My Priestly Silver Jubilee Reflection (1999 -2024) Fr. Innocent Abonyi, MSP Introduction In my view, silver jubilees are momentous occasions and significant milestones that marks a quarter of a century of success, growth, failures, […]
Preamble: In his letter of 31st March, 2020, the Archbishop of Southwark, Most Reverend John Wilson, following the Prime Minister’s announcement, and the decision of the Bishop’s conference of England and Wales, directed that with […]
When something akin to Coronavirus threatened the very life of the infant Jesus Christ, it was to Egypt that God sent him for safety. It wasn’t anywhere in Israel. One of my colleagues referred to […]
A friend of mine once lamented to me: “When I and my wife first got married, I was amazed and pleased at how similar we were. We had identical senses of humour, liked and detested […]
A few years ago, I was invited to speak to young university students at a valentine’s day party. In that speech, I pointed out that the February 14 feast commemorated two Valentines: the first a […]
Introduction: In this article, I hope to explore the Shepherd model of leadership as portrayed by the shepherd metaphor and this comes from my perspective as a catholic priest who by his calling is a Shepherd. […]
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 […]
Introduction There is surely no day during the year in the lives of Christians of several generations down to our own, that is better known, better loved and better celebrated than the 25th of December. […]
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 […]
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 […]