Ho Diocesan Youth Council donates to 9-year-old burn victim

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May 7, 2025

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The Ho Diocesan Youth Council has made a donation to support Victoria Atsoribo, a 9-year-old girl who suffered severe burns in a fire accident while cooking. The young girl, currently undergoing urgent plastic surgery at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, received this lifeline following a passionate appeal made by the Director of Social Communications of the Diocese, Rev. Fr. Samuel Edem Eco Kornu, and the Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson, Anthony Godsway Tsra.

The donation, an amount of three thousand cedis, was presented during a brief ceremony at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Hohoe on Sunday, May 4, 2025. Leading the presentation on behalf of the Council was the Diocesan Youth Chairperson, Orlando Daniel. He was accompanied by key youth leaders including Georgina Badomta, Hohoe Deanery Youth Assistant Secretary; Lillian Agbosu, Hohoe Deanery Youth Organiser; and Gloria Soglo, a former Youth Leader of St. Augustine Parish.

The initiative was spearheaded by the Diocesan Youth Chaplain, Rev. Fr. Edbert Doh, who praised the commitment of the youth to Christian values and community service. “This is what it means to live out our faith to respond with love when others are in need”

Rev. Fr. Pascal Afesi, Parish Priest of St. Augustine Catholic Church, expressed his deep appreciation to the Youth Council for their generosity. He encouraged more youth across the Diocese to actively engage in charitable endeavors and support the growth of youth groups within their parishes.

Frank Charles Atsoribo, father of the young Victoria, was visibly moved by the support and thanked the Youth Council for their timely intervention during what he described as a painful and uncertain time for his family.

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Victoria was first admitted to the Children’s Ward at the Kpando Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital on December 5, 2024, after sustaining serious burns. Her condition later required specialized treatment, prompting her transfer to Korle Bu for surgery.

This noble gesture by the Ho Diocesan Youth Council underscores the importance of youth-led initiatives in addressing real-life challenges and reinforces the Christian values of compassion, generosity, and community support.

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Tuesday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time

2nd book of Maccabees 6,18-31.

Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man... of advanced age and noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork.
But preferring a glorious death to a life of defilement, he spat out the meat, and went forward of his own accord to the instrument of torture,
as men ought to do who have the courage to reject the food which it is unlawful to taste even for love of life.
Those in charge of that unlawful ritual meal took the man aside privately, because of their long acquaintance with him, and urged him to bring meat of his own providing, such as he could legitimately eat, and to pretend to be eating some of the meat of the sacrifice prescribed by the king;
in this way he would escape the death penalty, and be treated kindly because of their old friendship with him.
But he made up his mind in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, the merited distinction of his gray hair, and of the admirable life he had lived from childhood; and so he declared that above all he would be loyal to the holy laws given by God. He told them to send him at once to the abode of the dead, explaining:
"At our age it would be unbecoming to make such a pretense; many young men would think the ninety-year-old Eleazar had gone over to an alien religion.
Should I thus dissimulate for the sake of a brief moment of life, they would be led astray by me, while I would bring shame and dishonor on my old age.
Even if, for the time being, I avoid the punishment of men, I shall never, whether alive or dead, escape the hands of the Almighty.
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will prove myself worthy of my old age,
and I will leave to the young a noble example of how to die willingly and generously for the revered and holy laws." He spoke thus, and went immediately to the instrument of torture.
Those who shortly before had been kindly disposed, now became hostile toward him because what he had said seemed to them utter madness.
When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned and said: "The Lord in his holy knowledge knows full well that, although I could have escaped death, I am not only enduring terrible pain in my body from this scourging, but also suffering it with joy in my soul because of my devotion to him."
This is how he died, leaving in his death a model of courage and an unforgettable example of virtue not only for the young but for the whole nation.

Psalms 3,2-3.4-5.6-7.

O LORD, how many are my adversaries!
Many... rise up against me!
Many are saying of me,
“There is no salvation for him in God.”

But you, O LORD, are my shield;
my glory, you lift up my head!
When I call out to the LORD,
he answers me from his holy mountain.

When I lie down in sleep,
I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
I fear not the myriads of people
arrayed against me on every side.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 19,1-10.

At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended... to pass through the town.
Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,
was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way.
When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house."
And he came down quickly and received him with joy.
When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner."
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over."
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost."

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