Tag: God
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Homily for Saturday, 10th Week in Ordinary Time
15.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Being truthful and charitable 1Kings 19:19-22, Psalm 16, Matthew 5:27-32 Saint Thomas Aquinas once said: “People could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another… (In justice) as a matter of honor, one person owes it…
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Homily for the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
09.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother Genesis 3:9-15, Psalm 130, 2Corinthians 4:13-5:1, Mark 3:20-35 Today´s readings remind us of the persistent and ever evident problem of evil in our world. Evil in our world is clearly visible in the many…
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Homily for Thursday, 9th Week in Ordinary Time
06.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Love is what we are here for 2Timothy 2:8-15, Psalm 25, Mark 12:28-34 Sometimes, we may be tempted to ask ourselves why there is so much hate in a world that love is preached every day, in every corner, every nook and cranny. Why is there so…
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Homily for Wednesday, 9th Week in Ordinary Time
05.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Is there an afterlife? 2Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12, Psalm 123, Mark 12:18-27 The statement in today´s gospel that in the afterlife, in heaven men and women “neither marry nor are given in marriage” are not aimed to prohibit marriage but to promise that a future with God is…
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Homily for Monday, 9th Week in Ordinary Time
03.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL God´s gifts demand responsibility and accountability 2Peter 1:2-7, Psalm 91, Mark 12:1-12 We begin another day. We begin another week. We give thanks for all his blessings. We give God the glory for all the good things we have received both tangible and intangible. Today´s readings remind…
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Homily for Wednesday, 8th Week in Ordinary Time
29.05.2024 – St Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Self-giving and discipleship 1Peter 1:18-25, Psalm 147, Mark 10:32-45 In Mark´s gospel, Jesus predicts his passion and death three times, and each time, at least one of the disciples just doesn’t get it. (cf. Mk 8:27-33, 9:30-34 and 10:32-34). Today´s gospel reading is located in the context…
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, Year B
25.05.2024 – St Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL The Holy Trinity as core Christian Faith and Model of Community Deut 4, 32-34.39-40, Psalm 32, Rom 8: 14-17, Matt 28:16-20 Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. In the Church we begin every celebration in the name of the Father, and of the Son…
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, Year B
25.05.2024 – St Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL The Holy Trinity as Model of Love, Unity and Community Deut 4, 32-34.39-40, Psalm 32, Rom 8: 14-17, Matt 28:16-20 This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Faith in the Holy Trinity is the core doctrine of the Christian Faith. We believe in…
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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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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…
Fr. Valentine Umoh 