All the liturgical seasons of the Church are important: the Advent Season; the Christmas Season; the Lenten Season, the Easter Season; and the Ordinary Season that is usually interspaced between some of the other festive Seasons. One could argue about their equal importance in the salvific mission of the Church. But no one can argue

The fourth corporal work of mercy is to “shelter the homeless.” First, let us try to understand homes before we look at the homeless. Homes are structures made of different types of textures to provide shelter to humans. Some homes are made of synthetic fiber materials, woods, blocks, bricks, stones, concretes, steels, and so on. Some homes

Our next corporal work of mercy is one that has two different appellations though they both refer to the same virtue. It is about the corporal work of mercy invites us “to ransom the captive” or “to visit the prisoner.” Today in Nigeria, “to ransom the captive” could be a very sensitive issue, and may run the risk of equivocation in

It is too very easy to think of prisoners as vilest bunch of human beings paying the price of their crimes. And as such prisoners are loathsome to many people who see them as disgusted persons. But the truth is likely that in some cases, the worst criminals are those yet to be caught. Remember

“To bury the dead” is the last Corporal Work of Mercy. Death itself is the natural severance of the soul from the body. It puts an end to all earthly plans, dreams, desires and endeavours. At death humans become history as everything about them would be read in the past. As the choristers sing: “what the living

In the last few weeks, the information space in Nigeria has been inundated with drumbeats of ethnicism from all regions of the country. Oxford Living Dictionary defines “ethnicism” as “1. An emphasis upon ethnic identity. 2. Prejudice based on ethnic origin.” In other words, ethnicism is linked with superiority complex in inter-ethnic relationships. It is the case where each