Not to sound delusional, but please pray for GRACE. Life isn't really about hard work. It's more about meeting the right people, grace, mercy, and favour.
MERCY TUESDAY
(Exodus 23:20)
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Prayer for Mercy:
Merciful Father, show me Your mercy this day. Send Your holy angels to guide my steps, preserve my path, defend me from harm, guard me from wrong decisions, and keep me from paths that lead away from Your holy will. Lead me, Lord, into the place You have prepared for me. May every wrong way be closed and all my steps be ordered by Your hand. Amen.
Jesus, I trust in you !
Affirmations:
Mercy has remembered me !
Mercy has spoken for me !
Mercy has responded for me !
Access granted…
Access received !
A new Garment received !
I am a walking testimony !
I am a miracle of God !
I am a trophy of God’s grace !
My Joy is here !
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#mercytuesday
#myjoyishere
#iknockedandthedooropened
Here’s what sweeter than matching:
Matching into the same specialty with your best friend.
20 years spent nurturing the same dream.
If 9 year old Kachi (@cantis96) and Nedu could see us right now🥹
You win when everyone around you wins❤️
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but GET UP. Ask God to breathe His spirit back into you. You've been lying dormant for far too long. Ask Him to restore your creativity, your purpose, your joy, your love, your health, and your sound mind. You've slept long enough in depression, anxiety, overthinking, bitterness, loneliness, grief, brokenness, financial stress, abandonment wounds, relationship trauma, and destructive habits. Today is the last day. GET UP! Get up for your future self. Get up for your kids. Get up for the dreams God placed inside you. Get up and take your life back.
Celebrate Him While He Is Still With Us !
Since I was a child, no Nigerian Catholic hymn has stayed with me the way the compositions of Sir Jude Nnam @sirjudennam have. I have always admired the simplicity, sincerity, flair and grace with which he composes his songs.
His lyrics come from the depth of his heart with great spiritual meaning that speaks to any and everyone that listens to it. From “Uchechukwu” to “Kanyi Jee n’Ulo Chukwu,” from “Take and Sanctify” to “Father, to You We Offer,” from “Somtoochukwu” to “Sai Kuzo,” from “Chineke Odogwu” to “Agam Eje N’Altar,” from “My Story” to “It’s payback time”, from “In Thanksgiving and Love,” to “Olisa”, “Surrender Your Heart to Jesus”, “Mungode Allah”, “Chinemerem”, “In Love With Jesus”, “Abinci”, “Chinecherem”, “Kosisochukwu”, “Time After Time”, “Ngozi”, “Thy Will be Done”, “Oge Erugo”, “Obi Eze Chukwu” and many many more. These songs have shaped the way many of us experience the Holy Mass.
From entrance hymn to dismissal, he helped make our liturgy sound truly African without losing its reverence - each moment of the Holy Mass became more alive because of his music, and do know that his compositions are sung every Sunday in parishes across Nigeria and beyond? Yes !
But behind the music is a man who has faced serious life’s challenges.
He survived cancer and still lives with its effects.
He survived being kidnapped more than once.
He has carried silent burdens while continuing to serve God in His Church. Through all of this, he has remained committed to his vocation and to sacred music.
Sir Jude Nnam is 60.
Sixty years of life. Decades of service. A lifetime of self-giving.
We often say we should appreciate people while they are still here. This is one of those moments and the reason why I am lending my voice to this call.
If his music has helped you pray, strengthened your faith, or supported your choir. If you have ever felt lifted by his compositions, this is an opportunity to support him in return.
You may assume that someone of his stature “has everything.” But fame in Church music (especially Catholic Church in Africa) is not wealth. Ministry is not luxury. And after the illness and trauma he now faces, your support matters.
A GoFundMe link has been created by his team. You may also give directly to his management company’s account. The process is secure, and the support will reach him.
Let us stand by him and his family now.
Thank you for whatever you are able to give.
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Day 7 – Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
Theme: Repentance at the Word of God
Scripture: Luke 11:32 – “The men of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.”
Invocation of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, voice of God within the heart, make me attentive and responsive to the Word I hear.
Meditation
Lord, You remind me that the people of Nineveh changed their lives when they heard Your warning. They did not delay, debate, or dilute the message; they responded. I often hear Your Word repeatedly yet change slowly. Familiarity can make me passive. You, the Word
made flesh, are greater than Jonah, greater than any prophet, and still You speak patiently to my heart. Lent is a season of hearing again with seriousness. Your Word is not
information but invitation; not noise but direction. True repentance is not emotion alone but a decision to turn. Teach me to receive Your Word with humility, to let it question my habits,
correct my path, and shape my life. Conversion begins when Your Word is allowed to bear fruit in action.
Petition
Father, give me a responsive heart. Deliver me from selective listening and delayed obedience. Grant me the grace to change where You ask me to change.
Resolution
Today I will read a short passage of Scripture slowly and take one concrete step to practice what I have read.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, You are the living Word who calls me to life. May I not harden my heart when You speak. Let Your Word this Lent renew my mind, redirect my steps, and deepen my conversion. Amen.
(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.)
Day 4: Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Theme: Called to Conversion and Mercy
Scripture: Luke 5:31–32 – “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Invocation of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, healer of souls, reveal my need for grace and lead me to the mercy of Christ.
Meditation
Lord, You come not for the perfect but for the willing. You do not avoid my wounds; You enter them. Yet pride often makes me hide my need for healing. I compare myself with others and forget to compare my heart with Your holiness. Lent exposes the truth: I am a sinner in need of mercy, and this is not despair but hope, because You are a merciful Saviour. Conversion begins when I stop defending my faults and start surrendering them. You sit at table with
sinners, not to excuse sin but to restore the sinner. Teach me humility to admit where I need healing and trust to bring it to You. Repentance is not rejection but return, not fear but encounter with mercy.
Petition
Father, give me the grace of honest repentance. Remove defensiveness and self-justification from my heart. Help me to desire healing more than appearances.
Resolution
Today I will make a brief but sincere examination of conscience and ask forgiveness from God or from someone I have wronged.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, physician of my soul, I come to You as I am. Heal what is wounded, correct what is disordered, and restore what is weak. May this Lent draw me into the freedom of being forgiven and renewed by Your mercy. Amen.
(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.)
Day 2 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Theme: Choosing the Way of Life
Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:19 – “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live.”
Invocation of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, giver of wisdom and courage, enlighten my mind and strengthen my will, that I may choose what leads to life.
Meditation
Lord, yesterday You reminded me of my mortality; today You remind me of my responsibility. My life is shaped by choices, daily, quiet, and often unnoticed decisions that either lead me toward You or away from You. You place before me life and death, not as a threat but as a truth. Sin promises freedom but narrows the soul; obedience seems demanding but enlarges the heart. Lent teaches me that discipleship is not accidental. To follow You is to choose You repeatedly in thoughts, words, priorities, and actions. Teach me to recognise the paths that drain my spiritual life and the ones that nourish it. Help me to see that every loving choice, however small, is a step toward life in You.
Petition
Father, grant me discernment to recognise what leads me away from You. Give me the grace to prefer what is right over what is easy, and what is eternal over what is immediate.
Resolution
Today I will consciously choose one act of obedience to God’s will – whether in charity, self-denial, or prayer – especially when it is inconvenient.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Keep me from paths that lead to emptiness. Form in me a heart that chooses life, truth, and love. May every decision today draw me closer to Your will and Your kingdom. Amen.
(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.)