From Gordon Wellu, Saltpond
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His Eminence Peter Cardinal Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast, has said any Church without the direction of the Holy Spirit was a dead one and called on Christians to live in the Holy Spirit.
He emphasised that the Church was not the physical structures but the Holy Spirit alive in it.
Cardinal Turkson was preaching at Mass on Pentecost Day at the St. John the Baptist Parish at Saltpond, during which he rededicated the Altar and the Church building.
The Senior Prelate explained that the Altar was the centre of worship, therefore, the need to dedicate it to God to ensure its sanctity.
He stated that since the Altar was being dedicated, the whole Church building had to be rededicated as well.
The cost of the new Altar was borne by Professor F.K.A Allotey, while the tiles for the Sanctuary and sliding windows, costing several millions of cedis, were undertaken by Sir Knight Anthony Gozo, both natives of the area.
Several other citizens of Saltpond, both at home and in the diaspora, including Dr. J.B. Wilson and the Society of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, who contributed in kind and cash for the renovation of the Church building as well as for the construction of a modern Parish Hall, were duly acknowledged by the Parish Priest, Very Rev. Fr. William Kobina Fynn.
To the couples in the Mass wedding, the Cardinal asked them to sustain their marriages with prayer.
As part of his three-day Pastoral Visit to the Parish at Saltpond, Cardinal Turkson confirmed 85 Catholics at Abease Dominase, an outstation of the St. John the Baptist.
He also celebrated Mass at the Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School, where he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to some of the students.
The St. John the Baptist Parish at Saltpond, which is 117 years old, was the second Church to be built in Ghana after the Elmina Minor Basilica.
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