“Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed . . . . . . . . . . . . And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Monday 10th Match 2025 – MATTHEW 25:31-46.
So, there’s a theological belief that, God loves the masses that is why He created us so many.
As of the year 2023, the population of the world was put at 8 billion people.
Now, just imagine how every single of us must have at least one meal a day.
However, quite unfortunately, some of us in our part of the world have been displaced by political, ethnic or religious crisis. Some, it is due to environmental factors or other forces of nature.
So, getting to earn a living to feed ourselves in our current places of displacement is almost impossible.
Therefore, shelter and clothing and food have become herculean task for those of us so affected.
These are just a fraction of those that are truly indigent and may genuinely require to access help from those of us who can truly render help.
Therefore, my dear friend, we mustn’t wait until such a time when we have excess or very much that we will want to help.
If we can spare just one plate of food each time while serving out our daily ration for an indigent person, we will already be doing very much.
Any of our clothes that we haven’t used for the past 3 months, it is possible we may not need them again.
Such clothes, even if we do not know how to reach those who need them, we can take them to any Catholic Church and request that they should be given to St Vincent-de-Paul Society.
The society knows how to reach these people and have deplored effective and efficient ways of distributing palliatives to these indigent people that they prefer to refer to them as their clients.
While dropping off these wears, if we are y buoyant enough to add a little token to it, by all means we should do.
The immediate above is canvassed because, some clients visit the society requesting for help to access medical care. Some who are on transit request for temporal shelter, while others require just a little aid to help them reach their destination.
We will be surprised that when we arrive at the Throne of Grace, mercy will arise and give us a warm embrace just for these little efforts we carelessly made.
Remember, charity is a virtue that can covers a multitude of sins. – 1 PETER 4:8.
Folks, have a fantastic day and a fulfilled week.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
10th March 2025
Lost Through Eternity
“Moses spoke to the people, saying, “See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you . . . . . . . . . . . .”
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 6th March 2025 – DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20.
So, the choice has always been ours, to either do good and live or follow the ways of the world and perish.
The instructions given by the Prophet Moses above were simple, “ Love God and love your neighbour as yourself.” Simple!
If we are going to do something not good to someone else, and on a second thought we feel that if that were done to us, we will be hurt, that is our conscience speaking to us. That, my dear friend is the voice of God speaking reason to us.
At this rate and at this point, we have the option of making the choice of heeding the voice of reason or going it our way.
However, Christ Jesus in today’s teaching says, what will become of our soul if and when we keep going it our way by taking other people’s lands and other properties, grabbing monies budgeted for public good and syphoning them into private accounts, importing and distributing fake and substandard products, sleeping around . . . . . .?
When we have gained all the riches and pleasures of this world, what then will become of our soul when we pass on?
It is not as if we are geared not to be prosperous. Recall that Moses said above that, once we follow the commandments of the Lord God, we shall prosper and multiply and God will bless us.
What could most likely be getting us to go the way of the world could be our greed.
My dear friend, even if we have gone so deep into having it our way by going the way of the world, this Lenten season provides us yet another opportunity to have a redress.
The doors of the Church are always and ever open, we may begin by first going for confession.
Christ says, what will it profit us if we gain the whole world and lose our soul?
My dear friend, eternity is way too long a period of time to be lost in just for the temporal gains of our impatience that we pressure to enjoy here.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
6th March 2025.
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 6th March 2025 – DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20.
So, the choice has always been ours, to either do good and live or follow the ways of the world and perish.
The instructions given by the Prophet Moses above were simple, “ Love God and love your neighbour as yourself.” Simple!
If we are going to do something not good to someone else, and on a second thought we feel that if that were done to us, we will be hurt, that is our conscience speaking to us. That, my dear friend is the voice of God speaking reason to us.
At this rate and at this point, we have the option of making the choice of heeding the voice of reason or going it our way.
However, Christ Jesus in today’s teaching says, what will become of our soul if and when we keep going it our way by taking other people’s lands and other properties, grabbing monies budgeted for public good and syphoning them into private accounts, importing and distributing fake and substandard products, sleeping around . . . . . .?
When we have gained all the riches and pleasures of this world, what then will become of our soul when we pass on?
It is not as if we are geared not to be prosperous. Recall that Moses said above that, once we follow the commandments of the Lord God, we shall prosper and multiply and God will bless us.
What could most likely be getting us to go the way of the world could be our greed.
My dear friend, even if we have gone so deep into having it our way by going the way of the world, this Lenten season provides us yet another opportunity to have a redress.
The doors of the Church are always and ever open, we may begin by first going for confession.
Christ says, what will it profit us if we gain the whole world and lose our soul?
My dear friend, eternity is way too long a period of time to be lost in just for the temporal gains of our impatience that we pressure to enjoy here.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
6th March 2025.
Giving Discretely.
“Jesus said to his disciples, “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Wednesday 5th March 2025 – MATTHEW 6:1-6,16-18.
So, today is Ash Wednesday and it signifies the beginning of the season of Lent for the year 2025.
Today, we present ourselves to be marked with ashes on our forehead.
The receiving of ash on the forehead is a practice that is available to all.
This implies that both Catholic faithful and non-Catholics alike are permitted to be marked with ashes on their forehead.
This practice is also available to even those who are of other religions as well as atheists.
The significance of receiving ashes on our forehead is an indication of our sinfulness and mortality.
That is why at the point of receiving the ashes, the administering minister says, “You are dust and on to dust you shall return.”
Simply put, the above statement implies that, as a sinful man, remember that one day you will die.
Then, I add for emphasis sake, “That day we do not know. We must prepare for it now.”
The Lenten season stands on a tripod of fasting and abstinence, almsgiving and prayer. Note that, fasting and abstinence are one.
It is not really that we haven’t been living these out in our everyday life, however, this is the season we should and must improve on it without waning.
Finally, while being charitable in almsgiving, Christ Jesus enjoins us in today’s teaching that we should and must be discrete about it.
Christ says further that, those times we deplore the cameras while giving and subsequently display the images of us giving on social media platforms, those uuhs and aahs as well as the likes that we get tend to be the only reward that accrues to us.
E no suppose be like that!
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
5th March 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Wednesday 5th March 2025 – MATTHEW 6:1-6,16-18.
So, today is Ash Wednesday and it signifies the beginning of the season of Lent for the year 2025.
Today, we present ourselves to be marked with ashes on our forehead.
The receiving of ash on the forehead is a practice that is available to all.
This implies that both Catholic faithful and non-Catholics alike are permitted to be marked with ashes on their forehead.
This practice is also available to even those who are of other religions as well as atheists.
The significance of receiving ashes on our forehead is an indication of our sinfulness and mortality.
That is why at the point of receiving the ashes, the administering minister says, “You are dust and on to dust you shall return.”
Simply put, the above statement implies that, as a sinful man, remember that one day you will die.
Then, I add for emphasis sake, “That day we do not know. We must prepare for it now.”
The Lenten season stands on a tripod of fasting and abstinence, almsgiving and prayer. Note that, fasting and abstinence are one.
It is not really that we haven’t been living these out in our everyday life, however, this is the season we should and must improve on it without waning.
Finally, while being charitable in almsgiving, Christ Jesus enjoins us in today’s teaching that we should and must be discrete about it.
Christ says further that, those times we deplore the cameras while giving and subsequently display the images of us giving on social media platforms, those uuhs and aahs as well as the likes that we get tend to be the only reward that accrues to us.
E no suppose be like that!
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
5th March 2025.
Life Happens.
“Peter began to say to Jesus, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you; there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading Tuesday 4th March 2025 – MARK 10:28-31.
So, we all must be aware of the street talk that says, “Life no balance.”
The above explains that, although, life may not be a bed of roses, it is yet not just a crown of thorns. As e dey sweet, e dey also dey pain.
And that is why a couple with stupendous wealth will be going from the north to the south pole seeking to have even a single child. Whereas, a pauper barely able to feed himself and his wife, in just one trial may end up having multiple births like triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or even more.
Truly, this life no balance. And it is for this reason that the emphasis on today’s teaching will be, “With persecutions.”
Christ Jesus, he who is also God made a promise to his disciples that they would get a double fold of whatever they may have left to follow him. Then, he added, persecutions also.
You see, my dear friend, that is why life happen in phases.
Sometimes, we get so blessed and some of us start attributing it to our smartness. Then, we also get very broke. We fall sick. We find love, then sometimes some of us get heart broken. The lucky ones may end up finding love again.
We find a companion. Then we get lonely. Sometimes, even in the companionship we still get or feel lonely.
We labour and toil and build and furnish a house. Then that house is engulfed by fire. Some of us may get to have another house again, some never again. Life happens!
We build a house filled with people and with love. However, as time passes, death comes to take some of these people away, leaving us with just their memories.
Dear friend, that is the ways of life. Life happens. All of us, rich, middle class and the indigent alike, we get to experience the good end of life, then we also get the vagaries of life as well.
Notwithstanding life happening, we are enjoined to hold on fast and never give up. For at the end, we are promised eternal life. These are Divine promises, they will come to pass.
Have a fantastic day folks and happy Mardigras Tuesday.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
4th March 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading Tuesday 4th March 2025 – MARK 10:28-31.
So, we all must be aware of the street talk that says, “Life no balance.”
The above explains that, although, life may not be a bed of roses, it is yet not just a crown of thorns. As e dey sweet, e dey also dey pain.
And that is why a couple with stupendous wealth will be going from the north to the south pole seeking to have even a single child. Whereas, a pauper barely able to feed himself and his wife, in just one trial may end up having multiple births like triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or even more.
Truly, this life no balance. And it is for this reason that the emphasis on today’s teaching will be, “With persecutions.”
Christ Jesus, he who is also God made a promise to his disciples that they would get a double fold of whatever they may have left to follow him. Then, he added, persecutions also.
You see, my dear friend, that is why life happen in phases.
Sometimes, we get so blessed and some of us start attributing it to our smartness. Then, we also get very broke. We fall sick. We find love, then sometimes some of us get heart broken. The lucky ones may end up finding love again.
We find a companion. Then we get lonely. Sometimes, even in the companionship we still get or feel lonely.
We labour and toil and build and furnish a house. Then that house is engulfed by fire. Some of us may get to have another house again, some never again. Life happens!
We build a house filled with people and with love. However, as time passes, death comes to take some of these people away, leaving us with just their memories.
Dear friend, that is the ways of life. Life happens. All of us, rich, middle class and the indigent alike, we get to experience the good end of life, then we also get the vagaries of life as well.
Notwithstanding life happening, we are enjoined to hold on fast and never give up. For at the end, we are promised eternal life. These are Divine promises, they will come to pass.
Have a fantastic day folks and happy Mardigras Tuesday.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
4th March 2025.
Check Our Ways
“But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Monday 3rd March 2025 – MARK 10:17-27.
So, we are already acquainted with this street talk – “Money talks, bullshit walks.”
The above is an idiom that means money has a strong influence on people’s actions and decisions, while empty words have no impact.
My dear friend, the issue about money is the same all over the world. This cuts across the developed, developing and the underdeveloped countries of the world.
A student who frontally challenges their lecturer, hauls insults at him and even dares to slap him may do so, trusting in the extricating powers of their parent’s riches.
A man of means, trusting in their wealth, if they want to take someone else’s wife, it will be a piece of cake, safe for when the woman is not materialistic. Just like King Herod took Herodias his brother Philip’s wife.
A rich person with so many properties as well as undeveloped lands will still muscle out a pauper’s only piece of land on which he and his family depend on for their livelihood.
In the Bible, Jezebel the wife of King Ahab manipulated and seized the vineyard belonging to Naboth. And such things are still happening.
Vile people who are in possession of wealth do a lot of terrible things with their money.
The situations that calls for the most attention and are quite disturbing are from those who were hitherto indigent and eventually came into riches. It is appalling how abysmally they tend to treat others whom they were in the trenches together.
Now, to those of us so guilty, we do all of these because we trust that when we throw some money around, it can get us out of any situation.
We believe that what money cannot do, more will do it.
Therefore, when we get bored, we go about inflicting such pains on fellow humans just for game. After all, we and our children can always get out of any mess, since money talks, bullshit walks.
Those of us with such notoriety, we tend to even feel we can equally use our money to bulldoze our way into heaven when our time is up.
We all must pay very close attention as Christ Jesus in today’s teaching says, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for those of us so guilty to make heaven.
Dear friend, we shouldn’t do the mistake of thinking such about only the likes Aliko Dangote, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Elon Musk, etc of this world. Even we, in our little way, that little change we have may have started getting into our head and making us do things. We must check it.
Folks, have a fantastic day, a fulfilled week and a matching forward month of March 2025.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
3rd March 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Monday 3rd March 2025 – MARK 10:17-27.
So, we are already acquainted with this street talk – “Money talks, bullshit walks.”
The above is an idiom that means money has a strong influence on people’s actions and decisions, while empty words have no impact.
My dear friend, the issue about money is the same all over the world. This cuts across the developed, developing and the underdeveloped countries of the world.
A student who frontally challenges their lecturer, hauls insults at him and even dares to slap him may do so, trusting in the extricating powers of their parent’s riches.
A man of means, trusting in their wealth, if they want to take someone else’s wife, it will be a piece of cake, safe for when the woman is not materialistic. Just like King Herod took Herodias his brother Philip’s wife.
A rich person with so many properties as well as undeveloped lands will still muscle out a pauper’s only piece of land on which he and his family depend on for their livelihood.
In the Bible, Jezebel the wife of King Ahab manipulated and seized the vineyard belonging to Naboth. And such things are still happening.
Vile people who are in possession of wealth do a lot of terrible things with their money.
The situations that calls for the most attention and are quite disturbing are from those who were hitherto indigent and eventually came into riches. It is appalling how abysmally they tend to treat others whom they were in the trenches together.
Now, to those of us so guilty, we do all of these because we trust that when we throw some money around, it can get us out of any situation.
We believe that what money cannot do, more will do it.
Therefore, when we get bored, we go about inflicting such pains on fellow humans just for game. After all, we and our children can always get out of any mess, since money talks, bullshit walks.
Those of us with such notoriety, we tend to even feel we can equally use our money to bulldoze our way into heaven when our time is up.
We all must pay very close attention as Christ Jesus in today’s teaching says, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for those of us so guilty to make heaven.
Dear friend, we shouldn’t do the mistake of thinking such about only the likes Aliko Dangote, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Elon Musk, etc of this world. Even we, in our little way, that little change we have may have started getting into our head and making us do things. We must check it.
Folks, have a fantastic day, a fulfilled week and a matching forward month of March 2025.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
3rd March 2025.
Glorying in Sin
“Do not set your heart on your wealth, nor say, “I have enough.” Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart. Do not say, “Who will have power over me?” or “Who will bring me down because of my deeds?” for God will surely punish you. Do not say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Most High is slow to anger.”
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 27th February 2025 – SIRACH 5:1-8.
So, very often we blatantly commit sin and since nothing happens to us immediately afterwards, we feel that we supposedly go away with it. Therefore, over time, we have been emboldened.
We have even witnessed situations where people who are outrightly bad, yet they keep prospering.
My dear friend, today’s teaching is cautioning us never to get comfortable in sinning.
As rainfall do not discriminate where it falls but falls on every roof and every farm land, so, all farms are nourished with enough water.
Some of us may so foolishly come to the assumption that God is oblivious of our sinful ways. So, we become comfortable in them.
Remember what the scriptures say about sinning, that no sin goes unpunished” meaning, every wrongdoing will eventually face negative consequences, implying that no bad action will go without some form of retribution, whether in this life or the next. “Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished.” – PROVERBS 11:21.
Take a look at this, no matter how much God loved King David and declared that David is a man after his heart, when David sinned, God sent Prophet Nathan to tell him of his coming retribution. All happened to David and his family as God instructed Nathan to tell him.
My dear friend, though, God is patient and slow to act, we mustn’t glory in sin and get comfortable in it.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
27th February 2025.
Excerpt, First Reading, Thursday 27th February 2025 – SIRACH 5:1-8.
So, very often we blatantly commit sin and since nothing happens to us immediately afterwards, we feel that we supposedly go away with it. Therefore, over time, we have been emboldened.
We have even witnessed situations where people who are outrightly bad, yet they keep prospering.
My dear friend, today’s teaching is cautioning us never to get comfortable in sinning.
As rainfall do not discriminate where it falls but falls on every roof and every farm land, so, all farms are nourished with enough water.
Some of us may so foolishly come to the assumption that God is oblivious of our sinful ways. So, we become comfortable in them.
Remember what the scriptures say about sinning, that no sin goes unpunished” meaning, every wrongdoing will eventually face negative consequences, implying that no bad action will go without some form of retribution, whether in this life or the next. “Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished.” – PROVERBS 11:21.
Take a look at this, no matter how much God loved King David and declared that David is a man after his heart, when David sinned, God sent Prophet Nathan to tell him of his coming retribution. All happened to David and his family as God instructed Nathan to tell him.
My dear friend, though, God is patient and slow to act, we mustn’t glory in sin and get comfortable in it.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
27th February 2025.
Who Am I
“Who do men say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Thursday 20th February 2025 – MARK 8:27-33.
So, before attempting to answer the question Christ put to his apostles or getting to ask the same question about ourselves to our friends, we must first ask ourselves the same question, “Who am I?”
The “Who am I” question is a very pertinent one.
This is very crucial because, some of us have several personalities, such that, sometimes they tend to even confused us.
A man who is not only revered but equally feared by is loving family would outside be called baby by some little girl about the age of his last child or even younger. Such a girl would be rubbing her hand on his head and ordering him around like some puppet master.
Only for the same man to return home and continue assuming that tough, stern faced husband and father.
Look at the former CBN Governor, while not saying he is guilty of the charges levelled against him in the courts of law, however, who ever knew that he also has the personality he now displays whenever it is his day in court?
Dude now clutches a very big book that looks like the Holy Bible.
If one tenth of the charges brought against him in court are true, then one will have cause to doubt if the book he clutches were a Bible.
And, if it truly were the Holy Bible, one would be compelled to ask if he has always had that personality of reading the Holy Bible, or, he only gleaned it in the course of his incarceration and trials?
My dear friend, if while at home, at the church, on the street, at the places where we earn our livelihood we maintain the same personality, then, we know who we are.
Then, we can also proudly and confidently say who Christ is, at least even if not to the world, but to us.
Dear friend, when in your closet today, ask yourself , “Who am I” and be sincere to yourself in giving the answer.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
20th February 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Thursday 20th February 2025 – MARK 8:27-33.
So, before attempting to answer the question Christ put to his apostles or getting to ask the same question about ourselves to our friends, we must first ask ourselves the same question, “Who am I?”
The “Who am I” question is a very pertinent one.
This is very crucial because, some of us have several personalities, such that, sometimes they tend to even confused us.
A man who is not only revered but equally feared by is loving family would outside be called baby by some little girl about the age of his last child or even younger. Such a girl would be rubbing her hand on his head and ordering him around like some puppet master.
Only for the same man to return home and continue assuming that tough, stern faced husband and father.
Look at the former CBN Governor, while not saying he is guilty of the charges levelled against him in the courts of law, however, who ever knew that he also has the personality he now displays whenever it is his day in court?
Dude now clutches a very big book that looks like the Holy Bible.
If one tenth of the charges brought against him in court are true, then one will have cause to doubt if the book he clutches were a Bible.
And, if it truly were the Holy Bible, one would be compelled to ask if he has always had that personality of reading the Holy Bible, or, he only gleaned it in the course of his incarceration and trials?
My dear friend, if while at home, at the church, on the street, at the places where we earn our livelihood we maintain the same personality, then, we know who we are.
Then, we can also proudly and confidently say who Christ is, at least even if not to the world, but to us.
Dear friend, when in your closet today, ask yourself , “Who am I” and be sincere to yourself in giving the answer.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
20th February 2025.
Are We Not All Disabled?
“Jesus and the disciples came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Wednesday 19th February 2025 – MARK 8:22-26.
So, today’s teaching underscores yet again the need to have and maintain cordial interpersonal relationships.
If one has a form of disability and they depend on others for their sustenance, it is foolhardy for such a person to be a harsh and difficult person to be with.
Just assuming the blind man in today’s teaching were some kind of a toughie, is it very likely that he would have had people who will graciously agree to lead him to Christ?
Assuming again, that this blind was very wealthy, however, he was also a bad and difficult person, despite his money, wouldn’t people be weary of wanting to associate with him?
Funny enough, thinking about this, who among us doesn’t have one form of disability or the other?
Since no man is an island, do we not all have one need or another that we require each other for something?
Even with all our wealth, once we are blind, we yet need someone who will hold us by the hand.
One who has a very expensive car, but the tempo of work or the exigencies of life make it inconvenient to drive that car and they require a driver, as far as that aspect of their is concerned, they are disabled (blind) and they need someone (a driver) to hold them by the hand. We must treat that driver well.
My dear friend, having and maintaining a cordial interpersonal relationship with each other is worth very much more than having all the money in the world.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
19th Feb. 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Wednesday 19th February 2025 – MARK 8:22-26.
So, today’s teaching underscores yet again the need to have and maintain cordial interpersonal relationships.
If one has a form of disability and they depend on others for their sustenance, it is foolhardy for such a person to be a harsh and difficult person to be with.
Just assuming the blind man in today’s teaching were some kind of a toughie, is it very likely that he would have had people who will graciously agree to lead him to Christ?
Assuming again, that this blind was very wealthy, however, he was also a bad and difficult person, despite his money, wouldn’t people be weary of wanting to associate with him?
Funny enough, thinking about this, who among us doesn’t have one form of disability or the other?
Since no man is an island, do we not all have one need or another that we require each other for something?
Even with all our wealth, once we are blind, we yet need someone who will hold us by the hand.
One who has a very expensive car, but the tempo of work or the exigencies of life make it inconvenient to drive that car and they require a driver, as far as that aspect of their is concerned, they are disabled (blind) and they need someone (a driver) to hold them by the hand. We must treat that driver well.
My dear friend, having and maintaining a cordial interpersonal relationship with each other is worth very much more than having all the money in the world.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
19th Feb. 2025.
God Sees Beyond the Outwards
“In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought some of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.”
Excerpt, First Reading, Monday 17th February 2025 – GENESIS 4:1-15.25.
So, today’s teaching is about giving, charity and thanksgiving.
God doesn’t see the way we mortals do, He sees the heart.
Two people could come for thanksgiving, one would come with a cow and the other with a chicken.
It is only God Who sees and knows the heart of these two individuals that can tell and bless accordingly.
Now, lets look at these situations and juxtapose them one to another.
The man bearing a cow, he could be capable of presenting 100 cows and he wouldn’t be shaken as God has so blessed him.
Therefore, he comes to the altar joyfully presenting one cow to God with all good intent, purpose and sincerity. He may have set aside a fraction from his abundance to positively impart other people’s lives away from the church.
Alternatively, the man’s aim of presenting a live cow in thanksgiving to God could be just to flaunt the wealth freely given to him by God. This may be just so that anyone who cares to notice may realise that he has arrived.
The man who presents a chicken in thanksgiving to God may be doing so with all good intent and purpose.
With the way prices of items have so increased in the market, the cost of buying that chicken could be a good fraction from his monthly income.
The chicken may even possibly be the man’s only domestic animal at home that he has taken to offer to God.
Alternatively, that man can afford a whole poultry farm of chickens to offer to God in thanksgiving.
However, the man could be giving so niggardly because he doesn’t want anyone who cares to notice that he has very much.
His purpose may just be so that those who took notice of his quantum of gift may not come begging at the gate of his house.
Abobi, God no force anybody make e give am anything o. God no go hungry if we no give am. Him no come down from heaven come beg anybodi make dem give am.
Come to think of it, whatever we have or we think we possess has been given to us freely by God.
Then again, if we think we now have so much and we want the world to know and acknowledge us, then we can go and be like Aliko Dangote.
Dangote conquered the business in cement, sugar and went into petroleum and conquered it too. Just as if that’s not enough, he ventured into automobile manufacturing.
Dangote Peugeot Automobile (DPAN) has commence manufacturing Peugeot 3008 GT SUV as well as pickup vans and other vehicles in Kaduna.
My dear friend, the only way that people will know that you have arrived and they will feel the impart of the arrival of your wealth is when such wealth positively impart their lives. Just like Dangote.
Well, that is why God looked favourably at the offerings made by Abel and looked down on that made by his brother Cain.
Have a fantastic day and a fulfilled week folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
17th February 2025.
Excerpt, First Reading, Monday 17th February 2025 – GENESIS 4:1-15.25.
So, today’s teaching is about giving, charity and thanksgiving.
God doesn’t see the way we mortals do, He sees the heart.
Two people could come for thanksgiving, one would come with a cow and the other with a chicken.
It is only God Who sees and knows the heart of these two individuals that can tell and bless accordingly.
Now, lets look at these situations and juxtapose them one to another.
The man bearing a cow, he could be capable of presenting 100 cows and he wouldn’t be shaken as God has so blessed him.
Therefore, he comes to the altar joyfully presenting one cow to God with all good intent, purpose and sincerity. He may have set aside a fraction from his abundance to positively impart other people’s lives away from the church.
Alternatively, the man’s aim of presenting a live cow in thanksgiving to God could be just to flaunt the wealth freely given to him by God. This may be just so that anyone who cares to notice may realise that he has arrived.
The man who presents a chicken in thanksgiving to God may be doing so with all good intent and purpose.
With the way prices of items have so increased in the market, the cost of buying that chicken could be a good fraction from his monthly income.
The chicken may even possibly be the man’s only domestic animal at home that he has taken to offer to God.
Alternatively, that man can afford a whole poultry farm of chickens to offer to God in thanksgiving.
However, the man could be giving so niggardly because he doesn’t want anyone who cares to notice that he has very much.
His purpose may just be so that those who took notice of his quantum of gift may not come begging at the gate of his house.
Abobi, God no force anybody make e give am anything o. God no go hungry if we no give am. Him no come down from heaven come beg anybodi make dem give am.
Come to think of it, whatever we have or we think we possess has been given to us freely by God.
Then again, if we think we now have so much and we want the world to know and acknowledge us, then we can go and be like Aliko Dangote.
Dangote conquered the business in cement, sugar and went into petroleum and conquered it too. Just as if that’s not enough, he ventured into automobile manufacturing.
Dangote Peugeot Automobile (DPAN) has commence manufacturing Peugeot 3008 GT SUV as well as pickup vans and other vehicles in Kaduna.
My dear friend, the only way that people will know that you have arrived and they will feel the impart of the arrival of your wealth is when such wealth positively impart their lives. Just like Dangote.
Well, that is why God looked favourably at the offerings made by Abel and looked down on that made by his brother Cain.
Have a fantastic day and a fulfilled week folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
17th February 2025.
Steer Clear
“Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Friday 14th February 2025 – GENESIS 3:1-8.
So, my dear friend, today’s teaching is a fine example of what is said in the Holy Bible, “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!” – PROVERBS 9;17.
However, in the secular world, the above Bible verse is corrupted to read, “Stolen kisses, just like stolen bread, are said to be the sweetest.”
There are over 2,000 fruit bearing trees and shrubs in the world.
Apple alone is said to have a range of over 30,000 varieties.
Now, there’s also mango, cashew, pomegranates, etc.
Each of these fruits have their different species and varieties.
So, if a man lives to be 150 years old. If as a child of 7 years old he decides to start tasting a variety of a particular fruit daily. Tasting each variety a day. That man would not have tasted all the fruits before passing away.
Nevertheless, at the end of such a wonderful exercise, it would amaze him to find out that all the variety of each of the fruits either taste the same or almost the same.
Now, imagine the above scenario and juxtapose it with what played out between the serpent and Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
There are all these trees, each in different shapes, forms, colours and several varieties. However, it is only the very single one that does not have any variety, fenced away with deathly prohibitions around it that became the most alluring to taste. After all, have we not said, stolen kisses, just like stolen bread are the sweetest?
The world population is estimated to be about 8 billion people, this is as of 2023. Of this estimate around the world, 4.05 billion are men and 4.01 billion are women existing on Earth.
Of this population estimate, there are more men in prison than women. There are more men at war front than women. Also, there are more celibate religious who are males than females.
Nonetheless, the humongous population, for those destined for marriage, a woman is destined for a man. Almost at par of one man to a woman.
Therefore, no matter how alluring, enticing and gracious another man’s woman or a woman’s man may be, they have since become that forbidden fruit fenced away.
Despite their availability, they have been consecrated to a particular woman or man. Steer clear!
My dear friend, the worse harm one can do first to themselves, second to themselves and thirdly to themselves is seeking someone else’s wife.
Dear friend, be wise!
Folks, have a fantastic day and a pleasant weekend.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
14th February 2025.
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Friday 14th February 2025 – GENESIS 3:1-8.
So, my dear friend, today’s teaching is a fine example of what is said in the Holy Bible, “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!” – PROVERBS 9;17.
However, in the secular world, the above Bible verse is corrupted to read, “Stolen kisses, just like stolen bread, are said to be the sweetest.”
There are over 2,000 fruit bearing trees and shrubs in the world.
Apple alone is said to have a range of over 30,000 varieties.
Now, there’s also mango, cashew, pomegranates, etc.
Each of these fruits have their different species and varieties.
So, if a man lives to be 150 years old. If as a child of 7 years old he decides to start tasting a variety of a particular fruit daily. Tasting each variety a day. That man would not have tasted all the fruits before passing away.
Nevertheless, at the end of such a wonderful exercise, it would amaze him to find out that all the variety of each of the fruits either taste the same or almost the same.
Now, imagine the above scenario and juxtapose it with what played out between the serpent and Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
There are all these trees, each in different shapes, forms, colours and several varieties. However, it is only the very single one that does not have any variety, fenced away with deathly prohibitions around it that became the most alluring to taste. After all, have we not said, stolen kisses, just like stolen bread are the sweetest?
The world population is estimated to be about 8 billion people, this is as of 2023. Of this estimate around the world, 4.05 billion are men and 4.01 billion are women existing on Earth.
Of this population estimate, there are more men in prison than women. There are more men at war front than women. Also, there are more celibate religious who are males than females.
Nonetheless, the humongous population, for those destined for marriage, a woman is destined for a man. Almost at par of one man to a woman.
Therefore, no matter how alluring, enticing and gracious another man’s woman or a woman’s man may be, they have since become that forbidden fruit fenced away.
Despite their availability, they have been consecrated to a particular woman or man. Steer clear!
My dear friend, the worse harm one can do first to themselves, second to themselves and thirdly to themselves is seeking someone else’s wife.
Dear friend, be wise!
Folks, have a fantastic day and a pleasant weekend.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
14th February 2025.