Fr Ogundipe Sdv

  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, a special year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Rino Fisichella met with Pope Francis this month to discuss the motto for the jubilee.  Fisichella revealed that the motto approved by the pope “can be summed up in two words: Pilgrims of Hope." The 2025 Jubilee will be the Church’s first ordinary jubilee since St. John Paul II led The Great Jubilee of 2000. The Jubilee of Mercy opened by Pope Francis in 2015 was an extraordinary jubilee. The 2025 Jubilee will include the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. Pilgrims who pass through the door – which is only opened during Jubilee years, ordinarily every 25 years or when a pope

     The People of God ask for a king to be like other nations. (1 Samuel 8:4-7)  The question is, are they ready for the consequences?  We want to be like other Nations, has influenced some Catholics to abandon obedience  to the Holy Father and his Bishops.  We want to be like other nations is making some us to abandon our Catholic faith and her sacred Traditions.  Some are abandoning the Holy Mass for prayer houses; looking for a king who will fight their so called battles.  some of us are abandoning the Sacraments like  Confession for counseling.  We want to be like other nations is making some of us Catholics to stop praying our Rosary and abandoning the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Some of us stopped praying for the Souls in Purgatory; some have even abandoned praying to the Angels and Saints all together. Be slow to ask for a king like other nations, there are consequences  My friends, do not jump off that bridge. It is always a bad idea. Trust in the Lord. For if we obey the Lord, if w