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Pope's Intentions for April 2016

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Prayer Intentions for April 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Universal:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> Small Farmers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">That small farmers may receive a just reward for their precious labor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Evangelization:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> African Christians<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">That Christians in Africa may give witness to love and faith in Jesus
Christ amid political-religious conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Source: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 6.5pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">From </span><a href="http://apostleshipofprayer.org/2016-intentions/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">http://apostleshipofprayer.org/2016-intentions/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1e1a1a; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>

Pope's Intentions for April 2016

Let us pray with the Holy Father: Prayer Intentions for April 2016 Universal: Small Farmers That small farmers may receive a j...

Uphold your call: Easter Friday (Octave of Easter: Friday) (1st April, 2016).

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(Octave of Easter: Friday) (1<sup>st</sup> April, 2016) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 117:1-2. 4.22-27. (R. v. 22);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Uphold your call</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s gospel, seven of Jesus’ disciples fished all night
without success. Jesus came to them at daybreak but they did not recognise Him.
When they told Him that they caught nothing He said to them, “Cast the net to
the right of the boat, and you will find some.” When they did that, they found
it difficult to haul it because there were so many fish. Then the beloved
disciple said, “It is the Lord!” And on hearing this, Peter who was naked put
on some clothes and jumped into the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remember, when Jesus met Peter and Andrew by the Sea of
Galilee casting a net into the sea He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make
you fish for people” The bible tells us that they left their nets and followed
Jesus. Similarly, James and John also left their boat and their father and
followed Him, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 4:18-22</b>; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 1:16-20</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everyone is called to different states and positions. Every state
and position goes with specific tasks. And each one is expected to live out his
or her own call, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 12:12-31</b>. Saint
Paul admonished his son, “Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you
by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim 4:14</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Peter and his companions forgot their call to fish for people
and went back fishing for fish. And this is a negation of their call. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes, we do find ourselves in the same mess. We must be careful
so as not to leave our call completely or worse still devoting more time to other
things. Jesus warns, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is
fit for the kingdom of God” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 9:62</b>).
We ought to rekindle our call, and work out our own salvation with fear and
trembling without looking back, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Tim
1:6; Phil 2:12</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: 1Cor 12:12-31; Phil 2:1-18.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thought for today:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Remember your call always.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> Lord, help me to be always faithful
to my call – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Uphold your call: Easter Friday (Octave of Easter: Friday) (1st April, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for Easter Friday (Octave of Easter: Friday) (1 st April, 2016) on the Gospel Acts 4:1-12; Ps 117:1-2. 4.2...

Need to go back: Easter Thursday (Octave of Easter: Thursday) (31st March, 2016).

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(Octave of Easter: Thursday) (31<sup>st</sup> March, 2016) on the Gospel <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 8:2.5-9. (R. v.2);<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today’s gospel begins from the last verse of yesterday’s
gospel (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 24:35</b>). And while the
eleven and their companions were talking about what were happening Jesus stood
among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” To reassure them that they were
not seeing a ghost, Jesus went further, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your
hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and
see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He went on and showed them His hands and feet, yet in their
joy they were disbelieving and wondering. Jesus also ate a piece of boiled fish
in their presence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Between Easter vigil and today, the apostles and their companions
had seen among other things the empty tomb, the angels, His appearances, His
hands and feet, and eating before them, yet their faith was still shaky. Jesus then
took them back to the scriptures to understand all that happened. He opened
their minds to understand the scriptures and also commissioned them as witness.
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their faith could not be firm on miracles alone. Jesus taught
them what is in the scriptures. There is serious need for all to go back to the
scriptures to know the will of God. We conclude with these words from the scripture
and the teaching of Saint Ambrose, “The Church ‘forcefully and specifically
exhorts all the Christian faithful... to learn ‘the surpassing knowledge of
Christ’, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. ‘Ignorance of the
Scriptures is the ignorance of Christ.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Lent%20&amp;%20Easter/Easter%20Octave.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’”
All the questions that beg for answers today have all been answered by God in His
Word (bible). What we need is to open and see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in you and not eyes that always seek for miracles – Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Homily (Reflection) for Easter Thursday (Octave of Easter: Thursday) (31 st March, 2016) on the Gospel Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2.5-...

Catholic Mass celebrated: Easter Wednesday (Octave of Easter: Wednesday) (30th March, 2016).

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today’s gospel is a follow-up to the gospel of the Easter
vigil of year C (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 24:1-12</b>) in
which Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and other women went to
the tomb to anoint Jesus but met an empty tomb. Their story seemed to both the
apostles and their companions an idle tale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That same day in today’s gospel, two of the disciples were
going to Emmaus talking about all that had happened. Jesus joined them and
queried, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” Although
amazed that someone in Jerusalem could ask such question, they told Jesus all
that bothered them. He explained to them everything about Himself based on the
scripture. On reaching where they were going, they urged Jesus to stay with
them. And they only recognised Jesus when He took bread, blessed and broke it,
and gave it to them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Catholic Mass is made up of two main parts (liturgies),
liturgy of the Word (readings, homily, and general intercessions), and the
liturgy of the Eucharist (presentation of the bread and wine, the consecratory
thanksgiving, and communion)</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Lent%20&amp;%20Easter/Easter%20Octave.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
And in today’s gospel, Jesus our eternal high priest did it Himself. Hence our
topic, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Catholic Mass celebrated</b> by
Jesus Himself. Jesus is both the victim and the priest in every Mass</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/Weekday%20Homilies/Daily%20Tonic%20for%20Year%20II/Lent%20&amp;%20Easter/Easter%20Octave.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2e7061;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is very important to remind ourselves just three things
based on today’s reading. First, it is vital to invite Jesus into our lives and
into every situation we find ourselves in. Again, the risen Lord is always
present at the Mass as promised, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt
18:20</b>. And again, each of the two main parts of the Mass is as important as
the other. Therefore, both the priests and the congregation must not make light
of any.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Homily (Reflection) for Easter Wednesday (Octave of Easter: Wednesday) (30 th March, 2016) on the Gospel Acts 3:1-10; Ps 104:1...

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and John returned to their homes after seeing the empty tomb without seeing the
Lord. But Mary stayed back weeping outside the tomb. It was during this period
that she saw two angels inside the tomb and later Jesus Himself whom at first
she thought to be a gardener. When she recognized Him, Jesus said to Mary, “Do
not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my
brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my
God and your God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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others. It was not easy remaining at the tomb all alone. In like manner, it is
not easy for one to follow a course irrespective of other’s views. However, it
pays. Hence Jesus warns, “...he who endures to the end will be saved” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mk 13:13; cf. Matt 10:22; 24:13</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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calling on the name of the Lord because “everyone who calls upon the name of
the Lord will be saved” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rom 10:13</b>).
So, do not stop searching until you find what you are looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Homily (Reflection) for Easter Tuesday (Tuesday of the Octave of Easter) (29 th March, 2016) on the Gospel Acts 2:36-41; Ps 32...

Lies beget lies: Easter Monday (Octave of Easter: Monday) (28th March, 2016).

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Homily (Reflection) for Easter Monday
(Octave of Easter: Monday) (28<sup>th</sup> March, 2016) on the Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps 15:1-2.5.7-11 (R.v.1); <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">Topic: Lies beget lies</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary Magdalene and the other Mary had left the tomb with fear
and great joy to give the apostles the good news when Jesus met them. And He
said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee;
there they will see me.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the other hand, when the chief priests heard about Jesus’
resurrection, they met with the elders before bribing the guards with large sum
of money and instructed them thus, “You must say, ‘His disciples came by night
and stole him away while we were asleep.’” The guards were also assured of
their safety should the governor come to hear of it. And this false story is regrettably
still told among the Jews to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The chief priests and their cohorts put up lies just to have
Jesus put to death. Now, they are faced with another reality, the resurrection
of Jesus. We see them in today’s gospel still bent on covering the Truth, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 14:6</b>. No wonder Jesus warns, “Truly,
I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter
the kingdom of heaven” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 18:3</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge
of the truth” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Tim 2:4</b>). Saint Paul
also writes, “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eph 6:17</b>).
No matter how hard a man tries, the word of God cannot be fettered, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Tim 2:9</b>. And let no one add or subtract
from God’s word, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prov 30:6</b>). We
must speak the truth to one another, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eph
4:25</b>. Lies only beget lies to the point of stupidity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Homily (Reflection) for Easter Monday (Octave of Easter: Monday) (28 th March, 2016) on the Gospel Acts 2:14.22-33; Ps 15:1-2....

After Lent, What Next?: Easter Sunday (27th March, 2016).

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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">There is a story of a man who was
picked up in a gutter on Good Friday. He left his house very early in the
morning. His wife, children, and friends found it very difficult to believe
that it was the man that they saw in such a state. Although he was notorious
for taking alcohol more than his body could carry but all through the period of
Lent he was a different man. He did not test alcohol at all the whole period of
Lent. When he regained consciousness they asked him why he took to drinking
again. And he told them that the joy in his heart was unimaginable when the
priest said on Maundy (Holy) Thursday that the forty (40) days of Lent were
over. He went on to tell them that he needed to refill because his body lacks
liquid (alcohol). According to him, his body was badly dehydrated all the
period of Lent that at a point he was thinking if the Lent would never end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Topic:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> After </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lent</span>,
What Next?</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary had gone to the tomb on the
first day of the week may be to meditate on the passion and death of Christ.
When she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb the gospel reads:
“... she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus
loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do
not know where they have laid him’” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn
20:2</b>). Mary Magdalene like others thought that the story had ended. But our
salvation story did not end with the suffering and death of Christ Jesus.
Hence, St. Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians writes: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">If there is no resurrection of the
dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then
our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. If Christ
has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then
those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have
hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 15:13-14, 17-19</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For forty
days, we were in the period of Lent. All these while, not even alleluia did
come out of our mouths consciously. It is during the period of Lent that one
will come to know that alleluia is not all that common. But now that it is over
what is the next thing? Hence, our topic: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">After Lent, What Next?</b> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The answer to this depends </span>on the
meaning or one’s understanding of Lent. I know that some might wonder what on
earth led us to discuss Lent on Easter day after having just spent forty (40)
days excluding Sundays in it. Easter comes after Lenten period. And during the
period of Lent, many people did a lot of good deeds – almsgiving, abstaining
from vices, devotions, among others. Some even denied themselves many things
that are not sinful just for God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Every Christian who took part in the Lenten season can be
better seen as a graduate although without any paper-certificate. The period of
Lent is a school, a period of training. In this school just like in every other
form of school, the students gather as much skills as possible for the life
after school. Graduates come out with new skills and in the same vein Christians
must have gathered a lot of skills (virtues) during Lent. We should not allow
any of these virtues to leave otherwise we risk spending forty days in the
wilderness without anything to show for it just like the man we saw in the
introductory part of this homily who waited for the Lent to be over so as to go
back to drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Christ suffered, died and resurrected for us to benefit as
well as to imitate, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Pt 2:21</b>. We
all are to resurrect cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acts 24:15</b>,
but the destination is determined by the quality of lives we live now: “those
who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil,
to the resurrection of judgment” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jn. 5:29</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">). Do not celebrate
the end of Lent by going back </span>to your old ways of life. We are to witness
to the resurrection of Christ with our lives and perhaps our words if it is
necessary. The struggle is not yet over until it is over. We are still in the battle
field (world).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bible Reading</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1Cor 15:12-34; Heb 4:1-13</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thought for today:</b>
Prepare now for your resurrection (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn.
5:29</b>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let us pray:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Risen Christ, help us live the life that will lead
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After Lent, What Next?: Easter Sunday (27th March, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for Easter Sunday (27 th March, 2016) on the Gospel and the celebration Acts 10:34.37-43; Ps 117:1-2.16-17.22-2...

Remember His words: Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil) (C) (26th March, 2016).

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">Homily (Reflection) for Holy Saturday (Easter
Vigil) (C) (26</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;"> March, 2016) on the Gospel and the celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 1: Gen 1:1-2:2 or 1:26-31;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ps 103:1-2.5-6.10.12-14.24.35 (R. cf.
v.30) or Ps 32:4-7.12-13.20.22. (R. v. 5).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 2: Gen 22:1-18 or 1-2. 9-13.
15-18;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ps 15:5.8-11 (R. v. 1).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 3: Ex 14:15-15:1;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ex 15: 1-6. 17-18 (R. v. 1).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 4: Is 54:5-14; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ps 29:2.4-6.11-13 (R. v. 2).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 5: Is 55:1-11;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Is 12:2-6. (R. v. 3).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 6: Bar 3:9-15. 32-4:4;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ps 18:8-11. (R. Jn 6:69).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">R. 7: Ezek 36:16-28;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Pss 41:3.5; 42:3.4 (R. 41:2).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Epistle: Rom 6:3-11;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Ps 117:1-2.16-17.22-23.</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Gospel:
Lk 24:1-12.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Readings from the Old Testament can be reduced according to
circumstances. Minimum of three (3) is recommended. But in special cases, the
readings can still be reduced to two. However, the third reading (Ex 14:15-15:1)
is compulsory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">We join the Church who awaits at
the Lord’s tomb meditating on Christ’s suffering and death. Easter celebration
begins with a tone of joy. The priest/s and other ministers wear white
vestments. Everyone who takes part in this vigil comes with a candle. The
Easter Vigil is made up of four parts, namely: brief service of light, liturgy
of the word, Baptism and/renewal of Baptismal vows, and liturgy of the Holy
Eucharist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Before the commencement of the
vigil, every light in the church is put off and a large fire is prepared at a
suitable place outside the church where the first part of the celebration,
service of light, begins. The absence of light in the church signifies that the
Lord (the light of the world) is still lying in the tomb, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 8:12; 9:5</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Topic:</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Remember His words</span></b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcQMNwsfTzk_iJbz846-OmGid4DXXfvNcy27cVF0hopA405-Vu1h5sWzTk5_guRagvBvdlkBGewNuvoEQH3soUwZ3qjBSZAUwQfJ86Y8SGH9cTa3qBaPlsZtBJAt4y5ZEIjBk2lZUvqEc/s1600/26.03.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcQMNwsfTzk_iJbz846-OmGid4DXXfvNcy27cVF0hopA405-Vu1h5sWzTk5_guRagvBvdlkBGewNuvoEQH3soUwZ3qjBSZAUwQfJ86Y8SGH9cTa3qBaPlsZtBJAt4y5ZEIjBk2lZUvqEc/s1600/26.03.2016.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Women in today’s gospel went to the
tomb to anoint Jesus’ body with the spices they had prepared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They found the tomb open and the body of Jesus
missing. While they were perplexed about the ‘disappearance’ of the body of
Jesus, two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them and said to them, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Why do you look for the living among
the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was
still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be
crucified, and on the third day rise again (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 24:5-7</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The story of these women seemed to the apostles and all
present an idle tale, and as a result did not believe them. However, “Peter got
up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by
themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Jesus’ arrest, unjust trial, condemnation, and most shameful
death seemed to have wiped out of the women’s mind all that Jesus had told them
about His death. It was the angels they saw at the tomb that reminded them His words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we might
have a lot of wonderful things on our heads about Him: the first fruit from the
dead, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acts 26:23</b>), the
resurrection and the life (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 11:25</b>),
Jesus with all authority in heaven and on earth, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 28:18</b>), to whom nothing is impossible, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 1:37; 18:27</b>), who is with us always,
to the close of the age, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 28:20</b>),
and so on. Yet sometimes we find ourselves in states worse than that of the women;
after all they searched for Him where He was buried. Today we see Christians
even the spiritual heads engage themselves in double dealings. Righteousness has
no partnership with iniquity, neither does light has fellowship with darkness,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Cor 6:14</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">If we know the power of His resurrection, we ought to remain
with God no matter the state we find ourselves as rightly advised by Saint
Paul, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Co 7:24</b>. With the risen
Christ on our side, “we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our
foes” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 60:12; 108:13</b>). God is the
shield that saves the upright in heart, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ps 7:10</b>. And with God is the best of everything in superabundance,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Job 12:13; 2Cor 9:8</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Easter comes only after Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy
Saturday. One must remember always as he/she goes through Holy Thursdays, Good
Fridays, and Holy Saturdays of his/her life that Easter is around the corner.
Saint Paul rightly writes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">If we have died with him, then we shall
live with him. If we persevere, then we shall reign with him. If we disown him,
then he will disown us, If we are faithless, he is faithful still, for he
cannot disown his own self (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2Tim 2:11-13,
NJB</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Let no one therefore make him/herself an enemy of the cross
of Christ, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 3:18</b>. We are
certain that God who raised Jesus will surely raise us up, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Cor 6:14</b>. Befriending anything other
than God makes one His enemy, (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas
4:4</b>) thereby looking for the living among the dead. In every situation, we
must remember that Jesus has conquered and is able and willing to save us from
every situation, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lk 18:6-8</b>. Let
us therefore remember Jesus and His words always.</span></div>
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1Cor 15: 1-58</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Where one searches determines what he/she will find.</span></span></div>
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where and when you may be found (cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is
55:6</b>) – Amen. </span></span></div>
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Behold the man, your King: Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion) (25th March, 2016).

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">Homily (Reflection) for Good Friday (Celebration
of the Lord’s Passion) (25</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;"> March, 2016) on the Passion and the
celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Is 52:13–53:12;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ps 30:2.6.12-13.15-17.25. (R. Lk
23:46);<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9;</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Jn
18:1 – 19:42.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">No sacraments are celebrated today
or tomorrow. The altar should be completely bare, without cloths, candles, or
cross. Today’s celebration consists of three parts: liturgy of the word,
veneration of the cross, and Holy Communion</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/fb/Year%20C%202015-2016/Lent%20&amp;%20Easter%20on%20the%20Gospels/Good%20Friday%202016..docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Topic:</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Behold the man, your King, cf. Jn 19:5, 14</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">In today’s Passion, we see Jesus’
arrest, His unjust trial, Peter’s denial, His condemnation, death on the cross
between two thieves, the piercing of His side, and His burial. During Jesus’ trial,
when Pilate brought Him out to the Jews to show that he did not see any offence
against Him and said to them, “Here is the man!” the chief priests and the
police shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” And when he said to them, “Here is
your King!” they cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">In the gospel according to Saint John, Jesus tells us that “The
thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 10:10</b>) yet they preferred a thief instead of the author of life,
cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 18:40</b>. Christ came and
brought light to all in darkness of sin; those who dwelt in a land of deep
darkness, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is 9:2</b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Matt 4:16</b>. Hence He tells us, “I am
the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 8:12</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The naked King ruling from a tree will be unveiled in this
celebration with the invitation, “This is the wood of the cross, on which hung
the Saviour of the world.” We are to either follow the chief priests to shout, “Away
with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” or to adore Him humbly saying “Come, let
us worship”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Let us consider this story: After a forest fire in
Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to
assess the inferno’s damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in
ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the
bird with a stick. When he struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under
their dead mother’s wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending
disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered
them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise.
She would have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. When the
blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched he small body, the mother had
remained steadfast. Because she had been willing to die, those under the cover
of her wings would live...</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Fr.%20Moses/Desktop/fb/Year%20C%202015-2016/Lent%20&amp;%20Easter%20on%20the%20Gospels/Good%20Friday%202016..docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Like this little bird, Jesus willingly accepted the most
ignoble suffering and death for us to live. The Passion narrative tells us that
the soldiers and the police “stepped back and fell to the ground” when Jesus
told them that He was the one they were looking for. Nothing prevented Him from
going away other than His love for us. He knew that the hour of our liberation
had come. Hence He tells us, “No one takes it [my life] from me, but I lay it
down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again; this charge I have received from my Father” (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 10:18</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">May we never go back to the yoke of slavery from which Jesus
had set us free, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gal 5:1</b>. Whoever
follows Jesus will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. However,
anyone who prefers darkness is condemned, cf. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jn 3: 18, 19</b>.</span></div>
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Sagayanathan, A. (2009). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Launching pad:
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Behold the man, your King: Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion) (25th March, 2016).

Homily (Reflection) for Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion) (25 th March, 2016) on the Passion and the celebration Is 52:1...