The Mothers’ Day celebration at St.Thomas Catholic Church, Onilekere Ikeja, Lagos was a great event to behold, as the women committed time and resources to make it thick with humour and laughter to ease off pressures of the times. The women prepared earnestly for the week-long activities that kicked-off with a football match at NAF Secondary School, Ikeja, between the Parish Catholic Men Organisation, (CMO) and the Catholic Women Organisation (CWO).
According to the Parish CWO President, Mrs. Ijeoma Madu, “Whatever we women invested into this year’s Mothers’ Day is worth it because we will not allow the tribulations of this world to consume us, instead, the children of God are born over comers, and so we are celebrating to damn the devil and his fake hardship used to suppress the people of God. “After this year’s celebration, the devil will know that we are unstoppable. Our economy is not smiling neither is the harsh government giving us hope. But we have to make ourselves happy. And that is what played out today.”
Akin to her claim, the women stepped out to Mass and Thanksgiving in their traditional CWO uniform. After Mass, and during the party proper, the game changed into a big carnival as the mothers changed into their Mothers’ Day costume, spotting varied fashion trends, each mother looking unique in their individual fashion sense. The Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Godwin Eduke, was not left out as he made a chieftaincy attire design with fabric, which he complemented with a typical resource control hat of the South-south style.
To add more spice to the day, the women including the grandmothers during the match- past, were indeed at their best, with the group’s chosen costume. Fr. Eduke, who gave the mothers maximum support in the planning and implementation of the event, was full of eulogies for the women, as he enjoined all and sundry to join in the celebration of mothers, even as he charged them (mothers) to do same for the fathers on their own day. Expressing disappointment that Father’s Day is not given the same popularity, he called on men to take responsibility to celebrate themselves adequately.
