Find Out Where Souls Go After Death

In Igbo society it is most often believed that how much you spend to bury your  loved one defines your social status, how people will rate you financially and of course how connected you are because of the cream of dignataries that will grace the funeral.

The quest to satisfy these conditions has led a lot into aborrowing in order to show that they belong to the system. But for Rev Fr Ezeagu Venatuis of the Seat of Wisdom Seminary, Owerri, Imo State spendng so much to bury the dead is not necessary given the fact that, according to him, funeral should be a period for suber reflection.

The cleric said this at Ngo village, Igbo-Ukwu in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra Stste during the burial of Madam Veronica Ezegwonwu. "A lot of money spent to bury the dead is not the most important thing. What is rather important is the soul of the dead, where it will spend eternity and that calls for proper self-examination of all while living. Death teaches the living that one day we will leave this world and where we finally find ourselves depends on our deeds while living."

He extoled the virtues of late Madam Ezegwonwu who he said lived life of faith and was able to train her children in a Christian way, saying that such souls were bound to make heaven.

Rev Fr Venatuis said that every soul needed repentance no matter one's position in life or society, whether big or small.

In his own angle at the burial, a Holy Ghost father from the Nigerian Air Force Base, Mina Niger State, Rev Fr Matthew Adejoh described death as a necessary end. According to him, he was in the business of winning souls for Christ at the barracks.

Rev Fr Adejoh who doubles as a flying officer of the Nigerian Air Force and a priest said it always gave him joy when he broke the barrier at the military barracks and won souls for Christ, saying that he could go to the war front and say the last prayer for a dying soldier.

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Late Madam Ezegwuonwu being carried to the grave.FROM DAVID ONWUCHEKWA, Nnewi