COSRA Accra leaders convene for annual retreat, strategic council meeting

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February 28, 2026

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Leaders of the Catholic Organisation for Social and Religious Advancement (COSRA) in Ghana’s Accra Archdiocese have convened for their Annual Leaders’ Retreat and Strategic Council Meeting, combining spiritual renewal with governance and long-term planning for the apostolate.

The three-day gathering, being held from 27 February to 1 March 2026 at the Society of Missionaries of Africa Retreat Centre at Oshuiman in Accra, brings together archdiocesan executives, chaplains, past and present national leaders, deanery executives and committee chairpersons, alongside invited guests.

Designed as both a retreat and a council session, the programme integrates prayer, formation, reporting and strategic discussion.

Preaching at the opening Mass, Rev. Fr. Abraham Guolitiri, SMA, reminded participants of the spiritual foundation of their work. “We are leaders not for ourselves, but to serve,” he said.

Reflecting on the call to Christian identity, he added: “We have been possessed. We have been set apart. We are God’s chosen people. We are leaders at the archdiocesan level, at the denary level. We have been set apart.”

He encouraged leaders to root their strategic and administrative efforts in prayer, especially when facing difficulties. “If we are possessed by God to serve, then we should be ready even to collaborate and pull along those who persecute us, those who make the work difficult for us. And to do that, it is prayer that will lead us on.”

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Council deliberations include reports on welfare initiatives, finance and memorial observances, as well as forward-looking agenda items such as retention strategies, upcoming inaugurations, COSRA Week celebrations, inter-zonal games and participation in the National Sports and Culture Festival scheduled for Tamale later this year.

A strategic planning session is expected to be followed by a review of the COSRA Constitution, Handbook and Administrative Guidelines, with space for discussion and questions. Capacity-building sessions on teamwork and effectiveness aim to strengthen collaboration at both archdiocesan and deanery levels.

The retreat is expected to conclude on Sunday, March 1, with a Thanksgiving Mass and closing evaluation.

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Daily Reading

Monday of the Third week of Lent

2nd book of Kings 5,1-15a.

Naaman, the army commander of the king of... Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper.
Now the Arameans had captured from the land of Israel in a raid a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman's wife.
"If only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria," she said to her mistress, "he would cure him of his leprosy."
Naaman went and told his lord just what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said.
"Go," said the king of Aram. "I will send along a letter to the king of Israel." So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents, six thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments.
To the king of Israel he brought the letter, which read: "With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy."
When he read the letter, the king of Israel tore his garments and exclaimed: "Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!"
When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent word to the king: "Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel."
Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house.
The prophet sent him the message: "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean."
But Naaman went away angry, saying, "I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy.
Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?" With this, he turned about in anger and left.
But his servants came up and reasoned with him. "My father," they said, "if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, 'Wash and be clean,' should you do as he said."
So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant."

Psalms 42(41),2-3.43(42),3-4.

As the hind longs for the running waters,
so... my soul longs for you, O God.
Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?

Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling place.

Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 4,24-30.

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue... at Nazareth: "Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."
When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

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