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#SV – There’s More

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

The gospel of vanity is the one that builds castles upon sands. It is the one that rolls in primitive acquisition. It is the life that has no space for suffering humanity. It is marked by a superlative selfishness that centers everything on the self. For vanity lifestyle, it’s only about glitz and glamour. Money-making is for money sake. Power and wealth are for status sake. Nothing else matters. The common good project can go to blazes. The idea of collective prosperity is unwelcome. God is unnecessary. And the poor does not exist. The signpost of existential meaning is shifted, … Continue reading #SV – There’s More

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#SV – Intercession

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

The second reading presents us with an example of the ultimate intercession which Christ wrought for us sinners. If we have received so much love, kindness, and life from God, why then are we always too quick to condemn others. We are too quick to divide between the righteous and sinners, between the conservatives and the liberals, between the holy and the damned that we fail to see any good in one another. “Brothers and sisters:You were buried with him in baptism,in which you were also raised with himthrough faith in the power of God,who raised him from the dead. And … Continue reading #SV – Intercession

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#SV – … In the Cross

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

In some translations of the Bible, the ‘glory’ in this passage of Galatians (6:14) is rendered as ‘boast’. For Paul the only reason for which we can ever boast as Christians is be found in the cross and all it symbolizes. The Cross is never a fancy object. It is an object of shame, of guilt, of pain, suffering and death. But this radically changes when it was embraced by Christ, becoming therefore the ultimate definition of the depth of love. Love was displayed in its deepest form on the cross – giving of all, of blood, of life for … Continue reading #SV – … In the Cross

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#SV – Called to Freedom

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Brothers and sisters:For freedom Christ set us free;so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters.But do not use this freedomas an opportunity for the flesh;rather, serve one another through love.For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement,namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.But if you go on biting and devouring one another,beware that you are not consumed by one another. I say, then: live by the Spiritand you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.For the flesh has desires against the Spirit,and the … Continue reading #SV – Called to Freedom