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⏰️Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 📖Jer 17:5-8; Ps. 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6, (R. Ps. 40:5ab); 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20; Luke 6:17, 20-26 🎤”BLESSED THE MAN WHO HAS PLACED HIS TRUST IN THE LORD” (Ps 40:5) How do you feel with the current situation of things in our society today? How do you feel especially with our country, Nigeria? I feel really very bad because some of us saw the handwriting on the wall and warned that we should do the right thing by voting right in the last election. Many people collected money to cooperate with rigging...
⏰Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 1 (04 February 2025) 📖Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32 (R.v.27b); Mark 5:21-43 🎤HOPING EVEN AGAINST HOPE Have you ever seen yourself in a condition that made you declare that quitting is the only option? This quitting could even be quitting life itself. Do you believe that Jesus can help you even in that hopeless situation? Yes, he can! You only need to believe in him. The two cases that were reported in Mark 5:21-43 can be seen as difficult and hopeless cases. The synagogue official had to push aside...
⏰Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time 1 (01 February 2025) 📖Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 (R.v.68); Mark 4:35-41 O LORD, INCREASE MY FAITH Beloved in Christ, thank you for your prayers on my feast day yesterday. The messages were so overwhelming that I didn’t know which to reply again. May God bless you abundantly and make this new month of February a joyful one for you, through Christ our Lord. Amen We all indeed need an increase in faith. We need to possess that kind of faith that moves mountain (cf. Matt 17:20). Heb 11:1 says...
⏰Monday of the Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time 2 (26 August 2024) 📖2 Thess 1:1-5, 11b-12; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5 (R.v.3); Matt 23:13-22 MAY GOD MAKE US WORTHY OF HIS CALLING (2 Thess 1:11) “May grace and peace be yours from God the Father and Jesus Christ the Lord” (2Thess 1:2), amen. At the beginning of this work week, St Paul encourages us just as he encouraged the Church in Thessalonica to work all the harder to live up to the status of our Christian faith not minding our different difficulties in life. This local Church was bedeviled with laxity...
🧭SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (YEAR B)WORLD COMMUNICATION SUNDAY 📖Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab (R.v.19a); 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19 🎤”MAY THEY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE” (John 17:11) The unity of all believers is undoubtedly paramount in the mind of Jesus when he made his priestly prayer in John 17. This unity is one that comes through our common heritage in God through Christ. As we gradually draw to the close of the Easter season, we are presented with this theme because that is what will guarantee the success of the task which Jesus gives...
⏰Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter (02 May 2024 – Memorial of St. Athanasius) 📖Acts 15:7-21; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10 (R.v.3); John 15:9-11 🎤ABIDE IN JESUS SO THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE COMPLETE (cf. John 15:11) Whenever the followers of Jesus are faced with serious crisis, they always refer it to the disciples in Jerusalem. With the circumcision-associated crisis that rocked the early Church, they made recourse to the disciples. This led to the convoking of the First Jerusalem Council (cf. Acts 15:1-21). Beyond the matters of crisis, most important decisions and clarification of the matters of faith were...
⏰Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter (1 May 2024 – Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker) 📖Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 (R.v.1); John 15:1-8 🎤STRIVE TO REMAIN WITH JESUS Today is the first day of the month, and in the Church, this is one of the two months of special devotion to our Mother Mary, our great intercessor. It is also the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker, and the Workers Day. Over time, our workers are not well treated all over the world. Considered from the Nigerian perspective, one can view the situation as one of near...
⏰Monday of the Second Week of Advent (11 December 2023) 📖Isa 35:1-10; Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14, (R. Isa 35:4ff); Luke 5:17-26 “BE STRONG, FEAR NOT!” (Isa 35:4) It is my birthday, a day I always celebrated my mother in a special way and thank God for saving her life some years ago as she was giving birth to me. Providentially, she is with God now, and I am sure God will throw a party for her today. Kindly join me in praying that this vision of mine for her will be real. May her soul rest in peace....
⏰Friday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 1 (17 Nov. 2023 – Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary) 📖Wis 7:22 – 8:1; Ps 119:89, 90, 91, 130, 135, 175 (R.v.89a); Luke 17:20-25 🎤THERE IS GOD! Do you still have any doubts, either by your actions or in your mind or even manner of speech, that there is God? Funny question, abi? OK. Let’s see how funny it is. There are different ways to doubt the existence of God:👉That time I was in a big trouble and decided to seek solutions in the house of witch doctors, or give out...
⏰Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time 2 (22 Aug. 2023 – Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 📖Judges 6:11-24; Ps 85:9, 11-12, 13-14 (R.v.9b); Matt 19:23-30 🎤”I WILL BE WITH YOU… DO NOT FEAR, YOU SHALL NOT DIE” (Judges 6:16, 23) Beloved in Christ, in the Queenship of Mary, we celebrate her privileged connection with Jesus who is the King of Kings. Such honour is not an invention of man but a setting by God whose angel delivered the message to Mary, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God” (Luke...
⏰Friday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (23 June 2023) 📖2 Cor 11:18, 21b-30; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 (R.v.18b); Matt 6:19-23 🎤”LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN” (Matt 6:20) In our world that is bedeviled by quest for consumerism and vain glory, the message of Jesus in Matt 6:19-23 makes an important meaning to us. What is the goal of my worship to God? Is it for the glory of God or for my own glory? Like Jesus who encouraged us to seek eternal treasure, St Paul reminds us in 2 Cor 11:18-30 of the importance of...
