Month: February 2016
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BEYOND THE BURNING BUSH: THE CALL FOR FRUITFULNESS HOMILY FOR THE 3RD SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR C) Rev. Fr. Boniface Nkem Anusiem PhD
The sense of sight can be said to be the most exciting of all the external senses. We always wish to see and to see clearly. Even after hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting, we often still demand to see and to see closely. Notably, whatever we see can either build or destroy us; it can […]
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TRANSFIGURATION: THE CALL FOR POSITIVE CHANGE. HOMILY FOR THE 2ND SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR C) Rev. Fr. Boniface Nkem Anusiem PhD
Change! Change!! Change!!! This is the usual political mantra that characterises the manifestos of most opposing parties in relation to any ruling party. In 2008, Barack Obama came up with the democratic challenge: “Yes We Can!” While proposing a CHANGE from the redundancy of the Republicans. The phenomenon of change was not strange during the […]
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OVERCOMING THOSE TEMPTATIONS! HOMILY FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR C) REV. FR. BONIFACE NKEM ANUSIEM PhD
Sometime ago in a certain city, a man was caught at a motor garage with a bag containing the mutilated and decaying body of a child of about six years. He actually refused to drop the bag in the trunk of the bus he boarded and was thus making the sitting arrangement difficult. The […]
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THE ASH AND YOUR LENTEN OBSERVANCE: A REFLECTION FOR ASH WEDNESDAY REV. FR. BONIFACE NKEM ANUSIEM PhD
Sometime in July 2014, at the early hours of the morning, my mobile phone rang. I knew it was going to be something unusual when I saw the name of the caller. I answered with so much apprehension. The caller’s voice was highly agitated so I had to ask her to calm down. […]
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EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST AND EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE: HOMILY FOR THE 5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF THE YEAR (C). Rev. Fr. Boniface Nkem Anusiem PhD
In the early hours of the 5th of October 2012 something gruesome happened in a small community in Rivers State, Nigeria. Four young boys went to ask for a refund of the money one of them paid to a housing agent who failed to secure a housing accommodation for him in the neighbourhood of their school. […]