Author: Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Human, son, brother, friend, Igbo, Christian, Catholic, priest, theologian and citizen.
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#SV – We’re Fed to Feed

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Sequence Lauda Sion  Laud, O Zion, your salvation,Laud with hymns of exultation,            Christ, your king and shepherd true: Bring him all the praise you know,He is more than you bestow.            Never can you reach his due. Special theme for glad thanksgivingIs the quick’ning and the living            Bread today before you set: From his hands of old partaken,As we know, by faith unshaken,            Where the Twelve at supper met. Full and clear ring out your chanting,Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,            From your heart let praises burst: For today the feast is holden,When the institution olden            Of that supper was rehearsed. … Continue reading #SV – We’re Fed to Feed

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#SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

We did not receive the gifts to remain the same. We received the gifts to be transformed, and in being transformed, be able to transform the world. When we receive the gifts of the Spirit, we become God’s agents in the world, witnesses tot he Gospel, missionaries of faith in Christ; we become change agents, spreading love, and joy, and peace, and kindness, and gentleness, and forgiveness, and fidelity, reliability, trustworthiness, goodness, self-restraint, contentment, etc. The Holy Spirit does not live us the same Continue reading #SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

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#SV – Knowing – Loving

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Gospel – John 17:20-26 Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:“Holy Father, I pray not only for them,but also for those who will believe in me through their word,so that they may all be one,as you, Father, are in me and I in you,that they also may be in us,that the world may believe that you sent me.And I have given them the glory you gave me,so that they may be one, as we are one,I in them and you in me,that they may be brought to perfection as one,that the world may know that you sent me,and … Continue reading #SV – Knowing – Loving