Reparation

10-30-2022Weekly ReflectionFr. Anthony Okolo, C.S.Sp, V.F.

The first reading from the book of Wisdom tells how God overlooks our sins that we may repent. In the book of Ezekiel 18:23, “Have I any pleasure in the death of wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live.” The book of Wisdom treats a wide range of topics like judgment, persecution, the virtue of wisdom and eternal life. However, today’s passage asserts that God’s creation is all good for if He hated a thing He would not have created it. As the book of Genesis says, after each creation God saw that it was very good.

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Right Attitude to Prayer

10-23-2022Weekly ReflectionFr. Anthony Okolo, C.S.Sp, V.F.

Last Sunday’s liturgy presented us with the importance of prayer and the need to persevere in prayer. In today’s gospel reading we are presented with the right attitude to prayer and the nature our prayer should take. This is seen in the parable Jesus gave of two men, a Pharisee and a tax collector who went up to the temple to pray.

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Raise Your Hand In Persistent Prayer to God

10-16-2022Weekly ReflectionFr. Anthony Okolo, C.S.Sp, V.F.

The liturgy of today invites us to reflect on the enormous power of prayer to accomplish results and change events and situations that seem impossible. We are to persevere in prayer especially when it appears God is silent or delays in getting answers to our prayer.

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Gratitude and Leprosy of Our Day

10-09-2022Weekly ReflectionFr. Anthony Okolo, C.S.Sp, V.F.

Today’s liturgy calls our attention to the virtue of thanksgiving or gratitude and how it should be expressed. It is important to state that Our Eucharistic celebration of the Mass is our highest expression of our thanksgiving and gratitude for what God has done for us and that is why attending Mass every Sunday should be a priority.

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Faith Key to Removing Obstacles and Difficulties

10-02-2022Weekly ReflectionFr. Anthony Okolo, C.S.Sp, V.F.

The Liturgy of today presents us with the issue of faith. In the first reading from the Prophet Habakkuk, it says “the righteous shall live by faith” while in the Gospel the apostles asked the Lord to increase their faith. And in response Jesus told them “if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you can say to this mulberry tree be rooted up, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you.”

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