Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students Ibadan Ecclesiastical province is a body that brings all Catholic students in higher institutions together in faith.
Join us on "a date with the lord" by 3pm today as we pray for our country Nigeria and mostly especially, for the faithful departed at the Owo Massacre.
my heart. Come and make your presence known. Come and show me the way to peace and righteousness. Help me to hate sin. Give me the grace I need to say no to the temptations I face. Wake me up to your presence, so that I can be fully in touch with you. Amen.
Good morning.
Morning prayer
Lord, how comforting it is to know of your unfailing love. I worship and adore you for your incomparable gift of your love and salvation. Thank you for working in my life, and for making your home in me. Thank you for your marvelous grace. Lift me up to see the
so that it will truly become blazing and all-consuming. May this blaze ignite me in the inner depths of my heart so that you will shine brightly in my life, bringing forth the warmth of your love to all those I meet today. Holy Spirit, I welcome you into the dwelling place of
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May the Lord help us to build our cities on truth and respect for every human value! Amen!! Good morning and happy weekend!!!
Revd Fr Samuel Frederick.
(NFCS Ibadan Ecclesiastical Provincial Chaplain)
we must be truthful in little things, willing to take responsibility for our flaws and fulfil our commitments. We must be honest with God, others and ourselves.
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If we recognise the divine inspiration, God will never be invoked as the guarantee of our honesty. In today's Gospel, Jesus objects to people who swear by God and things related to God.
When there is no pressing need, our words should be sufficient, because we are being known as honourable who seek the truth and keep to our words always. For us to attain this level of principle,
he immediately recognised it as the work of the Lord.God is always at work in new and creative ways among us and it is a great gift to be able to recognise divine inspiration wherever it is to be found.
THE MEMORIAL OF ST BARNABAS, APOSTLE: Acts 11:21-26.13:1-3, Mt. 5:33-37. Barnabas was one of the most amiable and life-promoting of the early Christians. Luke calls him โa good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.โ
Todayโs memorial reminds us of the qualities in Barnabas which gave such a boost to the growth of the Church in his time. With pastors like him, our Church could have a great revival. When Barnabas was sent to Antioch by the Apostles to assess what was happening there,