Religious

Images In The New Testament And The Apostolic Era By Benedict Hodubar In our previous discussions on this topic, it was established that every image has a prototype without which an image is both useless and meaningless. It was also made plain that any treatment rendered to an image is simply for its prototype and not for the image. Also ...

By Benedict Hodubar Another impressive sanctified image that is apt to our discussion here is the specification of the second temple of Jerusalem as was shown to prophet Ezekiel. The outward specification treaded awfully on mystifying symbols. “And it was made with cherub and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every ...

Do Catholics Worship Idols? By Benedict Hodubar I am the Lord your God who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make unto yourself ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, ...

By Martin Nchedo Umeatuegbu One of the most famous prayers approved by the Church in honour of St Joseph is entitled _Officia Parvum Sancti Joseph_ (the Little Office of St Joseph). The antiphon of that prayer opens with the solemn words of salutation: *_Salve Patriarcharum decus, et Ecclesiae Sanctae Dei oeconomae, cui Panem vitae et frumentum electorum conservasti_*, which means ...

A paper presented to the Catholic Lectors Association of Nigeria, Awka Diocese (CLANAD) at the Maiden Diocesan Seminar, 29 May 2021, at Archbishop A. K. Obiefuna Retreat, Pastoral, and Conference Centre, Okpuno By Rev. Fr. Michael Muonwe Greetings It is with great pleasure that I announce to you my delight standing before you this day to reflect on the place ...

By Martin Nchedo Umeatuegbu In the Spirit of May Devotion Devotion The Rosary has several characteristics it possesses, and such makes the prayer a great mystery. Among the various meanings it has or contains is that it can be predicated of being mystical. These mystical meanings devoid of being superstitions, cannot but give one a deeper insight to this Marian ...

(IT IS ONLY BY COMING CLOSE TO PEOPLE THAT WE CAN KNOW THEM WELL) MESSAGE OF HIS LORDSHIP, MOST REV PETER EBERE OKPALEKE, THE BISHOP OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF EKWULOBIA (CADEK) ON THE 55THWORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY CELEBRATION, MAY 16, 2021 Rev. and dear Msgrs., Frs., Bros., Srs., and my dear People of God. Sunday, May 16, 2021 was the ...

“Prayer by the Church was fervently being made to God” (cf. Acts 12:5) Let us pray for the end of the pandemic united in the recitation of the Holy Rosary together with the Shrines around the world. INTRODUCTION Pope Francis is requesting that during this month of May the entire Church invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for ...

Come and See” (Jn 1:46). Communicating by Encountering People Where and as They Are Dear Brothers and Sisters, The invitation to “come and see”, which was part of those first moving encounters of Jesus with the disciples, is also the method for all authentic human communication. In order to tell the truth of life that becomes history (cf.Message for the ...

A CULTURE OF CARE AS A PATH TO PEACE At the dawn of a new year, I extend cordial greetings to Heads of State and Government, leaders of International Organizations, spiritual leaders and followers of the different religions, and to men and women of good will. To all I offer my best wishes that the coming year will enable humanity ...