PREPARING OUR FOR THE LORD’S COMING BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP 1st Reading: Bar 5:1-9; Psalm: 126. R. v.3; 2nd Reading: Phil 1:4-6. 8-11; Gospel: Lk 3:1-6 One Night, 4 college students were playing till late night and could not study for the test which was scheduled for the next day. In the … [Read more…]
SLOW DOWN AND UTILISE THE ADVENT SEASON BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP 1st Reading: Jer 33:14-16; Psalm: 25. R. v. 1; 2nd Reading: 1Thes 3:12-4:2; Gospel: Lk 21:25-28. 34-36 We are in a world of speed. Things are happening so fast like the speed of light. A kind of speed too attractive … [Read more…]
BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP Hear the argument between a: Catholic Priest [CP] and a Sceptical Christian [SC] SC: Fr, infants shouldn’t be baptised because they have not attained the age of reason. Children should attain the age of reason first, and then decide if they want baptism or not. The Church needs … [Read more…]
BY FR VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP A woman came to me and asked: Fr, if Jesus was the Son of God and had no sin, why would he go to John to be baptised in the River Jordon? How can you explain the difference between the baptism of John and the baptism we celebrate today … [Read more…]
BY VALENTINE NNAMDI EGBUONU, MSP You may have found yourself in a discourse circle where you felt downrightly isolated not basically by the social interaction, but precisely by intellectual gap. You felt completely cut off from the entire discourse not because what was discussed was unintelligible or unknowable, but because you lacked the … [Read more…]
Historical document: Pontius Pilate’s Letter to Tiberius Caesar verifying his sympathy for Jesus Christ and exposing the treachery of the Jews. (From The Archko Volume, or The Archeological Writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmuds of the Jews, entered into the Congressional Record in the year 1887. Republished in 1975 by Keats Publishing Inc., 27 Pine … [Read more…]
