Sometime around March 2018 (precisely a week to my priestly ordination), as I was about going for a retreat in preparation for my ordination, a friend sent me a write up...
Author - Chinaka Justin Mbaeri
Catholic Article, Catholicism, Questions & Answers, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
THE SCARY IMAGES FOUND AT THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL… IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH GUILTY OF IDOLATRY? AN APOLOGETIC RESPONSE
Before now, little was known of the Notre Dame Cathedral to the common man; however, with the sad news of the catastrophic fire outbreak which engulfed part of the...
Catholic Article, Catholicism, Questions & Answers, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
THE FALLACY OF ANCESTRAL / GENERATIONAL CURSES
One of the basic problems we have today in Christianity is the trend of ‘uneducated and ignorant’ men/women who cannot reconcile the sociological/cultural contexts of...
Catholic Article, Catholicism, Questions & Answers
YAHWEH OR JEHOVAH: WHICH IS THE PROPER NAME OF GOD?
When you ask a child, especially a Christian: who is Jehovah? He/she is most likely to say that Jehovah is God. But ask, who is Yahweh, perhaps, he/she might not know...
Mass Reflections, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT. MARCH 15, 2019
The gospel according to Matthew has been understood to possess a doctrinal character reflected in the five discourses of Christ. These five discourses correspond to the...
Mass Reflections, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT. MARCH 13, 2019
The phrase “the sign of Jonah” was used by Jesus in the Gospels as a typological metaphor for His death, burial, and resurrection. The gospel of Matthew makes it...
Mass Reflections, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
LENTEN REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY. MARCH 08, 2019
A distinctive feature in Judaism is its way of integrating the spiritual with the physical through fasting. For them, fasting was a way of denying the body all natural...
Mass Reflections, Weekday Homilies/ Reflections
LENTEN REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY. MARCH 07, 2019
Back in those days at Secondary school, we learnt a great deal in the field of Economics. One of the interesting topics I enjoyed was “Opportunity Cost”, introduced by...
Catholic Article, Catholicism, Questions & Answers
WHY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DEMANDS ABSTINENCE FROM MEAT ON ASH WEDNESDAY AND GOOD FRIDAY FROM A SCRIPTURAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday must be understood as the Catholic Church Law. However, it must be noted that this Church’s law on abstinence from...
Catholic Article, Catholicism, General Issues, Questions & Answers
IS IT A SIN TO PLAY BET9JA; WHAT IS THE STAND OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THIS?
The question above was “thrown” at me by a disturbed friend who wanted to know the morality behind the popular Nigerian game called “Bet9ja”...
