Anthony BAMITEKO

 

The parish priest of Christ the King Catholic Church, Odo-Ona, Ibadan, V. Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ajewole on Fifth Sunday of Easter, also the Fathers' Day Celebration in the parish encouraged fathers to have a retirement plans for themselves.

 

The parish priest with a tone of pity, said children due to the fact that they spend more time with their mother always take care of their mother more than their father, that they forget the fact that it's the father's donation that brought them to life and his efforts by paying their school fees made and put them where they are presently.

 

He used himself as an example of how he used to give his mom more than his dad anytime he visited them at home and will tell the mother not to tell his husband the amount he gave to her.

 

"Don't make your children your retirement plan. Thinking they will take care of you when you are old. Because when you are getting old, that is when they will start gathering their life too, struggling and trying to settle down and take care of their immediate family," said the priest.

 

Fr. Ajewole encouraged fathers present to attend seminars, engage firms that handle old age retirement plan on how to navigate them, may be it will be an investment or business that they will do.

 

He commended the efforts of Fathers in the liturgical service functions, most especially those that formed choir for the Eucharistic Celebration, by singing beautiful songs, noting that there was life in their songs all through because of their deep voices and encouraged them to join the parish choir.

 

While concluding, he reiterated that every father should have a retirement plan mapped out for himself so that their life will not be cut short. That mothers live longer than fathers because they take good care of themselves, because fathers are always busy working and making money without remembering of taking good care of themselves. "Many of them don't even remember to buy shoe or clothes for themselves, until their wife or child tells them that this your shoe or clothe is not good again." The priest said.