Fr.Charles Ezejide

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16; Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, John 6:51-58. “THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST: THE FOOD FOR THE JOURNEY By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        Today, the church celebrates the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. The source and summit of our Christian life. We celebrate Christ’s gift of his body and blood to us as real food and real drink (John 6:55). ·        This gift of God to us through his son is not just symbolic but real. On the night before he suffered, he took the bread and chalice and gave thanks to God, blessed, and gave it to his disciples and by extension to us as his body and blood, which is a specific instruction to do this always in memory of him. ·        It is the love of God that inspires this gift. This love does not end in the sacrifice of his son for the redemption of mankind but in the daily gift of himself to u...

Exodus 34:4-6.8-9; Psalm: Daniel 3:52-55; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13, John 3:16-18. “THE BLESSED TRINITY: THE UNITY OF LOVE AND PEACE By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        Today, the church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Unity of the three persons in one God. Three persons yet one God, one Holy and indivisible God. The unity of peace and love. In celebrating this solemnity, we celebrate the love that exists between these Persons, not three gods. ·        Our common catechism teaches us that God is a mystery and a supernatural being with supernatural powers. This seems to suggest that natural beings cannot easily and completely understand the supernatural being. The finite cannot completely and does not possess the ability to unravel the mystery of the infinite God. This can be said too of the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. If we completely know God or understand the ways of God, then H...

Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31. 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7. 12-13, John 20:19-23. “THE HOLY SPIRIT: GIFT THAT LEADS TO FRUITS By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        Today, the church celebrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the church. The fulfilment of Jesus' promise to send us the advocate who will teach us the complete truth (Jn. 6:13). This very promise assures us that all the promises God has made to us will be fulfilled in our lives. ·        The outpouring of the Holy Spirit today is not the beginning of the church, but the universal inauguration of the church to preach even to the ends of the earth. To move from the local Church of Jerusalem to a more universal church where everyone is included, both Jews and Gentiles alike. ·        Today, the church receives the auction to function. To break loose from the bondage of fear and uncertainty that had held her ca...

Acts 1:12-14; Psalm 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Peter 4:13-16, John 17:1-11. “THE PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY!” By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        Today, the church celebrates the seventh Sunday of Easter. The last Sunday before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This Sunday is special because Jesus discusses his parting wishes with his disciples and prays for the church he was leaving behind. ·        Dearly beloved in Christ, it is not coincidental that last Sunday, Jesus promised his disciples a parting gift, which is the Holy Spirit, and today he prays specifically for the church and the leadership of the church he was leaving behind so that they may be strongly united and guided. ·        This is exactly what we see in the unity of the College of Apostles in the first reading (Acts 1:12-14). Having witnessed the ascension of Christ into Heaven, they remained united in pray...

Acts 8:5-8. 14-17; Psalm 66:1-7. 16.20; 1 Peter 3:15-18, John 14:15-21. “PREPARING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT!” By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        The church celebrates today the sixth Sunday of Easter. For over six weeks now, the resurrected Lord has continuously manifested his power on the life and mission of the church through his apostles. ·        Today the Lord, through the readings, set our gaze on the eminency of the Holy Spirit and what we ought to be doing to dispose ourselves for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that spirit that makes us cry “Abba Father” (Gal. 4:6). ·        Dearly beloved in Christ, in a few days, the Lord will ascend to heaven in the full view of his disciples to make real his promise to them, “Unless I go, the advocate (Holy Spirit) will not come” (John 16:7). ·        The gospel reading (John 14:15-21) specifically tel...

Acts 6:1-7; Psalm 32:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Peter 2:4-9, John 14:1-12.   “FOLLOW THE WAY!” By: Rev. Fr. Charles Onyeka Ezejide. ·        Today, the church celebrates the fifth Sunday of Easter. This is indeed the day the Lord has made, and we rejoice and are glad in it. Today is a day to be grateful to God for the special gift of life; no wonder the opening verse of the gospel enjoins us: “Do not let your heart be troubled!” ·        Can one find a banana on a mango tree? The answer is definitely No! But sadly enough, many of us look for the right things in the wrong place. We look for joy in places saturated with sadness, we look for peace in places ravaged by war. ·        Today, the Lord Jesus invites us to complete followership because in him is the fullness of redemption. In him is the fullness of Joy and gladness. But the question we must ask ourselves is, whom do we seek? Where do...