Sunday Tonic

By Katie Yoder Three servants of God are advancing toward sainthood: a 12-year old diagnosed with cancer who offered up her suffering, a man with a special devotion to the Sacred Heart, and a Civil War veteran who joined St. Damian of Molokai in his ministry to lepers. On Nov. 17, the U.S. Catholic bishops voted to advance on the ...

. . . Reflection on the 7th Sunday of the Year, A, 2020 By Fr Innocent Nwafor Introduction Certain coinages appear common in today’s Christian religious milieu in Nigeria. In ordinary conversation, you hear people speak about “Miracle Centres”, “Healing Centres”, “Adoration Ground”, “Wellness Centre” etc. On the other hand, you never hear people talk about “Holiness Centre” or “Holiness ...

. . . . Reflection on the 6th Sunday of the Year, A, 2020 By Innocent Nwafor 1. Introduction I want to begin today’s reflection with a quote from Salman Rushdie. “Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.” ...

. . . Living out What you Believe and Profess By Innocent Nwafor 1. Share Your Bread with the Hungary The background to today’s first reading is simple. The Lord sends the prophet Isaiah to “cry out loud” like the voice of a trumpet, calling the attention of the people of Israel to the disparity between their outward show of ...

By Innocent Nwafor 1. The People that walked in darkness have seen a great light Light-Darkness conflict! These two significant phenomena are presented to us today to reflect upon. They remind us of the dramatic story of creation where the power of God, in whose light we see light (Ps 36:9), acted upon an empty and chaotic realm of darkness ...

Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7; Psalm 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10; Acts 10: 34-38; Matt 3: 13-17. By Cosmas Okechukwu Ebebe 1. Invitation Today we celebrate the baptism of Jesus. Why baptize a sinless person? Jesus was conceived without sin and remains sinless because sin has no power over him. Jesus himself gives the answer as to why he ...

By Innocent Nwafor 1. The Reality on ground “Wherever the African is, there is religion,” says John Mbiti, a prominent Christian Theologian from Kenya. Perhaps, there is no place in Africa where the veracity of this statement is as evident as in Nigeria today. This could easily be attested to by the number of people one finds in different churches ...

In my reflection of last Sunday on prayer, I shared an experience of a prayer session in a bus travelling to Lagos. It would be recommended that you read the story in Fides Newspaper Sunday 23/7/17 page 22. It is a typical prayer we usually hear either before a commercial bus takes off or during the journey. I mentioned that ...

Looking the right direction when we are in a crossroad A woman in a certain village was ostracised by his kinsfolk for refusing to take part in a fetish traditional practice she considers not to be in tandem with her Christian belief. In spite of the social exclusion she kept attending their social gatherings because she felt she had not ...

I have worked with many Igbos in my previous place of work. And I still have a number of them in our company now and they are very friendly to me. I like them. We are friends. These are words spoken to me by a young auto-mechanic whom I encountered on my way to Jos in 1994. He introduced himself ...