Dimapur, Feb. 26: Couples for Christ (CFC), 4th National Conference was held at SIRD Auditorium, Kohima on February 25 under the theme “Be Strong and Faithful.”
Exhorting the gathering, Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima said, “What we eat, so we become” and added that one eats food bearing one’s state of mind and health. He also said eating of junk and genetically modified food leads to obesity and bad health, while natural and organic food keeps one healthy.
Similarly, he said, spiritual, mental, emotional life and family life should be fed with healthy thought, positive thinking, wholesome relationship, to build an integral and wholesome personality and family life.
Stating that CFC is a movement that promotes healthy habits and positive values to be lived in individual and family circles, the Bishop said a healthy family, which in turn builds up healthy society.
Rev. Fr. Carolus Neisalhou, vicar general of the diocese of Kohima, who officiated the Holy Eucharistic celebration, in his homily said that fidelity gives strength of family life.
He said, fidelity means holding on to God, who revealed Himself in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. “Holding on to God is made possible through one’s parents, who are created in the image and likeness of God and who continue to transmit the same image and likeness to their children by the power of God” he stated.
Rev. Fr. Carolus also said couples’ life was distinguished by love, which in turn produces its fruits: joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, even in the midst of unbearable circumstances that family faces.
Topics such as ‘ a new spring time’, keep alert, stand firm in the faith, be strong and courageous, exuberant love, etc. were presented by the resource persons.
Special rosary prayer and worship songs were conducted during the programme. Representatives from St. Luke’s Church, New Secretariat, Kohima, St. Stephen Church, Rüsoma, Mary Help of Christian, Cathedral, Kohima, St. Francis de Sales Church, Kohima, St. Maria Goretti Church, Zubza, St. Peter’s Church, Kiphire, St. Paul Church, Pungro, St. Francis Church, Lazami, Holy Cross Church, Dimapur and six CFC office bearers from Philippines attended in the programme.
