AIMS AND OBJECTIVES.
THE CCM HAS FOR ITS OBJECTIVE THE CHRISTIAN HOME EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY TRULY CHRISTIAN MOTHERS AND THE SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND SANCTIFICATION OF THE MOTHERS FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAMILY. IT PLANS TO UNITE BY THE OBSERVANCE OF ITS RULES AND REGULATION ALL CHRISTIAN LADIES MARRIED OR WIDOWED WHO ARE WILLING TO ASSIST ONE ANOTHER TO ATTAIN THIS NOBLE PURPOSE UNDER THE SPECIAL PATRONAGE OF THE MOTHER OF SORROWS THE MOTHERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO UNDERTAKE THE IMPORTANT TASK OF TRAINING AND SANCTIFYING THE YOUNG SOULS ENTRUSTED TO THEIR CARE . THEY ARE SCHOOLED TO EDIFY ONE ANOTHER BY WORDS AND DEEDS AND FERVENT PRAYERS AND THUS BECOME THE MAIN STAY OF SPIRITUAL LIFE WITHIN THEIR FAMILIES AND A FRUITFUL SOURCE OF BLESSINGS TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY LIVE .
BRIEF HISTORY.
IT WAS A TIME ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY WHEN THE MODERN FORCES UNDERMINING FAMILY LIFE FIRST BEGAN TO LIFT THEIR HEADS THAT THE CHRISTIAN MOTHERS REACTED IN A SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT. IT WAS A MOVEMENT OF SELF DEFENCE AND PRESERVATION. IN VARIOUS PARTS OF FRANCE AND ESPECIALLY IN LILLE MOTHERS BEGAN TO GATHER TO PRAY WITH AND FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THEIR CHILDREN ,TO DISCUSS THEIR PROBLEMS AND ADVISE ONE ANOTHER AS REGARDS THE CHRISTIAN REARING OF THEIR CHILDREN.
THE MOVEMENT GRADUALLY SOLIDIFIED ON MAY 1ST 1850 WHEN THE THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN MOTHERS WAS HELD IN LILLE FRANCE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF LOUISE JOSSON DE BILHEM THE WIFE OF A COURT OFFICIAL.
IN THE COURSE OF TIME THE MOTHERS SOUGHT AND FOUND RECOGNITION FROM THE BISHOP FOR THEIR GROWING ORGANIZATION ONCE THE APPROVAL WAS GIVEN THE ORGANIZATION GREW IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS THROUGHOUT FRANCE AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES AND SOON OVER A MILLION WOMEN WERE ENROLLED AS MEMBERS.
AT PRESENT THERE ARE 6 ARCHCONFRATERNITIES OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS IN THE WORLD . THEY ARE LOCATED IN PARIS ,ROME, REGENSBURG ( RATISBON) CRACOW, EINSIDLE AND PITTSBURGH. THE SOCIETY FOUND ITS WAY INTO AMERICA AT AN EARLY DATE AND ON THE 16TH OF JANUARY 1881 IT WAS CANONICALLY ERECTED IN ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH PITTSBURGH AND WAS RAISED TO THE RANK OF ARCHCONFRATERNITY WITH THE RIGHT OF AFFILIATING OTHER CONFRATERNITIES .
THE NIGERIAN CONFRATERNITY WAS STARTED IN BENDE IN 1920 BY REV. FR MURPHY AND WAS AFFILIATED TO THE ARCHCONFRATERNITY IN PITTSBURGH. SINCE THEN OVER 3400 CONFRATERNITIES HAVE BEEN AFFILIATED WITH THE PITTSBURGH ARCHCONFRATERNITY DIRECTED BY THE CAPUCIN FATHERS AND BROTHERS.
*DAYS OF MEETINGS* / *DEVOTIONS* .
OUR GENERAL MEETING COMES UP EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
OUR DEVOTION COMES UP EVERY MONDAY AFTER THE AFTERNOON MASS OR EVENING MASS DEPENDING ON MASS TIME ADJUSTMENT BY THE PARISH
*OTHER ACTIVITIES IN* *THE PARISH.*
CHURCH CLEANING
SUPPORT LAITY AND PARISH ACTIVITIES FINANCIALLY, SPIRITUALLY MORALLY FOR THE WELL BEING OF THE PARISH AND THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE
*NAMES OF OFFICERS*
1. President Mrs. Bibian Obialor,
2. Vice-President Mrs. Ify Onyema,
3. Secretary Mrs. Eunice Achikwam,
4. Treasurer Mrs. Chiebonam Ezetu,
5. Faith formation Officer Mrs. Helen Mbakwe,
6. Financial Secretary. Mrs. Nkiru Okwuoha,
7. Welfare 1 Mrs. Rose Okoawo,
8. Welfare 2 Mrs. Emelda Nwauba,
9. Ex-officio 1 Mrs. Betty Osin
10. Ex-officio 2 - Mrs. Christy Okonkwo.
