Category: Worship

• Homilía para el tercer domingo del tiempo ordinario, 26 de enero de 2020

  “¡Deje tus viejos pecados!” Isaías 9: 1-3, Salmo 26: 1, 4, 13-14, 1 Corintios 1: 10-13, 17, Mateo 4: 12-23 Cuando Jesús comenzó su ministerio público de predicación y curación, Juan el Bautista ya había sido arrestado, poniendo fin a su movimiento religioso. En ese momento, en lugar de volver a Nazaret (En lugar de…

  Valentine Umoh

  January 26, 2020

  Faith, Homily, Worship

  Church, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Motivation

• Homilía del viernes 24 de enero de 2020

  Enviado como sus embajadores 1Samuel 24: 3-21, Salmo 56: 2-4, 6, 11, Marcos 3: 13-19 Al convocar a sus colegas elegidos para una sesión de enseñanza en la ladera de una montaña, Jesús evoca recuerdos de Moisés que subió al Monte Sinaí para recibir la ley de Dios (Ex 19). El mensaje que sus discípulos…

  Valentine Umoh

  January 24, 2020

  Exhortation, Motivational, Faith, Homily, Worship

  Catechesis, Faith, Formation, Motivation

• “I Desire Mercy not Sacrifice…” Catholic Youths as Agents of God’s Mercy in the 21st Century

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  Valentine Umoh

  October 30, 2019

  Educational, Instructional, Basic Rules for Living, Exhortation, Motivational, Faith, Nigeria, Worship, Youths & Formation

  Church, Evangelization, Faith, Forgiveness, Formation, Love, Motivation, Politics, Students, Youths

• The Function of Music in Sacred Worship: The Role of Choristers

    By Valentine Umoh Introduction[1] The experience of encounter with the holy, awe-provoking yet fascinatingly attractive, is known from the history of religions.[2] This experience invites engagement with a transcendent “Holy mystery” or “ground of being” who at once is utterly beyond all created personal beings and is very near (immanent) to them. In both…

  Valentine Umoh

  October 26, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Faith, Missiology, Mission, Theology, Worship, Youths & Formation

  Catholic Theology, Choir, Faith, Music, Sacram musicam, Sacred Liturgy, Students, Truth, Youths

• The Importance of the Sacraments for Christian life: special focus on the Holy Eucharist and Penance

  By Valentine Umoh “A life which is not authentically sacramental, would not be genuinely Christian” Preamble[1] In 2011, as we were eagerly seated ready for our first lecture in Sacramental Theology, the Professor came into the lecture hall and wrote on the board thus: “A life which is not authentically sacramental would not be genuinely…

  Valentine Umoh

  October 26, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Exhortation, Motivational, Faith, Missiology, Mission, Theology, Worship, Youths & Formation

  Church, Dogma, Faith, Forgiveness, Formation, God, Motivation, Truth, Youths

• 5 keys to understanding the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

  BY LILIANA MONTES | ACI Prensa 14.08.2019 4.29PM Every August 15 we celebrate the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to the Heavens. Here are five keys that will help us to better understand this truth about the Catholic faith. 1. You must know what a dogma means A dogma is a truth…

  Valentine Umoh

  August 14, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Faith, Saints, Worship, Youths & Formation

  Catholic Theology, Dogma, Faith, Mariology, Mary

• THE BOOK OF THE PSALMS TEACHES MAN TRUE WORSHIP

  The Book of Psalms is an inspired collection of Hebrew poems intended for use in worship. Inspired compilers put them in their present order for several reasons, including authorship and affinity of ideas. The compilers did not organize them in the order in which the psalmists (hagiographers) wrote them. Each psalm is the expression of…

  Valentine Umoh

  May 31, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Faith, Old Testament Studies, Messianism, Catholic Biblical Studies, Worship