Be the voice for the weak, vulnerable – Alick Banda
By Mast Reporter
CHRISTIANS must be voices that uplift and defend the weak and vulnerable and of those that gag and demean others, Archbishop Alick Banda has said.
Archbishop Banda, the head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka, said believers in Jesus Christ should emulate their master who was a good shepherd and cared for his sheepthrough his voice of love.
He said this in the homily he delivered during mass at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus yesterday, which was the Good Shepherd Sunday on the Catholic liturgical calendar.
“As the sheep of his flock, we must ask ourselves: are we truly listening to the voice of the Good Shepherd? Or are we being swayed by the cacophonies of selfish ambitions, voices of tribalism, voices of regionalism or voices of moral compromise, [ati cikomela galu kuluma mbuzi, osati mbuzi kuluma galu]?”
Archbishop Banda said like their shepherd, his followers should have a voice that drew people to them through love instead of repelling them.
“Further, each one of us is called to be a voice that leads, rather than misleads; a voice that protects rather than exploit; the voice that builds rather than destroy; the voice that uplifts and defends the weak and _ the vulnerable and not gag nor demean others,” he said.
