ETERNAL WORD OF LIFE MINISTRY (EWLM)

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Like St. Mark, we've been charged to go into the world and preach the Gospel. By this mandate we're called to go forth working for the salvation of souls, the transformation of the society, and the conversion of all people. This mandate, when faithfully followed, bring about the manifestation of great and mighty miracles accompanying our faithful discharge of the Divine ma...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. St. Paul warns us in his Letter to the Philippians (3:18-19); "for, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as the enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things". Today's message warns us to take this Pauline admonition serious...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Haven experienced the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, we're charged with the mandate of being His witnesses in our world of today. Our way of life must, of necessity, bear witness to the fact of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Through baptism, we've died with Christ to sin and risen with Him in righteousness. We must, therefore, endeavo...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. As stewards and in imitation of Jesus Christ we're called to the service to God and humanity to minister at the table of the sacraments and of the Word as well as serving the needs of God's people. As stewards, we shall give an account of our stewardship at the end of time. This call to service therefore requires of us high level integrity and the pursuit of holiness in th...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Any project initiated by God or in which God is involved must turn out successful. Though there may be oppositions, challenges and barriers, every Divine project would always succeed. Every child of God and every project started in God, in line with God's will and guided by God must succeed. As God's children we are Divine projects. We're called to trust and obey God unres...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Just as in the case of the early Christian community, true Christian living will always come with different forms of oppositions, persecutions and trials. Nevertheless, in the midst of all these, we must remain resolute and resilient in obeying God rather than succumb to the pressures due to oppositions, persecutions and trials. God will always come through for us, for He'...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. We're made members of the kingdom of God in order to advance the course of the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ came not to condenm the world but to give up his life as a ransom in order to save humanity. Once saved by Him, we're given the mandate to live as His witnesses in saving others. Christ Jesus as our Saviour is our model and as the first born son of God He's our guide...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The early Christian community was described in these terms: "the whole group of believers was united, heart and soul; no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned was held in common" cf. Acts 4:32). Can today Christian community be described in similar terms? Are we not seeing high-level division and hatred? Are we bearing witness to this C...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The call to discipleship of Christ Jesus demands that one be born again; such a one must be circumcised at heart and not just going through a particular ritual just for the sake of the ceremony. This requires us to become christ-like in our way of life since being born again configures us to the person of Christ, the first born son of God. Consequently, we're henceforth to...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. It's better to obey God than obey men; this was the response of the apostles to the Jewish elders and leaders after being flogged and warned never to preach in the name of Jesus Christ. Beloved child of God, persecutions, afflictions, threats, trials and challenges are opportuned moments to assert and affirm our belief and faith in God. We must, if we truly are the childre...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Beloved child of God, human beings may be able to influence the course of your life to an extent, the ultimate determinant of the course of your life is you and God. God, the architect of your life and destiny can actually turn you, the stone rejected by the builders, into a cornerstone provided you remain in full communion with God. Therefore, go all out doing good and li...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Jesus Christ is indeed alive and because He lives we can face tomorrow. He is the reason we're alive and in Him we live and move and have our being. If the humiliation, crucifixion and grave did not end the existence of Jesus Christ, whatever you're going through today, no matter how depressing, despairing or humiliating it may be, will not see your end. You'll live to see...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The early Christians encountered personally and realistically Jesus Christ as the risen Lord. This avail them the privilege of experiencing the power of the resurrected Lord. This in turn led to their manifestation of the resurrection power characterised by the Apostolic courage with which they bore witness to Jesus Christ despite being persecuted, the great signs that acc...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The realistic realisation of not being on the right path of life usually leads a sober, remorseful and repentant sinner who has resolved not to continue in sin to ask the question: What must I do? The same question generally rises in the heart of the upright who has continually suffered experiences that make him/her feel his/her hope dashed. Whatever the case may be, God a...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The true personal experience of the Risen Lord ends every form of fear and gives the boldness and courage to present Jesus Christ to the world by our word and deed. The Christians of the post resurrection era must rise to work for having the course of the world and humanity guided by Divine Principles rather than mere human principles that are opposed to Divine Principles....

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. At this vigil, we await and subsequently experience the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ affirms that God is ever faithful and able to keep his promises. Thus, we're invited to place all our hope in God, trusting in the fulfilment of His promises and persisting in righteousness. Through the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, death...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Jesus, the Christ, though God, took our human nature in order to save us. In Him, the sinless was made guilty in order to save the sinful and the condemned. He became cursed that we, the accursed, may become the blessed of God. He was rejected by men that we may be accepted by God as God's own children. He, the innocent, was condemned that we, the guilty, may be acquitted...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. The passover marked literally the end of the stay of the Israelites in Egypt and the beginning of their Exodus out of Egypt. It marked the beginning of the holistic liberation of the Israelites from Egypt; the land of slavery, poverty, hard labour, oppression, afflictions and alienation from God. It marked the beginning of their restoration. God saves His people with His m...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. God is faithful, and He will always vindicate the just. He will never watch the upright put to shame. For the children of God, the journey through life may not be without challenges, trials and afflictions, God will always come through for them rather than watch them put to shame. Fear not nor be dismayed. God will never watch you put to shame nor abandon you to defeat if...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Living your life doing the will of God makes you a vessel of God's glory. Every vessel/instrument of God does not only carry the glory of God but manifests God's glory and shares in God's glory. Like Jesus Christ, if you live like a true child of God, God is glorified in you and God in turn glorifies you. This is because as a bearer of God's glory through whom God's glory...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. In today's Gospel, Jesus tells Judas; "the poor you always have with you, but you do not have me always" (cf. Jn. 12:8). We must always take advantage of every moment of our life to serve God through Jesus Christ and our fellow human beings with the highest level of reverence, devotion, loyalty, submissiveness and love. This is because we may not always have the opportunit...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Jesus died to save you. You're called today to live serving Him fervently for the rest of your life; a service you're to render to Him by serving others in a bid to secure their holistic salvation. He entered Jerusalem today triumphant to fulfil His destiny, led away to Calvary in humiliation to die the shameful death of the cross, yet arose from the dead victorious in ord...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Scripture relates that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (cf. Rom. 3:23) and that the wages of sin is death (cf. Rom. 6:23). Hence, like the Israelites of old, we're condemned by God, rejected by Him and doomed for eternal damnation as a result of our sins. Nevertheless, in His never ending compassion, mercy and love He came in our human nature in the pe...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Just as crops compete with the weeds for soil nutrients and sunlight so too, once the Word of God is planted in us, the enemy plants weeds to compete with and possibly suppress the Word of God so it doesn't bear fruits. Nevertheless, our consistency in living out the Word of God in virtue makes us overcome all forms of opposition of weeds aimed at suppressing, suffocating...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. It's not enough to be a member of a covenant. One must be a faithful adherent to enjoy the fullness of the benefits of the said covenant. Here is the point Jesus Christ wanted communicating to His Jewish audience in the Gospel passage of today. As the children of God and members of the new covenant establish in the blood of Jesus Christ, just as we have the right to enjoy...