Rev. Fathers, Rev. Sisters, Installation Officer Dame MRL Theresah Pobee PGL, Most Respected Ladies, Respected Ladies, Senior `Officers, My dear Sisters.
Before I begin, may I kindly request all of us to observe a minute’s silence in honour of our Late Regional Noble Lady RL Sis. Afua Amoa Duah, in whose shoes and seat I suddenly find myself, after which I will kindly request our Rev. Bro. Chaplain to say a short prayer for the repose of her soul and all the faithful departed in the Marshallan Fraternity………. Then I will still crave your indulgence for us to sing: In Heavenly Love Abiding Ode 16.
Please permit me to stand on existing protocols to address you as My Dear Sisters. First of all, I thank God for making this day possible, and for making me see another milestone in the Noble Order, since I joined in 1981, this time as a Regional Noble Lady. I thank the Installation Team for making time to be here today, to ensure that everything went well at my installation, and I mention in a special way Dame MRL Theresah Pobee and MRL Sis. Margaret Gaisie-Essilfie PGLs who have just returned from London, where they performed another Marshallan assignment, and may need some rest. I acknowledge the presence of RL Sis. Mary Isabella Halley, Grand Sentry, the RNLs and the DRNLs from Accra East and Tema Regions, and the Provincial of the Holy Spirit Sisters in Ghana Rev. Sr. Diana Ofosu, my siblings RL Sis. Gloria Bramson-Sedofu and Sis. Felicia Bramson form Court 9 Eastern Region. I acknowledge without discrimination, and thank all other visiting Officers and Sisters that my eyes may not have settled on, but are seated in this chamber.
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I thank all Sisters in Accra West Region for the honour done me, and I humbly accept the responsibility to serve you. I acknowledge the good work my predecessors and other officers of Accra West Region have done to lay a sound foundation for this Regional Court; and I am equally conscious of the enormity of the responsibility that has suddenly fallen on my shoulders. It is in this vein that I crave the support of all of you to help in whatever small way you can to make the running of my administration smooth.
I acknowledge the depth, and the fine quality of the human resource our Region is made of, and I intend to tap into it and invite such Sisters as and when the need arises to build and enrich our Regional Court to make it live up to its name and billing of ACCRA WEST: THE BEST.
I will continue with the good work my late predecessor RL Sis. Afua Amoa Duah agreed on with her Regional Grand Knight, Wor Bro. Peter Wireko as regards their scheduled
visits to the component Courts, and collaborate with all Regional Officers for the steady growth of our Region. I intend to partner closely with the Noble Ladies to grow this Regional Court, not just in numbers, but also in quality membership, while keeping a keen eye on maintaining discipline among members. The mention of maintaining DISCIPLINE may seem a daunting task, but where there is a will, there is a way, and I believe all of us will lend our hearty co-operation to make it work, so that when we step out, all who set eyes on us will know that these are truelly the Ladies of Marshall from Accra West.
I am fully aware that all Noble Ladies have planned their Charity activities already and some have even gone ahead to execute them. But it is my passionate appeal that Noble Ladies and Deputy Noble Ladies can begin to plan to look inward, into the Local Courts and extend Charity to some of our own Sisters who are aged, sick and need loving. Let us live by the cliché that says “Charity Begins at Home” and derive the satisfaction thereof from our deeds. I believe by so doing we would have lived in deed and in all truthfulness Matthew Chapter 25: 31 – 45.
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My dear Sisters, let us genuinely love one another, respect each other and eschew all feelings of animosity, and bickering that will only bring rancour, bitterly divide our front, and leave us as a disgruntled group of women, rather than true Ladies of Marshall. Certainly that is not what we intend to be. Let us trully live like children of One Supreme God, united in purpose to save souls for Christ.
Rev. Fathers, Rev. Sister, Installation Officer, MRLs RLs Officers My dear Sisters, In keeping with the good work that my predecessors started, I am excited about the thought that the Accra West Region has started making inroads into La Cote d’Ivoire, precisely Abidjan, and very soon, a new Court and hopefully Council will be consecrated there. With the inauguration of the Association of Sisters of Charity on 2nd May 2015 in Abidjan, it would not be long before we would be the proud sponsors of a new Court in far away La Cote d’Ivoire.
Indeed, it was in Abidjan and on our way to St. John the Baptist Church to evangelise that we realized that as a Region, we had no swords of our own, for our sentries to make the right impression. To this end I thought it was proper to donate a set of 6 swords as my contribution to the work of the sentries in the Region.
Before I take my seat, I wish to thank the Installation Officer Dame MRL Theresah Pobee PGL and her team for a beautiful ceremony, MRL Sis Margaret Gaisie-Essilfie, PGL, the Higher Officers, Officers and all Sisters for sacrificing your time to be here to witness my installation.
I am eternally grateful to all of you for the honour done me.
LONG LIVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
LONG LIVE THE NOBLE ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF MARSHALL
LONG LIVE ACCRA WEST REGION
THANK YOU
Please join me to thank God with the Hymn: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”.