Cardinal Otunga’s Sainthood Journey: Kenyans Urged to Emulate Servant of God’s Virtues to Advance Cause

Cardinal Otunga’s Sainthood Journey: Kenyans Urged to Emulate Servant of God’s Virtues to Advance Cause

Emulating the virtues of Maurice Cardinal Otunga can accelerate his canonization cause, the Archbishop of Kenya’s Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi has said, imploring Kenyans to imitate  the Servant of God’s spirit.

In his Thursday, November 20, homily during the memorial Mass, and fundraising event for the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship Fund, Archbishop Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo described the Servant of God as a shepherd who “would listen to you and judge you by discerning your presence in mercifulness, in love, in relationship to God, and where he was.”

“Cardinal Otunga wept for many after that discernment, and for that reason he was always very generous and very available to extend his hands in supporting people out of poverty and suffering,” Archbishop Anyolo said during the event that was at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA).

He added, “Cardinal Otunga’s response was to pray through his tears for the people of God. He always wept when he saw their suffering. He wept just as Jesus Christ wept.”

“Cardinal Otunga’s tears were not like those of any other person.  They were tears that flowed with prayer, with fasting, and with a deep desire to act and to decide what was good for the people he served,” the Local Ordinary of ADN said, and went on to urge.