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Old age is a gift 🎁from God. Let's join Hands ✋to take care our Elderly parents ❤💙💕

HISTORY Is Made Today as
Pope establishes World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Pope Francis has decided to institute a Church-wide celebration of a World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Starting this year 2021, it will be held on the fourth Sunday of July, close to the liturgical memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus.
By Vatican News staff reporter

Following the Angelus on Sunday January 31st, Pope Francis announced the institution of World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will take place each year on the fourth Sunday in July, close to the feast of Sts Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus.

Recalling the upcoming feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple – when the elderly Simeon and Anna encountered the child Jesus and recognized Him as the Messiah – Pope Francis said, “the Holy Spirit even today stirs up thoughts and words of wisdom in the elderly.” The voice of the elderly “is precious,” he said, “because it sings the praises of God and preserves the roots of the peoples.”

The elderly, he continued, “remind us that old age is a gift and that grandparents are the link between the different generation, to pass on to the young the experience of life.”

The elderly must not be forgotten
The Holy Father said he instituted the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly because “grandparents are often forgotten, and we forget this wealth of preserving roots and passing on” what the elderly have received.

He emphasized the importance of grandparents and grandchildren getting to know one another, because “as the prophet Joel says, grandparents seeing their grandchildren dream,” while “young people, drawing strength from their grandparents, will go forward and prophesy.”

Wishing our elderly parents and Grandparents more Healthy years ahead 🙏.
Let's Join Hands to Care for Them

Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalen 22nd July

Input by Alvan I. Amadi
July 16, 2019

According to the Gospel, the first person to encounter the risen Christ is the female disciple Mary of Magdala, also known as Mary Magdalene. John recounts the amazing story in the Gospel passage proclaimed at Easter Sunday Mass: “On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb” (Jn 20:1).

Nothing in the Gospel occurs by mere chance. It is highly significant that in a society where men wielded power in almost every aspect of life, Christ chose a woman to be the first to see him after his resurrection and to announce the news to his apostles.

Christ chose a woman to be the first to see him after his resurrection and to announce the news to his apostles.

Underscoring this significance, three years ago Pope Francis elevated the memorial of St. Mary Magdalene, traditionally observed on July 22, to the status of a feast day. In this way, the pope accorded a dignity to the liturgical celebration of St. Mary Magdalene similar to that of the apostles, who are each celebrated as feasts.
This recognition was long overdue to a woman famously called the “apostle of the apostles” by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Pope Francis’ act demonstrated the church’s respect for the dignity of women. Women make up a large majority of volunteers, catechists, religious educators, faith formation leaders, sacristans and others who do so much for our church, and Mary Magdalene is most qualified to be an example and a source of inspiration to them.

Saint Mary Magdalen, Pray for Us🙏

20th July 1969:
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

Happy feast of The Immaculate heart of Mary.
This is the heart that is Nearest to the Heart of Jesus and the first tabernacle of Christ. May her Tender and compassionate heart draw God's Mercy and Love upon our Broken World 🙏

Monday 14, December 2020
Third Week of Advent Year B
Memorial of St. John of the Cross
Num. 24:2-7,15-17; Mt.21:23-27

WHAT AUTHORITY HAVE YOU?

Good morning my dearly beloved child of God. Hope you’re fine in the Lord? God is always there for us. We are God’s own. Jesus is our best teacher in everything. He cares for us more than we care for ourselves. So, another new day with new opportunities has come, let us rejoice and be glad and not worry too much.

We know what a dilemma is. It is a perplexing situation in which a choice has to be made between alternatives that are equally undesirable.

Going by that definition. it may be said that it is a choice of the best among the worst. In today's gospel, that was the situation that the the chief priests and the elders found themselves in.

They challenged Jesus' authority, but, in turn, found themselves being challenged and in a dilemma as to how to answer that question of Jesus.

Thus, the gospel puts it: What authority have you for acting like this? And who gave you this authority?’ ‘And I’ replied Jesus ‘will ask you a question, only one; if you tell me the answer to it, I will then tell you my authority for acting like this. John’s baptism: where did it come from: heaven or man?’

Jesus question sets them into confusion and they argued it out this way among themselves, ‘If we say from heaven, he will retort, “Then why did you refuse to believe him?”; but if we say from man, we have the people to fear, for they all hold that John was a prophet.’ So their reply to Jesus was, ‘We do not know.’

So they ended up choosing the worst of the worst alternatives with that reply: We do not know. Or in simple terms : No comment. What about us? In the face of such dilemma, are you like the Chiéf priests and the elders? Or are you like Christ?

In today’s first reading, we hear of another dilemma. The pagan prophet Balaam was tasked to curse Israel, but when the Spirit of God came upon him, he faced a dilemma, but made the choice to revoke his curse and instead bless Israel.

Whenever we face a dilemma, we think of the worst case scenarios and try to choose the one that will result in the least problems and difficulties.

But when we put the dilemma into the hands of God and ask the Spirit to guide us, then we will see the best case scenarios because we know that in each alternative there is growth and enlightenment.

So whenever we face a dilemma, let us not curse the alternatives that we have to choose. Rather, let us ask the Lord for His blessings and also ask the Spirit to guide us in making a choice.

Every dilemma, remember, is an opportunity to experience the blessing and the guidance of God. So let us understand this, and in our word and actions, live it out and God will be our security and protector in all things and indeed his blessings will overshadow us now and always in Jesus name amen.

Be blessed and loved always dearest child of God as we struggle together by His help. Just be happy and don't worry dear child of God. Let Christ worry for you. Praying for you always.

A CHRISTIAN IS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY PERSON BUT A CHILD OF GOD! HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND LOVELY NEW WEEK MY DEAR CHILD..

SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS, PRAY FOR US

OUR LADY OF NIGERIA, PRAY FOR US.

JESUS THE SAVIOUR HAVE MERCY ON US AND GRANT US SUCCESS

KEEP SAFE, STAY SAFE BUT ALWAYS TRUST IN GOD

Fr. Chukwunonyelum N

Happy feast of All Saints. May the Saints obtain for us the grace to be truly Christ-like so when we die we see God face to face 🙏

Saint of the Day: St. Teresa of Avila.

Almighty God, our Father, you sent Saint Teresa of Ávila
to be a witness in the Church to the way of perfection.
Sustain us by her spiritual doctrine,
and kindle in us the longing for true holiness. Amen

Saint of the Of the Day: St. Jerome

St. Jerome, Latin in full Eusebius Hieronymus, pseudonym Sophronius, (born c. 347, Stridon, Dalmatia—died 419/420, Bethlehem, Palestine; feast day September 30), biblical translator and monastic leader, traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and about 389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His numerous biblical, ascetical, monastic, and theological works profoundly influenced the early Middle Ages. He is known particularly for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, and is considered a doctor of the church.

Famous Quote "Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of God "

Today we are Celebrating the birthday of a woman that played a very important role changing the Narrative of our Salvation HISTORY. God protected her from the stain of Original sin because the mother of God must be spotless since God is sinless. May she help us to Renew the face of the earth especially at this challenging moment in the history of the world Amen.

The Origin of Gregorian calendar

Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar

Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that made his name famous.

October 4, 1582 — Julius Caesar famously came, saw and conquered and was a brilliant Roman general. But he wasn’t very good at sums. And the calendar that he devised in 46 BC – named the Julian calendar in his honour – was flawed, even though it was to last for 1,600 years.

The problem was that Caesar had calculated that a year lasted for 365 days and six hours. But this did not properly reflect the actual time it takes the Earth to circle once around the Sun, known as a tropical year.

In fact it is only 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds. Not much difference, but enough, 1,600 years later, to have put the world astray by a whole week.

So it was on this day that Ugo Buoncompagni, an Italian better known as Pope Gregory XIII, introduced a new calendar – the Gregorian calendar – which would iron out the Julian discrepancies, eventually become widely accepted and is the calendar in use today across much of the world.

Gregory needed to lose a few days so under his new system October 4, 1582 was followed the next day by 15 October. And he decreed that New Year’s Day should be moved from 1 April to 1 January.

Then there was the question of leap years – those containing 366 days and necessary to keep the calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the Sun. Gregory calculated that if we didn’t add a leap day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours off the calendar every year. After only 100 years it would be astray by 24 days!

But he also modified Caesar’s concept of a leap year precisely every four years, which is too many. The Gregorian calendar uses a much more accurate method for calculating leap years and stipulates that century years, even though divisible by four, are not leap years. The exceptions are those that can be divided by 400. Thus, 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 was not.

The Gregorian calendar was to become accepted worldwide, even though some countries stuck out for Julian. The UK did not accept Gregory until 1752, whereas Greece held out until 1923. The last convert was Turkey, which finally accepted the Gregorian calendar in 1927.

Published: August 23, 2019