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Good Friday
We believe say no suffering wey we join to Christ suffering for Cross dey waste. Suffering be like where road divide: e fit make our soul deep pass before (we dey see this one for other people eyes), or e fit make bitterness full our heart. Christ for Cross dey show us the way—na to give our suffering to our Lord. Together with Christ, we dey talk say, “For Your hands, O Lord, I put my spirit.”
Easter
You don ever think am say we start life with the whole “package?” For our Baptism (wey most of us receive when we still be small babies), we become God beloved children. Easter dey remind us of this one. As Saint Paul talk, “So, as people wey God don choose, make una put on…” (Colossians 3:12). True-true, na people wey God don choose we be. Easter dey call each one of us to live as who we truly be: people wey God don choose.
April 1
For 2 Corinthians 12, Saint Paul talk about him “thorn for body” wey e pray three times make God remove, but our Lord no remove am. We no know wetin Saint Paul “thorn for body” be, but I glad say we no know, because each of us get our own thorn, to remind us, together with Saint Paul, say “God grace dey enough for us.”
April 2
God dey call us to forgive, and especially, I go talk say, to do the thing wey hard pass: to forgive yourself. We hope say forgiveness go become for us, no be just something wey we dey do once in a while, but virtue wey don become part of our life, so that we dey forgive almost all the time. When we forgive ourselves and other people, we dey make God love work for our hearts.
April 3
One phrase dey wey get something to teach us: “To make our moral life dey together as one.” E mean say we need to live with integrity for our moral life. Na we need to adjust our life to God, no be God go adjust to us. That one no easy, because all of us dey struggle well-well with putting ourselves first and with pride, but na only God suppose direct our lives.
April 4
The secret of spiritual life na to wake up. Evil want keep us for sleep.
To grow as Christian, we need to dey make effort all the time. Every day, either I dey grow closer to God or I dey drift farther from Am. I no dey ever just stand for one place. As the saying go, “The main thing na to show face!”
April 5
The part for Catechism of the Catholic Church wey talk about prayer really wonderful. Dem tell us say the temptation wey dey come pass for prayer na our lack of faith, wey dey show through the things wey we actually choose to put first (CCC #2732). We dey “prefer” one thousand work or worries to prayer. Think about that one!
April 6
The Catechism of the Catholic Church give us three important facts about prayer wey good to think about:
- We fit pray at any time. (CCC #2743)
- Prayer na something wey we truly need to live. If we no let Holy Spirit lead us, we go fall back under slavery of sin. (CCC #2744)
- Prayer and Christian life no fit separate from each other. (CCC #2745)
April 7
E good to dey remember say God dey with us all through the day. Just to dey repeat the Name “Jesus” often, with peace for our heart, dey help us do this one.
April 8
For most of us, loneliness na part of old age. But loneliness fit lead us to meet God for deeper way. We fit carry our loneliness come meet God and pray “from” there. Carry those prayers come meet Christ for the great suffering wey E pass through for the garden—na there E drink the cup of loneliness reach the deepest part.
April 9
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux write to her sister Céline say: “As I see am, God no need years to do His work of love for person soul. One ray of light from His heart fit, for just one moment, make His flower bloom for all eternity.” Sometimes as we dey grow old, we fit dey grieve say we don waste our lives. These words from Saint Thérèse dey bring wonderful comfort for that grief.
April 10
Eternity no dey boring. When we don get answers to all our questions, and all our needs don meet, we no go dey pursue anything again, and we go see God face to face. Boredom no go be problem.
April 11
Sometimes, we fit feel sad because everything dey pass and the greater part of our life don pass. But na this time wey dey pass so fast dey carry us go Heaven. If time dey move more slowly, we for wait much longer. Time wey dey pass dey carry us go “the better country.”
April 12
As the writer Fr. Stinissen talk am, “We go prefer the opening music pass the full symphony?” I no need to grieve over my past. Through the sacramental life of the Church, especially Confession and Holy Communion, I fit go back to my past, and I fit rewrite am. I fit see the place wey e get for my life. Saint John of the Cross talk say, “Wounds wey sin cause fit become wounds of love.”
April 13
Saint Paul talk say, “Christ don truly take hold of me (Philippians 3:12c). This one mean say God don hold me and I belong to Him. Wetin remain for me na to accept am and make am part of how I dey think, act and live. Again, as the spiritual writer Fr. Stinissen talk, “Once I truly believe say God don hold me, new assurance, peace and joy dey fill me. Now, my prayer dey find rest for the fact say God don hold me. So even if my mind wander when I dey pray, I still belong to God. I just turn my thoughts back to Him. For God to hold person na for joy to hold that person” (Stinissen 2018, 200).
April 14
As we dey grow old, e important make we dey thankful for everything wey we still fit do, even if e dey take us longer to do am!
April 15
As Saint John Paul II talk, “…for this our age, e natural to look back at the past so we fit try assess am in some way. This looking back dey help us assess the people and situations wey we don meet along the way with more calmness and without allowing our own feelings control our judgment” (Letter to Old People, #2). Na thought wey dey give hope. We fit look back at our past, no be to blame ourselves or other people and regret, but to gain new, peaceful understanding of days wey don pass.
April 16
As we dey grow old, we dey receive the gift to fit observe things with more attention, and see plenty things wey we no notice when we dey rush up and down.
April 17
Saint Jerome tell us say the benefits of old age include “strong desires wey dey calm down, wisdom wey dey increase, and advice wey get more maturity.” Time na great teacher.
April 18
When Saint John Paul II dey talk about the place wey difficulties get for our life, e talk say: “Struggles and sorrows na part of everybody life, but through God’s grace, dem dey help us grow and shape our character.” For the time wey we dey face our struggles, dem truly hard. But just as moth wey dey inside cocoon dey become stronger as e dey flap im wings, na so God fit use the struggles wey we dey face to give us depth and beauty wey we no for get without them.
April 19
As we dey grow old, our power to remember no good reach before, but our “power to forget” don better well well. ?
April 20
Guard yourself against regret and blaming yourself or other people. Let them go, and enjoy the good memories.
April 21
To grow old na all about the way person dey take things; no be so much wetin don happen for my life, but how I dey take am.
April 22
Saint John Paul II observe say: “As time dey pass, e dey help us see wetin we don experience more clearly, and e dey soften the painful side.” We fit look back at our past and, for one sense, “change am,” because now we fit see how God use everything for our ultimate good. (See Romans 8:28.)
April 23
If you no fit leave house, be “person wey dey encourage others.” Write letter to somebody wey just do something good or somebody wey need encouragement.
April 24
Any new thing wey you go like start to dey do for enjoyment or learn about? One of my friends start to make rugs when e dey 75 years old. The rugs fine.
April 25
How about “apostolate through telephone?” Call people wey you know often, ask how dem dey, and share something wey you don read or hear. Opportunities to do this one dey always.
April 26
Freedom dey as person dey grow old, no be so? Joy dey too. We fit just “live.” As we don live plenty of our life, we know who we be, and our mind settle with that.
April 27
Think about am—when our life reach the end, we go close our eyes, then open dem to look the face of Jesus Christ!
April 28
Robert Browning write one beautiful poem. Na so e go:
Follow me grow old!
The best never come yet,
Na because of the last part of life dem make the first part:
Our times dey His hand
He wey talk say, “Na the whole I plan,
Youth show only half; trust God: see everything, and no fear!”
April 29
Saint John Paul II, as e dey talk to old people, talk say, “..the gift of life, with all the effort and pain wey dey inside am, too beautiful and precious for us to ever tire for am…I just wan tell una say I dey close to una for spirit, as person wey, as the years dey pass, don come understand this stage of life more deeply from my own experience. Because of this, I dey feel the need to dey closer to other people wey be my age, so that we fit think together about the things wey we get in common” (Letter to Old People, #1).
April 30
Make I talk true: Na older people dey interest me pass, because dem don live life. Dem get story to tell.
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