To prepare Christians to journey more deeply with Christ in his Passion, the Church invites the faithful to embrace Lent as a season of confession and conversion. On 16 March 2026, Bishop Michael Bibi, chief shepherd of the Diocese of Buea, led a catechetical session at St Charles Lwanga Parish in Molyko.

Bishop Bibi during catechesis 

The session was meant to make Lent’s call concrete: an honest conversion of heart, reconciliation with God and neighbour, and practical steps that continue beyond the season.

In his catechesis on confession and conversion, at the Saint Charles Lwanga Parish on the  16th March 2026, Bishop Michael Bibi stressed that every fruitful confession requires acceptance of sin, honest disclosure, true contrition of soul, and penance. Without those, he said, the encounter risks becoming routine rather than healing.

He reminded the faithful that only an ordained Priest with the faculty to administer the sacrament of confession can hear confessions in the Church. The Priest is a minister of God’s compassion, and Christ alone takes away sin.

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The Chief Shepherd warned that deliberately withholding sin empties confession of its grace. Sacramental absolution, he added, is necessary before approaching Holy Communion, because it restores the right disposition for so great a mystery.

Christians during catechesis

The prelate further urged the Christians to go to confession regularly, to attend to the moral promptings of conscience, and to remember that the sacrament rebuilds our friendship with God.