5th Sunday of Easter Year B. By Tobe Eze

1.       Underline the bad, work towards eradicating it. If you leave it open, you may eradicate both good with it. Tobe Eze.

5th Sunday of Easter Year B.

FIRST READING
Acts 9:26—31

SECOND READING
1 John 3:18—24

GOSPEL
John 15:1—8

THEME: YOUR FRUIT CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.

Sometimes I like borrowing the words of my spiritual director Rev. Fr. Jude Nwodo, “Your conscience is clear is not enough, live it out. We may claim sometimes that our consciences are clean but to see the cleanness in our behaviours will be a difficult task and that puts a question mark to that clean conscience(s). In 2015, I went to a certain parish to deliver a talk to the youth during their youth week. When I reached there and the person who invited me introduced me to the President who can be my father in his age. He looked at me and said. Odogwu can you do this, what have you to offer? I felt ashamed but I told myself that, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13). After the talk, he came back and asked me. How old are you? I told him, it is not necessary, that what is necessary is what you are made of. Since then he has been inviting to many places for talk. Continue Reading...........

4th Sunday of Easter (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY) Year B By Tobe Eze

1.       Underline the bad, work towards eradicating it. If you leave it open, you may eradicate both good with it. Tobe Eze.

4th Sunday of Easter (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY) Year B

FIRST READING
Acts 4:8—12

SECOND READING
1 John 3:1—2

GOSPEL
John 10:11—18

THEME: WHO’S FAULT; THE SHEEP OR THE SHEPHERD?

After looking at what is happening in the world today, one will be confused. There are proliferation of churches everywhere in the world and crimes, taboos and all sort of evils are increasing day in day out. In this situation, one will ask, is the fault from Christianity or from the Christians? Is it the fault of the shepherd or the sheep?

Christians increase everyday and morality decrease everyday as well. Rape, fornication, adultery, murder, robbery, human rituals, kidnapping and many others were not existing before now, but they are now everywhere likewise churches are everywhere now. Sometimes one in this part of the world will be tempted to say, let us go back to our African Traditional Religion for there was less crimes then. The issue is not about going back, it is the issue of going back to our duties. Shepherds going back to shepherds' duties and sheep going back to their duties. Continue Reading.........................................

3rd Sunday of Easter Year B. By Tobe Eze

1.       All men are the same always follows a bad experience with a man. Tobe Eze.

3rd Sunday of Easter Year B.

FIRST READING
Acts 3:13—15, 17—19

SECOND READING
1 John 2:1—5a

GOSPEL
Luke 24:35—48

THEME: YOU CAN STILL RIGHT THE WRONG.

I was going somewhere one day with my motorcycle, when I reach a roundabout. I was taking straight so I waited for the person taking the roundabout, as I was waiting, a man from behind hit me and started shouting. Bia kedu ihe bu nsogbu gi? What is your problem? Why blocking the road? As he was shouting, the person I was waiting for passed and I continued. The funniest thing happened that the man followed me. He passed me and stopped. I stopped also for he blocked my way. He came to me and asked me again. Are you stupid? People around there who saw what happened came around. They started defending me even before my talking but the man was even trying to beat me. As all these were going on, a young man recognized me and immediately descended on the man and they started to beat him. They were telling him that if you are ignorance of road signs, when you fail any of them, say sorry. I had to come and be separating them and also begging them to stop. After all he left with pains. Continue Reading.................................

2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy) Year B. By Tobe Eze

1.       If you follow all that you see, you will be eaten by all that you see. Tobe Eze.

2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy) Year B.

FIRST READING
Acts 4:32—35

SECOND READING
1 John 5:1—6

GOSPEL
John 20:19—31

THEME: HIS MERCY IS NOT A GUARANTEE FOR SINNING.

Pope Francis said that “if we do not get tired of asking for God's forgiveness, he will not also get tired of forgiving us our sins”. Again, Psalm 118:1, Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever. God's love towards his creatures especially human being is unmeasurable and indescribable.

A certain wealthy man was on the point of death. His wife went and called a priest for sick call, when the priest came and the man was told. When the priest went in to meet him, he told Fada. “It is of no use being here for me for I know where I belong”. Fada asked him what he meant by that and he told him that he belongs to hell. That God cannot forgive him his sins, that his sins are many. “Fada, obaro uru, bia lawa”. After all said and done, he refused to accept the sacrament and the priest left. He latter died in that state. We have many other stories like this one. A woman also on the point of death rejected sick call because of the particular priest that came. “Oburu n' obughi assistant ya lawa”. If the priest that came is not the assistant, he should go. Again on the positive side, we can talk about Constantine who accepted baptism at his dying bed. And so many who have repented on the point of death. These are stories of those who thought that God is tired of giving his mercy to us and those who still believe in his mercy. Continue Reading..........................