By Augustine Aminu
It was a glamorous celebration as Worthy Brother and Sister Anthony Amadi of the Central District Sub-Council among others were invested to the 3rd degree of the Honored Order of Knights of St. Mulumba in Abuja yesterday, July 15, 2023.
Worthy Brother Anthony Amadi is the Zonal leader of the KARSANA ZONE of the Central District Sub-Council.
It was a well attended ceremony by Worthy Brothers, Sisters, family and friends.
Sir Michael M. Aule, the Metropolitan Grand Knight of Abuja Metropolitan Council advised the newly invested 3rd degree brothers and sisters to be faithful Catholics who would always defend the church and her ministers. He also enjoined them to put their new position at the service of the church and her members because their new position is for a higher service.
Sir Christopher Achibogwu, the Grand Knight of Central District Sub-Council while congratulating them
encouraged them to humble themselves and learn more about the church whenever the need arises.
Other members of the Central District Sub-Council have also sent their congratulatory messages to Worthy Brother and Sister Anthony Amadi.
The Order of St. Mulumba was founded by a Nigerian Cistercian Monk, Rev. Fr. Abraham Anselm Isidahome Ojefua, in 1952, having received approval from the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria. The Order was formally inaugurated on June 14, 1953 at the Holy Ghost College Chapel in Owerri, Imo State with Bishop Whelan presiding.
The 23 founding members included three priests, two of whom later became bishops, Nwedo and Unegbu.
A Knight of St. Mulumba is a practicing catholic with reasonable education and financial resources, who is willing to volunteer his talent and energies for the service of God, the Church and fellow men.
A Knight aspires towards a high sense of Christian discipline and cooperates with other Christian denominations without compromising catholic doctrines and principles.
He lives an exemplary Catholic life making use of the Sacraments to grow in the Grace of God. He defends his Catholic faith and gives succor to the disadvantaged, the poor and the oppressed in the society. He is a man of prayer.
The Order’s aims and objectives when it was founded were to counteract the harm done by many secret societies to the church and to stop the influx of Christians into those harmful secret groups totally opposed to the Catholic faith.
The Ladies of St. Mulumba are wives of the Knights and they were formed 25 years after the Order was founded by Fr. Ojeifua.
