A PAPER PRESENTED BY REV. FR. DANIEL EVBOTOKHAI AT THE SEMINARY OF ALL SAINTS, UHIELE, EKPOMA ON THE OCCASION OF HER MISSION WEEK CELEBRATION OCTOBER 15TH, 2020 Introduction The topic at hand, calls us to reflect on evangelization alongside the present pandemic COVID-19. Evangelization is the primary mandate of the Church. The Church has always […]
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THE EUCHARIST The Eucharist also called Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper. According to the New Testament, the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ during his Last Supper; giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to “do this in memory of me” while referring to the bread as […]
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Fr. Daniel Ogunsanya Anointing of the Sick is a sacrament of the Catholic Church that is administered to a Catholic “who, having reached the age of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age”, except in the case of those who “persevere obstinately in manifest grave sin”. Proximate danger of death, the occasion […]
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JOHN OGRAH Introduction The topic ‘purity in a morally perverse world: the seminarian in a juggled state’, is particularly timely and I believe it should occupy an important place in our formation dossier. After all, affective education is inseparably linked with the other areas of priestly formation: intellectual, spiritual, and pastoral. As the phrase ‘juggled’ […]
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Saint Padre Pio was an Italian priest who was known for is adoration of charity and love for the people around him. He bore the wounds of Christ, which is still something that cannot be explained. Francesco Forgione was born May 25th, 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy. He was the son of peasant farmers Grazio Mario Forgione […]
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The tradition that Jesus fell three times beneath the weight of the Cross evokes the fall of Adam, the state of fallen humanity and the mystery of Jesus’ own sharing in our fall. In his First Letter, St. John speaks of a threefold fall: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the […]
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ISAIAH 49:15 “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will never forsake you.” To forsake something or someone means to renounce or entirely turn away from it. It includes to be deserted, to forget, abandoned or to […]
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Does Augustine Still Matter? What does Augustine mean to us now? What is there about his life and work that still speaks to the Christian life today, and to what extent are his thoughts original to him? Was he merely repeating what had gone before, or did he strike out on new pathways that have […]
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************ The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”), Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion just as it forbids murder. “You shall not kill the […]
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“We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.” Father Frank Pavone The Bible clearly teaches that abortion is wrong. This teaching comes across in many ways and for many reasons. Some people point out that the word “abortion” is not in the […]