Catholics worldwide celebrated the feast of Our lady Assumption into heaven, on the 15th of August 2019, it's also a holy day of obligation for Catholic faithfuls all over the world.

In Nnewi Diocese, it is a great feast because the Catholic cathedral church of the diocese is known as Our Lady of Assumption cathedral. The mass for this year's feast at the cathedral parish was officiated by the catholic Bishop of Nnewi diocese, The most Rev. Dr. Hilary Odili Okeke, he also administered the sacrament of the Holy communion to some qualified faithfuls.

In his homily he advised the parishioners and congregation to emulate our mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary in humility, chastity, acceptance of the will of God in our life and above all obedience which he said that led to the manifestation of the first miracle Jesus Christ did at a wedding in Canaan.

He used the opportunity to exonerate Sen. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah for the delay in completion of the cathedral building, but blamed the delay on the antics of greedy and unscrupulous contractors. He also narrated to the church how Sen. Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah had earlier paid #80 million to a contractor for the roofing of the cathedral and how the contractor after collecting the money, breached their contractual agreements by using substandard materials which caused the sagging of the roof. He told the faithfuls how he suggested that extra pillars be erected inside the church auditorium, so that the initial money Ubah paid for the roofing won't be a waste, but according to the bishop, Dr Ubah didn't support the idea of erecting pillars inside the church, because it will mess up the architectural design of the cathedral and insisted that the entire roof be brought down and replaced with an entire new one. The bishop also narrated how Dr. Ubah bought a special crane for the removal of the roof at the cost of #85.5 million, and paid #1.5 million to the crane operators who later abandoned the installation, the company that supplied the crane were called to assist, and they collected #5 million, along the line, the crane broke down leading to another delay, but Dr. Ubah didn't relent he went ahead and hired another set of engineers that eventually brought the roof down manually. According the bishop, and another set of engineers came and collected huge amount of money from same man only to abandon the work again. He lamented that those contractors took advantage of Dr. Ubah's not being around to monitor them after payments. The bishop told us that many contractors duped Dr. Ubah because of his absence, but the church has now set up a building committee to supervise and monitor the project on behalf of the church and Dr. Ubah. What this latest development mean is that hence forth, in Sen. Ubah's absence, the committee members have been charged with the responsibilities of getting a new and capable engineers on the roofing matter to finish the job, they will also be in charge of the fund released by Dr Ubah for the project. The bishop assured the church that all the loose ends has been tired and that the cathedral will be ready for use soon.

He prayed for God's blessings upon all the faithfuls blessed them at the end of the holy mass, while cultural dances and drama groups entertained the faithfuls.

Assumption! Heaven is our home!

Assumption! Heaven is our home!!

Heaven is our home! Assumption!!!