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Most Rev. Gabriel 'Leke Abegunrin
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Reflections/Homilies

The Feast of St Mark, the Evangelist

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
 1 Pet. 5:5-14, Mk 16:15-20. Today we celebrate the Evangelist Mark who wrote the earliest of the four Gospels. Papias, an early Church writer describes Mark as assistant to Peter in Rome and translated Peter’s Aramaic sermons so that the Roman Christians could understand. According to Papias, after Peter&rsqu..

No one can Snatch them out of My Hand

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
 Acts 11:19-26, Jn 10:22-30. Today’s Gospel describes how Jesus spoke of our eternal future while teaching in the precincts of the Temple: “I give them eternal life and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” Thus, someone asked him: “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are Christ,..

I Am the Sheep Gate

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Mon, 22 Apr 2024
Acts 11:1-18, Jn 10:1-10. Today’s first reading relates Peter’s encounter with the Gentiles. Going out from Jerusalem to coastal Caesarea to tend Christ’s flock, he found himself addressing a Gentile household. Peter discovered that their baptism was not their first time to receive the Holy Spirit, for ..

The Good Shepherd is here to protect us as His flock

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Sun, 21 Apr 2024
 Acts 4:8-12, 1 Jn 3:1-2, Jn 10:11-18. As we celebrate the Good Shepherd on this Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B, the Church invites us to imitate Christ, the good and true Shepherd. In today’s first reading, Peter speaks of the stone that was rejected by the builders becoming the keystone of the building. Ther..

It is the Spirit that gives Life

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Sat, 20 Apr 2024
 Acts 9:31-42, Jn 6:60-69. Through the Easter season the risen Christ brings life to what seemed dead within us, to make our faith blossom again. We can have a kind of spiritual rebirth, like the woman in Lydda who was revived by Peter in today’s first reading narrative. Her name was Dorcas and her spirit of c..

The Loving Kindness and Enduring Fidelity of God is Everlasting

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Fri, 19 Apr 2024
Acts 9:1-20, Jn 6:52-59. Two of the qualities that are the hallmarks of God throughout the Scriptures are “the loving kindness and enduring fidelity.” These two qualities are reflected in the second verse of today’s Psalm: “For steadfast is God’s kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the L..

I am the Living Bread come down from Heaven

By REV. FR. SAMUEL FREDERICK
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
Acts 8:26-40, Jn 6:44-51. Today’s first reading describes how God draws the Ethiopian eunuch towards the faith, before ever he met with Philip on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. Like the Ethiopian officer we are called to be “God-fearers” who draw near to God and seek to know what life expects of us. L..


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