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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
‘Long, winding, repetitious, irrelevant, unprepared homilies are signs of a sick spiritual life of the priest,’ says Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas. ‘Homily abuse can harm souls.’ ADVISE TO PRIESTS. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the province of Pangasinan in the Philippines. Today we make a spiritual journey again to the Upper Room to remember our
The 2022 World Watch List (WWL) released on Wednesday by Open Doors International shows that persecution against Christians continues to rise especially in Asian and African countries and that the COVID 19 pandemic has further exacerbated discrimination. By Lisa Zengarini 2021 recorded a new significant increase of persecutions against Christians across the world, according to
Pope Francis authorizes the conferral of the title Doctor of the Church on Saint Irenaeus, and the promulgation of three Decrees concerning the Heroic Virtues of three people on the path to canonization. By Vatican News staff reporter Pope Francis on Thursday received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the
Behold, the new Provincial Superior of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Nigeria Province, Sr. Ifeoma Arinze DC. She was newly installed on the 18th of January, at Daughters of Charity Provincial house Eleme, Rivers State. Kindly rejoice and pray with us for God’s wisdom and grace of office upon.
On Saturday 22nd January, 2022, history and progress was made again in the Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta as three deacons: Revs Joachim Oladeyinde Olaoye, John Esochukwu Onyinmba and Anthony Benjamin Oluwasina were raised to the presbyteral order by Most Rev. Dr. Peter Olukayode Odetoyinbo at the Divine Mercy Pastoral Centre, Agbamaya, Obada-Oko, Abeokuta. To God
Fr Victor Makinwa Ogunyemi CESACC,CIWA Port Harcourt. I learnt this vocabulary sometime in the year 2018 The vocabulary is “WORSHIPTAINMENT” I took it from the address of Ibadan Provincial Bishops coming out of their communique after their plenary. The bishops of the province strongly advised we should run away from it as worshipers in the
By Rachel Kogi, CSN Media The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has described the late Chief Shepherd of Ilorin Diocese, Most Rev. Paul Adegboyega Olawoore as an amiable personality endowed with many sterling qualities. Speaking in Ilorin during the funeral of Bishop Olawoore, through the Vice President of the CBCN, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru
By Emmanuel Eko, CSN Media The Catholic faithful and parishioners of St. Gabriel Chaplaincy on Monday, 17 January, 2022 gathered at the St. Gabriel Chaplaincy for the one year memorial of late Monsignor Ralph Madu and unveiling of the Monsignor Ralph Okechukwu Madu Foundation.In an address at the programme, the Catholic Bishop of Minna Diocese,
Edited by Fr Lawrence Ogundipe SDV The Catholic Church is an organised Institution that has stood the taste of time. Pope Francis in his wisdom guided by the Holy Spirit already declared 2025 as a Jubilee year with the theme PILGRIMS OF HOPE. As expected, preparations are already underway in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee,
