Feast of the Epiphany Year C – Fr. Innocent Abonyi's pastoral Diary

Feast of the Epiphany, Year C

Today’s feast reminds us that Jesus came into the world not only for the benefit of his own people, but to be the messiah and saviour of all peoples of the earth. Just as the […]

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In the morning, long before dawn, he got up …

In the middle of sentences loaded with actions such as healing, attending to suffering people, casting out devils, responding to impatient disciples, traveling from town to town and preaching from synagogue to synagogue, etc., one […]

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You are a letter from Christ…

St Paul tells the Corinthian Christians, “you are a letter from Christ…written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Cor. 3:3). There are many variations and translation from the various […]

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Feast of Christ the King 2018

The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as an antidote to secularism, a way of life which leaves God out of man’s thinking and living and organizes his […]

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3rd Sunday of Advent, Year C

Today is known as ‘Gaudete Sunday’. The word ‘gaudete’ means rejoice. Today is otherwise known as the ‘Rose Sunday’. The basis for the rose and for rejoicing is that the Lord is near. We are […]

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Missionary or Foreign Priest?

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Nigeria were practicing Christianity. The same could be said of the rest of the African continent, apart from the Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians, and a […]