Author: Valentine Umoh
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TE DEUM (EFIK VERSION) – IMOTORO FI, O OBONG!
Translation by VBA 2020 Afo, O Abasi, Imotoro Fi, Afo O Obong, imifiori (imokworo) Fi; Afo, Nsinsi Ete, kpukpru ererimbot ekpono Fi. Kpukpru mm´Engel, kpupru mm´odudu enyong Cherubim ye Serafin, ekwo una utit ikwo itoro eno Fi: Edisana, Edisana, Edisana, Obong Abasi mme Udim, Enyong y´isong eyoho y´itoro Fo. Mme asian udim mme Apostles, etoro…
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Give them something to eat yourself – Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time of Year A
The hunger in our world today is all too real and painful. But there are other hungers too -hunger for peace and security, hunger for justice, hunger for help and comfort in difficulties and, perhaps the strangest and deepest of all, the hunger for happiness. This invitation is directed to those who hunger and thirst…
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Never be overshadowed by your past – Rule 2 – Basic rules of happy living
Fr. Valentine Umoh write: “Never be overshadowed by your past, leave those thoughts where they belong, in the past. Let the past be past. Sometimes you really need to speak to someone, to open up and to let those thoughts out. That´s one of the healing effects of what Catholics call “the Sacrament of Reconciliation…
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Tell your story – Rule 1 – Basic rules of happy living
The world needs to see the picture you give to it; it is first-hand, authentic, and reliable. A beautiful picture of yourself and your cute smile inspires others. When you are gone, someone else would tell your story, someone else would put up or paint a picture of you, and you do not know which…
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“Priests never live for themselves” – Priestly ordination homily of the Bishop of Jaén
As the Lord’s trustees, priests never live for themselves, nor do they make any distance from the needs of the people … When it is difficult for you to carry on your shoulders the people entrusted to you by the Lord, do not complain so much about what you do or what frustrates you; only…
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Welcoming Christ in others – Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
“the stranger who stands before us comes not simply as an emissary and representative of Christ but of the Father who sent Christ into the world” – Fr. Dumlesi N. Tor (2Kgs 4, 8-11. 14-16; Rom 6, 3-4.8-11; Matt 10, 37-42) If a common thread is to be found between today’s First Reading (2Kgs 4:…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 10.06.2020
“Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?” (1Cor 12:29-30). Greek uses μή as a negative particle to introduce questions expecting a negative answer. Therefore, these rhetorical questions, obviously expecting the answer no, show that there…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 07.06.2020
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” 2Cor 13:14 With the above Trinitarian benediction, the Apostle Paul closes his Second Letter to the Christians in Corinth. Many have been said and written about the doctrine of the Holy Trinity…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 05.06.2020
We are all gifted differently affirms Saint Paul in 1Cor 12: 8-11, 28-30, Rom 12: 6-8 also see Eph 4: 11-16) There is no one who is not gifted but like the parable of the talents in the synoptics it depends on us to develop what’s in us. Gifts and talents when no developed or…
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