Eucharist : Our Mission

Eucharist is the real mission, the actual dedication to the work of God. All God's work is about witnessing. When we assist at Mass and receieve the Eucharist, we do more work than the greatest evangelist. How lovely on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, this statement is perfectly about him who receives the Eucharist.What wonder a willing heart who devoutly and submissively receives the Eucharist can wrought. The more we believe and trust, the more we benefit from this great wonder, but, not knowing or not caring to know, yet receiving this food of angels is what brings ills to people. Morality should not hinder us, it is our lack of desire, lack of passion and unbelief in this wonder of wonders that is the real great harm.Believing or not, Christ goes on with His work, and part of this is to make us believe, to make us see, and the more we resist this love, the more we suffer, that is why it is he who abandons himself the most to the working of the Eucharist who sees the most, and he who resists suffers,he cannot submit and often calls love punishment. That was why Paul made reference to those who receive the Eucharist and are sick and those who die, it is not immorality as much as unbelief,i-dont-care-ism.It is only through our reception of Him that He can actively engage with the world, we bring Him to the world again. He is love, the Word, and it is through this Word, which is truth that the world is renewed, the whole essence of our battle is against lie and that is what Chris who is in us in the Eucharist does .In one of the Eucharistic proclamation, and also the scripture, we say: when we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord's death. This proclamation of His death is witnesing, it is mission and it is our sole calling as christians, we do it perfectly simply by receiving the Eucharist in faith!This is what renews the whole world and brings it peace, even while we go about our normal daily duty, as long as we are passionate and we keep this memory of the Eucharist alive, we need not worry so much about our lack of charisma for evangelism which often is proselytism, our witness herein becomes very pure and devoid of personal selfish interest, it becomes universal,unlike evangelism which is confined to time and space. We become truelly like the sower (afurugbin)and through this Eucharist, we effect a great lot than relying on our myopic heart and ideas. What glory ours is. Surely if we keep faithful to the Eucharist, as Christ Himself admonishes us to labour for this(labour not for the meat that perish, but that which endures to eternal life) ,we shall surely be of the lot that ask Him of the positive 'when'( when did we see you hungry...).The Jews asked Christ in what this labour, this work consists, and He answered them : 'believe'. Our sole work is to endeavour to believe and trust more in this wonder of God, the Eucharist. We can only improve our belief by being with Him through an active communication with the Eucharist.Sin kills belief, it is a real cankerworm, yet we should not succumb to this temptation, our sins should not keep us aloof, it is being made up by the faith of the church, which is principally what we are also working at building through an active participation in the Eucharist!

O Ni Meaning...

O ni meaning...ki l'eko yen ko wa?

Impediment To Growth

3 things impede against growth: its either we dont study, or we dont venture, or we dont practice charity. Through these we grow and attain to wisdom.

Some Economics...

For any nation, exportation of goods and services is a means towards prosperity, the more diversified the goods and services and the more diversified the countries of export, the better for that nation.It is even better and makes for a firmer economy when that particular nation has enough to export and to utilise for her citizens in the area of consumption without much need for importation.It is bad when a country can only produce consumed goods and services without any for exportation. It is much worse when a country has few or nothing to export and yet cannot produce enough to feed her citizens and has to rely on importation of most of her products, that is a clarion call for poverty. When we work routinely,structurally and daily,like the popular 9-5, and having to wait for the end of the month for salary,we are like the self consuming nation which has nothing to export, this is bad enough.If we are innovative, creative and we venture, in as diverse area as possible, and we have succeeded in translating this innovation and creativity into money making ventures, and especially when we dont rest all our hopes on the mechanised 9-5 job,but on what we know that we can produce and what we can translate into money,then the better the future will be for us, because we can then consume and are able to export, the more diversified this is , the better.But if we are not creative or we dont have any means of translating our creativity into money making venture(exportation), and we dont even have the usual 9-5 means of livelihood(goods consumption), God help us then, because we have to rely on importation and aid , the third and worst case senario!And that is the state most parts of sub saharan Africa are, and that which has translated to individuals!

The Challenge of Leadership

The loneliness and anguish of a leader. It is not enough to know. The capacity to come down to the level of the led and lead them with all patience and humility is what makes a great leader. A leader must put up with the ignorance of the led, yet strive not to be consumed by it. That is tough, knowledge is a great challenge, the more we know, the lonelier we become.And there is an individual and communal maturity that has to be reached before dealing with certain things , and we cannot presume nor be impatient. Any experience borne out of lasciviousness without true knowledge ends in nihilism. There is this obstacle of time against which a leader must wait, even when he has his destination and route staring acutely at him. A good leader must learn to be patient with time and with the led.This art of balance between vision and patience with the led and with time is the challenge of leadership. I end with this beautiful prayer of St Francis of Assisi: Lord , grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference!

The Journey!

My mission then was : 'keep with money and not be corrupt,keep with women and not be promiscous', i.e conquer the great eros. Now , i have to deal with people, forming a movement, not an institution. Being part of the many and not leading the hierachichal way. What follows? The ultimate mission after all these toils is to just be,yes, just be.The journey is 'about me', through 'about us', to 'about God'; this being, just being, is God, it is not rest, 'being' is work, but work in a different perspective.In another way, i can say the journey is from eros, through filial, to agape!

Between The Coin And The Host

Two great circular energies : the coin and the Host. The former works corporally and unto nihilism, the latter works spiritually and unto salvation. Humanly, we are powerless against these two great energies, because they both strive to 'enslave' us , but for two different causes, the former, unto damnation and the latter unto liberation. No middleway, we've got to make a choice,and succumb unto one energy, since no man can serve two masters. The Host and the coin are always at war. Go for the coin as slave and you are lurked up into an eternal ordeal of succumbing the Host underneath you,and ultimately ending in nihilism, for it is hard for a rich man to be saved. The best choice? Be a slave of the host and you have enough wisdom and strategy to conquer the coin and put it into your servitude, by employing this great evil, tainted as it is, even towards good causes , which by nature , it would rather not do,that is , being at the service of the humanity whom it was meant to conquer.It can do that falsely , but only through the Host can it succumb to a sincere humanity. You can only put money under your feet if you allow the Host to put you under His feet. That is freedom, that is liberation, that is salvation, what a wonderful thing to serve the Lord, only then can we be great, even unto putting the great mammon (money) under our feet!