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no fit trade with phone. But, you know whether abi the kind of people wey dey carry big phone?

Na true o, May be that kind phone wey if e fall 4 ground, instead of the phone to scatter na ground go scatter.

@Lawyer

at least my mama go represent me well, she be one of the procession organizers sef, she go use gist finish me when i see am again.

Thank God for big Mama and I pray that God will help us to squeeze out little time out of our busy schedule to serve him. Your quote "My mama go represent me well" reminds me of the Gospel homily on Tuesday by the presiding priest in the mass. He said on that judgement day, we are going to stand alone to give our own account, our brother, sister, mother or father will not be dir to represent us.

I still be small boy o!

Small boy no mustach

Quick teaser, I de find wife o!, But i de fear all this women i de see, ONLY GOD GO HELP ME, lol

(At times teaser no dey bi teaser) Why u go fear when you get the Almighty God, the same God that sent Angel Raphael in the book of TOBIT to Tobias to accompany him to locate his wife. That same God will dispatch his own Angel to locate yours for you in Jesus Name. AMEN.

Today's Saint

St. Cecilia (3rd century)


Although Cecilia is one of the most famous of the Roman martyrs, the familiar stories about her are apparently not founded on authentic material. There is no trace of honor being paid her in early times. A fragmentary inscription of the late fourth century refers to a church named after her, and her feast was celebrated at least in 545.

According to legend, Cecilia was a young Christian of high rank betrothed to a Roman named Valerian. Through her influence Valerian was converted, and was martyred along with his brother. The legend about Cecilia’s death says that after being struck three times on the neck with a sword, she lived for three days, and asked the pope to convert her home into a church.

Since the time of the Renaissance she has usually been portrayed with a viola or a small organ.

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“Liturgical action is given a more noble form when sacred rites are solemnized in song, with the assistance of sacred ministers and the active participation of the people, Choirs must be diligently promoted, but bishops and other pastors must ensure that, whenever the sacred action is to be celebrated with song, the whole body of the faithful may be able to contribute that active participation which is rightfully theirs, Gregorian chant, other things being equal, should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded, Religious singing by the people is to be skillfully fostered, so that in devotions and sacred exercises, as also during liturgical services, the voices of the faithful may ring out” (Constitution on the Liturgy, 112-118).

MEDITATION OF THE DAY
We will follow the covenant of our ancestors (Maccabees 2:15-29)

Mattathias steadfastness and faithfulness to God inspired the whole family. Despite offers of worldly honors such as being identified as "friends of the king" (1 Maccabees 2:18) which conferred special priviledge in the king's court, the right to wear distinctive hats and robes, and guaranteed riches in return for submission to the king's edict-Mathathias remained faithful to the one true God. We can learn from his example. How we live now prepares us for eternity. It is a question of knowing in advance the time and place of judgement, and changing our lives in the light of that knowledge. Rather, we are called to remain faithful to God, despite whatever worldly rewards and esteem we might gain by compromising. And how do we muster the strength to remain faithful? We see a clue through the example of Mattathias: "He was burned with zeal and his heart was stirred" (1 Maccabees2:24). This inner zeal is a work of God in us which grows as we come before him in word and sacrament with hearts seeking to know him. God shows himself to those who seek him and inflames their hearts with a burning love for him. Let us turn our hearts to the heavens and seek God.

PRAYER
"Lord God, show yourself to us. Let us burn with zeal and let our heart be stirred for love of you. In this way, help us to be faithful to you." AMEN

Sure procession is always spirit filled, with different societies in the church coming together, Is either you join the St.Jude society, the sacred heart of Jesus, Charismatics, choir, legion of Mary. Infact the last time I participated, i joined all the societies, if I dance with this one, i will leave i join another.

I remember this song by the sacred Heart of Jesus society, if you like u can join me:

JESUS IS PASSING THIS WAY
THIS WAY, THIS WAY
JESUS IS PASSING THIS WAY
IS PASSING THIS WAY TODAY

What touched so much, was on our way passing through some hospitals some sick ones came out to receive the touch of healing from Jesus who is passing through.

Lawyer are you coming? (I'm using a baritone voice)

@ebos

You see the problem. The so-called Christians have not heard about Mcabbees and the rest. That is why I said they have been brainwashed and handed over twisted bibles. They are yet to realize that what they are using is not complete bible. They only read the gospel and other books but they think Christianity and role model stopped with the Apostles. Limited or half knowledge of Christianity is the cause of katakata, yet they feel knowing it all. The fake Preachers have not told them when they are hiding from them

It's very sad

MEDITATION OF THE DAY
[b]The creator of the world will give you back both breath and life.[b](Maccabees 7:1.20-31)

If we read this whole chapter 7 of Maccabees.  There is this mother of seven sons who watched her 7 sons killed, she is one such example of heroic virtue.  She didn't shrink back when forced to watch the torture and murder of each of her sons successively.  When her youngest son was promised a bright future if he would comply with the demands of his captors, she helped to fortify his resolve to stand by eternal values.  The reservoir of her courage was that she knew God in such a way that she trusted him totally.  This Mother's courage was founded in a deep faith in God, that he was "the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things." She believed too in his mercy and love and that he would give life to those who would "forget (themselves) for the sake of his laws" (2 Maccabees 7:23). In her hear and mind she knew the truth of God and believed he was worthy of complete and total dedication-even to death. Her firm belief in God and his promises led to her actions.


JOURNEY WITH THE SAINTS
My Jesus, how good it is to love you! Let us be as two friends, neither of whom can ever bear to offend the other.  St. John Vianney.

Today's Saint 21.11.07

Feast of the Presentation of Mary

Mary’s presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth century. A church was built there in honor of this mystery. The Eastern Church was more interested in the feast, but it does appear in the West in the 11th century. Although the feast at times disappeared from the calendar, in the 16th century it became a feast of the universal Church.

As with Mary’s birth, we read of Mary’s presentation in the temple only in apocryphal literature. In what is recognized as an unhistorical account, the Protoevangelium of James tells us that Anna and Joachim offered Mary to God in the Temple when she was three years old. This was to carry out a promise made to God when Anna was still childless.

Though it cannot be proven historically, Mary’s presentation has an important theological purpose. It continues the impact of the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of the birth of Mary. It emphasizes that the holiness conferred on Mary from the beginning of her life on earth continued through her early childhood and beyond.

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"Hail, holy throne of God, divine sanctuary, house of glory, jewel most fair, chosen treasure house, and mercy seat for the whole world, heaven showing forth the glory of God. Purest Virgin, worthy of all praise, sanctuary dedicated to God and raised above all human condition, virgin soil, unplowed field, flourishing vine, fountain pouring out waters, virgin bearing a child, mother without knowing man, hidden treasure of innocence, ornament of sanctity, by your most acceptable prayers, strong with the authority of motherhood, to our Lord and God, Creator of all, your Son who was born of you without a father, steer the ship of the Church and bring it to a quiet harbor" (adapted from a homily by St. Germanus on the Presentation of the Mother of God).

@Cgift

whereMacarbycomefromehn?oby?

Cgift i greet u, how u dey.
If you check the complete Bible you will get Mcabbees dir.

@Ebos

As Carlosein will be taking the roll call, you too will be doing the surveillance to ensure Carlosein enter the real people that will participate.  I shall participate and you guys have to put others in prayer at least to have chance that very day.  Chance may be another obstacle.

Thank God for Ebos, i can see the strength returning back.
We know go hear again sey u go attend procession, abi u need loudspeaker?

Lord Jesus Christ the King you are the one that giveth us time to do whatever we want to do unto your own glory, Father i ask that you would touch those who want to give excuse not to attend the procession to remember that you are the one that gave them the time. Please Lord remove every spirit of weakness and laziness and lack of interest in the things of God from us in Jesus name. AMEN


Thank God Viee is back, Viee my hand dey up for u ooo, welcome.  So make we look for Flydyeee, and Gozizi too, even Orobo50CL is no where to be found.
Na where una dey ooooooooooooooooo,

Today's Saint

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769-1852)

Born in Grenoble, France, of a family that was among the new rich, Philippine learned political skills from her father and a love of the poor from her mother. The dominant feature of her temperament was a strong and dauntless will, which became the material—and the battlefield—of her holiness. She entered the convent at 19 without telling her parents and remained despite their opposition. As the French Revolution broke, the convent was closed, and she began taking care of the poor and sick, opened a school for street urchins and risked her life helping priests in the underground.
When the situation cooled, she personally rented her old convent, now a shambles, and tried to revive its religious life. The spirit was gone, and soon there were only four nuns left. They joined the infant Society of the Sacred Heart, whose young superior, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, would be her lifelong friend. In a short time Philippine was a superior and supervisor of the novitiate and a school. But her ambition, since hearing tales of missionary work in Louisiana as a little girl, was to go to America and work among the Indians. At 49, she thought this would be her work. With four nuns, she spent 11 weeks at sea en route to New Orleans, and seven weeks more on the Mississippi to St. Louis. She then met one of the many disappointments of her life. The bishop had no place for them to live and work among Native Americans. Instead, he sent her to what she sadly called "the remotest village in the U.S.," St. Charles, Missouri. With characteristic drive and courage, she founded the first free school for girls west of the Mississippi.

It was a mistake. Though she was as hardy as any of the pioneer women in the wagons rolling west, cold and hunger drove them out—to Florissant, Missouri, where she founded the first Catholic Indian school, adding others in the territory. "In her first decade in America Mother Duchesne suffered practically every hardship the frontier had to offer, except the threat of Indian massacre—poor lodging, shortages of food, drinking water, fuel and money, forest fires and blazing chimneys, the vagaries of the Missouri climate, cramped living quarters and the privation of all privacy, and the crude manners of children reared in rough surroundings and with only the slightest training in courtesy" (Louise Callan, R.S.C.J., Philippine Duchesne).

Finally, at 72, in poor health and retired, she got her lifelong wish. A mission was founded at Sugar Creek, Kansas, among the Potawatomi. She was taken along. Though she could not learn their language, they soon named her "Woman-Who-Prays-Always." While others taught, she prayed. Legend has it that Native American children sneaked behind her as she knelt and sprinkled bits of paper on her habit, and came back hours later to find them undisturbed. She died in 1852 at the age of 83.

Quote“We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self, The truest crosses are those we do not choose ourselves, He who has Jesus has everything.”


JOURNEY WITH THE SAINTS
The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us, The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you. The more you detach yourself from self, the more attached Jesus is to you. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

"Lord Jesus, help us to stand up for our faith and be a witness to you in our daily life. I pray for those who suffer persecution and punishment in other nations for their profession of faith in you. Help all Christains to stand like Eleazar as a model of courage [b](Maccabees 6:18-31)[/b]and nobility in the face of challenges to our faith."

Glory to Jesus!!!
Honour to our blessed Mother Mary

Thank God is 25th this Sunday, i will be able to make it. Carlos get ur pen & paper ready to take d roll call.

Today’s Saint 19.11.07
St. Agnes of Assisi 1197-1253

Agnes was the sister of St. Clare and her first follower. When Agnes left home two weeks after Clare’s departure, their family attempted to bring Agnes back by force. They tried to drag her out of the monastery, but all of a sudden her body became so heavy that several knights could not budge it. Her uncle Monaldo tried to strike her but was temporarily paralyzed. The knights then left Agnes and Clare in peace.

Agnes matched her sister in devotion to prayer and in willingness to endure the strict penances which characterized their lives at San Damiano. In 1221 a group of Benedictine nuns in Monticelli (near Florence) asked to become Poor Clares. St. Francis sent Agnes to become abbess of that monastery. Agnes soon wrote a rather sad letter about how much she missed Clare and the other nuns at San Damiano. After establishing other Poor Clare monasteries in northern Italy, Agnes was recalled to San Damiano in 1253 when Clare was dying.

Agnes followed Clare in death three months later. Agnes was canonized in 1753.

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Charles de Foucald, founder of the Little Brothers and Sisters of Jesus, said: "One must pass through solitude and dwell in it to receive God’s grace. It is there that one empties oneself, that one drives before oneself all that is not God, and that one completely empties this little house of our soul to leave room for God alone. In doing this, do not fear being unfaithful toward creatures. On the contrary, that is the only way for you to serve them effectively" (Raphael Brown, Franciscan Mystic, p. 126).

@Carlos

if taking a count of those who participated in the procession will help, then i am game.

Then u must be ready to see how u can divide yourself and come to all the parish and make the count that is to see if Ebos and others attend.

Lawyer what about you?

Ok, lets see those who will attend, i pray ebos won't dissappoint.

vieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and flyflydeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, where una dey oooooooooo

@Carlos
I know you will b dir, seems u r more serious than Ebos in church activities. So we have to commit Ebos into God's hands asking him to grant him strength and Zeal in serving him seriously.

@Ebos

I wish i will be around to attend the procession.
Ebos you have to shake yourself up and join in the procession if you know you are free. If that crippled fellow with his condition can join in the procession, talk more of you who has complete legs (or are you crippled?) I know you are not.

So shake off those lazy bones and get up to praise, worship, reverence and adore Christ our King on that very special day.

I just pray i will be able to make it, because of the programme i have to attend.

Today’s Saint 16/11/07

St. Margaret of Scotland (1050?-1093)

Margaret of Scotland was a truly liberated woman in the sense that she was free to be herself. For her, that meant freedom to love God and serve others.

Margaret was not Scottish by birth. She was the daughter of Princess Agatha of Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon Prince Edward Atheling. She spent much of her youth in the court of her great-uncle, the English king, Edward the Confessor. Her family fled from William the Conqueror and was shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland. King Malcolm befriended them and was captivated by the beautiful, gracious Margaret. They were married at the castle of Dunfermline in 1070.

Malcolm was good-hearted, but rough and uncultured, as was his country. Because of Malcolm’s love for Margaret, she was able to soften his temper, polish his manners and help him become a virtuous king. He left all domestic affairs to her and often consulted her in state matters.

Margaret tried to improve her adopted country by promoting the arts and education. For religious reform, she instigated synods and was present for the discussions which tried to correct religious abuses common among priests and others, such as simony, usury and incestuous marriages. With her husband, she founded several churches.

Margaret was not only a queen, but a mother. She and Malcolm had six sons and two daughters. Margaret personally supervised their religious instruction and their other studies.

Although she was very much caught up in the affairs of the household and country, she remained detached from the world. Her private life was austere. She had certain times for prayer and reading Scripture. She ate sparingly and slept little in order to have time for devotions. She and Malcolm kept two Lents, one before Easter and one before Christmas. During these times she always rose at midnight for Mass. On the way home she would wash the feet of six poor persons and give them alms. She was always surrounded by beggars in public and never refused them. It is recorded that she never sat down to eat without first feeding nine orphans and 24 adults.

In 1093, King William Rufus made a surprise attack on Alnwick castle. King Malcolm and his oldest son, Edward, were killed. Margaret, already on her deathbed, died four days after her husband.

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"When [Margaret] spoke, her conversation was with the salt of wisdom. When she was silent, her silence was filled with good thoughts. So thoroughly did her outward bearing correspond with the staidness of her character that it seemed as if she has been born the pattern of a virtuous life" (Turgot, St. Margaret's confessor).

Ekele mu unu
Afa otutu mu bu

NWA ADA CHUKWU

save

My parish will be having the feast of Christ the King and also there will be procession.

What about your parish, is it the same in all parish?

heat

why?

@Ebos
Thanks so much for the information i will contact them, but first i hv to get speaker for my system.

Today's Saint 15/11/07

St. Albert the Great (1206-1280)

Albert the Great was a 13th-century German Dominican who influenced decisively the stance of the Church toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam.

Students of philosophy know him as the master of Thomas Aquinas. Albert’s attempt to understand Aristotle’s writings established the climate in which Thomas Aquinas developed his synthesis of Greek wisdom and Christian theology. But Albert deserves recognition on his own merits as a curious, honest and diligent scholar.

He was the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank. He was educated in the liberal arts. Despite fierce family opposition, he entered the Dominican novitiate.

His boundless interests prompted him to write a compendium of all knowledge: natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics and metaphysics. His explanation of learning took 20 years to complete. "Our intention," he said, "is to make all the aforesaid parts of knowledge intelligible to the Latins."

He achieved his goal while serving as an educator at Paris and Cologne, as Dominican provincial and even as bishop of Regensburg for a time. He defended the mendicant orders and preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia.

Albert, a Doctor of the Church, is the patron of scientists and philosophers.

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"There are some who desire knowledge merely for its own sake; and that is shameful curiosity. And there are others who desire to know, in order that they may themselves be known; and that is vanity, disgraceful too. Others again desire knowledge in order to acquire money or preferment by it; that too is a discreditable quest. But there are also some who desire knowledge, that they may build up the souls of others with it; and that is charity. Others, again, desire it that they may themselves be built up thereby; and that is prudence. Of all these types, only the last two put knowledge to the right use" (St. Bernard, Sermon on the Canticle of Canticles).

Gospel

Since you have taken this oath with him and you said you have revoke it. Is it just by words? I'm not sure it has been properly revoked.

I see nothing wrong in a man reading his wife's emails so also the woman reading the man's email if both claim they love each other.

No, nothing like that

Things can go well if u THINK before u do.
Du u beleive in GOD? Turn 2 Him

Yes my dear, turn to God, there is nothing that he cannot do. This is when he needs you to turn to him.

MEDITATION OF THE DAY
Listen, kings, that you may learn what wisdom is.
In order to live by God's wisdom and be pleasing to him, we must remain on a holy course: "They will be made holy who observe holy things in holiness" (Wisdom 6:10). This means seeking to be faithful to all God's ways as we grow in understanding of him through prayer, through reading and hearing divine truths proclaimed in scripture and the liturgy, through just and loving actions toward others.

PRAYER
Holy Spirit, give us the humility to see our need for God, a thirst to seek him more ardently through prayer and scripture, and the ability to overcome our resistance to him. Help us to recognize and accept the responsibilities God has given us and to carry them out with Justice." AMEN

JOURNEY WITH THE SAINTS
He who finds Jesus finds a treasure, better than all other treasures, and he who loses him lost more than all the world. Thomas a Kempis.

b]Today's Saint[/b]

St. Gertrude (1256?-1302)


Gertrude, a Benedictine nun in Helfta (Saxony), was one of the great mystics of the 13th century. Together with her friend and teacher St. Mechtild, she practiced a spirituality called "nuptial mysticism," that is, she came to see herself as the bride of Christ. Her spiritual life was a deep personal union with Jesus and his Sacred Heart, leading her into the very life of the Trinity.

But this was no individualistic piety. Gertrude lived the rhythm of the liturgy, where she found Christ. In the liturgy and Scripture, she found the themes and images to enrich and express her piety. There was no clash between her personal prayer life and the liturgy.

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"Lord, you have granted me your secret friendship by opening the sacred ark of your divinity, your deified heart, to me in so many ways as to be the source of all my happiness; sometimes imparting it freely, sometimes as a special mark of our mutual friendship. You have so often melted my soul with your loving caresses that, if I did not know the abyss of your overflowing condescensions, I should be amazed were I told that even your Blessed Mother had been chosen to receive such extraordinary marks of tenderness and affection" (Adapted from The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude).