Purifying Word

Confident in Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, we confess and declare, surely we shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.

This is the Purifying Word Sunday Reflection on the readings of the Mass of the Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A.

It is in Jesus that the Human troubled heart is calmed and our lost vision and hope restored. Having lost our way to the Father due to sin, Jesus becomes Our only Way back to the Father and Our Dependable Cornerstone in the journey of life.

Jesus, Our Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his flock (us). What is at the heart of the mystery we celebrate this Sunday is the truth that Jesus is the fulfilment of God's ancient promises to give a Shepherd (Jeremiah 3:15, 23:4 ) and to Shepherd by Himself (Ezekiel 34:1-6, 34:7). However, it is not enough to confess this truth. Hence, this mystery we celebrate invites us to consider very...

This is the Purifying Word Sunday Reflection on the readings of the Mass. Despair makes the heart cold. Hope warms up the heart. However, when Hope is lost and the heart becomes cold, our vision suffers, and in some cases becomes darkened. In that moment the burning warmth of God’s word is required for a restoration. The word prepares and warms up our hearts and softens it for an encounter with th...

Today we celebrate a mystery at the heart of our faith, the truth that we are saved by the Divine Mercy. God is Mercy is His Essence. Since God is above all, his mercy is above and outweighs all thing, including our sins and limitations. However, the recipient of the Divine Mercy is also called to become a channel of the same. To do this we must fix our gaze on the Paschal Mystery where this Mercy...

Today we celebrate a mystery at the heart of our faith, the truth that we are saved by the Divine Mercy. God is Mercy is His Essence. Since God is above all, his mercy is above and outweighs all thing, including our sins and limitations. However, the recipient of the Divine Mercy is also called to become a channel of the same. Find out more as you listen. Happy Divine Mercy Sunday- Jesus, I trust...

Alleluia! The Lord is Risen. Alleluia, Alleluia! Resurrection is what it is all about. It gives us meaning, purpose and hope. To it we are called to witness. It is indeed our power. Jesus is risen. His rising from the dead is also our rising from the dead. His victory over death is also our victory over death. Because he live, we live. HAPPY EASTER CELEBRATION.

HOLY SATURDAY YEAR A How do we make sense of the silence of the Holy Saturday and so be able to enter and embrace it for our own glorious triumph into heaven? The death of the Only Son of God, the death of God has caused the earth to be invaded and enveloped  by  a deafening silence and confusion. Its saviour and creator has died. His side is pierced by a lance and blood and water gushed and was s...

Our Lord Jesus Christ has died. A truth we still can’t comprehend. Yes, we can’t explain it. But we believe it to be true. We are forever grateful to you Lord. Thank you, because your death is my life and my sure Hope.

The Lord's Supper “On the same night that he was to be betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and giving thanks broke it and said, this is my body and this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me’. Until the Lord comes, therefore every time you eat this bread and drink this cup you are proclaiming his death”.   (1 Corinthians 11:24-25). "T...

As Jesus goes up to Jerusalem where he will enter into his passion and be crucified, we are invited to journey with him, laying down our lives for him and not mere garments and palm branches. Find out more and be blessed as you listen.

In this short prayerful reflection, I used the responsorial psalm of this Sunday from psalm 129 (130) as an invitatory to prayer. Here we joined our voices with that of the Psalmist to cry to the Lord, to hear our voice from the many depths of our situations. Find out more. God bless.

Out of the depth I cry to you O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. As we now approach the Easter Festivities, the readings, as it were, point to what really happened in Christ’s, passion, death and resurrection by which he reached the depth of all depths to raise us from our graves so that we may live. Hence, the first reading from Ezekiel 37:12-14 described the situation of God’s people with the image of...

As we draw closer to the Climactic point of our Faith, the celebration of the Easter Festivities, the Church invites us to rejoice because of the milestone we have attained in our Lenten journey, because our salvation is closer than when we first began. That is to say that the celebration of the Event that saved and is saving us is indeed close at hand. Whilst we rejoice, like the blind man in tod...

This is the fourth reflection in a series of Lenten Season Reflections. We first, looked at what Lent really is. Secondly, we reflected on the deep-seated call engraved in our humanity, a call which constantly summons us to the upward calling in Christ, to return and to be one with God. Thirdly, we looked at repentance as a constant response to the deep-seated call. Lastly, we now look at reconcil...

The Water that wells up into Eternal Life). Jesus is the One that gives us the true water that quenches our thirst and restores our hope. Moses struck the rock in the desert and water gushed forth for God’s people. However, whoever drank from that water thirsted again and again and again. It wasn’t meant to satisfy one completely because it was only a prefiguration of the True Living Water from Th...

Giver of the Living Water Jesus is the One that gives us the true water that quenches our thirst and restores our hope. Moses struck the rock in the desert and water gushed forth for God’s people. However, whoever drank from that water thirsted again and again and again. It wasn’t meant to satisfy one completely because it was only a prefiguration of the True Living Water from The Rock of Ages, Je...

This is the third of four reflections in a Series of Lenten Season Reflections. Lent is a season of a deep and intense attentiveness to the divine, deep-seated call to the life of God. Hearing and being open to this Call is the foundation for a true repentance or any other Christian response. However, the Christian repentance isn’t just a change of mind nor simply a feeling guilt for our sins. It...

Jesus is the fulfilment of the ancient hope of Israel, and indeed ours. He is the One we must listen to if we are to become pleasing to God, and thus attain the object of our Hope. Find out more, especially on how this theme ties together this Sunday’s readings. God bless and happy Sunday.

This is the second of four reflections in a Series of Lenten Season Reflections in which I consider the deep-seated call embedded in our creation. The whole of the Christian life is a response to this call, and during the Lenten season, an intense attentiveness to this call is particularly emphasised. This theme becomes the foundation for our next reflection on Repentance next Friday. Find out mor...

Amidst confusion, uncertainties and crippling fears, the knowledge and the conviction of God’s eternal faithfulness shines brightly, restoring strength and hope. Whilst this is specifically for our Lenten journey, I am also aware of the sense of disappointment that many now feel and have concerning what could often appear as a triumph for the unjust in the Land. However, the Christian approach in...

Jesus is the New Adam prefigured by the old Adam through whom sin and death entered our lives. But through Jesus, life and grace entered the world. Having corrected in Himself the wrong of the first, Jesus retraced and opened for us again the gate to eternal life which was closed against us. We are therefore invited to fix our gaze on him and to learn from him who conquered the wiles and the decep...

This is the first of four parts in a Series of Lenten Season reflections which is available every Friday for four weeks starting from this first Friday in Lent. It seeks to lay a simple foundation for the next three parts on ‘The Great Call’, ‘Repentance’ and lastly, ‘Reconciliation’. Stay tuned and remained blessed as you listen. Happy Lenten Journey.

As we begin this Wednesday the Lenten Season, a privileged moment of grace and  and invitation to a deeper conversion and resolve to follow Jesus, Fr Chinedu reflects on the meaning and the call of the season to spiritually journey with Jesus into the desert and wildernesses of our lives to confront and deal with our sins and foes. We are invited to arm ourselves with the weapons of prayers,...