Bernice Larryoboh
Nigerian Catholic Priest, Fr Kelvin Ugwu has expressed his opinion following the viral video of ladies wearing wedding gowns to a prayer event for husbands.
NEWSTODAYNG recalled that some Nigerian ladies attended a faith-testing prayer service wearing wedding gowns as the prayer service had in attendance Nollywood actress, Chacha Eke, and husband, Austin Faani, who was the guest lecturer.
Fr Kelvin Ugwu, while reacting to the action via his Facebook page, slammed churches that conduct such, stating that it wasn’t Christ-like and disgusting.
According to him, “Since those looking for husbands must wear wedding gowns to claim it in faith.
Those who have not entered school but hoping to have their PhDs should borrow graduation gowns and caps, during the 8 a.m. service this coming Sunday to claim it in faith.
Those aspiring to be nurses or doctors should come to church next Sunday with everything doctors use. Come and claim it in faith.
Women aspiring to go to Omugwo (a traditional Igbo custom for postpartum care by the mother of the couple) should come with wrappers and baby bathing buckets with baby powder.
And the biggest one, those seeking to be the next Tinubu, should wear their cap and eyeglasses during the 10 a.m. service.
“It is now becoming a trend and the more we keep quiet, it will soon be seen as normal.
To all those churches asking women to wear wedding gowns to church so they can pray to have husbands, what you are doing is not Christian. In fact, it is disgusting.
“What sort of desperation is this?
Why are you not asking the men to put on wedding suits and pray for wives?
And by the way, why do you need them to put on wedding gowns, is that what makes the marriage?
“And to those who gladly hire wedding gowns and wear them to church because you were told that it would connect you to your husbands, let me ask you this… When you pray for husbands, what exactly are you telling God to do?
That he should suspend the reasoning and choosing capacity of the type of man you want (and it usually rich men you want) so that even when your attitudes, character, and personality are not what he wants, he will close his eyes to all of them and marry you?”.