HAPPY GOLDEN JUBILEE (50 YEARS) CELEBRTAION OF YOUR SACARMENT OF MATRIMONY MR FRANCIS XAVIER NYARWEGENDEHO AKIIKI AND MRS NYARWA JANE ROSE MASIKO AKIIKI of KITARASA FORT-PORTAL DIOCESE IN UGANDA AT KITUMBI PARISH TODAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2011
Christian marriage is a covenant and a Sacrament but not a contract. The Word of God invites us to reflect over the marital and conjugal love; and the chastity with faithfulness therein. Marriage is Sacrament of love and covenant, also a mystery of infinite togetherness. It is a sacrament of love and not a contract of love. This is a sacrament because it is a mystery. It is not a contract as very many think and does also hence ought to be kept and seen as such. If we believe it is a covenant then it demands love and sacrifice from both the husband and the wife, for no third party is needed for the execution of solemn promise made before the people of God in the Church by both of you (MR FRANCIS XAVIER NYARWEGENDEHO AKIIKI AND MRS NYARWA JANE ROSE MASIKO AKIIKI) on 11th February, 1961at VIRIKA CATHEDRAL CHURCH UGANDA, because whatever God has joined nobody should put asunder (Mk.10:9). Today, Friday 11th February 2011in KITUMBI PARISH after fifty (50) years both of you are re-echoing and making anew the promise, now in the presence of your Church’s hierarchy, many priests and religious men and women including your first Son a priest, REV FR CHARLES LIGHT and other children of yours, your grand children, relatives, in-laws, friends and many Christ’s faithful. Indeed this is a real and sincere concrete act of love and great joy, hence an appreciation of marriage dignity. Be aware that the slogan: “Variety is the spice of life” has no foundation in real and concrete conjugal love in marriage life. This is because it is a Sacrament of Love, the Mystery and Covenant of infinite togetherness; not a contract of love. Marriage is all about sacrificial love and covenant. Manifested in the consent when each couple says, “In good health and in sickness, in riches and in poverty, I will love you till death do us part”, therefore anything outside of this sacrificial love and covenant is bigamy, concubinism, adultery, promiscuity, moral licentiousness or immoral living within the marriage wedlock. Therefore, sincerity is the key to openness; Openness is a short cut to appreciation in marriage, appreciation is an expression codified in acceptance of each person’s imperfections and acceptance is the foot-match towards expression of genuine marital love. In concreteness there is full of relationship, relationship is the manifestation of feelings; feelings in marital reactions help each couple to grow, hence this growth finds fulfillment in the promise at the exchange of consent. Love is that which we cannot be tired of given, progress of marital concern cannot be devoid of charity, Charity makes way to concreteness, and therefore concreteness cannot be hidden in marriage. It was in view of this that you expressed your indelible love in the choice and meanings of the names you gave to your children thus:
1. FLORENCE (from Latin derivative means FOLLOWER, ADHERENT or SUPPORTER OF THE NATURE’S BEAUTY OF FLORA) NIGHT BROWN
2. GRACE (from Latin etymology GRATIA, which is GRACE meaning GOOD WILL) AGRIPPINA
3. [REV FR] CHARLES (from German origin signifies FREE MAN, no wonder then he freely chose to be a priest) LIGHT.
4. EDWARD (of German origin signifying HE WHO TAKES CARE OF THE PROPERTY or OWNERSHIP, coincidentally immediately after the first son who is now the Church’s property, the beloved Edward becomes the successor of he who takes proper and direct care of the family after the father FRANCIS XAVIER) MUGANZI (Beloved)
5. ANGELINA (derived from Greek and means MESSENGER or HARBINGER OF GOOD NEWS) MUHUMUZA (Consoler)
6. STEPHEN (of Greek origin signifying HE WHO IS CROWNED, because of his strong Faith in God) KUGONZA (Love)
7. MARY (from Egyptian it signifies SHE WHO IS LOVED BY GOD or BELOVED LADY BY GOD, and from Hebrew means LADY) GORETTI KANYIGINYA
8. ELIZABETH (derived from Hebrew signifying GOD HAS SWORN AN OATH or GOD IS PERFECTION) TUSIIME (Let us give thanks to God)
Hence both of you (MR FRANCIS XAVIER NYARWEGENDEHO AKIIKI AND MRS NYARWA JANE ROSE MASIKO AKIIKI) as you are celebrating your Golden Jubilee 50 years of Sacrament of Matrimony today Friday February 11, 2011 the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes, always be aware that the word MARRIAGE uniquely reminds both of you as one body these things:
M - MARRIAGE is a covenant keep to it.
A - ADMIT the things you cannot change in life.
R - RESPECT is a must to be shown to each other.
R - REASONING together for the smooth going of the family is an obligation.
I - IMITATE the Holy Family (JESUS, MARY and JOSEPH) in the Bible and INSIST on good moral behaviours of your children, even now they are all grown up and your grand children.
A - ACCEPT each person’s imperfection and ADD his or her virtues to yours.
G - GIVE no third party a chance in your marriage, so that what God has joined nobody should put asunder.
E - ENCOURAGING each other ought to be a daily duty.
From, REV FR PAUL IKECHUKWU OGUJIOFFOR (OKIGWE DIOCESE NIGERIA)
M - MARRIAGE is a covenant keep to it.
A - ADMIT the things you cannot change in life.
R - RESPECT is a must to be shown to each other.
R - REASONING together for the smooth going of the family is an obligation.
I - IMITATE the Holy Family (JESUS, MARY and JOSEPH) in the Bible and INSIST on good moral behaviours of your children, even now they are all grown up and your grand children.
A - ACCEPT each person’s imperfection and ADD his or her virtues to yours.
G - GIVE no third party a chance in your marriage, so that what God has joined nobody should put asunder.
E - ENCOURAGING each other ought to be a daily duty.
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