were there then.
“So, each time we celebrate the Mothers Day, is something of honour.
First, we thank God who has created them and given them such special honour both in the family, the church and in the world at large.”
Continuing the Parish Priest said,”This year’s Mother’s Day with the chosen title “The Hope” which is something beautiful. Pope Francis has declared this year, a year of Hope and if that hope would really bear spiritual fruit, and in our world today, hope is really the future of tomorrow.So, it begins with the Mothers, that is what makes this year’s celebration a unique one.
“It is a celebration of hope and mothers are really the hope in the sense that if they put themselves together, starting from their homes, their children and their husbands every where will be okay. So, that’s what makes this year’s Mother’s Day celebration different from the previous ones,” he noted.
On the large number of women that have not registered with the Catholic Women Organization (CWO) in this Parish,  the clergyman said,” that is one of the human nature, maybe some are scared that they may not be able to meet up with the dues or levies being paid by members of the CWO.
“Some might say that they don’t have time to attend CWO’s activities but this is creating time to do the work of God. When you come and join your fellow Women, there are a lot of things they discuss there and there are a lot of ways they help and support one another.
“There are times they pray for one another, if any of them is going through some difficulties, they support them. If any of them loses a dear one, a child or husband, they are always there to assist.
So, those who have not registered are really making a big mistake because they lose the grace they could get and the support they might get from their fellow Women. No man is an island. You can not run the race alone, you can even miss the road but when you run the race with your group, your fellow mothers, you can be assured that you will win the race and you will not miss the road.
“So, my advice to such women is that, they should come out and join the CWO and  reap the full benefits  that go to members and their families.
Earlier, the CWO President in the Parish, Mrs   Ijeoma Okwububa said , “This year’s Mother’s Day celebration is very unique in the sense that so many things have happened to us in this Parish and for God to have kept us alive up to this day to celebrate ourselves as women, as Mothers is something to give him glory.
“It is a very beautiful thing that we are here to celebrate ourselves.”
She further noted,”The second thing is that as a Parish, we have been trying to raise funds to purchase a Bus for the CWO of this Parish.
“So, this year’s Mothers Day celebration is a special edition because it is dedicated specially to raise funds for our bus purchasing project.”
On whether CWO will be able to raise the money for the purchase of the bus given the present economic situation in the country, she said, “Yes, I am indeed very optimistic, we are going to make it .Aside the people that are here, and that have  supported us tremendously, we still have so many of them that could not make it today because all the parishes in this archdiocese are celebrating today.
” So, most of the people that are supposed to be here are not here because they are engaged in their  various parishes celebrating the same event. But we will reach out to them after today because they said we should do so and that they would support us. As  I am talking to you, some of these our invited guests have already supported us before now.
“So, I am optimistic that by the grace of God, we are going to make it and have our Bus this year.”
Meanwhile, “we are targeting N20million for the purchase of the Bus but I am also optimistic that we are going to surpass that target and if we achieve that, we shall go for a higher grade of Bus than our initial proposal.”
On the limited number of membership of  this parish CWO she said,” I will not tell you that I am worried because I tell you something,the number of women that have joined CWO in our parish since the inception of this teneur can not be over emphasized. So, many women in this Parish have been trouping to the CWO to join us because they have seen and they have felt what we are doing as women in this Parish and more people are coming to join us.
 “We are also making effort to reach those that are not here yet because one of the problems we have in this Parish is that some young women feel that the CWO is for the old but when they see other young women like them in this organization they change their perception and come to join us.”
On the other hand some of them because of the misconception that they had, they feel that CWO is all about contributing money for one thing or another but when they come close and make inquiries, and discover  that it is not all about money, they will turn back and join the organization because there so many other things that we do for our sisters in need because we know that all fingers are not equal.
Also the winner of this year’s trophy in match pass which is the first of its kind in CKC parish led by the Assistant leader who doubles as the commandant of the  St  Rita ‘s zone (Zone D)parade group, Mrs Francisca Nkiruka Okorocha said, “We are grateful to God for this victory and we are also honouring Our Blessed Virgin Mary for her presence at the event which is the secret of our success.”
She further noted that her  team worked very hard and trained tirelessly with the encouragement of their able leader, Mrs Chika Ihejirika to earn the victory.  Mrs Okorocha also noted ,” Actually it was a team work” which  earned us this year’s Parish Queenship in the person of Mrs Rita Ileifa.”
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