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October 1
Research show say to pray Rosary dey make your heart beat more slowly, and e good for your blood pressure. Adoration dey do the same thing. So, do wetin go help your body—pray Rosary. Adore Jesus for the Blessed Sacrament.
October 2
E clear say suffering dey become part of life for plenty people as dem grow old. E very important make we come understand suffering. Saint John Paul II talk for his apostolic letter, Salvifici Doloris, say, “The Redeemer suffer in place of human beings and for their sake. Every person get im own share for the Redemption…As Christ bring about the Redemption through suffering, He don also raise human suffering reach the level of the Redemption. So each person, inside im suffering, fit also share for the suffering of Christ wey bring redemption” (#19).
October 3
You don notice how plenty people wey get disability get joy and simple heart, even when their body no allow dem do many things at all? This one dey show their trust in God wey no dey abandon us inside our suffering. Dem get plenty things to teach us.
October 4
For the devotions wey Catholic people dey practise, we dey talk about the “Dormition,” how the Blessed Virgin Mary “fall asleep.” With peace, without struggle, without fear—just as we dey fall asleep for night. She trust God’s love completely. She wake up for the next world—she pass enter Heaven with peace. “Mother Mary, dey with us for the hour of our death.”
October 5
Do everything wey you fit do to grow for your love for our Blessed Mother. She be our powerful intercessor, our Mother wey love us. As our love for her dey grow, na so we dey come closer to her Son Jesus.
October 6
One country and western song dey talk about how to live until the day we die. Some wisdom dey inside that one. If I wake up tomorrow morning, e mean say God get plan for me for that day. He want make I dey alive. So, make we live each day with all the faith, hope and joy wey God dey give us.
October 7
Saint John Paul II, wey always dey see good for life, talk about the vocation of old people: “To turn our attention to people wey dey grow old na to realise how much dem be part of God’s plan for the world, with their mission wey dem must fulfil, their own special contribution wey dem must make, their problems wey dem must solve, their burdens wey dem must carry” (Address wey John Paul II Give Participants for the International Forum on Active Aging, #3).
October 8
As we dey grow old, we dey learn say our value no dey for wetin we fit produce, but for the fact say we be children of God.
October 9
The Music Man get one popular song wey Professor Harold Hill dey sing. E say, “Na girl wey sad pass before but get more wisdom I want.” Im intention as e dey sing am no too good, but that line describe all of us to some extent. All of us don sin. Na only our Blessed Mother no get sin. As we dey grow old, e dey natural for us to thank God say we no die inside our sins, say we get time and opportunity to return to Him.
October 10
I believe say when we dey make our sins look small (“Everybody dey do am; e no be big matter!”), e dey stop us from thanking God from deep inside our heart for saving us. If we think say we never sin, we no go feel our need for salvation, and we no go experience the wonderful freedom and joy wey God’s forgiveness dey give us.
October 11
Wetin we don experience from our past sins and mistakes fit strongly move us to live with virtue for future (“I don do that one before, and I no go ever go back there again!”).
October 12
One grace wey we hope say go come to us after we sin, after we turn away from God, na compassion for other people inside their struggles. As the saying go, “If no be say things favour me, na me for dey that condition.”
October 13
According to Romans 5:20, “…where sin increase, grace overflow even more.” In fact, God love us so much that He dey use even our sins for our own good. People wey commit plenty grave sins often become great saints—Saint Augustine come to mind. Dem turn all their strong desire towards how to become holy. Saint Paul na good example. Make their lives teach us to make firm decision say we no go live our lives with half-hearted effort—make we give our whole self to loving God and our neighbour.
October 14
Research show say people of faith, wey believe most strongly in the next world, na still dem dey put themselves most into helping this world. E be like say when you believe say life for this world dey prepare you for the next one, this world dey become even more precious to you.
October 15
I like the writings wey dey increase about Experiences Near Death—when doctors confirm say person don “die,” but dem bring the person back to life. For the years wey I don serve as priest, I don get the privilege to hear many people tell me wetin happen to dem like this. All of dem talk say dem never experience that kind Love before, and now dem no dey fear to die again. The experience dey change dem forever, and e dey give hope to those of us wey never get that kind experience.
October 16
People wey don get experience near death dey talk about how dem meet one “Being of Light,” and how nothing fit hide from this light; their whole life dey there for review. Dem talk say this Being know dem completely and love dem completely, but dem still talk say inside this light, everything receive judgment with justice and truth. E dey encourage person, and at the same time, e dey make person think deeply and seriously.
October 17
For him 1999 Letter to Old People (#14), Saint John Paul II talk about the reminders say we go die, wey dey inside the process of growing old itself: “Na natural thing say, as the years dey pass, we go dey think more and more about our ‘evening time of life.’ Even if nothing else remind us, the very fact say the number of our family members, friends and people wey we know dey reduce steadily go remind us…The line wey separate life and death dey pass through our communities, and e dey come nearer to each of us without stopping…old age na the most natural time to look towards the entrance of eternity.”
October 18
You don notice how we dey somehow draw back from death? We dey talk say, “No, this one no right!” And we dey right. Death no dey inside God original plan for us. God make us for life, for Heaven. The way we dey draw back when we face death na another “sign say we dey made for life wey no go end” inside our soul.
October 19
No life dey wey no get value. Every life precious, and e no fit ever repeat. We no fit believe in reincarnation, because every individual life wey God ever create dey unique; that same life no go come again.
October 20
One of the names of Jesus wey I like pass, the name wey Archangel Gabriel give Am, na “Emmanuel,” wey mean “God-dey-with-us.” Just think about am—every minute of every day, God dey right there with you!
October 21
I remember say when I be pikin, I no like our belief say God know every thought wey we hide pass inside our mind. But now I love am. E mean say He know the good things wey I mean to do, even if I no succeed to do dem—He know my heart.
October 22
Many people wey dey write about spiritual life dey talk about how our hearts deep reach, so tey even we ourselves no know our deepest desires clearly. Because na God make us, and na for Him image and likeness He make us, the thing wey we desire deep down pass, whether we know am or not, na to dey for relationship of love with God. God make us for wetin no get limit—love wey no get limit, understanding wey no get limit…God make us for Himself.
October 23
Forgiveness na free gift from God. Heaven na free gift from God. But person need to accept gift. Make we no ever fail to accept this wonderful gift through the way we dey live our lives.
October 24
I love our Catholic belief in Purgatory. Like everything wey God dey do for us, e be example of Him love. I think say most of us fit enter there—we no good reach to enter Heaven, and we no bad reach to enter Hell—in other words, na people like us really need the purification of Purgatory. Saints wey receive vision of Purgatory dey talk about pain for souls wey dey apart from God, but at the same time, great joy and hope wey join the pain because of the future wey dem know say na their own.
October 25
For the Gospel of Saint John, Jesus talk say, “Na Me be the resurrection and the life” (11:25). He still talk say, “Na Me be the way and the truth and the life. Nobody dey come to the Father except through Me” (14:6). This one dey make us picture Jesus as He dey carry us go home to the Father. That journey go wonderful well well!
October 26
Cardinal John Henry Newman dey often talk about “acceptance for mind” and “real acceptance.” He talk say big difference dey between the two. “Acceptance for mind” na when we accept something inside our mind, but e no affect our lives. “Real acceptance” dey move us to act on wetin we know—to allow am affect the decisions wey we dey make every day.
October 27
One recent study find out say diseases wey no dey spread from person to person dey kill us pass diseases wey dey spread. In other words, na from the genes wey we inherit. George Bernard Shaw talk am: “The best way to make sure say you live long na to choose your parents.” Since that one no possible, we fit work on exercise and the food wey we dey eat, and most importantly, on how to care for our soul through a life of prayer every day.
October 28
“Grandchildren na the crown of old people” (Proverbs 17:6, RSVCE). My brothers and sisters wey be grandparents go surely agree with that one—dem love their grandchildren well well and dey give dem plenty attention! But e get more. Grandparents dey help their grandchildren understand life from the wisdom of their years. As grandparent, the way you dey see life and your faith matter pass as you know.
October 29
One reason why small pikin dem dey bring so much joy na because dem no dey worry about how dem dey look for other people eye. Dem describe the way dem dey behave as “reality for im original state,” wey mean natural things wey dey happen for all of us life, things wey be like say sin never bend dem out of shape. Person face when e dey rest or think, or when dem see am for moment of joy or sorrow without am knowing; baby face when e dey sleep; papa and im son wey dey work together; husband and wife wey dey read quietly for their private sitting room—the examples no dey finish. Look out for dem. Dem dey tell us about God.
October 30
E good well-well if we fit laugh at ourselves. One elderly person talk say, “I decide to join fitness club and begin exercise. So I join aerobics class for elderly people. I bend, twist, turn my body round and round, jump up and down, and sweat for one hour. But by the time I finish to wear my tight exercise clothes, the class don finish.”
October 31
How this “Preya for Forget-Forget for Old Age” wey people dey quote plenty go be as preya for person wey dey grow old: “God, give me the forget-forget wey old age dey bring, make I forget the people wey I never even like; give me good luck to meet the ones wey I like; and give me clear eye to know who be who.” E good to laugh.
Picture: Ways People Dey Show Love for Old China: Flikr
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