1st Sunday of Lent Year B. By Tobe Eze

1st Sunday of Lent Year B.

FIRST READING
Genesis 9:8—15

SECOND READING
1 Peter 3:18—22

GOSPEL
Mark 1:12—15

THEME: REBUILD YOUR JERUSALEM.

God himself after creation noticed that his creatures were moving away from the track decided to rebuild and reconstruct his creation through flood as we read in the first reading of today. After the renovation of the world, a new life came in. It is expected that when someone is renovating his building, he will make the building better than before. So also, if we are to rebuild ourselves, we have to go for better part of living. God used water to rebuild the first world. Water that cleared the bad and left the good (Noah and family). When we notice that we are moving away, we should come back and this is the best season to do that. Continue Reading............................

MY LOVE MESSAGE TO YOU IN THIS LENTEN SEASON. By Tobe Eze

MY LOVE MESSAGE TO YOU IN THIS LENTEN SEASON.

How can the young remain sinless? (Psalm 119:9)

This Lenten period is a period we all are expected to learn the virtue of remaining sinless both for the young and for the old. It is not all about promising to suffer our flesh during this Lenten season, it is about the result of the suffering and sacrifices. Some fast now but the object of their fasting, they are keeping them waiting for Easter Sunday to recover all of them. When you fast now, know that you do not supposed to recover it again rather when the fasting is over, you continue with the good things around. Take up the good things, do not look back on the things that have passed. Forget the things of the past and remember them no more (Isaiah 43:18). They are few things we have to know, they are: Continue Reading..................

MY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK. By. Tobe Eze.

•                MY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK.  
•      Fear is important, for suicide is different from martyrdom. Tobe Eze.
• 2.       Looking is different from seeing, see before you place conclusion. Tobe Eze.
• 3.       Fat body is never fat courage. Tobe Eze.
• 4.       Before you deny one meat, check if he has teeth, for you may be doing him good in the name of evil. Tobe Eze.
• 5.       The Lord is good is more effective when you are in the company of good people. Tobe Eze.
• 6.       When you see a beautiful lady both in character and stature, you will know that nature can create. Tobe Eze.
• 7.       It is not all that good to marry an ugly man but more dangerous to marry a handsome man. Tobe Eze.
• 8.       Misinterpretation can kill, understand before interpreting. Tobe Eze.
• 9.       Men are jealous but women live it as their lives. Tobe Eze.
• 10.   One minute is too small but does a mighty thing. Tobe Eze.

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

 FIRST READING

Leviticus 13:1—2, 44—46

SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 10:31—11:1

GOSPEL
Mark 1:40—45

THEME: THE CHURCH IS RIGHT AND HOLY.

During the time we had Ebola saga, some left the Catholic Church for they said they have committed abomination for asking the faithful to be receiving Holy Communion with hands. Some wanted to leave but they did not summon the courage to do that. Some stopped receiving communion till the period passed. Some were receiving it grudgingly. All these are the groups that said Church should not do such thing, that Church has lost her faith in Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. The Church is always wise and will continue to be right for Christ is always with his Church.

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man is leprous and unclean, the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head. It is the work of the priest to declare one unclean. These days, when a priest declares one unclean, instead of working towards making him/herself clean, the person will turn against the Church especially the priest that declared him/her unclean. Continue Reading..........................

MY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK. By Tobe Eze

• MY QUOTES FOR THE WEEK.     
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• Small stature is never small value. That is, small body is not small knowledge or does not make man small. Tobe Eze.
• 2.       Attention reduces attention. Tobe Eze.
• 3.       Till death do us apart is not tomorrow, be careful on choosing. Tobe Eze.
• 4.       Our “I Do” has many implications, think well before you say it. Tobe Eze.
• 5.       Gentleness of the body is not gentleness of the heart, make them to be one. Tobe Eze.
• 6.       Recognize your present needs and it will help you to know your future needs and prepare for them. Tobe Eze.
• 7.       Slavery from within is the worst slavery on earth. Tobe Eze.
• 8.       On your marks, is for those who are out for the game. Tobe Eze.
• 9.       Allocation brings responsibility or culpability. Tobe Eze.
• 10.   Prayer without concentration is like cultivation without plantation. Tobe Eze.

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B. By Tobe Eze

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B.

FIRST READING
Job 7:1—4, 6—7

SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 9:16—19, 22—23

GOSPEL
Mark 1:29—39

THEME: GOD'S PERMISSIVE WILL, OUR FREE WILL AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD.

When one looks at the first reading, tracing it back to the time the devil got permission from God to try Job, one may ask. Why should God allow such to happen to one who is faithful to him? There are many examples in the Bible especially in the Gospel where story of sicknesses were told for the glory of God. After sees all these things we may ask, does God glory in the sufferings of his people?

It is not that God glories in the sufferings of his people but sometimes he allows some certain things to come our ways to solidify our faith in him. Our faith should be tested as gold is being tested in the fire to purify it (1Peter 1:7).  It is through some of these things that God’s many more blessings come our ways. Think of Abraham, after his faith had been tested, from that mountain the Lord started providing for him, Joseph after being tested, he started enjoying the blessings of the Lord with his family which the test came through. Job that we talk about today, after the testing, he latter enjoyed the riches of the Lord. Some of our trails are for us to see the glory of God around us. The man born blind that Jesus healed, he said that neither his sins nor his parents sins but for the glory of God to be revealed to him and others (John 9:3). When we receive some certain favours from God, they make us to acknowledge him the more. God permits in other to help us to trust him the more. It was Leibniz who on the account of explaining physical evil said that, they normally lead to good things, and sickness is one of them. Continue Reading....................

My Quotes for the Week. By Tobe Eze

• MY QUOTES.
• 1.       When things want to turn around for you, the place, state and people you are with matter a lot. Mind the place, state and people you go, are and stay with. Tobe Eze.
• 2.       Appearance can be deceiving, go for the reality. Tobe Eze.
• 3.       In everyday, try to drop one bad thing in your life and pick one good thing. It helps in building oneself. Tobe Eze.
• 4.       Move in this world as the eagle moves in the air when the wind blow against it. Enjoy it for it must rest and it is just matter of time. Tobe Eze.
• 5.       Even if there is no reason for you to be happy, be happy for it is necessary. Tobe Eze.
• 6.       Growing old is not growing up, try to join the two. Grow old and equally grow up. Tobe Eze.
• 7.       If you follow all that you see, you will be eaten by all that you see. Tobe Eze.
• 8.       All men are the same always follows a bad experience with a man. Tobe Eze.
• 9.       Underline the bad, work towards eradicating it. If you leave it open, you may eradicate both good with it. Tobe Eze.
• 10.   If we are to take life as an examination hall where we are faced face to face with the invigilator, we will not cheat. We will not sin. Tobe Eze.

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B. By Tobe Eze

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B.

FIRST READING
Deuteronomy 18:15—20

SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 7:32—35

GOSPEL
Mark 1:21—28

THEME: IMITATION FOR GOOD

Be imitators of me as I am an imitator of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). Words of St. Paul. There is this saying that, “imitation is limitation”. My question now is, one who imitates Christ, is the one having any limitation? Christ himself is a perfection and imitating him is imitating perfection. What may be the limitation we may have in imitating him?

The first reading points to the Messiah who is to come. Moses was telling the Israelites the type of prophet and saviour that God will be sending them, the one that will rule them forever. The Gospel is the pure practical example and the blueprint of what the prophet is. Jesus live a celibate and chaste life and also, when praises came to him, he shunned it for he knew that the glory that will come at last will be more than that one that was coming from the evil spirit. And the second reading tells us to imitate the ways of the Messiah. In the verse one of the 1Corinthians 7, St. Paul started it will these words, “it is better to remain single but due to the immortality in the world, one man, one wife”. Continue Reading.................................

4th Sunday of Advent Year B. By Tobe Eze

4^th Sunday of Advent Year B.

First Reading:

2Samuel 7:1-5. 8b-12. 14a. 16

Second Reading:

Romans 16:25-27

Gospel:

Luke 1:26-38

THEME: THE DISPOSITION TOWARDS GOD.

Let it be done unto me according to your words, are no more our words as Christians rather, let it be done unto me according to my mind.

In one of my pastoral experiences, I met one woman whom her daughter was seriously sick. She was praying and shouting unto God for his will to be done on her daughter’s life. When I reached the house, the daughter was doing like one who is dying. At that point the woman shouted, “God if this is your will on my daughter, please let the cup pass by, she will not drink it”. I rushed the child to nearby hospital. After recovering, I went back and asked the woman why the changing of the intention. You should have continued with the first one. She said that Jesus himself asked his father to take away the cup from him and two that she did not want her daughter to die. Our major problem sometimes is to be able to recognize and listen to God. Continue Reading................................

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B. By Tobe Eze

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B.

FIRST READING
Jonah 3:1—5, 10

SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 7:29—31

GOSPEL
Mark 1:14—20

THEME: WE CAN STILL LEAVE THEM.

A man entered a local hotel, he asked the people serving to serve him swallow (foo foo). They asked him the type of soup he will like to take. He threw back question of what type of soup do they have. They mentioned all they had and he told them to give him small ogbono, small egusi, small oha, small nsala and so on. He was asked to choose one among all of them and he said, “I cannot leave any of them”. Why this story? We sometimes behave like this man in many ways and may things we do here on earth. Continue Reading.......................