MONTH’S MIND
MONTH’S MIND
OF LATE REV. SR. CATHERINE MARY OGHOREDAFE, EHJ
Sr. Catherine Mary Onakorame Oghoredafe, EHJ was born on the 7th of March, 1965 to Mr.Wilson Aburo Oghoredafe and Mrs.Juliana Ofovwe Oghoredafe of Effurun in Delta State.
She got inspired to join the religious life and was admitted into the Novitiate of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus on July 16, 1987. Her first profession of vows was on August 20, 1989 and perpetual profession of vows on October 1st, 1995. She proceeded to acquire a Diploma certificate in Nursery Primary Education as well as a Diploma certificate in Spirituality and Religious Formation.
Popularly known as ‘The Water of Life’, Sr Catherine was very amiable and prayerful. She was a simple person, with a childlike personality with God, she developed a personal prayerful life of keeping company with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament from 11pm till midnight and from 4.00am to 5.00am every day. She never missed the first Thursday Vigil devotion and encouraged others to do so. She was also devoted to praying the Stations of the Cross and was a great devotee of the Precious Blood.
Her last days on earth was spent confined to a bed at Anthony Cardinal Okogie Medical Centre, Oko-Oba, Lagos. After suffering a long battle with cancer, and enduring the most excruciating pains of it with heroic attitude, she passed on to her heavenly reward on the 3rd of September, 2020 on the eve of the first Friday of the month of September at 6:45pm. A heroic passage which has been described by all EHJ Sisters as a testimony, legacy, and heavenly message to all and sundry to always keep to the one hour vigil before the Blessed Sacrament on the eve of the first Friday of the month to console His Sacred and Agonizing Heart.
May the soul of Sr. Catherine Mary Oghoredafe, EHJ Rest In Peace Amen.
We thank God forthe gift of Sr Kate O.G as popularly called by our Set -the Class of 1989. She is a model of Virtues of Truthfulness , HARDWORKING & a lover of HOLY EUCHARIST. MAY HER SOUL CONTINUE TO REST IN PEACE WITH Good GOD. AMEN.