Owerri Catholic Archdiocese declares one week prayer for reparation of stolen Monstrance

The Owerri Catholic Archdiocese Ecclesiastical Province, has called for prayers implicit a missing Monstrance – a ineffable vas that contains the Holy Eucharist.

The incidental occurred astatine St.Mulumba Catholic Parish, Owerri, wherever robbers broke into the religion premises and made distant with the point containing the blessed sacrament.

Speaking connected the incident, the Priest incharge of the parish, Rev. Fr. Raymond Madu, disclosed that unidentified individuals gained unlawful entree into the ineffable abstraction by tampering with sections of the chapel’s roofing operation earlier descending done the ceiling into the Adoration Chapel.

He said the unidentified suspects reportedly carted distant the Monstrance, which contained the Blessed Sacrament.

The improvement according to him, has stirred wide grief among the faithful, arsenic the Blessed Sacrament represents the existent beingness of Christ successful Catholic doctrine, making its desecration a profoundly distressing usurpation of ineffable contented and belief.

Following the incident, the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has directed contiguous spiritual measures aimed astatine retrieving the missing item.

A connection released by the Archdiocesan Chancellor, Rev.Fr. Patrick Mbara, said the archbishop mandated a on...