Seraphic Songs

The Novena to St. Anthony of Padua is around the corner. Many have given verifiable testimonies on the miracles they obtained through the intercession of St. Anthony of Padua who is a Franciscan Saint. Don’t miss out this year’s opportunity to join the Novena.
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In life ensure that casket and expensive funeral arrangements are not the grestest gift you will give your loved ones. They will not be alive to appreciate them and can’t benefit from them. You will be spending to impress the world and not them. Reach out to your loved ones now they are still alive. Send them gifts and pay attention to whatever that bothers them. Call them on phones often and don’t delay in returning their calls because a time will come when their contacts on your phone book will be useless. Change the proposed casket money to daily care and welfare expenses. Buy them cars now if you can and don’t save money to rent expensive cars for their funeral. If you had any opportunity now then go and feast and dance with them. Don’t wait until the day of their funeral before you will hire pallbearers to dance with their co**se. Spending on them with whatever you have now can never be compared to what you display at their funeral.
May God grant eternal rest to the dead and consolation to the living 🙏🏽

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Abosede Oyedele-Aro, Moses Odey, Catherine Gyang, Lucia Oko, Chibyke Nwankwo

Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen!

We celebrate God’s one Nature and the three persons in one God. The three Divine Persons of the Blessed Trinity are United without any confusion and distinct without any separation. This is a great mystery! It is a great mystery not in the sense that we cannot understand the Blessed Trinity. It is a mystery because we cannot fully understand it but can understand it to the extent God chooses to reveal himself to us in the Scripture. Although the term “Trinity” is not found in the scripture, the evidence of the manifestation of the Divine persons are replete in the Scripture both in the Old and the New Testament. May the Unity, solidarity and love that flow in the community life of the Blessed Trinity be present in our lives, relationships, families, communities and in the world so that we may enjoy peace and goodness. Amen 🙏🏽

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Abosede Oyedele-Aro, Maxwell Jnr, Moses Odey, Lucia Oko, Chibyke Nwankwo

Day 25 of May Devotion:
Mother Most Pure, we pray through your intercession for the grace to be pure in heart and in body. May we be set free from sexual promiscuity , po*******hy, nudity, ma********on and other forms of impurity and immorality. Amen

IS IT RIGHT AND CANONICAL TO DEPRIVE A DECEASED CATHOLIC FAITHFUL A CATHOLIC FUNERAL BECAUSE HE OR SHE IS ALLEGEDLY OWING SOME LEVIES?

Canon law identifies only three groups of people that should be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals:
1. Notorious apostates, heretics, and schismatics
2. Those who chose cremation of their bodies for reasons contrary to Christian faith
3. Other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful
(cf. can. 1184, par. 1)

The second paragraph of this canon stipulates that in the case of doubt, the local ordinary should be consulted and his judgment must be followed.

Canon law does not forsee the possibility of depriving a Catholic who has not paid his levies of ecclesiastical funeral.

What the law stipulates in c. 848 with regards to the administration of the sacraments should also be taken into consideration in the case of ecclesiastical funeral.

Canon 848 stipulates:
"For the administration of the sacraments the minister may not ask for anything beyond the offerings which are determined by the competent authority, and he must always ensure that the needy are not deprived of the help of the sacraments by reason of poverty."

Diocesan bishops in Nigeria especially in some dioceses in South Eastern Nigeria have a big role to play here. Since they have ordinary, proper, and immediate power in the diocese entrusted to them (c. 381), they should regulate the levies associated to ecclesiastical burial if there is any. If there is none then they should issue a decree to address the issue of funerals with regard to their dioceses and set up a commission to enforce it. If there is burial levy which I doubt should exist let it be clear to all the faithful in the respective dioceses. If there is none then let it also be clear to the faithful and priests of the dioceses.
(Culled from the submission of Fr. Thaddeus Anyaegbu OP with a little editing by Fr. Francis Ezeh Ofmcap)

Day 21 of May Devotion:
Mother Most admirable, we pray through your special intercession for the grace to live admirable lives that will lead us to heaven and not according to the standard of the world. May we trend with things that promote God. Amen

On this day, May 21, 2013, at Seat of Wisdom Seminary, Owerri, Cardinal Peter Okpaleke the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia was consecrated a Bishop with Archbishop Anthony J.V. Obinna, the Archbishop of Owerri, as the principal consecrator.
Cardinal Okpaleke was appointed the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara by his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on December 7, 2012 but this appointed was met by rejection by the people of Ahiara diocese. Thank God for the wisdom of the Church. The crisis has been resolved.
Happy Episcopal Anniversary your Eminence!

Day 20 of May Devotion:
Mother of the Church we pray, that with your loving help the Church may be more fruitful day by day and, exulting in the holiness of her children,
may draw to her embrace all the families of the peoples. Amen.

Day 19 of May Devotion:
Mother of Hope, we pray through your intercession that our hope for achieving our dreams, goals and aspirations may never be in vain. May God grant success to all our good plans and activities this new week. Amen !

Most of those involved in the inhumane treatment and oppression of widows in Africa and particularly in Nigeria are women! They are the widows’ sister in-laws who leave their own families to go and dictate in the families of their deceased brothers. Most of them play the roles of Legislators, judges and executives in their brothers’ families while they are known for not having good reputations even in their own families. They are always defensive when it concerns their brothers and their sister in laws but they are monsters in their own matrimonial homes. They are even more wicked than the Uncles of the widows ‘ children or their brother in laws.

Even more seriously, It’s the worst and the most scandalous when they are all Catholics teaming up against their brothers’ widows who are converts to Catholic Church. These widows embraced catholic faith because of their husbands’ love for them. Now, what can be so scandalous to be married into a catholic family and ended up being maltreated as a widow by a catholic family? Those who should give solace in moment of grief turn into oppressors and aggressors! They forget that there is life after funeral. They forget that there will be judgement! They forget that God is not deaf to the cry of the oppressed! They forget that the children will never forget how their mum is treated in their moment of grief and bereavement. Indeed, there is life after funeral! May God console all good and innocent widows 🙏🏽
Fr. Francis Ezeh OFMCap

Day 18 of May Devotion:
Mother of Mercy, through your special intercession we pray that God May look with pity upon us and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. May we also refrain from abusing God’s mercy by our daily sinful habits. Amen

Day 17 of May Devotion:
Our Lady Help of Christians, we pray through your intercession for all who seek job opportunities, better placement in life, promotion and a better standard of living. May God intervene graciously in their lives and answer their prayers. Amen 🙏🏽

Sad News😔
Another Catholic Priest from Nigeria kidnapped!
Rev. Fr. Basil Gbuzuo, a catholic priest of Onitsha Archdiocese and the Spiritual Director of Mountain of Solution Catholic Adoration Ministry (MOSCAM) was kidnapped on 15 May,2024. May God grant him a quick and unconditional release from his abductors. Amen 🙏🏽

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Abosede Oyedele-Aro, Maxwell Jnr, Moses Odey, Akuma Chidiebere Christian, Joshua John

Day 15 of May Devotion:
Gate of Heaven, through your special intercession obtain for us the grace to never lose sight of our ultimate goal in life which is Heaven. May we persevere in the practice of our Christian faith and merit Heaven on the last day. Amen

Day 14 of May Devotion:
Help of Christians, we pray through your intercession for the grace to enjoy Divine intervention and Providence in our present challenges and difficult situations both spiritually, emotionally and materially. Amen 🙏🏽

May 13th is celebrated by the Catholic Church as the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima. It marks the first day in 1917 on which the Blessed Mother appeared to the three shepherd children of Fatima in Portugal: Lucy, Jacinta and Francisco.
Our Lady of Fatima! Pray for us 🙏🏽

Day 13 of May Devotion:
Queen of Peace, we pray through your intercession for peace in our hearts, in our families, in our countries and in the world. May God heal our broken relationships and restore unity and love to our families. Amen

Day 12 of May Devotion:
Queen of Prophets, we pray through your intercession that we may be strong witnesses of the Gospel of Christ by words and deeds. May we be saved from false prophets whose mission is to steal, to kill and destroy with fake prophecies.Amen

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Abosede Oyedele-Aro, Maxwell Jnr, Moses Odey

Day 11 of May Devotion:
Refuge of sinners, we pray through your intercession that we may obtain God’s mercy for all the sins we have committed in words, thoughts and actions and in whatever good we failed to do. May we never deprive others of mercy. Amen

Providing the needs of your husband who lost his job and for your children without complaining or sounding disrespectful is a virtue still lacking in many married women. Men shouldn’t joke with any woman who possesses this virtue since she is a rare gem.

Day 10 of May Devotion:
Mother most powerful, we pray through your powerful intercession for those suffering from various kinds of addiction. May they receive permanent healing and be restored whole and healthy. May they begin to experience progress in their lives.Amen

Day 9 of May Devotion:
Mother Most faithful, we pray through your special intercession for an increase in faith in moments we think things are not working as expected. May we always resign to God’s will for our own good and for our own peace of mind. Amen

Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God,
and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving,
for the Ascension of Christ your Son
is our exaltation,
and, where the Head has gone before us in glory,
the Body is called to follow in hope. Amen 🙏🏽
Happy Solemnity of Ascension!

Day 8 of May Devotion:
Our Lady Consolation of the afflicted, we pray through your special intercession for consolation to those who mourn their loved ones and for eternal rest to the dead especially those who died recently. Amen

A Must Read!!!
3 WAYS TO SUCCEED IN LIFE WITHOUT WORKING HARD: SECRETS TO EASY AND SOFT LIFE

I have finally discovered three secrets for making it in life without hardworking. They are :
1. Use the go and from that point forward you will be given the choice to go to the nearest station and then return home to find the next bus to the nearest railway line. The next bus will then go to your nearest train to get there and then return back home to your destination where they will find your way back to your station and then back again to your nearest railway line and you can find your way back home.

2. Go towards your final check point and then return home. Then there is a mark of the envelope that you will see on your desk and you should be prepared to leave the box in front of your office to make sure that the envelope has been placed on your front porch and your mailbox will not get stuck on your desk when you’re leaving the office and your envelope will be there to the front door when you’re leaving it.

3. If after reading the first and the second paragraphs patiently and you still did not understand anything then just know that what Jesus said in the Bible is true about life: “Hard way is the only way”. Hardworking pays and you can’t achieve anything without hardworking, dedication and honesty. There is no short cut and easy way to life. Know this and know peace. Repent and believe the Gospel!

Fr. Francis Ezeh Ofmcap