St Joseph The Worker Parish Bonendale, Bonaberi

19/09/2023

18/09/2023

Generous in love God
Huge in mercy
Loving father
Before you now we come
We’ve been out of step for so long
In the wrong since we were born
Wipe away our records

Start afresh with us
Lord we need your Mercy.
Let your mercy flow like a river.
Pour out your mercy.
Our Fathers need your mercy.
Our children need your mercy.
Our leaders need your mercy
Our mothers need your mercy.

Bring down your mercy.
Send us your mercy.
Wash us in your red flow.
Have mercy on us Lord.
We cry for your mercy.
Havw mercy on Cameroon.
The whole world needs your mercy.

Our parish needs your mercy.
Have mercy Lord Jesus
If you judge us no one will stand. 😭😭😭😭

18/06/2023

𝔹𝔼 “𝕎𝔼-𝕄𝕀N𝔻𝔼𝔻” 𝕀N𝕊𝕋𝔼𝔸𝔻 𝕆𝔽 “𝕄𝔼-𝕄𝕀N𝔻𝔼𝔻”

One the most valuable things we have in life are the people who fill it. There are two very basic kinds of relationships: Type One, those motivated by self, and Type Two, those motivated by love.

Type One relationships are made up of individuals who are only involved for their own benefit; this is clearly destructive to a relationship on any level.

Type Two relationships are comprised of individuals who provide support, encouragement, camaraderie, etc. and expect nothing in return. The latter, of course, is the healthy, kingdom-based relationship.

It isn’t always easy, and it takes honesty, trust, and humility on the part of both parties to create authentic Type Two relationships. The qualities of a kingdom-based relationship, however, will always produce lasting fruit and life.

ACTIVATION EXERCISES
Ask the Lord to show you what relationships in your life could be, or need to be, approached differently. Take a moment to search your heart and let the Holy Spirit speak to you. Make an action plan. List the character qualities you need to develop to improve the quality of your most valued relationships.
Ngubi Valery aka IL CIPH3R

11/06/2023

𝔹𝔼 𝕄𝕀N𝔻𝔽𝕌𝕃 𝕆𝔽 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ 𝔸𝕊𝕊𝕆ℂ𝕀𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕆N𝕊

Different levels of relationships are based on varying ranges—or circles—of trust. Our innermost circles, for example, might include our heavenly Father, our parents, spouse, siblings, or closest friends.

And although we do certainly want to share the love of Christ with everyone we meet and treat all people with kindness no matter what their behaviors or beliefs are, we should be mindful of who we let into our inner circles of trust, because those are the people who will influence us the most.

Basically, trust is not an emotion, but a relational honor bestowed upon someone who consistently demonstrates his or her trustworthiness. A circle of trust is built on mutually fulfilling and beneficial relationships undergirded by authenticity and the core values of love, care, honesty, integrity, authenticity, credibility, truthfulness, trustworthiness, and respect.

There shouldn’t be anyone in your inner circle with whom you don’t have unquestionable confidence, assurance, and conviction concerning their character, values, and integrity.
This also pertains to organizations we affiliate ourselves with. In order to live life to the fullest, we must choose to allow our closest alliances to be kingdom-minded people and organizations—because we will ultimately resemble those with whom we assemble.

ACTIVATION EXERCISES
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you who you’ve let into your inner circle of trust that should be moved out. Ask Him what your relationship and interaction should look like.
Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any organizations that you have affiliated yourself with that you should not be part of in this season. Ask Him for an exit strategy, record it, and implement it immediately.

Ngubi Valery aka IL CIPH3R

07/06/2023

*𝕌𝕊𝔼 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ 𝕎𝕆ℝ𝔻𝕊 𝕎𝕀𝕊𝔼𝕃𝕐*

Our words are powerful. They have power, presence, and prophetic implications with no time or place limitations.

In other words, many things that are happening in our lives can be traced back to the words we have spoken in the past a kind of self-fulfilled prophecy.

We create the future by the words we speak, which is a conduit of the thoughts we think. Whether internal private dialogues or audible expressions of our thoughts, feelings, and intentions articulated by sound, we can build or tear down our lives and the world in which we live.

Like a plant wilts or thrives based on what kind of nutrients, water, and sunlight it receives, so do individuals, families, communities, and countries wilt or thrive based on words.

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit" (Prov. 18:21).

The fruit of your words becomes the reality of your life. When you change your words, you change your reality.

*EMPOWERMENT PRAYER*
Say this out loud:

Sign of the cross.
Dear Lord, give me grace to see the fruit of the words that leave my lips. Help me to be mindful of whether I am releasing words of life or death, and empower me by Your Holy Spirit to only release words of life.

I know that without You it would be impossible, so I choose to lean on You, listen, and yield to Your promptings. I choose to align myself with heaven's perspective and release words of life from Your heart so that Your will can be done on earth as it is in heaven. Grant all this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Remained blessed.

09/05/2023

𝕂𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕊𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕤

St. Mary of Egypt
April 1 is the feast of a little-known saint whose story demonstrates the power of the Church as the home of forgiveness, redemption and mercy. St. Mary of Egypt was a pr******te for 17 years before she received the Eucharist and chose the life of a hermit.

Born in 344 A.D., Mary of Egypt moved to the city of Alexandria when she was 12 years old and worked as a pr******te. With the intention of continuing her trade, she joined a large group that was making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

On the feast day itself, she joined the crowd as it was headed to the church in order to venerate the relic of the True Cross, again with the intention of luring others into sin. When she got to the door of the church, she was unable to enter. A miraculous force propelled her away from the door each time she approached. After trying to get in three or four times, Mary of Egypt moved to a corner of the churchyard and began to cry tears of remorse.

Then she saw a statue of the Blessed Virgin. She prayed to the Holy Mother for permission to enter the church for the purposes of venerating the relic. She promised the Virgin Mother that if she were allowed to enter the church, she would renounce the world and its ways.

Mary of Egypt entered the church, venerated the relic and returned to the statue outside to pray for guidance. She heard a voice telling her to cross the Jordan River and find rest. She set out and in the evening, she arrived at the Jordan and received communion in a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

The next day, she crossed the river and went into the desert, where she lived alone for 47 years. Then, while making his Lenten retreat, a priest named Zosimus found the hermitess. She asked him to return to the banks of the Jordan on Holy Thursday of the following year and to bring her Communion. The priest was true to his word and returned bearing the Eucharist. Mary told him to come back again the next year, but to the place where he had originally met her.

When Zosimus returned in a year’s time, he found Mary’s co**se. On the ground beside it was a written request that she be buried accompanied by a statement that she had died one year ago, in 421 A.D., on the very night she had received Holy Communion

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13/04/2023

*Satan's Interest In The Home*

God's plan for the Family is revealed in Genesis 2:18:

He established marriage for the purpose of making life good for man. And after He instituted marriage, God confirmed that it was very good. However, it was not long after that the enemy arrived on the scene. As a matter of fact, it was soon after God performed the wedding ceremony, and declared, "Behold Mr. and Mrs. Adam", that Satan showed up.

Satan is the enemy of everything good. Having lost access to goodness immediately he fell from heaven, he cannot stand anyone else enjoying good. He is envious of any good thing, so he goes about reversing the order of things. This is what makes him wicked.

People attribute the crisis in homes to incompatibility or disagreements, but it is actually Satan who is behind the woes in families. He has determined to cause havoc in homes. He would do anything or pay any price to shatter a home. Quite a number, even in the Church, are victims of this satanic onslaught against families.

Some wish they were never married, yet God says, "I created it for your good." I can imagine Adam wishing he was never created when he was driven out of Eden into the wilderness. I picture him running away from the wild animals which had been his pets before Satan entered the garden and sent man out.

I perceive that Satan was envious of the fact that the couple were standing on their feet, while he was crawling on the ground. So he came with a mission to have them grounded.

But the good news is that although Satan bruised the heel of mankind, to floor him, man can bruise his head and wound him fatally. This was what Jesus came to do on earth. As the seed of the woman, His mission on earth was to bruise Satan's head and empower us to do same.

15/02/2023

𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕚𝕟
Mathew 18:7-11

Jesus talks about those who cause offenses. It was obvious such individuals were present in Jesus' time same as they exist now among us and the judgement of God will fall on them because they are failing to deal with the basic cause of their sin.

Jesus was not teaching self mutilation, cutting off one's hand, gouging out ones eye etc. Doing that will not remove the source of the offense, which is the heart.

Jesus was saying one must remove whatever offends. To keep ourselves from offending, radical changes are often necessary.

We need to make sure that our life style does not cause others to sin. We need to watch what we say, do, how we dress etc. All these are factors that may cause others to sin and woe on you who causes others to sin.

Woe to those who cause children to sin or mislead children. Children are the only set of people whose angels are always in the presence of God. so imagine what will happénd to you for leading them astray.

Parents need to be careful the way they bring up thier children for they are care takers of these children for we all belong to God.

Ngubi Valery (IL~CIPH3R)
Relationship, s*x and marriage consultant.
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25/01/2023

How Can a Priest Forgive Sin?

OBJECTOR: I don’t see how the Catholic Church can teach that a priest can forgive sins. It’s against the Bible. The Psalmist, speaking to God, says in Psalm130:4, “But with you there is forgiveness.” A man cannot forgive the sins of another person. The only sins a man can forgive are those against him directly. Jesus said we should forgive those who sin against us. But how can a priest, or any human being, forgive sins which are not against him directly. Only God can do that.

CATHOLIC: You’re absolutely right. Only God can forgive sins. In Mark 2:1–12 we find what you are saying in the story of the healing of the paralytic. When Jesus saw the paralytic, he said to him, “Your sins are forgiven” (Mark 2:5). The scribes gave the same objection that you raised—that is, that only God can forgive sins. They asked, “Who can forgive sins except God alone?” And they were right. But notice how Jesus changes this later in the story. He performs the miracle of healing precisely to show that “the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:10). So what was once only in heaven is now on earth because Jesus has the authority to forgive.

OBJECTOR: Yes, but Jesus is God and therefore has the power to forgive. You see, that proves my point. Only Jesus can forgive sins because he is God. A human priest cannot.

CATHOLIC: So you agree that there was once a man on earth who could forgive sins. It was the one who was fully God and fully man. And I assume that if Jesus Christ were on earth again, forgiveness of sins would be on earth again.

OBJECTOR: Yes, but Jesus is now in heaven according to the Bible. So we can only find forgiveness in heaven with God—specifically with God’s Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our great high priest who intercedes for us with his Father, as it says in Hebrews 4:14 and 7:25.

CATHOLIC: I agree that Jesus can forgive our sins because he is our great high priest. But the Catholic faith says that Jesus’ priesthood was also given to men so that they could continue his earthly work of forgiving sins.

OBJECTOR: Where does the Bible say that?

CATHOLIC: In John 20:19–23. Let me read it: “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

OBJECTOR: That’s an interesting passage, but it doesn’t say anything about Jesus giving his priesthood to men. I didn’t hear him say, “I make you priests.” And even if he did make them priests, he didn’t give them the power to forgive sins.

CATHOLIC: Then what do you think Jesus meant when he said in verse 23, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained”? To me, that sounds like he is giving the apostles authority to forgive sins.

OBJECTOR: He is giving them the authority to proclaim the gospel, which has the forgiveness of sins in it. The power to forgive is something he kept for himself. If sinners believe the gospel, they will receive forgiveness.

CATHOLIC: You must have read John Calvin’s interpretation of John 20:19–23, because that is exactly what he says about Jesus’ words. As you know, John Calvin was the Protestant Reformer of Geneva, Switzerland, who broke away from the Catholic Church in the early 1530s. In 1536 he published his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion in which he identified himself clearly as a Protestant. He was convinced that the Catholic Church was corrupt. And one of its worst corruptions, according to Calvin, was the presumption of a priest forgiving sins. That power was something that Christ reserved exclusively for himself, Calvin said.

OBJECTOR: I’ve never read John Calvin’s writings but it sounds like he was a pretty good thinker. He is absolutely right in thinking that Christ was authorizing the proclamation of the gospel and not the forgiveness of sins.

CATHOLIC: Calvin was a very attentive interpreter of the Bible and paid close attention to the details of the text, but in this text I don’t think he paid enough attention. In verse 23 Jesus says, “You forgive” and “you retain,” not “You proclaim forgiveness” or “You proclaim retention.” It seems that Calvin couldn’t take verse 23 for what it really says because he was prejudiced against the Catholic doctrine.

OBJECTOR: But you don’t know that. It’s not a very charitable judgment to say that he was prejudiced against the Catholic faith.

CATHOLIC: You may be right, but I think I can safely infer from Calvin’s many writings that he hated Catholic teachings. Perhaps he thought he had good reasons because he had seen so many abuses of the sacrament of confession. Whatever his motivation may have been, it seems clear that he did not pay close enough attention to verse 23. On the other hand, consider the use of this text that the Catholic Church makes in its formula of absolution.

OBJECTOR: What is a formula of absolution?

CATHOLIC: It’s the words that a priest uses to confer or convey the forgiveness of Christ once a person has confessed his sins. This absolution is based directly on Jesus’ words in John 20:19–23. It says, “God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son, has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sin, through the ministry of the Church. May God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

OBJECTOR: I suppose any Christian would find those words beautiful, but I still don’t see how they are in the Bible or specifically in John 20:19–23.

CATHOLIC: Consider this. The formula reminds us that reconciliation is the plan of the Father in heaven when it says, “God, the Father of mercies . . . has reconciled the world to himself.” That is, the plan of salvation is not made up by the Church. The Church only proclaims what God has done. And further, this plan is accomplished “through the death and resurrection of his Son.”

OBJECTOR: I agree. God is the only Savior who in and through Christ’s death and resurrection has brought salvation into the world. But what does that have to do with a priest forgiving sin?

CATHOLIC: Think with me further. The formula of absolution wishes peace on the sinner with the words, “May God give you pardon and peace.” These words remind us of Jesus’ words in John 20:19 and 21, “Peace be with you.” Jesus wished peace on his followers. He also conferred that peace on them by giving them the Holy Spirit. This is what it means in John 20: 22, “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” The formula states this important role of the Holy Spirit when it says that God “sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sin.” The Holy Spirit is the active agent of bringing the forgiveness of Christ to sinners.

OBJECTOR: Okay. I agree that the Holy Spirit plays an important role in applying the forgiveness of Christ to sinners, but again that action is something only God can do. I don’t see anywhere in John 20:19–23 where a man is given authority to forgive the way your formula of absolution says.

CATHOLIC: Notice how in verse 21 Jesus says, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” In other words, Jesus is giving his apostles the same authority that he received from his Father. Now what authority did Jesus receive from God the Father? We saw earlier, in Mark 2:10, that he had the authority to forgive sins. Jesus brought the power of forgiveness from heaven to earth. So now, in John 20:21, he is giving that same authority to his apostles. And he is explicit about what he is giving them, “Whoever’s sins you forgive, they are forgiven.”

OBJECTOR: Ah ha. That’s where the Catholic Church makes its fatal mistake. God the Father gave Jesus that authority because he is God too. But a human priest is not God. Even the Catholic doesn’t say that a priest is God.

CATHOLIC: You’re right. A priest is not God, but the priest has the power to confer or convey the forgiveness of God—not by his own power but by the power that Christ conferred on his apostles that day recorded for us in John 20:19–23.

OBJECTOR: Yes, but didn’t your formula of absolution have the priest saying, “I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit?” That sounds like it’s the priest who is doing the forgiving.

CATHOLIC: Yes, that’s what the formula says, but it says that because the priest is acting in the place of Christ. A priest’s authority to convey forgiveness does not come from himself. It comes from Christ. By the power of the Holy Spirit, the priest stands in the place of Christ to declare the sinner forgiven. That is why the formula of absolution uses the pronoun I. The I is Christ speaking through the human priest. If Jesus had not come to earth, there would be no forgiveness on earth, and if he had not conferred on the apostles this ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18), we would have no forgiveness today. But we can thank God that Christ did indeed come and that he passed on his authority to the Church to reconcile sinners to God

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