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By Fr Lawrence Ogundipe, SDV INTRODUCTION I was in the Mad Room of Grajos 98.3 FM, media house on January 2nd, 2020 in Lagos to prepare for my Ancient tales series, when the director of programmes came in to announce the need to go on Air immediately for breaking news about “The Covid-19 Pandemic”. The Corona-virus-diseas-2019 is an illness caused by a novel Corona virus severe acute respiratory syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCov), which was first identified amid an outbreak of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The virus was initially reported to the World Health Organization (W.H.O) on December 31, 2019; on January 30, 2020, WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global health emergency. Later on March 11, 2020 it was declared a global pandemic: the beginning of the new normal. At first, we taught the pandemic will be for a short time, but days begin to roll into weeks, weeks rolled into months, the lockdown began to get longer, ...

  I am sharing this article in response to a question from my Friend.  He asked me why is ordinary season of the liturgical calendar called ordinary yet we celebrate the complete liturgy.   The term ordinary in English most often means something that's not special or distinctive, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to parts of the calendar of the Catholic Church that are unimportant. Even though the season of Ordinary Time makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, the fact that Ordinary Time refers to those periods that fall outside of the major liturgical seasons reinforces this impression. Yet Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting. First of all,  What is the Latin root of Ordinary? Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" not because it is common but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the En...

  Edited by Fr Lawrence Ogundipe SDV  The Popes are usually buried in three different coffins the question is why is it so? What is the significance of this tradition? Can it be changed?   The three coffins used for the internment of a Pope are as follows: A cypress coffin. The mortal remains of the Holy Father are placed inside this coffin. A copy of the program from the funeral Mass is placed in the innermost coffin made of cypress, as are bags of silver, gold, and copper coins. The number of coins in each bag equals the number of years of the papacy. The simple wooden coffin made of cypress signifies he is an ordinary human being like everyone else.  The coffin is sealed and wrapped with three silk ribbons before being placed in a lead casket. The picture below is the cypress coffin.  A lead casket -- The lead casket, which is soldered shut, is engraved with the pope's name and dates of his papacy, as well as a skull and crossbones. The lead coffin is mo...