First Reading: Tb 3:1-11a.16-17a; Psalm: 25. R. 1; Gospel: Mk 12:18-27 THE REALITY OF HEAVEN AND THE RESURRECTION BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP The Sadducees in the gospel of today presented a very wrong view of heaven as a place where the normal life here on earth continues. From the question they asked Jesus … [Read more…]
First Reading: Tb 2:9-14; Psalm: 112. R. v. 7c; Gospel: Mk 12:13-17 BEWARE OF FLATTERERS BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP “Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man, but truly teach the way of God.” (Mk 12:13). Could the above words have come from the mouth of the Pharisees and … [Read more…]
ST BONIFACE, B.M. (Memorial) Red Boniface was renowned for destroying idols and pagan temples, and building churches on the sites. In Saxony, Boniface encountered a tribe worshiping a Norse deity in the form of a huge oak tree. He walked up to the tree, removed his shirt, took up an axe, and without a word hacked … [Read more…]
First Reading: Ex 34:4b-6.8-9; Psalm: Dn 3 R. v. 52b ; Second Reading: 2Cor 13:11-13; Gospel: Jn 3:16-18 REALISING OUR ONENESS AND EQUALITY IN THE LOVE OF THE TRINITY BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP Every year, whenever we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, many preachers attempt to talk about God as … [Read more…]
SS CHARLES LWANGA AND COMPANIONS, M. (Memorial) Red Charles Lwanga worked in King Kabaka Mwanga’s palace in Uganda, Africa. Charles trained the other workers to be exemplary servants of the king but later pointed them towards Jesus Christ as their saviour. As strong followers of God they prayed constantly even under death threats. Charles Lwanga … [Read more…]
First Reading: Sir 44:1.9-13; Psalm: 149. R. v. 4a; Gospel: Mk 11:11-26 BEARING FRUIT IS NOT SEASONAL BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP The gospel of today is one of the narratives in the scriptures that accentuated the humanness of Jesus. Jesus was hungry and needed something to eat. Then he saw a fig tree … [Read more…]
ST JUSTIN, MARTYR (Memorial) He was born of pagan Greek parents in Samaria around 100AD. He read rhetoric, poetry and history and studied various schools of philosophy. At Ephesus, he was impressed by the steadfastness of the Christian martyrs and converted to Christianity. He opened a school of Christian philosophy and was arrested with the … [Read more…]
THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (Feast) White First Reading: Zep 3:14-18a; Psalm: Is 12. R. v. 6b; Gospel: Lk 1:39-56 MARY OUR MODEL FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP Mary was accorded the greatest honour and privilege given to a Jewish woman as the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. God promised her barren kinswoman … [Read more…]
First Reading: Sir 35:1-12; Psalm: 50. R. 23b; Gospel: Mk 10:28-31 CONSISTENT FOLLOWERSHIP BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP “But many that are first will be last, and the last first.”(Mk 10:31). When we have attained certain level of success, there is that tendency to be complacent. If we wished to grow above our present … [Read more…]
MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH (Memorial) White First Reading: Gen 3:9-15.20; Psalm: 87. R.v. 3; Gospel: Jn 19:25-34 MARY OUR MOTHER BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP The celebration of Mary, Mother of the Church was a memorial inserted into the Roman calendar in 2018 by Pope Francis. It is a memorial celebrated on the … [Read more…]
