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SVD family in Ghana-Liberia urged to carry founder’s fire at 150th anniversary pilgrimage

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Kpando, Daniel Orlando –Members of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), Ghana-Liberia Province, have been challenged to carry the “fire of the founder, not the ashes,” as the congregation celebrates 150 years of missionary witness and service around the world.

Preaching during a special commemorative Mass in Kpando, Rev. Fr. Andrew Anumu Quaye-Foli, SVD, called on members of the SVD family to resist the temptation of empty tradition and instead rekindle the living spirit that inspired their founder, St. Arnold Janssen.

“The spirit of the founder lives in people,” Fr. Quaye-Foli reminded the congregation, stressing that true fidelity to the SVD mission is found not in archives or history books, but in the lives of those who embody the founder’s zeal and vision today. “We are not called to keep the ashes of the founder. We are called to keep the fire of the founder burning.”

Fr. Quaye-Foli drew a stark warning from Scripture, referencing the rise of a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. This forgetting, he explained, is what happens when communities lose their identity and fail to transmit their spiritual heritage: “The spirit of the founder is lost when people are lost; when people go away from the mission.”

Fr. Quaye-Foli made the call on Wednesday, July 16, at St. Raphael Quasi Parish in Kpando, during a Mass that followed a prayerful pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Agbenorxoe, Kpando in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Drawing on the story of Moses and the burning bush, Fr. Quaye-Foli challenged the faithful to “remove their sandals,” a symbol, he explained, of letting go of spiritual pride, laziness, and indifference. “Holiness begins in ordinary places, not in temples or sanctuaries. If you cannot find holiness in your home, you will not find it in the church either.”

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He reminded the congregation that Moses was not shaped in Pharaoh’s palace, but in the desert — with sheep and silence. So too, he said, God forms missionaries not in comfort but through trials. “We must not be the generation that buries the mission. We must not be the generation that loses the fire.”

The Mass ended with a moving invocation: “May the Lord pour out His Spirit upon us again… the same Spirit that lived in the founder and the co-founders… May the Lord put the fire of the founder in our hearts. And may we carry not ashes, but fire.”

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Psalms 21(20),2-3.4-5.6-7.

O LORD, in your strength the king is glad;
in... your victory how greatly he rejoices!
You have granted him his heart’s desire;
you refused not the wish of his lips.

For you welcomed him with goodly blessings,
you placed on his head a crown of pure gold.
He asked life of you: you gave him
length of days forever and ever.

Great is his glory in your victory;
majesty and splendor you conferred upon him.
You made him a blessing forever,
you gladdened him with the joy of your face.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 20,1-16a.

Jesus told his disciples this parable: "The... kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
Going out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and he said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.'
So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o'clock, and did likewise.
Going out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard.'
When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
When those who had started about five o'clock came, each received the usual daily wage.
So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.
And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner,
saying, 'These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day's burden and the heat.'
He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
(Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?'
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."


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