Exodus 22:21-27; Ps. 18; 1Thess.1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 We have four homily notes here; please scroll down the page and be blessed. Do have a lovely week ahead! ****************** Fr. Evaristus Okeke:Love is all-encompassing Fr. Udochukwu Ibekwe: The Mark of Christianity Fr. Paul Oredipe: Love of God and Neighbour as Yourself Fr. Daniel Evbotokhai: The Greatest […]
Monthly Archives: October 2020
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Ephesians 4:7-16; Psalm 122; Luke 13:1-9 Paul tells us that we all have our various roles in the Body of Christ. Each person’s role is different but ultimately each is for the spreading of the Good News. Therefore, we must do all we can to fulfil that role deligently. We easily neatpick people’s weak […]
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Fr. Daniel Evbotokhai Introduction Customarily, women gain their greatest joy and sense of accomplishment from being wives and mothers. They have always appreciated their mandate from God without contest and with all submissiveness. In recent years this drive has been weakened by feminist movement that has perfectly influenced many women to neglect these divinely ordained […]
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EPHESIANS 4:1-6; PSALM 23; LUKE 12:54-59 In the first reading Paul says we all form the Body of Christ and so he invites us to build up this body through selflessness, charity patience and faith in God. On the other hand, Jesus said to the Pharisees in the Gospel “You hypocrites! You know how to […]
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Ephesians 3:14-21; Psalm 33; Luke 12:49-53 Jesus says in today’s gospel reading that he has come to cast fire upon the earth and would that it was already kindled. Again, he said he has not come to bring peace but division. By popular consensus, this is unlike Jesus. From the Scripture Jesus is a […]
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Ephesians 3:2-12; Psalm – Isaiah 12; Luke 12:39-48 The grace of God is meant for all peoples – be they Jew, Gentile or pagan. Grace is an unmerited favour, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature […]
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Ephesians 2:12-22; Psalm 85; Luke 12:35-38 In the Gospel, Jesus speaks of his coming as a time of joy and celebration, not of fear and trembling. The Church affirms this joyful expectation in the second part of the Lord’s Prayer during the Eucharistic celebration when the priest says “…As we await the blessed hope and […]
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EPHESIANS 2:1-10; PSALM 100; LUKE 12:13-21 Today’s gospel reading presents us with “The Parable of the Rich Fool”. This title sounds funny, how can one be rich and at the same time a fool. Anyway in business parlance the man was wise enough to build bigger storage. After all, his harvest was rich. But how […]
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ISAIAH 2:1-5; PS. 98; 1TIM.2:1-8; MATTHEW 28:16-20 Fr. Evaristus Okeke: We are sent to One Another Fr. Daniel Evbotokhai: Whom shall I send? Fr. Paul Oredipe: “GIVE TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD’S” (Mt. 22:21) Fr. Evaristus Okeke: We are sent to One Another The pattern with which Jesus evangelized during his earthly ministry […]
Weekday Homily
HOMILY FOR SATURDAY, 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (Memorial of St Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr)
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EPHESIANS 1:15-23; PSALM 8; LUKE 12:8-12 The Spirit currently convicts the unsaved world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). To resist that conviction and willfully remain unrepentant is to “blaspheme” the Spirit. Jesus says “whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” To blaspheme is to speak with disrespect about God. Blasphemy is […]