AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MARYSROSE VISION.

(Excerpts of a  Homily preached by Rev. Fr. Kenneth Chinkata Evurulobi on 5th August 2007 as he marked his 10th Year Priestly Anniversary at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Ntigha-uzor, Isiala-Ngwa South, Abia State).

May God be glorified in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!

He alone is the Absolute value who has offered himself in gratuitous love to mankind in the event of the birth, suffering, death and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ. And because the Holy Spirit has come, God is still Immanuel-God with us. To Him alone, and to no other, is due all honor, worship and adoration. He deserves my unalloyed adoration and worship especially today that I officially remember my 10th Year Anniversary in the Catholic Priesthood.

As I remember with nostalgia the events of Sat 12th July 1997 as they affect me as a priest, I strongly re-affirm my gratitude to Bishop Ezeonyia and I am forced to confess my undying love to you my people.

On what actually, some may ask, does Fr. Ken rest his love for us?

Well, I did not come home to my five-bedroom bungalow or to my air-conditioned duplex. I did not come home accompanied by Kings and Queens. If these have been perceived to be the measure of success in today’s world both in the society and in the church, permit me to exercise my inalienable right to belong to the opposition camp. In the exercise of this right, I have had to carry placards even to the doors of many cathedrals and institutions.

Yet, I did not come home empty handed and alone. I have won an unenviable recognition and an unpopular award for preaching the gospel, for I am strongly convinced that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. The proof of this recognition and the award is the sore wound I carry in my life and ministry as a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Aba. Indeed, what an award.

I came home accompanied by a woman whose heart bleeds, and an accursed friend who is condemned to die the most shameful way. The woman is, by special divine arrangement, the mother of my friend. I came home with a mother and her child. The name of the woman is the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. The name of my friend is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In this woman I have a mother, and in her child I have the best of friends.

For the river of the blood of innocent, oppressed, enslaved, dehumanized and broken people of our land and members of our church  that flows to water the appetite of satanists, terrorists and corrupt officials of the Nigerian  state, the Immaculate Heart of our Blessed Virgin Mary bleeds and tears of blood flow from her swollen eyes. For these people too, Jesus Christ offered himself so that they could walk in freedom. For whom the Son sets free is free, indeed.

 Like Mother Mary, it is my concern for my suffering, oppressed and enslaved people that moved me to become a Catholic Priest. No one takes this honor upon himself but everyone is called as Aaron was so as to quicken the work of liberation of the children of God. This work of liberation is the sole mission of Jesus Christ. And for this concern I opted for the priesthood. And for my priesthood to remain authentic, I must be part of Jesus’ struggle for freedom.

The Blessed Virgin Mary does not possess the power to set my people free but she possesses one powerful and effective instrument  which unsparingly draws the attention of her Son to the condition of my people - intercession.  Besides sharing the same concern with this woman for my people, there exists an intimacy between her and me that is born out of love. And for this reason she is my love - my only love, and from her I have received a basket of Golden Roses.

My concern has not been for what I can gain in terms of worldly honor, title and wealth. Instead, it is born out of the love I have for my people, and has been made stronger by the fact that the wish of my love is my command. My concern is a forceful demand of love. And love is crazy; love intoxicates, love is blind. … I love Mother Mary. I love Mary. And to strip me of the opportunity to demonstrate this concern is to strip me of love. Every day of my life I see this plot thicken.

I am convinced that to refuse to love is to accept to die miserably. Whoever lives without love is miserably dead - forever. This is not my portion. The Blessed Virgin Mary is my love! It is a privilege for a poor, unfaithful, ugly, short man like myself to fall in love with the Queen of Heaven. Lost in her love, I have found the most powerful and effective instrument to draw divine attention to my people, to Ngwa land, to Aba Diocese, to Abia State, to Nigeria and to the global community.

Mary is my love. Yet, Mary’s Love is Jesus Christ - that is the love I have received from her. Jesus Christ the son of Mary is my basket of Golden Roses. He is the Rose of Mary. Or, Mary’s Rose. But the form and shape of a Basket of Golden Roses is the form and shape Jesus Christ took when I received Him as a gift from Mother Mary. And when I asked Mummy to help me preserve this Basket of Golden Roses for the whole of my lifetime here on earth, she pointed to the Eucharist.

And while at Eucharistic adoration, I came to discover that Jesus' own Rose is Mary. That is the response when I prayed him to give me his own Rose so that I could complement Mary's own Basket of Golden Roses to me. That is to say that, Jesus’ own Rose is Mary.

 If Mary gives you a rose, that rose is Jesus, but if Jesus gives you a Rose, that Rose is Mary. Rose is the fruit of love. And there is only one love - not my love - but the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is person-love.

The Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Holy Trinity is the personification of Love. Whosoever has Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior has received and appreciated a gift from Mary and has professed his or her love for her consciously or unconsciously - be he/she Catholic, Anglican or Pentecostal. To deny this is the meaning of ingratitude. Not to have realized this could be taken as a pardonable mistake.

Mary, Jesus’ Rose is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. To have love for Mary and appreciate her deeply and sincerely is to have received the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

On the other hand, if we have Mary’s Rose - Jesus Christ - we have the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 It is only when one accepts Jesus Christ - Mary’s Rose - as one's personal Lord and Savior, and asks Him to give  him/her his own Rose (in this case, Mary) that such a person can be said to have received the Holy Spirit.

 In the Catholic Church, I have come to discover Baskets of Mary’s Roses in excess - the sacraments (especially the Eucharist), the pious societies, etc. It is indeed unfortunate and highly regrettable that these baskets of Roses have been cosmetically, rather than sincerely and deeply, appreciated by many. 

If you evil men know how to give good things to your children, would your Heavenly Father not give you the Holy Spirit if you ask Him. In some of the Pentecostal Churches today, especially in the Deeper Life Bible Church and Assemblies of God Church, I have come to discover many who have received Jesus’ Rose and in return, they gave insult to Mother Mary. Therefore, to possess this insight into the two-way traffic of accepting and appreciating the love of God through Mary is imperative at this very critical moment in our national history and in the journey of the new Israel. 

To love Mary is not a crime or idolatry. Love of Mary is the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

The gospels of Luke and Mark dedicated a lot to the honor of Mary, but the practical significance of honor, acceptance and appreciation is not found in Mathew and Luke. Instead, it is found in the gospel of John the evangelist.

On the other hand, the knowledge that Mary should be honored and respected because she is the mother of Jesus Christ without achieving a deeper and sincere practical appreciation of the person of Jesus Christ would constitute the greatest embarrassment and discomfort to Mary herself. Instead of such high honors and respect, Mother Mary prefers that we forget about her and concentrate on Jesus Christ the Son of God and Savior of the World, asking Him to give us the Holy Spirit. 

It is far more grievous to close ourselves to the Holy Spirit than to refuse to honor and respect Mary. 

Behind a disposition of total commitment to the work of evangelism - the radical way - together with far reaching implications of this work for human existence and experience of God, the Book of Revelations boldly underlines the significance of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the future of the new People of God.

John, the author of the Book of Revelation, does not hide his unpretentious love for Mary – Jesus’ Rose to him. That was what was given to John when Jesus said to John "Behold Your Mother". And when he took her home, he discovered more than ever the powerful and countless favors which none of the other disciples could afford. 

 The Holy Mass, that is, the Breaking of Bread, was a daily event in the life of the early Church, but Eucharistic Adoration is a kind of worship that is better appreciated by those who have taken the Blessed Virgin Mary home only to find out that she is the Monstrance of the new dispensation. God took flesh in her womb. Mary is the New Ark who brought God nearer to us and is the one who equally shows Jesus to the world.

The Holy Spirit is a complex reality. Those who wish to get exactly what the Holy Spirit is saying or what He demands must have to listen to Mary with rapt attention because she was the first Christian and the Bride of the Holy Spirit. The way is open for all but then the Holy Spirit does not speak about himself but about somebody – the Son of Mary. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit but the Holy Spirit allowed and permitted for Mary to be called his own bride even though she was betrothed to Joseph. And so, if the Holy Spirit tells you “This is a Black Goat, kill it,” and you look at the goat it is indeed black, you must return to the Holy Spirit and ask him “what does it mean when you say that the goat is black, and how does one kill a black goat.” Those who do not have the ways and means to sustain themselves every day at the realm of the Spirit because the Holy Spirit is a very delicate personality to deal it can always direct this question to Our lady. Our Blessed Lady speaks fluently the language of the Holy Spirit in an accent we humans can understand very easily. The Holy Spirit was prefigured in Isaac’s Blessing for Esau. But the pre-figurement of Mary in the person of Rebecca made the difference for Jacob heard the Holy Spirit loud and clear by virtue of his closeness to his mother. It is true that Esau returned with a game, but “Rabbit” is not and cannot be reconciled to the destiny of the Israelite people as shepherds of the flock. The intervention of Rebecca actually saved a fortune for the emerging generations of future Israel with regards to subversion and inversion of the promise. The Church of the 21st Century must deal with the Isau question squarely especially as this pertains to the 3rd Secret of the Fatima Message if She is to continue to be and remain the true bride of Christ. 

Allowing and submitting himself to be born of the Virgin by the power of the Holy Spirit is what it means to be born again.  Lost in this disposition John discovered the very depths and power of Mary’s Rose and this discovery gave him immunity from violent death despite his aggressive and seemingly insulting utterances.

It is only the spirit of a man that knows him. And the Spirit searches the depth of everything, including the depth of God.

Those who know God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and in addition to this, they appreciate and honor Mary are called blessed. In everything they are blessed. 

As I mentioned earlier on, the authenticity of my priesthood is measured by the level of my commitment to the cause for which Jesus was born and for which He died shamefully on the cross.

 Celibate priesthood is not about priests/religious pursuing women and committing fornication. It is about somebody making a life-time donation of himself to God for the purpose of building up of God’s kingdom. The former may have its social implications but it does not in the least diminish the later. The effect of the former on the latter must not be under evaluated either, and to suppose a total dichotomy between the two would prove fatal also.

However, I am a priest not because I have not committed fornication or because I am holy or perfect, but because I have been called to be another Christ - alter Christus - in the world. The meaning of this ‘call’ (vocare) is not a product of an already worked out definition. Its meaning is an event of evolutionary configuration. 

To say the least, the celibate priesthood is a conscious mystical leap into the abysmal depth of the absolute mystery. To the level a priest maintains and builds up this consciousness; to that extent he assumes the personality of Christ to that extent he wields the super-human powers; to that extent he assumes a value in the scheme of the mystical community. 

A Catholic priest has a double audience to contend with - the human (which includes the society and the visible structures of an organized Church) and the mystical which implies a direct relationship with and total commitment to God through the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ. In trying to respond or react to the priest's involvement with itself, the human society (and sometimes working behind the visible structures of the Church) had gone beyond its limits and set aside every mystically conditioned historical influence to secularize Jesus Christ.

Humanity is not a secularized event. Humanity is an event placed by divine action and is sustained by divine action or grace. To attempt to take humanity out of its divine foundations is to attempt to strip it of grace - its only sustaining ingredient. Once this happens, whatever remains of humanity, despite its attractions and allurements, defines the term “depravity”. 

Humanity in its present arrangement has succumbed to total depravity. Instead of being answerable to God - the absolute mystery and its only source of meaning - humanity is now answerable to itself alone, and has filed for a divorce with God at the Court of Science and Technology.  For this reason, there is a guilty priest. But because there is a guilty priest, especially in Europe/America does not mean there is a guilty church. To hold an opposing view is to assert that the Bride of Christ is guilty, that is, the spiritual reality which is fashioned with the impeccable credentials of Our Lady is guilty. The Blessed Virgin Mary is guilty? Is it correct to impute guilt to Our Blessed Lady despite the fact that one or two of her sons have erred in their human capacity?

If the willing and unwilling instruments of Lucifer are not careful, Americas’ history may turn out to be bitter than that of Israel. And so it is with other powerful countries, institutions and organizations, both visible and secret, that are persecuting the church and plotting her fall.

Because humanity has lost the sense or become unconscious of Mystery, it has lost its identity and has been propelled by science, economics, technology and diplomacy into total depravity. The impact is well heavy on our environment.

As a human organization with visible structures, the church cannot claim to be immune from this loss and its effect. So for the church to retain her true and original identity in the presence of conflicting and contradictory options, and thus remain true to her mission in the world, the mystical experience is an imperative, and the fruits of this experience must be brought to bear on the church's own organizational structures and be disposed to constitute a strong influence on every aspect of humanity. 

Pope Benedict XVI’s fruitful dialogical engagement with the mystical spirituality of St. Benedict must be made to wear the face of Pope John Paul II’s dialogue with the world out there. As Pope John Paul II departed this world as the people’s Pope, the renewal of spirituality in the church must have the character of influence on and must be made relevant to everyday life of the human community. While Benedict XVI’s efforts tend to assert in its most radical sense that Jesus Christ is the sacrament of God, Pope John Paul II’s efforts asserted that the church is the sacrament of Jesus Christ in the world. 

I firmly agree with T.D. Jakes that "when you have found God’s purpose for your life, then you have found the greatest power to achieve the greatest height in life".

 Following the example of Our Lady, I am so much concerned about the condition of my people in Aba, Abia State and Nigeria to the extent that I have allowed myself to trek from Oberete-Asa to CKC, Asa Road Aba; from Obigbo Town to Lagos Park in Port Harcourt, etc because there were serious hold-ups due to lack of accessible roads, yet our governors have billions of naira to buy estates overseas and build private kingdoms. I have known what it means to live on a cup of smoken eba without sugar for weeks even as a priest- student in CIWA doing a doctoral programme and yet as a priest, I was born in the midst of plenty. As a priest, I have known what it means to be abandoned, betrayed, blackmailed and forced out of my rightful family to roam the streets of Aba monitored by university students who have been initiated into secret cults, employed by our government as political thugs and paid hugely with our own resources. Out of concern for my people, I have allowed myself to experience life in public yards where I was denied sleep by mosquito bites and the fear of robbers who operate with sophisticated weapons given to them by our government and our own brothers, who by crook, have managed to achieve a higher but dubious status in our society, yet the police cannot come to our rescue when armed robbers strike because they do not have enough ammunition. I have followed some of my decent friends through their troubles in government and public offices respectively and discovered how, despite the fact of their decency and total dedication to duty, they were relieved of their appointments through false accusations because they refused to be initiated into satanic cults and succumb to immorality and intimidations by people we   hold in unquestionable honor in our society.  I have discovered how the bank accounts of many people have been frustrated and their businesses forced into bankruptcy because they refused to fund a highly questionable organization and other anti-human projects. I have compared all these to the comfort of the presbytery and my air-conditioned car, to the false patronage and pretentious recognition offered me by the rich and powerful, and weighed all these in the scale provided by my friendship with my best friend who is condemned to public execution, having been banished from the affairs of humanity. I have discovered that our leaders, both religious and secular, are flying, and as such, a wide gap has been made to exist between them and the people to whose service they are called; they come back to my people only when they want to rob them again in the name of elections, either with a veiled gun or a decorated pen.

When I look back as a priest, I hear the bitter cry of my oppressed, suffering and enslaved brothers and sisters and see a flock without a shepherd. In my very presence, humanity is being raped and dismembered. Is this not a challenge on my sense of responsibility?

 Like Albert Shweitzer, I myself believe in the future of mankind.

 I may not possess the capacity to rank shoulders with the powers at work in this wanton rape of humanity, but at least, I have the power to put up a challenge. Here my concern has been translated into a struggle. Like Abraham, the friend of God who walked with and embarrassed God with his powerful bouts of intercession on behalf of a doomed nation, I take a departure from and reject the attitude of total pessimism and profound fatalism that have invaded our minds and outlook in life.

Intercession defines my task and constitutes my weapon. And the formidable treasures of our faith constitute my inestimable and inexhaustible resources.

 Given the background of my numerous weaknesses and failures especially as a priest, this struggle has been perceived as an embarrassment to the church, a dishonor to the dignity of the priesthood, a disobedience to my bishop and an insult to the elders and the government.

Even though as a human being who belongs to the human society I must submit to the judgment of men, yet my hope for justification does not rest on my good works and righteousness.  Rather, it rests in the mercy and grace of God who alone is the Supreme Judge, and who alone also holds the final appeal. 

With the Holy Spirit on my side, I have the best advocate ever in history. And if God does not condemn… therefore, I live by grace - not anybody’s grace, but His grace. That is, God’s grace. 

 

And, by His Grace I am what I am. 

In a commentary in Trinity Broadcasting Network concerning the movie One Night with the King, I heard it said that never be afraid to risk your favour in order to accomplish your purpose for God. That’s just what a Jewish girl, Mary did.

 For this struggle, rejection, suffering, oppression, blackmail, treachery, betrayals and manipulations have struggled for a position of significance in my life and ministry, and have made a theatre out of the situation. Nevertheless, the price is worth the struggle. For no price paid for freedom is too high. 

My struggle has never been and can never be reduced to a political struggle. It is larger that politics and social concerns. The contents of my struggle consist in the strong conviction that all men are born equal and free, and the determination to bring this conviction to the consciousness of our leaders. It is, to borrow from Professor Hans Kung, my struggle for freedom. 

This struggle is tied to my person so much so that it constitutes the whole of my life. 

Like Nelson Mandela, I have come to understand that struggle is my life.

 For now this has had only crisis upon crisis to offer me and tangible positive result has not been in sight. At a time at the center of this crisis, I thought God had handed me over to the devil so that I can pay or be punished for my many sins, shortcomings and mistakes but I have come to realize that God was using my weak and fragile frame as an instrument to demonstrate his power in the world. Indeed, I am flattered by this great honor. Immediately Our Lady impressed this message on my psyche, I quickly settled down to the challenges of my life as a priest and a student in CIWA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. And as I stand here, I want to say it that after Jesus and her mother, the priesthood is the best thing that has happened to me in life.

There have been insinuations, fueled by occult propaganda, that I am no longer a priest but a mad man to whom the Bishop has shown unparalleled and unreciprocated love. But I tell you the truth today. This, I must tell you, does not depict the state of affairs with regards to my life and ministry. And you have heard from the horse’s mouth. The truth is that I was exploiting the last and the only option which was available to me to remain alive and my killers took advantage of the hypocrisy of those who are confessedly my collaborators and who should know better.  I would not have lost anything if I had died then for I know whom I have believed. I was not afraid to die. After all, I saw death itself coming and yet I was not threatened. Instead I went ahead with the assignment imposed on my fragile soldiers by freedom. However, if I had died in the course of that "combat", we would never have arrived safely to the frontiers of freedom as we have done today.

But again, as a matter of responsibility and integrity, I would consider the loss of an ecclesiastical title and worldly honour less an affair than the loss of Mother Mary and her son Jesus Christ. The latter is a total disaster and has a greater weight given the fact that no matter what human and ecclesiastical laws say, a priest is a priest forever.

 A life that does not have and cherish Mary has lost a great treasure. A life that has not known the friendship of Jesus Christ is a disaster. 

With Jesus Christ, I have searched for the TRUTH, and in him I have found, not only the truth, but also the way and the life.

Also, I have been accused of desiring to be a governor. I want to affirm here that the desire and the determination to live the celibate priesthood without deceptions or pretenses means that one is a governor already. One wants to govern the self, the world and indeed the whole of creation. One wants to be part of the government of the eternal divine consciousness. I think I am guilty here, according to the judgment of men. I think I have the ambition of becoming a governor, but not the governor of Abia State or even the Bishop of any place, but the governor of myself - my untamed, unruly, dis-orchestrated and wayward SELF. I want to conquer it and bring it to total submission to God.  The task of combining my struggle with the responsibility for the SELF has turned out to be a herculean and a seemingly insurmountable task which has come to make a mockery of my resources. And for this reason, my life has been turned into a written apology to the Church, to my bishop, to my fellow priests, to my kinsmen, to my friends, including ladies and gentlemen outside of the religious circle. But then, when I realize that it is not by power nor by might but by the spirit, I dare to raise my voice to rebuke cowards and critics as well as my well- wishers who do not know the will of God for my life.

There is no stopping half-way in this struggle. I may have lost out in two or more battles, yet the war is not over until it is over.

 I have seen my vulnerability and have seen its deepest source. But like President George Bush, jnr would say, I am answering new dangers with firm resolve. No matter how long and difficult the tasks,  I will fight the enemy - the SELF, and lift the shadow of fear out of my life and ministry and lead my people to victory, not by my power, but by His grace.

Follow me to reason further along with President George Bush, jnr. As a nation, Nigeria as the giant of Africa has accepted obligations in Africa that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon. And by this democratic dispensation, Nigerians have lit a fire as well – a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our great continent. This is possible because I believe. And because I belief, everything is possible, I am operating on a faith frequency. And I have come to discover that while only God can create something out of nothing, man can create something out of nothing by faith. Are you all not familiar with the provisions of Hebrews; Chapter eleven. And so by faith, I have seen true and great leaders being appointed to election in Nigeria and beyond. 

I cease this opportunity to pray for General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd.

It has never been and would never be my intention to destroy anybody’s life’s ambition. But I am only concerned that the foundation for an overwhelming pretentious ambition be not laid on my grave stone when it is not yet time for me to own a grave. 

I am a very peaceful person. Violence is one of the things I detest most in life because violent people always end up wearing clothes with the violet color. And in my Church, violet color, on the one hand, signifies mourning and sorrows as in, for instance, funeral or Lent. From another angle, it signifies great expectations as in, for instance, Advent. If those vultures and enemies of my poor and oppressed people who have hidden behind ecclesiastical and political gabs in Aba and Abia State suggest that we wear clothes with violet colors, then I am willing and ready. However, the picture must be clear to them – while they are mourning and sorrowing, I would be expecting something. I would be having great expectations. This is because they are a direct opposite of what I profess and represent. 

Today, I re-emphasize my stand regarding the just concluded 2007 general election in Nigeria. I insist with abundant proofs and facts that the original seeds of a truly people’s democratic party should be forced out of the masquerading fingers of a wicked and dictatorial president and a prodigal governor - Chief Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo and Sir Dr. Peter Odili. If these two people insist that these seeds trapped in between their ambitions should not be released to Nigerians, then Nigerians have to look elsewhere for an alternative. Any candidate that has emerged as a president or a vice-president following from the manipulations of the Peoples Demonic Party or the recommendations of the former members of BOT of the party especially the two most notorious ones among them, constitute the greatest security risks to our democracy and to our collective destiny as one nation bound in freedom. This is true whether these candidates are aware of this or not, or whether they had prayed and worshiped at the grotto of Our Lady. A Lucifer is always a Lucifer and remains so even if he/she mimics the regalia of Our Blessed Virgin or covets the tittle of a cardinal, a bishop or that of a General Overseer. For by their fruits we shall know them.

Against the many calls for the criminal and public disgrace of our former president Chief Mathew Olusegun Obasanjo and the ‘orjian’ antics that have been employed to the achievement of this end, I call for a national and international appreciation of the far reaching contributions Chief Obasanjo has made and is still poised to make to the growth and development of our nation by way of a special honor and award.

As a priest, I have personally dedicated seven days prayer (including my daily masses) to the vindication, recognition and in honor of our former President Mathew Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo.

 Do we actually condemn and crucify Obasanjo who put his life in danger even to the point of death in order to give authentic meaning and direction to Nigeria even though he made huge but pardonable mistakes? Moreover, those mistakes and the so called financial crimes, when properly investigated, would be found to be serious acts of frightening betrayals and scores of strong sabotage which the former president had suffered from the hands of his so-called political benefactors and benefactress. Given the amount of naivety that clung around him as a result of his incarceration in the Abacha gulag and taking cognizance of the treacherous and pretentious benevolence of the former gap-toothed general who nursed an ambition, did Obasanjo hold any visionary resources except for his zeal for the unity and development of Nigeria? Anyone who had read the handwriting on the wall and interpreted this correctly will agree with me that, in concrete terms, there was no Nigeria before Obasanjo came to power in 1999. So if despite the threats of the danger of death and possibility of turning the weapons he had made against the real enemies of Nigeria against himself, he persisted and insisted on Anti-corruption and developmental policies, I  think he has tried and in fact, succeeded considerably. What remains is to water these policies and sustain them until they mature and begin to bear fruits. After all, it took close to 35 years to demolish and destroy Nigeria. And this does not fall within the Obasanjo regime as a military head of state.

In fact, genuine and credible students of history will discover that if Obasanjo left the state in a hurry during his tenure as a military head of state, he actually left no one in doubt about his conviction that military government is not the best option for Nigeria. The place to establish the true and original contributions of Obasanjo’s government to the growth and development of Nigeria can only be from his second tenure in office after a cursory look has been taken at the first tenure. The blackmail, betrayals and travails suffered by the former president during the 2003 general elections and later in the second tenure can be explained by his insistence and persistence to be a man and the head of his own government as well as the president and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, rather than the status of a mere appendage to an overarching pretentious ambition which a demonic infested political party allocated to him.

Former president Obasanjo did make a lot of mistakes. And in the murky political waters and slippery diplomatic terrains marked strongly along strong ethnic antiphons, such mistakes are not unpardonable since they are unfortunate fall outs of credible and responsible governance. To draw a tangential analysis would serve to throw more light on this issue. How many Yorubas are happy with Obasanjo. He had to destroy A.D, immobilize NADECO, Afenifere, etc so as to spare some oil for the wheels of the Nigerian nation? Unfortunately for these over-ambitious vultures he is surrounded with, Obasanjo refused to hand over these prisoners of his political war to them, and instead put them at the disposal of the nation. 

Again he pulled the red carpets from their feet and issued them with a free passport to EFCC’s office. To be fair, I think Obasanjo has fought the enemies of Nigeria unsupported and with bare hands. To turn against him now at the heat of this war behind the iron cotton, because there is no food on our table would amount to a public disgrace of our father because his yam-farm is not yet due for harvest. If Obasanjo could do this to the Yorubas who have nothing to loose if Nigeria collapses today, then those who are committed to authenticity as members of the different ethnic groups must also realistic. 

Today the reading advices us to identify and firmly rebuke the enslaving and dishourable antics of greed. No wonder in the gospel of today, Jesus Christ refused to interfere in the quarrel between two members of a certain family.  Nigerians here and abroad, whether they be Igbos or Yorubas or Hausas or Niger Deltans, etc must resist the call for intervention from some disgruntled and greedy vultures who belong to a certain political family. The fact that you are Igbo does not make you a member of that family. The membership of that family cuts across ethnic, party, professional, business, political and religious designations and rests on something evil. We must learn to rebuke such calls. Obasanjo may not be a lover of Ndigbo but he is not a threat to Nigeria and to the entire humanity. He may have a human body with a wicked heart but he is not a Lucifer.

Between a wicked heart in an ailing body and the benevolence of Lucifer, what do Ndigbo prefer?

If in truth there are about three cardinals in the College of Cardinals who have been admitted into the World Union (a.k.a 666) and have, therefore, acquired the “I” personality, and if in actual fact there is a provision for each member of the World Union to communicate his personality – in this case the personality of Lucifer – to other nine people of his choice who are occupying the rank next to that of the 666 in the gradation of the World Union (whether these people belong to Royal Ogboni Fraternity, Raw Ogboni Fraternity, The Economist, The Government, The Trinity, CFR, e.t.c. and irrespective of religion, gender or race), there is every likelihood that the College of Bishops has been infiltrated with more than a dozen  Satanists. This also applies to both the men and women religious with regards to the different religious congregations. That a bishop, a religious or a theologian is a progressive or a conservatist does not change anything and will not. It is rather about conspiracy against Jesus Christ and the faith – the new apostasy. If one biblical Judas was able to do as much harm in the College of Bishops when the College had only twelve members, then think of what a dozen of Judases can do in the Church. 

Yet, the picture in the Separated Churches, in Pentecostalism and in other religions like Islam has been consciously left in the shadows. This is the reason why many are very skeptical about the new Ecumenism and an unevaluated rapid interfaith co-operation.

At the astral/mystical level, praying the Rosary is the most easiest way of speaking in tongues – one interacts and dialogues with the Holy Spirit in the language of the woman who is his (Spirit) bride. 

The Blessed Virgin Mary is real and experiential.

The Church must re-visit and be realistic with regards to the Fatima Message. This is the Message of My Anniversary to the Hierarchy of the Local and Universal Church.

 And I will stand by this Message now and at all times.

May God bless You!

May Godbless members of the Evurulobi Family!

And may He, in his infinite Mercy, save the Church and our nation from total depravity!

Thank you !