In accord with the biblical injunction, we are asked
to “defend the Faith to the point of shedding blood”. Thus, as Catholic Levites
we “shed” our own blood – not the blood of those we consider to be our enemies
or the opposition but whose activities are engraved in the human rights charter
– and use this blood as a shield and armor for the faith. For this faith, we have
sacrificed everything including wife, children and family irrespective of any
presumption to the contrary.
We do havoc to ourselves, that is, we waste away as
men so that the Faith triumphs. Or, what do you think is the usefulness of a
man or woman in, for instance, the African Tradition who never married nor
raised a family?
In the good old days at Immaculate Conception Seminary,
Umuahia, the story of the “Ewu Akpan’ is significant. Ewu Akpan are burly and appetizing
immoral –and mark this, they have no respect for elders- goats dedicated to a
powerful deity in Ahiaeke, Ndume, Umuahia. Those big goats belong to the gods.
It is a taboo for anyone to kill “Ewu Akpan”. Even when they snatch food from
your mouth, or destroy tubers of yam in the barn, it is required that you
prayerfully drive them away, and never
dare to raise a hand against anyone of them, otherwise, the Akpan Deity will
extract its vengeance. If this is true about a deity, then what more of a
priest of the living God.
Therefore, never you kill a priest, do him any harm.
The Catholic Priesthood is a secret cult for good. He is a Priest, a Prophet
and a King (Ps 110).
That he is not married is not because he is not a man
but because he is really a man. There is no way he tell a woman to wait for him
or marry him because the journey ahead demands every of his attention despite
every insinuation or presumption to the contrary. To fall in love with a woman
to the extent of making a commitment is to risk breaking the woman’s heart
because, it cannot simply work.
Yet I am convinced that he is not yet a man he who has
never experienced the power of a woman’s love. And I strongly believed that a
woman’s maturity is tested by the level of attachment she decides to
appropriate from the comfort of a man’s bedroom.
After all, it takes two to tango.
There is something like Real love. It could be love in
search of perfection; nevertheless, it is real and beyond suspicion. And once
found, no one who appreciates values can let it go. But it requires training in
self-discipline, purity, forgiveness and tolerance to keep it on track. “Be not
like a mule, unintelligent—needing bit and bridle”(Psalms ). The sin to watch
here is lust, fornication, and monumentally, adultery.
I am compelled to believe that, except for the type of
person Jesus Christ of Nazareth was in human flesh – perfect man – the love of
Mary Magdalene could have put her into trouble. And even till now, that issue
lingers in the filthy minds of sexual perverts like lesbians, homosexuals,
harlots, perpetual adulterers and gay marriage apologists. And the only product
that come from those perverted mind s are such despicable items like “The Da
Vinci Code”, blue movies, pornography, murder, alcoholism, murder,
licentiousness, e.t.c.
A Catholic Priest is not first of all a preacher;
neither is he an evangelist nor an exorcist. He is simply a Priest, that is,
for those who understand the meaning of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery.
Yet, it is one huge family where one can find engineers, Medical Personnel,
herbalists, evangelists, Pastors, Preachers, Intercessors, Prayer Warriors,
Professionals, Academicians, e.t.c.
We toe this path because we know that, according to
Alfred North Whitehead, Actual Entities and Novelties, though realities in
their own rights, prepare the ground for the evolution of Reality.
Concrescence, as different from actual entities and novelties, is the term that describes the Reality that
emerges in this way.
Thus, in Whiteheadean process thought of reality,
Concrescence is the total destruction of initial data so as to produce an
evaluative satisfaction, yet nothing is lost but everything is preserved in
Objective Immortality.
Or, put in another way, “unless a crown of wheat falls
to the ground and dies, it will not germinate and bring forth fruits.”
As this work comes to an end, I express my heartfelt
gratitude to the members of the MaryRose Evangellistic Association.
I, unbehalf of MarysRose Organization of Amuke Village,
Isiahaba Autonomous Community, Isiala Ngwa South, Abia State, Nigeria, express
uncensored gratitude to God for his love and the intervention of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, the Our Lady of Fatima, Queen and Patroness of Nigeria.
And to all disciplined spectators in this Theater of
the Absurd, I announce a small review in the recommendations of the Sacred
Deed.
1.
Mr Fidelis Onwubiko – Governor, Abia State.
2.
Isiala – Ngwa South
L.G.A, Aba North, Aba South, Ugwunagbo, Osisioma, Ugwunagbo, Ukwa East and Ukwa
West - No Vacancy.
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