Are you questioning who you are; what your purpose is, or what your values are? If you find yourself in this condition, then this message is for you because you may be going through what is called identity crisis. A young lady once told me during a counselling session that she does not know how […]
Author Archives: Fr. Simon Onyekachi Madu, OSJ
Is it not a thing of shame that those who read and believe the Bible as God’s word (Christians) are divided over the person of Mary and her role in the mystery of salvation and redemption, meanwhile in Islam she holds singularly an exalted position? If it does not worry you, it worries me. It […]
Second Sunday of Advent, Year B |Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11, Psalm 84(85):9-14, 2 Peter 3:8-14, Mark 1:1-8 Have you found yourself in a situation that makes you feel like ‘walking away’ from the troubles in your life? Spouses sometimes feel like walking away from their marriages; children sometimes feel like walking away from their families! After some […]
Do you know words have power: power to give or take life? Like a sunflower that follows the movement of the sun, so some words have the power to attract and transform its hearer or reader in such a way that they search to discover its author and origin. Such words are powerful, such words […]
My late mother once said to me, “since I was young I have heard it preached many times that the world will end someday and Jesus will come again take his own to himself. Now I am old, these things are yet to happen, and then she asked, when shall these things happen? Does this […]
Have you ever asked yourself how witches, wizards, occultists, magicians, Satanists, etc project forces to inflict harm, conjure and cause things to happen using satanic or magical words or mantras, otherwise known as incantations? The whole process is nothing else but Summoning or to Summon- which in this sense means “to rouse oneself to exert […]
We live in a world where everything is judged or measured from the “big side”: how rich you are, and how many followers you have? How much money you have in the bank? How many estates you have? How many laurels or certificates you have? How many ‘big people’ you know? How beautiful you are, […]
Can you remember the day of your baptism? If you remember, do you know what really happened to you on that day? These questions may appear simple but they go a long way to describe and define who you are! A popular African (Igbo) proverb says that ‘a man that does not know when the […]
If you are married or planning to get married or a member of a family, pay attention because this message is for you. Just as there is no greater danger than that which springs up within family circles, so also there is no greater blessing than when a family fears God. Raising a godly family […]
You must be in the SPIRIT to understand this! During an exorcism in the month of May 2019, the demon possessing a lady which introduced itself to me as ‘ancient spirit’ and was manifesting in the lady like a serpent wailed in fear when I threatened to invite the Blessed Virgin Mary if it doesn’t […]