Month: March 2020

ASHAYES’ 42 YEARS OF A SACRED RELATIONSHIP.

ASHAYES’ 42 YEARS OF A SACRED RELATIONSHIP.

Posted by | Mar 31, 2020 | |

The marriage of Very Rev Adefolaju Bandele Ashaye and Mummy Margaret Omobolaji Ashaye [nee Omodele] is a Christian model of the tenderest, most beautiful and sacred relationship. “They shall be one flesh,” said God in Genesis 2:24 as His principle and foundation, for the home is the bedrock upon which the Ashayes’ 42 years of a sacred relationship is built and nurtured. Their relationship as a Christian couple indicates that one is to be the complement and counterpart of the other and that one is incomplete without the other. By means of Ashayes’ 42 years of a sacred relationship,...

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LENT OF REMEMBERING (34) A World of Ezekiel’s Dry Bones and Lazarus: Waiting for a fresh breath of the HOLY SPIRIT.

LENT OF REMEMBERING (34) A World of Ezekiel’s Dry Bones and Lazarus: Waiting for a fresh breath of the HOLY SPIRIT.

Posted by | Mar 29, 2020 | , |

As we prepare for the Holy Week, we give thanks to God for the fifth week in the season of Lent with different encounters and lessons between Jesus and another aspect of the human condition. Today, our global wilderness, flaws, sins, and sufferings are on display and it is my prayer that Jesus will meet us with mercy as He did with Ezekiel at the valley of dry bones and Lazarus at the tomb. Our liturgical readings and stories today foreshadows what is to come. Prophet Ezekiel’s vision in chapter 37 of the book of Ezekiel illustrates God’s promise...

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LENT OF REMEMBERING (Day 30) – Spiritual Lessons of the Covid-19.

LENT OF REMEMBERING (Day 30) – Spiritual Lessons of the Covid-19.

Posted by | Mar 25, 2020 | , |

As we give thanks to God in all things and all the time, Lent of Remembering especially during the current global pandemic offers us a heightened missional perspective which calls us to extra time to pray, to repentance, and to serious intercession. Lent of Remembering in relation to some spiritual lessons of the Covid-19 summons us to focus ‘on the finiteness and fragility of human life.’ On the fragility of life, James said, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make...

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LENT OF REMEMBERING (Day 29) – Overcoming Coronavirus (1)

LENT OF REMEMBERING (Day 29) – Overcoming Coronavirus (1)

Posted by | Mar 24, 2020 | , , |

They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;     in their peril their courage melted away.  They reeled and staggered like drunkards;     they were at their wits’ end. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,     and he brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper;     the waves of the sea were hushed – Psalm 107:26-29 At the Feb. 26 start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, many people were filling the churches to receive ashes with little fear or global anxiety as regards the cases and spread of the coronavirus. At that point, there were many people arriving...

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G5 – Group of Blind World: Sight to the Spiritually Blind; Judgement to those who think they see.

G5 – Group of Blind World: Sight to the Spiritually Blind; Judgement to those who think they see.

Posted by | Mar 23, 2020 | , |

The Gospel reading today from the ninth chapter of of John takes only two verses for the miracle and thirty-nine for the reaction (Jn 9:1-41).  The two verses miracle is the healing of the blind man and the thirty nine verses is about how the religious leaders could not refute the reasoning and spirituality of the blind man so they threw him out of the temple (Jn 9:34). The Gospel reading also points us to the G5 – Group of Blind World, each represents us in some ways. The man born blind from birth, born with a sin nature,...

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