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If the Igbos had successfully become Biafrans and secceded from Nigeria, Biafra would have become the richest & most prosperous country in Africa today.
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As a man, after you cross 30, sit down and study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the men before you. Look at what destroyed them. Your father, his brothers, your uncles, older cousins etc... is it booze, is it gambling, is it women, is it recklessly siring everywhere, is it poor financial decisions, did they struggle with deep anger issues, domestic terrorists, did they practice witchcraft and all that.
Sit down and study those patterns,, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles. Remember some of these things are normal vices. Look for a recurring or deep recognizable patterns that are plastered all over men in your family. What brought them down. Do you see a pattern? Now that!
As Joshua Selman always says “As a man, number one thing that will help you live to your potential is knowing what can bring you down”. And you may not run away from your family tree. Refuse to be a victim of repeated patterns. Because they are there.
Whether you know it or not. Whether you recognize them or you don’t. They exist. They didn’t have the knowledge and resources we now have. Honor your progeny. Break out of them. Be made of Gold.
HOW LONG DO SOULS REMAIN IN PURGATORY?
The length of time souls are detained in Purgatory depends on:
a) the number of their faults;
b) the malice and deliberation with which these have been committed;
c) the penance done, or not done, the satisfaction made, or not made for sins during life;
d) Much, too, depends on the suffrages offered for them after death
What can safely be said is that the time souls spend in Purgatory is, as a rule, very much longer than people commonly imagine.
We will quote a few of the many instances which are recounted in the lives and revelations of the Saints.
St. Louis Bertrand's father was an exemplary Christian, as we should naturally expect, being the father of so great a Saint. He had even wished to become a Carthusian monk until he learned that it was not God's will for him. When he died, after long years spent in the practice of every Christian virtue, his saintly son, fully aware of the rigors of God's Justice, offered many Masses and poured forth the most fervent supplications for the soul he so dearly loved.
A vision of his father still in Purgatory forced him to intensify a hundredfold his suffrages. He added most severe penances and long fasts to his Masses and prayers. Yet eight whole years passed before he obtained the release of his father.
St. Malachy's sister was detained in Purgatory for a very long time, despite the Masses, prayers and heroic mortifications the Saint offered for her!
It was related to a holy nun in Pampluna, who had succeeded in releasing many Carmelite nuns from Purgatory, that most of these had spent there terms of from 30 to 60 years!
Carmelite nuns in Purgatory for 40, 50 and 60 years! What will it be for those living amidst the temptations of the World and with all their hundreds of weaknesses?
St. Vincent Ferrer, after the death of his sister, prayed with incredible fervor for her soul and offered many Masses for her release. She appeared to him at length and told him that had it not been for his powerful intercession with God, she should have remained an interminable time in Purgatory.
In the Dominican Order it is the rule to pray for the Master Generals by name on their anniversaries. Many of these have been dead several hundred years! They were men especially eminent for piety and learning. This rule would not be
approved by the Church were it not necessary and prudent.
We do not mean to imply that all souls are detained equally long periods in the expiatory fires. Many have committed lesser faults and have done more penance. Therefore, their punishment will be much less severe.
Still, the instances we have quoted are very much to the point, for if these souls who enjoyed the intimacy, who saw the example and who shared in the intercession of great Saints during their lives and were aided by their most efficacious suffrages after death were yet detained for such a length of time in Purgatory, what may happen to us who enjoy none of these wonderful
privileges?
- Fr. Paul O. Sullivan, O.P.
Please take this as my personal opinion.
If you vote for APC, you're either an illiterate, ignorant, a thug, a greedy person, or a tribal or religious bigot.
You love it when people suffer grief & beg you to feed.
You're seeing red but deliberately calling it green.
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It is not always easy to believe. It was not easy for Thomas, and it is not easy for us either. Faith needs to be nourished and sustained. For this reason, on the “eighth day” — that is, every Sunday — the Church invites us to do as the first disciples did: gather together and celebrate the Eucharist. #GospelOfToday (Jn 20:19–31)
A man who wants to marry you will not take more than six months to a year to decide, especially if he's obviously ready. I dated my lovely wife for nine years, yes, but I met her when both of us were nobodies.
And we were very young.
So we had all the time in our hands.
But I first made up my mind to marry my lovely wife within the first few weeks of meeting her.
Even though I never told her.
She had given me about 1,000 or 2,000 when I met her one day, and I told her that I wanted to go see my father but I was broke.
She gave me the money.
I had not spent a dime on her prior to that time.
I was very grateful, and I have never forgotten about it.
From then for 9 years, we were stuck with each other.
And God came through for us.
But this is my story.
Not yours.
And yours doesn't have to be like mine. As a lady, once you've crossed 25, any relationship you enter should have marriage as the end goal.
And it won't take him more than one year to decide that.
So you must be strategic in your choice.
Your late 20s are not for fooling or hoeing around.
They're for you to strategically position yourself for a man who would be interested in you, & possibly make you a wife.
And he doesn't have to be in his late 30s too.
A man that is just 2 years older than you may be more serious and committed.
And he doesn't have to be rich.
Neither does he need to have a car.
All he needs to have is a good job, a decent apartment, and a functioning & non-fraudulent brain and mindset.
A man between 28 and 35 would be happier to date you than a man in his late 30s.
If you're 26, he's 28 or 30.
If you're 28, he's 30 or 32.
You'd see the chemistry between you.
Please listen to me.
As long as you're willing to be respectful, not greedy, faithful and feminine, a man must marry you before you're 30.
If you meet those ones that are willing to share the little they have with you, in a form of provision in marriage, consider them.
Some men have more than enough as single men, but they're not willing to share unless you're willing to part with yours too.
Above all, you need the grace and mercy of God.
You may do everything right, but you might just be unfortunate enough to meet the wrong man.
So let's pray against that.
Do not let any man waste your time with endless promises and sweet preeq.
If within one year he has not introduced you to his mother and siblings at least, and told them that you're his girlfriend (not just a friend), then you need to rethink your relationship.
The siblings and mother should also show you that they like you and want you for their brother.
Yes, because if he says a lot of good things about you to them, you'd know from the way they treat and welcome you.
Lastly, please ensure that you cohabit at intervals.
I hope I have made sense to you.
Because you Gen Zs have coconut heads.
Person go dey talk enter one ear, e go dey commot from the other ear.
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