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Advent / First Week / Sundays / Year B

COME LORD JESUS

FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR B Isa 63:16d-17, 64:1, 3b-8; Ps 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16a, 18-19 (R.v.4); 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mark 13:33-37 It is the first day of the Church’s Liturgical Year, and I say happy new year to you. My prayer is that in this new liturgical year, our spiritual strength would be more strengthened and we be more prepared to meet Christ any time he calls us to come back to him. Amen. We also call this Sunday, the First Sunday of Advent. It is a period of waiting for the coming of the Lord. The prophet Isaiah...

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Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU

⏰Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (18 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 9:1-4, 17-19, 10:1a; Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 (R.v.2a); Mark 2:13-17 🎤”LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU” (John 13:34) May the peace of Christ be with you my dear friend. Hope your week has been going well. May God’s name be praised both now and forever and may he perfect all that concerns you through Christ our Lord. Amen. There is this beautiful inscription I saw on the wall where a crucifix is placed in the sanctuary of one Church. It reads, “This I...

Advent / First Week / Weekdays

“THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; THERE IS NOTHING I SHALL WANT” (Ps 23:1)

⏰Wednesday of the First Week of Advent (06 Dec. 2017) ????Isa 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 (R.v.6cd); Matt 15:29-37 My dear, our journey of hope continues with the prophet Isaiah in a setting on the mountain of God (cf. Isa 25:6-10). Remember that the mountain is a place of encounter with God. Isaiah gives us a picture of what comes out of that encounter: our hunger is satisfied, our thirst quenched, and our tears wiped away. Does that not fit into the attitude of the Shepherd as the psalmist depicts in Psalm 23? Notice that the psalmist stated from...

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Lent / Weekdays

SING AND SHOUT FOR JOY…GREAT IN YOUR MIDST IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL

⏰Monday of the Third Week of Lent (29 February 2016) ?2 Kgs 5:1-15a; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 (R. Ps 42:3); Luke 4:24-30 ✍Rev. Fr. JohnBosco Chimaobi Ezeonwumelu (Issele-Uku Diocese) ?”SING AND SHOUT FOR JOY…GREAT IN YOUR MIDST IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL” (Isa 12:6) My dear, it is a new working week. I don’t know what are your goals and targets this week or what might be posing serious threats to the actualisation of your goals. Do not be afraid! Look around you and see that great around you is the Holy One of Israel. Once you plan...

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Lent / Sundays / Year C

PUT OFF YOUR SHOES FROM YOUR FEET

⏱THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR C) ?Exod 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8 and 11 (R.v.8a); 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9 ?”PUT OFF YOUR SHOES FROM YOUR FEET” (Exod 3:5) I welcome you this third Sunday of Lent. The Liturgy of last Sunday helped us to construct an image of Jesus as the chosen messiah, but one who is to undergo suffering. Today, the same Liturgy tries to help us follow him up to the mountain where we shall be transfigured with him.?? The mountain is a place of encounter with God. In the First Reading, Moses found...

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Lent / Weekdays

GOD OF MERCY AND COMPASSION…

⏰Saturday of the Second Week of Lent (27 February 2016) ?Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 (R.v.8a); Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 ✍Rev. Fr. JohnBosco Chimaobi Ezeonwumelu (Issele-Uku Diocese) ?GOD OF MERCY AND COMPASSION… The prayer of the prophet Micah in Mic 7:14-20 reminds us of the great and limitless mercy of God upon his children. He is ever ready to forgive the sins of his children, as he was in the beginning, so he is now, and ever will be. Amen.? Anytime I read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32, I keep pondering on how extravagant...

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Lent / Weekdays

BEWARE OF DREAM KILLERS!

⏰Friday of the Second Week of Lent (26 February 2016) ?Gen 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28; Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21 (R.v.5a); Matt 21:33-43, 45-46 ✍Rev. Fr. JohnBosco Chimaobi Ezeonwumelu (Issele-Uku Diocese) ?BEWARE OF DREAM KILLERS! Can you now see a proof of what the prophet Jeremiah has been telling us since two days ago about putting our trust in God instead of man? Read an account of what happened between Joseph and his brothers in Gen 37. Notice that their hatred for him was because of his dreams (cf. Gen 37:19-20). Beware of those you discuss your dreams and prospects with. Many...

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Lent / Weekdays

WAIT UPON THE LORD!

⏰Thursday of the Second Week of Lent (25 February 2016) ?Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 (R. Ps 40:5ab); Luke 16:19-31 ?WAIT UPON THE LORD! Do you remember the theme we reflected on yesterday? It says, “Many are the afflictions of the just but from them all, the Lord delivers him. The immediacy of that deliverance might be ascertained but it must surely come to pass because the mouth of the Lord has said so (cf. Isa 55:10-11). The prophet Isaiah noted that it shall come to pass, but in the latter days (Isa 2:2). The prophet Habakkuk...

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First Week / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

… APPOINT FOR US A KING TO GOVERN US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS

⏰Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (17 January 2020 – Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot) 📖1 Sam 8:4-7, 10-22a; Ps 89:16-17, 18-19 (R.v.2a); Mark 2:1-12 🎤”… APPOINT FOR US A KING TO GOVERN US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS” (1 Sam 8:5) Social influence is not bad in itself but if it does not take us to our ultimate goal, which is found in the spiritual realm, it would be a scam.? Consider its effects in both 1 Sam 8:1ff and Mark 2:1-12. In the first, the people asked Samuel to appoint a king for them, and...

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Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

“A HUMBLED, CONTRITE HEART YOU WILL NOT SPURN” (Ps 51:17)

⏰Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (16 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 4:1-11; Ps 44:10, 11, 14-15, 24-25 (R.v.27b); Mark 1:40-45 🎤”A HUMBLED, CONTRITE HEART YOU WILL NOT SPURN” (Ps 51:17) The word of God in 2 Chron 7:14 says, “… If my people who bear my name humble themselves, and pray and look for me and turn from their wicked ways, then I myself will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and restore their land.” That exactly was the difference between the Israelites who brought the ark of the covenant into the camp to ginger...