Notre Dame Medical Centre, Amoyo, Kwara State gets new theatre and wards to further expand its medical services in the State. The unveiling of the building commenced with the celebration of Holy Mass by Most Rev. Dr. Paul Olawore, bishop of Ilorin diocese. The medical administration is very pleased with the new theatre and wards. It is a thing of joy for the people in the area because medical services are nearer and available to them.
By Josephine Tor, SNDdeN
Students and staff cleaning up the gutters at One Day, Awkunanaw and Ogbete Main Market in Enugu State.
In response to the universal call to take care of our mother Earth and as part of our contribution to caring for the Earth (our common home), Notre Dame Academy Enugu held her Annual Environmental Day at the popular Ogbete Main Market and One Day Awkunanaw in Enugu State.
The staff and students of the Academy went round One Day, Awkunanaw, where the school is located and Holy Ghost Market, Enugu to create awareness about the reality of climate change and the need to stop polluting our environment with plastic and other wastes.
Putting words into action as the clean up intensified.
Students and staff get ready for the Environmental Day action.
In making our little efforts to protect the earth, the staff and students carried out a clean-up exercise in those areas. Some of the students also planted trees and flowers in the school premises.
They call on residents of Enugu and beyond to stop polluting the environment and keep it clean, as clean environment keeps us healthy; while poor environmental sanitation on the other hand, causes sickness and even accident. They therefore, urge everyone to grow more trees and flowers and stop polluting our environment with plastic and other wastes.
Sisters Chidinma Nwasuja and Modesta Nnadi for the clean up exercise.
Together, we can take care of our Common Home, the Earth!
” I love my Jesus, my Jesus loves me. No circumstances can change my opinion.” This was the song I sang when I was cooking for my sisters in the community. As I sang, I paused to listen to myself and really meditate on the lyrics of the song. Then I asked myself, one vital question, ‘If am caught by Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen and they force me to renounce my faith, what will I do? Will I continue singing the song? Immediately, I thought of Leah Sharibu, who is held in captivity by the Boko Haram terrorists because she refused to renounce her faith for Christ.
I stood for sometime wondering if I would have the courage the 14 year old girl, Leah had. Suddenly, I saw myself praying for courage not to ever deny Christ. I also thought of many times I’ve traveled in the same car with muslims. I brought out my rosary to pray. I could see the way some of them looked at me. I imagine if some were fanatics and what they were going to do to me because I’m a Christian. I continued praying anyway. If that’s the way I will meet Christ so be it. Then I continued to pray for courage and a fearless heart to die still professing my faith.
I also thought of my appearance as a religious. If there’s religious crisis, I will be the first target. God help me to die as a martyr, if that’s God’s plan for me.
THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
God’s first “idea” was to become manifest-to pour out divine, infinite love into finite, visible forms. The “Big Bang’ is now our scientific name for that first idea; and “Christ” is our Christian theological name. Both are about love and beauty exploding outward in all directions. Creation is indeed the Body of God!
In Jesus, this eternal omnipresence had a precise, concrete, and personal referent. God’s presence became more obvious and believable in the world. The formless took on form in someone we could “hear, see, and touch” (1 John 1:1), making God easier to love.
But it seems we so fell in love with this personal interface in Jesus that we forgot about the eternal Christ, the Body of God, which is all of creation, which is really the “First Bible.” Jesus and Christ are not exactly the same.
In the early Christian era, only a few Eastern Fathers (such as Origen of Alexandria and Maximus the Confessor) noticed that the Christ was clearly historically older, larger and different than Jesus himself. They mystically saw that Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time; Christ is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time.
Copied from Fr. Richard Rohr’s website