WOODPECKER BLOG

CARDINAL LEHMANN’S OPENING SCROLL AND THREAT OF BLOOD IN THE EYES OF THE ARCHBISHOP. BY FR. BEN OGU Hurrah, the truth is vindicated and Mbaise is justified at last! Prior to the announcement of Peter Okpaleke as the bishop-elect of Ahiara diocese on December 7, 2012, the nauseating ordour of thievery and manipulation was oozing all over. There was a palpitating jittery of unusual anxiety for obvious suspicion that the name was arbitrarily worked out of manipulation and force. The reason was evidently glaring and the suspicion legitimate. When the suspicion would have lead to nipping the name in the bud before the scorpion egg was hatched, the spiritually naive, the emptily pious and the piously myopic in the diocesan echelon played their natural myopia and mischief which even gave suspicion of their connivance. They thought it unusual and unimaginable to fling a priest from far away Awka diocese and different province of Onitsha into the Episcopal enquiry list of Ahi...

  AHIARA: SIGN OF DERAILED MISSION AND PARABLE OF THE WOLF AND THE HOLY INNOCENT BY REV Fr.BEN Oke Ogu. By its very nature and from inception, the church remains inseparably the sign and sacrament of Christ and derives its meaning and mission from the life and mission of Jesus Christ, without which it is automatically a nullity. Without the mission of Christ the Church is demystified and stripped of its Christ-acquired and extended mystery because the Church does not exist if not to further and accomplish the salvation, sanctification, dispensation of mercy, justice and liberation mission of Christ to mankind. That mission was, prior to his birth, already designated by the prophetic oracle of Isaiah and is intrinsically implied in the name of “Jesus” as Saviour and Messiah.He appropriately announced this characteristic mission of Jesus when he said that the Spirit of God was specifically given to Jesus to commission him to soothe the spirit of the afflicted and...