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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
Continue your efforts to contribute to a revival of faith in, and love for, the Holy Eucharist, Pope Francis insists as he thanks American members of the Committee preparing for the forthcoming National Eucharistic Congress in the United States. By Deborah Castellano Lubov “I encourage you to continue your efforts to contribute to a revival
Dearest friends, an ordinary but a seemingly common understanding of who a father is, is simply, he who is directly involved in the biological bringing into the world a child/children. Not only that people seem to have only the above as the understanding of who a father is, but also, those who are fathers, more
Dearest friends, it is always easier to accept that the HARVEST is plentiful but what is quite difficult to understand is what makes the LABOURERS FEW. The HARVEST in the above stands for ‘the people of God who need to be taken care of spiritually and otherwise, such that the salvation promised by God may
Dearest friends, the Heart of Mary has been fittingly identified as IMMACULATE; which is a level of PURITY that cannot be equalled. This Immaculate Heart of Mary is so CLOSELY UNITED with the Sacred Heart of Jesus such that the two cannot possibly be separated from each other. Thus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary earnestly
Dearest friends, the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus concretely draws our attention to the AMAZING LOVE of Jesus Christ for us all. It is a love that is so SINCERE, SACRIFICIAL and ALL-EMBRACING. Indeed, a MODEL of every true love. This love of Jesus is symbolized with the heart that is crowned
Dearest friends, you and I are really privileged to always be among the invited guests at this Heavenly Feast – THE HOLY MASS. But do our attitudes and dispositions always show that we are sincerely grateful to God for allowing us to always be part of such a gathering and sharing the same table with
Dearest friends, it is true that sometimes, a number of Catholics deliberately omit Holy Mass on SUNDAYS and even on other Holy Days HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION: How many are they?without knowing that it is a GRAVE SIN that requires repentance and sacramental CONFESSION. Now, for a sin to be GRAVE/MORTAL, there must be 3
Dearest friends, a number of Catholics who have been hearing about Holy Days of Obligation since childhood may not have been able to know more about such Holy Days. Now, Holy Days of Obligation are those Days which are NOT Sundays but are meant to be treated as Sundays because of the DEEP MYSTERIES that HONOUR
Rev. Fr. David Okolie Dearest friends, do you really think that the ROSARY is simply a repetition of words; and perhaps has no EFFICACY? Well, I humbly wish to tell you otherwise today. The ROSARY is actually very efficacious. Down the history of the Church, God has done great miracles through the ROSARY such that
Today, 9th June, 2023, at Abuja, The National Universities Commission (NUC) which is a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), in charge of promoting quality education in Nigeria, handed the Provisional license-to-operate, to the proprietors of the newly approved 36 Universities. The Registered Trustee of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Archbishop Valerian