Christmas Service: Accra

At the Accra Holy Spirit Cathedral, the Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle, Catholic Archbishop of Accra, urged parents to invest time and their treasures in their children to bring out the potentials in them.

"If we do not invest in them, the best would not come out of them and we will forever be hunted by what they turn out be" he told the congregation on Christmas day.

Explaining the unique importance of the gift the wise men sent to Christ, Archbishop Buckle said Gold signified the best of everything, the frankincense, expensive incense offered to God and myrrh signified victory over death.

He said the wise men saw in Christ the image of God and, therefore, invested in him valuable gifts and that should induce parents to do same for their children because they were also God's image.

Children, he said, were gifts from God and should, therefore, be nurtured and cared for like the wise men did.

"Invest in your children and they would become good investments for you", he said