Legon St. Thomas Aquinas Chaplaincy hosts inter-tertiary Catholic Charismatic Renewal conference

by Catholic Trends

March 6, 2026

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The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Chaplaincy at the University of Ghana, Legon, is hosting the 2026 National Conference of the Inter-Tertiary Institutions Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ITI-CCR), bringing together Catholic students from tertiary institutions across Ghana for three days of prayer, worship and spiritual renewal.

The conference, which runs from 6 to 8 March 2026 under the theme “New Life in Christ,” forms part of a long-standing tradition within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in Ghana. For the past 34 years, the annual gathering has served as a national platform for Catholic students in universities and colleges to deepen their faith and strengthen fellowship.

The ITI-CCR is a vibrant movement of Catholic students drawn from tertiary institutions across the country. Its annual national conference rotates among four established zones comprising the Southern, Ashanti, Northern and Central zones to ensure broad national participation and representation among Catholic students.

This year’s edition at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at Legon is expected to attract participants from institutions across all four zones, reinforcing the conference’s reputation as one of the largest gatherings of Catholic tertiary students in Ghana.

The three-day programme features a range of spiritually focused activities designed to foster renewal and strengthen the faith of young Catholics. Central to the conference are Eucharistic celebrations, extended sessions of praise and worship, and moments of prayer and intercession.

Participants will also take part in a series of teachings centred on the conference theme. Among the key sessions scheduled are “New Life in Christ”, which explores the transformation of believers through faith, and “Manifesting Zoe,” a reflection on living out the fullness of divine life. Other teaching sessions will address topics including “Planting for Growth” and spiritual renewal among young Christians.

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In addition to the teachings, the programme includes moments of reflective prayer, spiritual ministry and themed worship sessions aimed at encouraging participants to deepen their relationship with God and renew their commitment to Christian living.

The conference will also feature presentations and creative expressions of faith, including spoken word and dramatized reflections, designed to communicate spiritual messages in engaging ways for young participants.

Beyond its spiritual dimension, the conference promotes unity among Catholic students nationwide and encourages young people to embrace values of responsible leadership and moral integrity.

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Book of Isaiah 55,10-11.

Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens... the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats,
So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.

Psalms 65(64),10.11.12-13.14.

You have visited the land and watered it;
greatly... have you enriched it.
God's watercourses are filled;
You have prepared the grain.

Thus have you prepared the land:
drenching its furrows, breaking up its clods,
softening it with showers,
blessing its yield.

You have crowned the year with your bounty,
and your paths overflow with a rich harvest;
the untilled meadows overflow with it,
and rejoicing clothes the hills.

The pastures are clothed with flocks,
the valleys blanketed with grain;
they cheer and sing for joy.

Letter to the Romans 8,18-23.

Brothers and sisters: I consider that the... sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.
For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God;
for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope
that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;
and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13,1-23.

On that day, Jesus went out of the house and... sat down by the sea.
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.
And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up.
Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,
and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots.
Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.
But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
Whoever has ears ought to hear."
The disciples approached him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
He said to them in reply, "Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted.
To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
This is why I speak to them in parables, because 'they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.'"
Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: 'You shall indeed hear but not understand you shall indeed look but never see.
Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.'
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it".
Hear then the parable of the sower.
The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.
The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.
But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away.
The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.
But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold."

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