Sr. Cecilia Ezinne Chidimma

Once a Lawyer was traveling by train from *Abuja to Kaduna*. When the train started, he realized he was traveling alone in the business class. A few minutes later, *a beautiful lady* came and sat in the opposite seat! The lady kept smiling at him and eventually she sat next to him .... *the lawyer* kept bubbling with Joy. She then leaned towards him and *whispered* in his ear ... _"Hand over all your cash, cards, and mobile phone to me, else I will shout and tell everybody that you are harassing and misbehaving with me. The Lawyer stared blankly at her!!🙄 He took out a paper and a pen from his bag and wrote " _I am sorry, I can not hear or speak ... Please write on this paper whatever you want to say_" The lady wrote everything that she had said earlier and gave it back to him! The Lawyer took her note, kept it nicely in his pocket ... got up, and told her in clear tones ... *" _Now SHOUT & SCREAM!!!_ "* Moral of the story: *DOCUMENTATION IS VERY IMPORT...

Love refers to the movement of the heart towards that which pleases one's heart. Love is an intense feeling of affection and care towards another person. A deep or abiding likeness for something. A profound and caring attraction towards someone. A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. All these I mean when I say I love you. So, I love how you handle issues. I love your philosophy of life. I love your temperament. I love your spirit of team work (cooperation) I have intense feeling of affection towards your fatherly affection. I have intense feeling of affection towards your forgiving spirit. I have intense feeling of affection towards your respectfulness. I have intense feeling of affection towards your easy-going way of life. I feel loved with you. I feel like an eagle by your side. I feel so rich in your company. I feel like I am in the air by your side. I have deep liking for your intelligence. I have deep liking for your style of smile. I have deep liking for...

A cross and a crown are two faces of the same coin. They are like identical twins. One does not come without the other because they are fussed together. They are always in the same line that you must meet one after the other. It also follows that the cross in our Christian journey in bearing witness to the gospel comes first then follows, the crown as a sign of victory over our human frailty and challenges. Where either of these two is lacking please check the next door, something is not okay or normal there. Falsehood maybe the case, and it will give birth to deceiption and regrets. A crown that is preceded by cross is usually authentic and sets the bearer apart (unique) and increases his glory.

Group your ideas as they come in order to make meaning out of them. Group your successes as they come in order to find a reason to continue to make effort. Group your weaknesses, your setbacks as they occur in order to be attentive to the way forward or way out of them or in order to over come them. Give your time to reflection on your endeavours in order to make headway in life. Never leave anything out of consideration for better result in life. And in doing this, it will set you apart and increase your glory.

Introduction O Lord Jesus we wish to follow the way which you went through to bring about our salvation, through it strengthen our souls so that we may remain faithful to you. †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† FIRST STATION JESUS IS CONDEMNATION TO DEATH We adore... Because by your... Pilate condemned our Lord to death for crime he did not commit Prayer: Father through the merits of this station grant us the grace of self-denial and unconditional love for you and our neighbors. Our father... †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† SECOND STATION JESUS CARRIED THE CROSS We adore you... Because by your... Our Lord accepted the cross for the salvation of our souls. Prayer: O God we offer you this station for perseverance in carrying our daily cross after the example of Christ your son. Hail Mary.... †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† THIRD STATION JESUS' FIRST FALL. We ador...

  False love here means those whose conception was not from mutual agreement between the two parties/persons that made their  conception possible, while true love in the other hand, implies where mutual agreement was the circumstance behind the conception.We would have not come into existence if love had not existed.  So love exists. It is real. Love is the reality of life. I don't know why you feel  and what goes on in your mind whenever you hear about this word love, but I know it's a beautiful phenomenon. I mean  "Beauty-ful". Its component is so great and enomous. It is the beauty of love that brought about humankind which in Igbo language is called "Mmadu"-mma ndu. This literally means the "beauty of life." Love  made this beauty of life possible.  God's love made creation of humankind possible. Man's love made procreation possible. Love brings about beautiful things. Love changes situations. It makes more beautiful the efforts of huma...

"An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person is term love." Celebration of  love is in the air. Love is with us. Love is from us. Love lives in us. Love is our nature. Love is our source. Love is the cause of our being. Love is everywhere. Love cannot be seen outside humankind. Love rules our heart. Love rules our being. Love is all we get. Love is the breath we breathe. Love is here. Love! Love!! Love!!! Love, are you real? What is your evidence?  Love, do you exist? Where are you? Love, do you have eyes? Can you see us? Love, do you have ears? Can you hear what is done in your name? Love, do you have heart? How do you feel about the word's notion of you? Do you know (have) love? From where does your knowledge of it spring? Do you feel loved? From whom does it  come to you? From whom do you feel that? Do you love? To whom do you show love?  Do you teach love? In what manner do you do that? Do you love genuinely? How do you express it? Where is th...

Reflection of Friday of the 5th week in ordinary time (12/02/2021)  Reading Gen 3:1-8, Gospel; Mark 7:31-37  By Brother Charles Akaeme SDV  “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable” As we can see since this week the church in her wisdom has been presenting to us the book of Genesis, the creation story. In the first reading of today we can see the fall of mankind. The problem Eve had was that she wanted to be like God. She wanted to be another thing apart from what God created her to be. She was not happy, satisfied, she was not contented with how God made/created her; oh she was not happy with herself. Brethren you are unique and incomparable with another person. A person, according to Aquinas, in his Summa (first part), is the whole or totality of the individual in his or her concreteness, uniqueness and unrepeatability. Aquinas also has it that a person is absolutely and relationally constituted. That i...

A woman was recounting her experience with people one day, and she made a list of what people have said to her and how she felt in those moments. These are her words they said to her: You gave meaning to my life. What could I have done without you? With you by my side I have done greatly. The moment I came in contact with you my life changed for good. I would have been dead by now if not you. I feel like I am on top of the world with you as my partner. I never knew I could do this if not for your encouragement. You added value to my life. You are different. You have been there for me and I have not lacked anything. I never knew there are still people like you. And she said she used to feel doing more for people whenever she is approached in this manner, because of the meaning she has been giving to people she encounters. She made impact in their lives through the way she confronts even an ideas in their lives. How many of these exclamations have been addressed to you? Can y...

A boy on his way back home from their city garden met a friend of his coming from the same direction with him and asked, Frid where are you going to? I saw you in the City Garden where you were sitting, O! I didn't see you! Did you notice the changes in the garden? No, I didn't. Did you see the beautiful new flowers that was imported last week which was announced in the news broadcast. Yes, I heard the news but I didn't see them there. The guards at the garden were looking cute in their newly made uniforms did you notice that? Not really, next time I go there I will look at them painstakingly. I took some photo shoots of those new things that I saw there, they all look pretty. I didn't, maybe next time.Okay Frid, see you tomorrow in school. Bye! Jerry. Frid was absolutely absent to his environment. He was equivalent to log of wood. He was present but not living. All the realities around him, he didn't observe. All he did was to be procrastinating. He was not doci...

Peace is what everyone can offer but it is difficulty to initiate where there is no trust. Many long for, and desire to live peacefully, but lack of trust either from oneself or from others stunts such an idea. There is no headway where there is a lack of trust. The harder one tries, the more difficult it becomes. Lack of trust makes creativity impossible. Moreover, whoever does not believe in you will always find reason not to accept your ideas, efforts and whatever that comes from you. Remember, that if you are not trusted or believed in, it should not change who you are; as far as you are doing the right thing. Hold fast, do not lose heart. Nothing is permanent in this world ; only change that is constant. That you are not trusted today does not mean that tomorrow will be the same. That you are not trusted here does not mean you will face the same thing there. Today is this person, tomorrow, it must be another. Hold on to who you are. Remember : Don't change. And by so doi...

It is only when you feel the need of the other that you can think of helping out and propose solutions to that very situation. When God sensed the need of the Israelites for food,he took them to Egypt and when it became problematic for them in Egypt, through the hardship inflicted on them by the Egyptians under the leadership of Pharaoh, God saw the need to lead them out of their (Egyptians) land. And He worked wonders just to give solution to their needs.This analogy does not neglect the fact that the whole movement and history of the tribe of Israel was all divinely planned by God to set apart a people for Himself and for the purpose of bringing a solution to needs of human kind. Preach the message now in a way that it can be understood easily and followed, by living it out. You have answer to the Necessity of now and when you do this human race will have new face, a unique one at that and your fame will spread like fragrance.

Take little pain and enjoy greatly, get bigger reward. Pain is not pleasurable, it is not desirable, not enjoyable, not palatable, but it's a reality that must necessarily come one's way if he desires greatness, success, first class, uniqueness, appraisal, true happiness and so much more. A girl was asked one day by friends, why are you looking this slim, meanwhile she used to be plumpy. What did you do to get slim? What did you eat? Being a student preparing for exams, she pointed to her reading desk filled with books and added, "this is what I have been doing and eating to be this way." When they insisted to know her secret, she further explained to them that during exam time she eats less in order to feel light and have more time for study rather than sleeping, for she knows that she has the habit of sleeping heavily. The secret to her own examination success is taking the pain of not eating too much. She takes little pain to enjoy her study and possibly co...

The word of God in you is the hope of the world's glory, consolation, and healing. Bear the right fruit that is expected of you and trouble will lessen in the world, among humanity. Love genuinely so that the fruit of your love may change the condition of the world, "renew the face of the earth". What you have is enough to lift the people you can reach to another level, in terms of solving their problems, showing them the way forward. You have the message of hope that humanity seeks, your faith can give them hope. And the question is, do you have faith? What is your motion about yourself? What is the place of God in your life? What is your belief about the world in which you live, do you see it's quandary, it's dilemma, it's needs and worries? Or is everything okay, normal, alright in your own view? "A problem known is half solved." A known problem is already in the verge or process of being solved. And the question goes again; do you feel the prob...