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Today the holy mother church celebrates the feast of The conversion of St Paul who became an apostle to the Gentile nations. Paul testified how he first opposed the Gospel and persecuted Christians, but was converted when Jesus Christ appeared to him on the road to Damascus (Acts 22:3-16). Paul's encounter with the person of Christ radically changed his life and opened his eyes to the truth of the Gospel. Benedict XVI reflects on the significance of Paul's conversion for the whole Christian people: "Paul's conversion matured in his encounter with the Risen Christ; it was this encounter that radically changed his life. What happened to him on the road to Damascus is what Jesus asks in today's Gospel: Saul is converted because, thanks to the divine light, "he has believed in the Gospel". In this consists his and our conversion: in believing in Jesus dead and risen and in opening to the illumination of his divine grace. In that moment Saul understood that ...

I saw this on Facebook and I feel you should read it.  Though it had been edited to convey the message I wish to share with you because we shall all die one day. Vanity upon vanity, everything is vanity says the bible. The human body after death. *3 days after death, finger nails begin to fall; *4 days after death, hairs breaks out of the skull and all body hairs fall; *5 days after death, the brain starts to sag, the flesh fades, the buttock, breast, penis, Vagina, will decay (those things that normally drives u into sin, hmmm) *6 days after death, the skin begins to noircir and gradually detach from the bones; *7 days after death, the belly melts and radiates a strong odour beginning with a gaping mouth and a genital organ appealing the marauders; *60 days after death, the whole human body is reduced to nothing bones; -So therefore; Why too much pride? Why too much selfishness? Why too much hate? Why too much jealousy? Why too much evil deeds? Man is a dust and m...

I saw this on Facebook and I feel you should read it however it had been edited. Vanity upon vanity, everything is vanity says the bible. All must die hence let's discuss what happens to the cherished body. What I called the bitter Truth The human body after death. *do you that 3 days after death, finger nails begin to fall; *4 days after death, hairs breaks out of the skull and all body hairs fall; *5 days after death, the brain starts to sag, the flesh fades, the buttock, breast, penis, Vagina, will decay (those things that normally drives u into sin, hmmm) *6 days after death, the skin begins to noircir and gradually detach from the bones; *7 days after death, the belly melts and radiates a strong odour beginning with a gaping mouth and a genital organ appealing the marauders; *60 days after death, the whole human body is reduced to nothing bones; -So therefore; Why too much pride? Why too much selfishness? Why too much hate? Why too much jealousy? Why too much ev...

A SUMMARY ON THE COUNCIL OF TRENT INTRODUCTION It is necessary we give a brief antecedent that led to the council of Trent.  Meanwhile, on March 1517, the fifth council of the Lateran came to a close with the stated reform proposal that ranges from the “selection of bishop’s reform of the church, schism of the cardinals, the problem of pragmatic sanction by which French demanded recognition of the robber council of Basel, taxation censorship to preaching. The council of Trent was called by Julius III. It took place in the palace of Lateran and lasted for five full years, ending in the year of revolt by Martin Luther. This will lead to the council of Trent. The council of Trent was convoked by Pope Paul III and it took place in Trent and Bologna between the years of 1545 and 1563. This council was basically one of the most paramount cum crucial ecumenical councils. It could be said that that the immediate cause of the calling of the council of Trent was as a result of Luther and ...

Reflection for 2nd November, 2017. Wisdom 3:1-9. Psalm 23:1-6. Romans 6:3-9. John 6:37-40. The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls). Having remembered yesterday our brothers and sisters who already enjoy God's life and happiness in full in heaven, we remember today those who may still need to be purified of their sins. Those already in heaven, those still being purified and we on earth form the large Christian family. For Vatican II says: "When the Lord comes in his majesty, and all the angels with him, death will be destroyed and all things will be subject to him. Meanwhile some of his disciples are exiles on earth. Some have finished with this life and are being purified. Others are in glory, beholding clearly God himself true and one, as he is" (Lumen Gentium, no. 49). The Church therefore is composed of those in heaven, those in purgatory and those on earth. Those in heaven, all saints; those in purgatory, all souls, and those on earth, people of all...

DIGITAL SAINTS How can we become Saints in this contemporary society, where materialism, relativism, selfism, consumerism and all the ‘ism’s, have become the skeletal mode where we glued our societal model. God is no longer the algorithm, many schools of thought had re-formed our natural spirituality, and People no longer want things at Gods time everyone wants to be digital. Do you know that presently in Europe, even in other parts of the world many students no longer use paper and pen, everything is computerized? “The digital age” they call it. Students go to school with their lap-tops, high pads and flash drives. whenever the lecturer finished lecture the students goes to the digital board to copy the lecture even those who could not attend the lecture can have both video and audio of the lecture from the digital board, to read from books is longer a priority because you can Google anything. Father Paul was telling us the other day that some liberalists in United States are clamor...

JOHN PAUL II, ECCLESIA IN AFRICA, 14TH SEPTEMBER 1995 INTRODUCTION The synod of bishops on the church in Africa held in Rome acknowledges the pride and place of the family in the society and the church. In his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesial in Africa, (1995), the Holy Father from Familiaris Consortio #75 holds that; “The future of the world and of the Church passes through the family (and that) not only is the Christian family the first cell of the living Ecclesial community, it is also the fundamental cell of the society.” Central to this document is the African family, which the document cautions that though she tries to adopt positive values of modernity, she must preserve her own essential values. The document thus admits that in trying to build the Church as a family, such is truly proper to the African culture, because such values as care for others, solidarity, warmth in human relationships, acceptance, dialogue, trust and sharing which characterize the family o...

THEOLOGICAL CUM PHILOSOPHICAL BASES OF THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES Introduction A careful and critical reading of this introduction immediately offers the reader an idea of the philosophical foundation of the Theological virtues. In man to man relationships, the life of a good man will be characterized by the practice of the four classical virtues: temperance, courage (or fortitude), justice, and above all wisdom or prudence that refined ability to judge correctly what is right to know and do. This much can be developed by natural and reasonable man, quite apart from revelation and faith. In all this Thomas does little more than reproduce Aristotle. God endows man, through Christian revelation and the church with its sacraments, with the added gift of the three theological virtues, faith, hope and love, which direct man to God Himself, and which therefore crown the four natural virtues. Aquinas’ moral theory is a relatively unimaginative appropriation of the Aristotelian theory of vi...

AFRICAN THEOLOGY IN ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT African theology, or what some people call African Christian theology, could be explained as that theology which reflects on the gospel, the Christian tradition, and the total African reality in an African manner and from the particular perspectives of the African world-view. The task of Bujo’s African Theology is to bring together the fundamentals of Christian faith and the African traditions, to make the Africans feel more at home, to do this; he considered the theology of the Ancestors as a starting point for new Christology and Ecclesiology. Benezet Bujo is of the view that African theology has to be renewed. His criticisms, in pursuit of a renewed African theology, come along two headings, namely theology and African tradition and inculturation and theology of liberation. According to him, any theologian who wishes to construct an African theology must take the basic elements of the African tradition and interpret them in the light of the...

OUTLINE Introduction What is Kerygma The composition of the writing gospels The relationship between the oral tradition and the composition of the written gospel The circumstances that led to the composition and circulation of the synoptic Conclusion INTRODUCTION The Gospels first existed in the oral tradition. The person of Jesus Christ, His life- words and deeds constitute the Gospel. After the ascension of Jesus the people started talking about him and of the events relating to his death and resurrection. These became the first “good news” to be announced. During this time, the Kerygma was on the fact that Jesus Came, lived, suffered, died, resurrected for our sake and that he will come again. What then led to the composition of the writing gospel is there any relationship between the writing gospel and the oral teaching? Why some are referred to as synoptic what led to this? KERYGMA The word Kerygma is from a Greek word, “Khrigma” meaning proclamation (khrigma from verb...