Author: Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Human, son, brother, friend, Igbo, Christian, Catholic, priest, theologian and citizen.
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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

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#SV – The Disciple-Identity

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

To be a loving person is to constantly misunderstood, maligned and ridiculed. Yet that’s what Christ wants from us. Being a loving person is not a one-time affair. It’s a habit of life. It is not a selective attitude, that chooses who to love and who not to. God is love, and so we are called to love. Not in the abstract sense, but in the manner of the example given by Christ. Continue reading #SV – The Disciple-Identity

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#SV – Joyful Persecutees

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 I, John, had a vision of a great multitude,which no one could count,from every nation, race, people, and tongue.They stood before the throne and before the Lamb,wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. Then one of the elders said to me,“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;they have washed their robesand made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “For this reason they stand before God’s throneand worship him day and night in his temple.The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.They will not hunger or … Continue reading #SV – Joyful Persecutees