National Mass for beatification of Servant of God Peter Cardinal Porekuu Dery announced

by Divine Chidubem

March 5, 2026

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National Mass for beatification of Servant of God Peter Cardinal Porekuu Dery announced

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The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has announced the 2026 national celebration of the annual Mass for the beatification of the Servant of God, Peter Cardinal Porekuu Dery.

The annual Mass, scheduled for March 7, forms part of the Church’s continued prayer for the advancement of the beatification cause of the late Ghanaian Cardinal, whose life of humility, charity and dedication to authentic worship continues to inspire many within the Catholic faithful.

In a reminder issued to priests and consecrated persons, the President of the GCBC, Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani, urged that Holy Mass be celebrated each year on March 7 for the cause.

The bishops further invited all the faithful to unite in prayer, asking the Lord to grant the grace of Cardinal Dery’s beatification, while reflecting on his witness of faith and service to the Church.

The statement encouraged Catholics across the country to participate devoutly in the Mass and to pray for the success of the cause, trusting in the powerful intercession of the Servant of God.

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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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