The Law of Consevation of Energy: Between Sacrament & Science

The law of conservation of energy simply says that the total amount of energy in a system remains constant over time.The rejection, by Christians, of the sacraments and sacramental is what has resulted into what I call The Age of Matter: the enlightenment, science and the liberalization of reason. Science is unsustainable without faith. Without Faith, Awareness or Truth, as you may call it, the whole work of science would ultimately result in a calamitous destruction of the world, for the earth by structure essentially has as its constituents the sacraments and not matter, matter has essentially become sacrament through the death and resurrection of Christ. History has shown that matter on its own is not sustainable.Not until the world rediscover the mysteries of the sacraments  would the world be saved, no matter the advancement of enlightenment, salvation of the world does not lie exclusively with science, rather it portends its destruction. So how do we rescue the situation? Science has made much progress devoid of faith while faith has lost much as a result of an abject rejection of the sacraments; it's a question of simple law of energy conservation. To save the world and move it forward, faith can only take back her lost energy from science through reason,and if there is any hope left at all for the world,faith has to employ reason to engage science in order to take back what belongs to her in all truth:when matter would live the truth and become the sacraments. The battle point between faith and science is reason!

In Memory

IN MEMORY My primal sin: I take things for granted. What if my grandfather hadn’t decided to be a Christian or hadn’t invested in my Dad’s formal education, and what if my Dad hadn’t valued education also and hadn’t trained me to the university level. Surely, I could still have made it, but at a greater toil and lengthier time. Only God knows what important choice my Great-grandfather or Great great grandfather had made to get me here. And do I think at all, am I grateful for these or do I take things for granted? And what choices will I make for my children to keep up this progress. This is the capital sin: Idagunla, aibikita. Memory. The bane of our society. We lack history. We treat death as another ‘spanner loss’, we ignore the lives of our ancestors, that is why wise elders are lacking, why dynamic leaders are short and why we have swarms of mediocre as followers. Don’t look too far. Mia cupa. It’s saddening when we practice faiths that tend to kill memory. How on earth shall there then be growth? Even Christ cannot effect much without memory. A society whose followers are obedient and grateful, whose leaders let go, and whose elders practice memory and teach others its method will move at light speed. The greater virtue after morality and letting go is memory. Look at yonder, how do they get on? They lack faith, they are immoral, they are aggressively secular and atheistic, but they value history, biography, autobiography, they have a reading and writing culture , they think, they don’t forget and they believe in and leave legacies for posterity,. All Souls Day tend to portend sorrow (which is good, it helps the souls anyway) and purgatory has loads of bad press that we think of it little less than anathema. We look at our beloved dead as being helpless, and having no more contact whatsoever with our lives here, and we spare some thoughts for them, if at all , only on All Souls Day. A whole lot of Christian faiths wouldn’t even spare a day for memory. Do we really need to be sad for them? Yes, sad because they are no more around us physically. But they feel an infinitely more sorrows for us (which they have mastered, for sorrows effect much than joy in heaven) because we are more to be pitied. Work, pain, labour sorrows, etc becomes the opposite over there. When we remember them, we help them quite alright, but we benefit a lot more from them. We gain vision, progress and love. Blessed are the sorrowful, for they shall be comforted. Do you think pains, labours works etc are evil? Think a little of the Little Flower wanting to spend her heaven in doing good on earth. Did I hear earth? This ‘jakujaku’ earth?; as if that is not bad enough, what if we think of the Blessed Virgin still in labour of childbirth until now? Since 33AD! Is that not purgatory in heaven? And as if that is not the worst, what when you hear of St Paul’s wish of being condemned to hell on behalf of the Israelites?.. Don’t try to imitate them if you haven’t trusted love.’o ni hun ti agba je tele ikun… ‘Are they stupid or are we ignorant? Only when we learn to love and not hate do we know the reason why. It is He who has not come to condemn, but has come to save, who causes that experience. What is purgatory, for those who live the beatitudes? Hell melts away at the sight of love. A soul in love cannot stand still, that is why Yoruba says that ‘oku olomo kii sun’, that is the most natural means of this love that we speak about, albeit needing purification. (Mother and child). Movement is love, love happens for freedom and peace. He who is more artful at the utility of memory wins, that is why evil thrives. Evil people believe more in devils than we do God and have mastered this memorial act than us, and it is easier for humanity to destroy than to build. They conjoin demons, they remember devils, thus iniquity flocks the world. They make us forget our heroes who are dead in Christ and they keep on holding to the land. Freedom is all about the liberation of the land. Who owns the land? Who are our ancestors, the true ‘alaales’? Until we realise that man goes back to dust, and that, a man in Christ is word, and that it is through word that the land gains its freedom and liberation. In fact, the word has become land. Christ has won for us the land, but until we master the art of memory, we shall continue to succumb to the devil’s illusions. (And when He is come He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement: Of sin, because they believe not on Him; of righteousness because He goes to His Father, and we see Him no more; Of judgement because the prince of this world is already judged -JN16:8-11). Christ’s ultimate legacy is: ‘Do this in memory of Me’. Therein lies great power, and He gave us the means to do this: The Eucharist. Christ told the rich young man after he has fulfilled point 1 of progress: morality, to apply point 2: go sell all what you have and give the money to the poor (letting go, the virtue of a leader, ‘agba maa n gba ni’), after the 2nd point He proposed step 3: ‘then, follow Me’. That following is the stage of memory, keep me in focus, it is the arrival of eldership, the 24 elders who are always by the throne of the Lord are those who have learnt the science of memory. The eternal legacy a man can achieve is the true acquisition of the land, and you can only acquire this land if it is truly liberated, and it behoves of one person, one man only to liberate the land, He only who has opened the seal. The Christ. Our Saviour! Our lives, knowingly or unknowingly are truly a battle for the land. But it is through letting go and memory that we gain the wisdom of conquest. And about what matters afterlife, Christ says: whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me. When we remember those who have died in Christ, albeit imperfect as they are (least of the brethren), we give Christ greater means of conquering the land. A damning belief is that which teaches us to forget the dead. A society or household that fails to constantly remember its dead is itself dead! No matter our cries to Him for liberation, Christ is likely to tell us: I am busy with Israel and Palestine, and when we tell Him, but come to Nigeria, He’ll reply: You have Tansi and all the numerous dead in my name to deliver you, and we shall answer, but they are not You, and they are not saints, they are imperfect, and we’ll rattle to Him their faults and imperfections, and He shall reply us: whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me. Remember them, thus you remember Me., for they are in me, ‘e ma pa ketekete!’ I rule from Israel, but I am present everywhere through my vicarages, even Peter is not here in Israel, he is manning My site in Rome. My mother also is not here, she is in Ephesus, so also my beloved disciple, John etc ( This is a description for literary purpose, I know the land is one and everything operates in essence) .What is sin and imperfection in the presence of love? When we believe that they that are in Christ are not saved, we have thus commenced our own condemnation on earth. Home is the natural place to build love, that which lasts till eternity. We should do everything to preserve the natural love of the home. ‘Bi ile o ba dun, bi igbe ni ilu nri’. If we miss the love from home we shall labour more to get it elsewhere and the vastness of our destiny most probably shall be curtailed. I know we dread idolatry, but nonetheless, Christ takes glory in the glorification of Christians, more so those who have died and are perfected in Him. Remember that famous Starcomms slogan: ‘We speak your language!’ , how important it is. Apart from the natural love which family fosters, there is this family, tribal and national language which is manifested in culture and tradition, which only he who is born, bred and died in the land is adept at. We speak your language! And this language is the word, which every one of us shall become. Logos. This logo must cut through the waft and weft of the illusions of true cultures, where a fake word exists; it is burnt up and taken over by the True Word. The Logos of God and it is through this that the land is liberated. This is truth, it is because we believe it in a shallow way, that is why evil still reigns. The real war is on and has been won at the same time. The actual war is inside us, our capacity to see this and work in love. Liberation of the land can only take effect through memory of our ancestors, our true ancestors, those who have died in Christ. The more this is continual and widespread, the more this cult of memory is built, in an individualistic and personal way, and all brought into the mystery of the Eucharist, the more our individual locality language is spoken, and the more our lands are liberated, the more there shall be prosperity,for the liberation of the land has a very close tie with the liberation of its people. We are the Word! Those who are dead in Christ are the actual living, they are waiting to perpetuate this true legacy! The real fact of the many languages heard spoken of during Pentecost is not only that of speaking in tongues , but that of a deep and divine understanding of the respective cultures of the languages spoken , which had been hitherto foreign to the disciples, which needed to be entered into and conquered for Christ. If Christ had not envisioned the universality of the church, they would all have spoken only Hebrew on Pentecost, even with that, it took persecutions to move the apostles from there comfort zones. They spoke the gentiles languages, they knew, by grace, the waft and weft of dwelling in the respective lands. That which they gained through divine grace is what we have been given naturally by our language. We need to wake up, and wake up the dead in Christ through memory. They have the natural ability to speak our languages, in fact, they have become our languages, and that is a plus for our land. They are the real words, but they are powerless without us bringing about their memory, even Christ is powerless without His memory (which the Holy Spirit shall not permit), and He is busy in Palestine, He still rules from Jerusalem, and whether we wilt or not, He shall conquer in the middle East and when He does, He shall rule the world, but then He shall have to ask us, how have you assisted me to conquer the land? The same words of the judgement apply in our relations to those who are living as well as those who are dead. The corporal and spiritual works of mercy begins from the life here into life hereafter. Will the words ‘whatever you do to the least of my brethren….’, affirm or refute us? Some ancestors have tried so much that they have won over their traditions, cultures, albeit to truth or to falsehood. Latin has so much been conquered that it has become the language of the church, and how the devil trembles at Latin! So also is Aramaic and Hebrew. Powers also dwell in Arabic, Hindu, English, Greek and even Yoruba, albeit positively or negatively. They know the power of using the word. I was named Francis during my baptism. I have cultivated the art of remembering St Francis, my patron Saint. He blesses me and blesses my family through me, but he has carried the remaining blessings to Assisi, for he really could not speak Yoruba to effect much further, except to act briefly only through those who understand him as we do. But he knows the nooks and crannies of Assisi, so it becomes easier to work in Assisi, or through Assisi, for work he must as an authentic logos. What shall I do then to liberate my land? I must learn and practice the science and art of memory, bringing back alive my ancestors who are dead in Christ, for they love to dwell with us, they hold the true language that can liberate our land, and it is through them that there shall be prosperity, progress and true liberation of the land! O blessed are the dead who have those that really matter to remember them, i.e. the church, holy people, simple souls; and also blessed the living who have saintly dead to remember. Reciprocals of this bring liberation of the land!

Totus Tou!

When we keep the principles and laws of God, the direct consequence is prosperity. Permit me to say that, even with that, morality et all, is still Mosaic and an old testament stuff, though Christ has not come to abolish that, but to perfect it. Where almost all of us fall short of the kingdom is that we stay put at the prosperity level,like that rich young man,we are afraid to let go. That is why prosperity churches abound and why money stuff is also infilterating the catholic church.The level of perfection is this:'If thou would be perfect, go sell ALL what you have, give the money to the poor, and come follow me'.we shall all have to be St Francis of Assisi to have the audacity to do that, in a sense,it is a call to die, and it is just obvious how few there are who practically follow that. It is only after we must have done that when we shall know the authenticty of what Christ has truely brought, i.e Grace and Truth. Realistically speaking , i think most of us have fallen short of the 'ALL'. He does not need a tenth, He needs ALL. He does not need our tithing as much as our charity!. I've found a secret, in spite of my weakness, of giving that ALL, in Spirit and in Truth: It is in the practice of the 'True Devotion To Mary' according to St Louis De Monfort, that principle on which the Legion of Mary is built. If we can authentically live the spirit of this practices, in spite of our weakness and incapacity, we shall see how much we have given the Lord, more than any offering or tithing!

Misery of His Heart (MHH): HOW ON EARTH DID WE GET HERE? (PART2)

Misery of His Heart (MHH): HOW ON EARTH DID WE GET HERE? (PART2)

BOKO

The idea of university as we have it today is an Islamic concept. The West borrowed its leaf and liberalized its scope. This opened up great diversities of space and ideologies. Universities greatly improved the quality of our lives and have succeeded in conquering a great swarm of evils which plagued our planet. Through this form of education, man is civilized, war is reduced, sicknesses are cured and poverty eradicated in many parts of the world. But, also, through its diversity, man tends to lose the scope of the few things that are necessary and he worries and frets over thousands of unnecessary things brought about by Boko. It is as if man, through his actions, is not yet ready for an authentic freedom. Out of the influence of Boko has come a great swarm of immoral cultures , consumerism and a general loss-or at best-dwindling of faith. The Boko issue is synonymous to the crossing of the Red Sea. We cannot afford to stay behind. If we wait, forces of Pharaoh would catch up on us, if we enter through without trusting in God, we shall be consumed by its torrents , but when we pass through with great confidence in God, we shall of necessity become liberated, and a new life, a great freedom hitherto unknown shall be made manifest; in spite of the cons of Boko, we shall come out renewed and unscathed and our faith which we were apprehensive about shall soar unto new heights, great levels and brighter freedom; unscathed and unharmed, so shall we be. We cannot afford to stay behind. Boko is a force of God. We shall go, trusting in Him and we shall emerge at the other end, fully renewed and praising the Lord as we journey towards freedom through our leap of faith!

HOW ON EARTH DID WE GET HERE? (PART 3)

MY LAND:THE UNSUNG HEROES Life is becoming increasingly tougher, but if the perception of the ‘fruit of our labour’ remains at the level of food and money, our virtue has not thence gone deeper than that of the scribes and Pharisees. Without a passionate cultural education from two passionate parents, children would be half formed and posterity will suffer. The Boko harams’ influence is as a result of the degradation of the home. The pressure of fending for the family has lured a great many into unholy means, and they find out too late that the path of life and happiness lies not in the acquisition of money , much less in doing so unjustly. The love of money, mammon, is the root and core of all evils in my land. Our drives for more, pressures from families, the exaltation of wealth in public places and places of worship and the anathemisation of any want whatsoever has fostered such a gargantuan drive for wealth, such that we are left unsathiated and are always looking ahead to the other person who has more than we do, leading us more into envy and anger, thus making evil prevail. The drive for wealth has created such a hypo in our business world, and solely dictates our decision to be educated. Pure desire for truth is as scarce as finding a pin in the ocean. We are enthusiasts in employing whatever means to acquire academic certificates not minding the mediocrity that reigns in our minds, and we have placed an alas on he who has not had any acquisition of formal education. The culture of handicraft and informal vocation has collapsed under the might and the rapidity of knowledge in our age. Poverty, prevalence of strife and scarcity of resources for livelihood have done our women no good. Racketed by an unsathiated, get married quick culture, every young woman’s dream is marriage to a man who 'has arrived’. In order to maintain her loyalty to the family, this young woman is often disarrayed emotionally between a militating culture and her reason to the contrary. For the man , during the years of schooling, and that of begging to apply for job, and bribing to be absorbed, and in the midst of such corruptibility, and as a result of his inability to catch up with a balanced spirituality which is often lacking to confront the aggressiveness of modernity, and his inability to control his libido, ladies often waiting to be married fall his prey and immorality persists, abortion abounds, deeply cherished family values are destroyed and the land is thrown into endless cycles of poverty and sufferings. The root cause of such ills is money, yet the drive for money is the basest of all motivations which reveals the primitivity of our society in relation to growth. This is the dialysis of my unsung heroine: a living matyr, a scape goat, the culprit. She starts as a young pure teenage girl, she meets this guy and falls in love, he has every potential of being a good husband but he isn’t ready to settle down. Mama and pastor say no sex but boy wants sex, girl is confused but holds on to the doctrine of her mentors. Even though boy cherishes chastity, but he simply could not withhold himself, he leaves for the ‘Animashahuns’ while he still holds her in high esteem. He is saving her for marriage so he says, but when he eventually becomes man, rather than opt to settle for her (for she is still waiting, praying and hoping)he prefers the simplicity and beauty of the sweet 16 which feeds his ego. So the poor girl, now a young woman is left shattered and she has to start all over. Virtuous women, rising from experiences as such, are torn between succumbing to worldly pressures of marriage at any cost and that of facing a prejudiced culture of name calling and suspicion. These are the forgotten ones, the real living martyrs of our age, that is, if they persist, but such a great trial this is, only a few could hold through, a great lot succumb and fall by the wayside. The quest for personal gains defines everything in my land, from the service of God, through the choice of marriage to the way business is conducted. The pressure to belong has driven parents out of the home and has exposed the children to the diabolical effect of our unrepentant culture. Our religions, in the quest for money has been reduced to nothing short of propaganda and raw proselytism. Don’t claim the holier, to a greater and lesser extent, we have all succumbed to the rude force of secularism. What to master more in this age is the science of truth and the acknowledgement of our ills, both individually and institutionally. Mammon and its quest has destroyed home, blinded truth and deluded careers. Our laggard culture fails to come to terms with the reality of our times. The protagonists of our culture are three: Our politicians, our pastors or Imams and the media, including musicians, actors and those in show business. Directly or indirectly, these are the people who shape what we do, how we act and what we cherish. But our politicians have been deluded by power, our media corrupted by sex and our places of worship consumed by money. Where is that faithful morally upright woman, or that clergy completely incorrupt and uninfluenced by money, or that unassuming politician who has as his sole drive the care of the society? These are the unsung heroes, the living martyrs who are daily working at the liberation of our land. Not the noise makers, be they in politics, media or religion. Those who strive after the hidden truth, even in the midst of an erroneous culture which cries the opposite, these are the true champions, and we should sing them out, they exist, though very few, they don’t make noise, and except by hindsight it is difficult to know them. But we should seek them out and sing them loud, otherwise, evil shall conquer the land, for if we don’t sing them, the more we shall keep having the noisemakers as role models, and the more we shall keep living a lie, and the more morally bankrupt our land shall be, in politics, in churches, in mosques, in business , in the media; and more often than not, in our families!

HOW ON EARTH DID WE GET HERE? (PART2)

THE WEST:Enter the Dragon! The great west is losing her mojo. This civilization borne out of the Greco-Roman culture and fostered by Judeo- Christo- Islamic doctrine, is asking the same question all over: from New York to Johannesburg, from London to Buenos Aires, from Cairo to Lagos, “How on earth did we get here?’. Due to our preference of the seen over the unseen, of matter over the spirit , of the tangible at the detriment of the intangible, the consequence of the culture of excessive positivism and aggressive secularism is catching up on us and the West is losing her steam to an officially atheistic nation: China, which spearheads the new era and the rise of the East. Enter the dragon! Our great monotheist Western culture has sold her birthright to the East for a bowl of porridge: consumerism .Consumerism fostered more our interest for ephemeral satisfaction and of greed over savings, the thought of the future and the care for posterity, and the future has dawned upon us as if like a dream. Spending of course is a virtue; it is the nature of what we spend on that makes it vicious. And the West, over the years, has cultivated a culture of spending on things that are both unnecessary and erotically gratifying. Rather than investing in the future, we focus on ephemerality. The day is truly shining from the East. We, who could hardly bear the baptism of hedonism, sodomism and consumerism, now have the full force of atheism making an aggressive comeback. That which was potentially destroyed from its onslaught on the West through the defeat of Russia’s communism and the fall of Berlin wall is now brazing up solidly to deal a final blow to the West. The path it shall follow is that of Marxist atheism which is her John the Baptist in the West. Yes, we shall win, you say; but a great many will surely be swept beneath, and that could have been avoided simply by curbing our passion and avoiding our desires for satiating the flesh. Just as consumerism and hedonism has consumed our faith, lets brace up for the final defense against the idea of God, they are set to make it final and total. I know what you think: that the West is already atheistic. But I say: what we see now is simply a shadow; atheism and freedom are no friends. Go ask the Daila Lama, and wait until you enter the dragon!