JESUS CHRIST: THE BREAD OF LIFE

JESUS CHRIST: THE BREAD OF LIFE

(The full text of the homily preached by Rev. Fr. Kennneth Evurulobi on the occasion of the Inauguration/Award and fund Raising Ceremony of the Parish CMO ST. MARY’S PARISH AGGREY ROAD, PORT HARCOURT, AUGUST 13, 2006)

Three things are of primary importance in life:

Food

Clothing

Shelter

Elijah the man of God had been evicted and exiled from his shelter by Jezebel. He ran away into the desert barefooted and bare bodied, under the painful rays of the hostile sun with no food. He lacked the primary necessities of life. At a point, he gave up, desired the end, for as far as he was concerned, there was no need to continue to live, no hope. Man lives in Hope-that tomorrow or hereafter will be better than today or here and now . Without a hope like this, there is no need to live .What is the need to continue to live when you can’t put food on the table of your family, cover your nudity or that of your children, or put a shed over their heads. Is there any worth living that kind of life! The funny aspect of it all is that he dare not go back to where he was coming from, and to go forward held no promise for his life except to utter loneliness and suffering. Back home, a death sentence was against his name and a handsome reward awaited any person who can volunteer to give information on the where about of the man of God. This project was the primary occupation and task for which the wife of a governor, an occult Jezebel deployed her resources including state weapons. It was the realization of how powerful, notorious and blood- thirsty that woman is when compared to the situation of his own helpless condition and the stark reality of the gap between him and Jezebel that made Elijah gave up. But God wants you to understand this: Ndu nwa chineke kariri “Ebe oku nyuru achisa owa,” that is, the life of a true believer is not terminated where the candle flame dies off. When the enemy thinks he has put a full –stop to our life, don’t give up. God is going to begin a new sentence. Somebody may have made real his threat by killing your husband or putting you out of business or job so that you and your family can starve. Stop looking at your ugly situation or the huge resources of your enemies and look up to your God. Today, Elijah had food, and shelter and was clothed by the powerful radiance of God…… sweet provisions which God alone can give. No human resources can afford this. No wonder the psalmist says “taste and see that the lord is good. (ps36:1-4, 19,11,22,29). And in the gospel, Jesus gives something better- the bread of eternal life.

After Mass on Sunday July 2, 2006, (thirteenth Sunday of the year B), I traveled to Enugu on Thursday 6^th to conclude a prayer programme I had started 21 days earlier. I thought of Awhum Monastery, Emmanuel town or DRACC. I went to DRACC, Emene,, Enugu. I paid for a room, entered, locked up and never came out or left the room again till Sunday Morning around 6am when I concluded my prayer/retreat, left the room, and submitted the key and boarded a bus to Enugu main town on my way back to PH. I wanted to get to PH in time, take enough rest and then concelebrate in the evening Mass at CIWA.

I entered Rivers Transport Wagon at Agbani, paid N800. Instead of Artilery, I said let me stop at Oil Mill and go to a friend’s house at Woji Estate and have some solid food as I was very hungary. I picked Okada, only to notice I was being followed. I identified the boy and the girl as co-passengers from Enugu. The movement of 3 other unidentified boys moving hurriedly toward me heightened my suspicion. I took quick steps and entered the DeeperLifeBibleChurch at Road 12 which was still holding her Sunday service. I was there till the end of service around 2:30pm. I was among the last to leave the place, together with the pastor and few ushers. As I didn’t want to put my friend and his family in danger, I decided against going to their house. I made for the way home. On getting to the major road I saw about 6 yards from where I was, the 3 young men that were hurrying towards me before I entered the Deeper Life Church emerge from somewhere and made to block my way. I thought of stopping but kept on walking. They made to accost me but because many people were around, they hesitated. I took advantage of the hesitations, and passed. Climbing down and moving across the major road into Elitor Road, I saw the other boy and the girl standing at the street. Immediately they saw me, they gave a signal and from across where they were standing, 3 other boys I had not met appeared. Immediately, I reached out for my handset to call any person I could get at. But the boys were faster. They showed me a dagger, and threatened they had gun. They insisted that I should now move towards the direction they indicated. I had no alternative. Somewhere, along the street, they indicated a gate and called one nickname, and the gate opened. The one who opened the gate said” na de stupid father be this”. The one that followed me said, coming in immediately “Na the wise Rev Fr.” Then he slapped me.

There were two flats in the building and a bushy surrounding walled in together. Nobody was in one of the flats. But the other was occupied. They took me to the vacant flat, sat me down on the bare floor of the parlour, removed my shoes, stockings, trouser and shirt leaving me with boxers and byc singlet. They now started asking me questions: to surrender the contents of the nylon bag I was carrying (jottings I did during my retreat but which had put into the main bag at Deeper life church, I put it in the shuttle). They took the shuttle and opened it. I told them there was no money. They said “we know say you no-get money. And that they fit give me money-any amount I want, I should just mention it. All they were saying is that I should surrender every document I have about PDP (it’s agenda, propaganda, manifesto, code, secret documents etc.), Orji Uzor Kalu, Eunice Kalu, Frank Owelle, Knight of St Mulumba Aba Diocese, the Satanic Code, Ai-Qaeda, deaths of Fr Nwolu, Msgr Ahunnanya, Fr peter Anozia and the Azummiri case, the diocesan CWO, statue of St Rita at CKC compound, mortuary, the City Fathers of Aba, etc. They insisted on the original contents of the nylon bag I was carrying and wanted to prove to me that the nylon I showed them was different from what I was carrying. Also they wanted to know all I know about the codes OUK, Aa (OUK) BF, (BAA) BG, etc.

When it occurred to them that I was not going to say anything, they started beating me, and lacerated my back with a matchet. One of the boys authoritatively sent the others on an errand. Immediately they left, an old man came out…. an ugly native doctor. He started asking me his own questions: He said that I broke into the Bank of the Holy One and stole his the sacred book: the manifesto. I told him I didn’t know his house and that I have never been a robber all my life. He said I broke into the master’s Abode, opened the grave and called out the coffin where the Great Deed/Agreement is inscribed. He told me that nobody knows where it is except the one who has the number BFFB, or its equivalents. He said that these are contained in a secret document which was signed and sealed by the entire brotherhood, closed in a coffin and buried in a grave at the center of the Universe. It can only be decreed into existence by the Grand Masters, but can never be found. He wanted to know how I got the note I read out the previous Sunday. He said that another person who can decree it into existence it is only a 9 year old boy who is a priest in prison and whose number falls within this one he mentioned that can have access to and break into the Bank of the Holy One. I said I was 35 years old. He said they have monitored me for queit sometime now and thatmy person fits all these descriptions. He said I was the person. He now opened up and spoke to me, asked me to confess everything I found out about OUK , Oil Deal, PDP formula, codes, agenda, manifesto etc. and why I dared to speak about them and tried to cancel and destroy them in the church. He now poured out threats and said that the consequences of those who attempt to reveal or break the seal and fail awaited me. He now started on his palm. The boy lacerated my back. The old man now began some incantations. A vulture appeared, hung on the air just a little above his forehead and started pouring some mustard-on like seeds into his palm which he in turn poured into the wounds and added some concoctions. Then mixing everything again with my blood which was now flowing freely on the ground, he bathed my head and said “I make to you a sacrifice of obedience and loyalty O Holy One and confess you as the source of every honor, the last hope of every man and the final judge of mankind. Holy one, I make food out of a rebel and an unbeliever to the delight of the domestic animals of the great kingdom of our union. The sharks shall swallow, the lions shall devour, and the vultures shall suck. By this, the Great mother of nations and Queen shall have made a festival.

At the end he left, telling the boy to adhere to instructions. Before he left he said to me “I am happy to be the one to bury you. And I will bury you according to our tradition”. The boy locked me up in the toilet. After about an hour, Our Lady came and said Fr., lets get out of this place !. And the ceiling occurred to me. On my way to escape, where I had to climb four different block walls, they caught me again and then took me to a building that was almost completed but nobody had packed in and continued the beating but by then I was shouting, and now people saw what was happening and intervened. Before then they had started talking about taking me to Benin to see “chief” as instructed by the native doctor before he left. But because of people’s intervention, they now took me to Woji Estate Police Station. The greatest mistake they made was to have locked me up in the toilet alone. And as those sent out to bring the car with which to take me to Benin had not come and the guy’s phone calls could not go through, it is like he went out to make calls prompting him to lock me up in the toilet as I could hear the gate open with a slight noise. That was the hand of providence on my horizon and Our Lady showing me the bread of life. I reached out for it, took it and ate. Here at last hope was restored.

The following morning the policemen became funny. The police on duty who detained me and who insisted I was a criminal, and who together with DPO had started hurried moves to take me out and finish me, says he knows those people too well. He says they are responsible boys. Woji police will help us in no small way to unravel the identity of the people who followed me from Enugu, my abductors and my killers. I will explain to the landlords how and why I broke the ceiling and jumped the fence,. They in turn will tender the CV of all they placed as tenants and guards in their building, and who that chief in Benin is.

On the eve of my 9^th anniversary as a priest, I was declared a madman and forced to go to NewEraHospital against my wish. Is New Era a psychiatric Hospital? On Thursday 13th I was trapped at OzaraegbeluRiver and was forced to spend a night inside the River. On 2^nd July when I celebrated mass, I didn’t look like a madman. And as if I knew, everything of the 9 o’clock mass on 2^nd July is on tape. And as of 9^th the following Sunday, I was O.K. It was after my abduction that I was declared a madman on the eve of my 9^th year priestly birth day. The people who declared mad saw my broken head, my broken hand, my wounded leg and my larcerated body. They heard about my ordeal in the hands of abductors and in the police. Till now I am talking to you, no one including my diocese and the judicial vicar (the diocesan canonist) who also is luckily a Barrister has gone to the police to demand a comprehensive report of what happened, at least, since they cannot listen to a madman. Instead, the Judicial Vicar is busy hiring another high profile barrister to intimidate my closest friends, accusing them especially my benefactors and benefactresses of sponsoring the greatest terrorist ever in the history of the Catholic Church. He maintains that I was responsible for whatever happened to me and that my bishop has decreed that anybody caught given me any assistance in any form would face the Episcopal wrath. Thus, in an uncarburated demonstration of polluted zeal, collaboration with sworn agents of darkness and an unconscious but loud confession of crass carelessness, devastating incompetence, coded victimization, irresponsibility and the most celebrated gross misconduct and abuse of office ever recorded in the history of Legal practice and Canonical provisions, the Judicial Vicar of Aba Diocese and my brother in the priesthood declared me a wanted mad man. It is unfortunate that the kind of bleeding ambition being hatched by such men as this reverend gentleman, and their unscrutinized association with men of questionable credentials especially politicians, have done untold harm to Aba Diocese and brought total discredit to the Catholic Church. It is not a hidden fact that the ugly conduct and pretensions of people like him and the Executive Director played a dominant role in the malignant acquisition and manipulation of facts and figures that misinformed my Superior, Father and Mentor, Most Rev. Dr. V.V. Ezeonyia CSSP, the incumbent Catholic Bishop and Metropolitan of Aba, to give me an “ATTESTATION” of the punitive type. Till now, I continue to wonder whether my diocese mourned me and read my funeral oration while I am still alive.

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As I silently but joyously mark the 9^th anniversary of my priesthood, I cannot thank God enough neither can words exhaust my testimonies on the kind of assistance and strong protection which I received from the motherly hands of Blessed Lady during these long years of my incarceration which I have gladly offered to God as an evening oblation. Heavens know I am not ungrateful. It’s only that I am grossly incapacitated to beat the befitting drums of praise and honour to the Holy family. I am of the stubborn conviction and at the same time cling, with leechlike tenacity, to the raw fact that God alone is the sole maker and supreme caretaker of the store of destiny and that He alone allots each man his tasks and determines the just rewards of every man’s labours. The weakness, failure and even treachery of those God has placed over us as his instrument and vehicle of actualization of his will for us can never destroy that will though it can delay it. This finds confirmation in the book of Job 42:2 “Lord you can do all things and no purpose of yours can be thwarted”.

Moreso it is not an act of indecency for anyone, including priests, to turn to the patronage of those in government, especially the purposefully generous and sincere ones as one can find in people like Sir. Dr. Peter Odili. At times such opportunities exist to be positively exploited. However much depends on the individual involved and his perception of the options around him. Consequent upon this, I wish to categorically state here that in as much as I owe respect to elected and validly constituted government, including that of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial arms of the Government of Abia State, I do not in any way believe in Orji Uzor Kalu (OUK) as a person, neither do I believe in his mother – Chief (Mrs.) Eunice Kalu, neither do I share their visions, philosophy of life nor their modus operandi as concerning Abia State and Nigeria. Since 2003, it is as if a special killer squad that can be referred to as DSL 2 squad has been deployed upon AbiaState (God’s OwnState) and the entire nation.

D -Death/Devil

S -Satan

L -Lucifer

Of the second (2) type.

A numerical equivalent of this is:

(4) (19) (13) – B

However, it is my strongest belief and conviction that Democracy, Salvation and Love as handed down by Jesus Christ, the 2^nd person of the Blessed Trinity and spelt out by the official Catholic doctrine that is the only key to growth, development, peace and justice in our dear Abia (God’s Own State) and in Nigeria. And, as a challenge to the authenticity, originality and purity of the Church’s faith which I profess and hold so dear, I maintain that this divine formula DSL 2

D - Democracy

S -Salvation

L -Love, formula as ordained by Jesus Christ, the 2^nd person of the Holy Trinity cannot be falsified, contested or turned upside down as it has been the case in Abia since 2003. For the simple reason that no one can play God, deceive God, desecrate his holy altars or empty the concept “GOD” of its original divine content and then turn it upside down so as to reduce it to dog- DOG. And then feed it with human excreta. This is the meaning of Satanic Worship. And more so, there has never been any other woman who has won a divine title and honour as the Mother of God and Mother of The Church except the Blessed Virgin Mary. The position she occupies was specially designed by God and deliberately targeted at her. No Diocese, Bishop, Pastor, General Overseer can confer this except God.

Only God is God. And only his gifts given through the Holy Spirit for Service and Love can change the world, assure us of a brighter future for our State and Nation, and bring us to eternal fulfillment. God alone, through Jesus Christ and through Him alone in the unity of the Holy Spirit and only in unity with the Holy Spirit is the goal of human history. Only when we remain in him and feed on him through the Holy Eucharist, the Real Bread come down from heaven can we be what we are and through this and only through this alone come to be what we shall be.

The first reading today 19^th Sunday year B, (1 Kings 19:4-8) says, according to the theme, ”strengthened by the food Elijah the prophet of God walked until he reached the mountain –Mount Horeb the Mountain of God. At this mountain, Elijah encountered God and spoke with Him. The Holy Communion strengthens you and leads you to the mountain, the place where you can stand to encounter God. To be fed with the Eucharistic food is what it means to encounter God. In the gospels Jesus says (Jn. 6:41-5) I am the Living Bread which come down from heaven. Not that any body has seen the Father, except the one who comes from the Father. And it is the father who draws those who come to Jesus, through the Eucharist, to himself. In the late ‘90’s Fr (now MSGR) Theo Nwalo featured an article in the Leader Newspaper (Owerri) titled “you become what you eat.” If you eat rice or garri or calories- you become starch- balloon; if you eat sex everyday, or beer, or video, you can tell the result….

What do you feed on?

Or what do you allow yourself to be fed with?

Some of us here are mosquitoes – blood suckers! And everything about us is smelling blood: our hands, feet, clothes, office, money, etc. Some feed on left-overs, singing the praise of some politicians or making sycophantic overtures so that some crumbs might fall from the Master’s table for the dogs to eat.

Are you a dog?

Christians are not dogs. The Scripture says “Christ freed us from the bonds of sin and death, and has made us a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and a kingly priesthood, a ransomed people”. In other words, there is royal food at the royal table of a chosen nation ready for a ransomed people of a holy race. But as it were and very unfortunate too, some want left-overs. I have always said it that even though I, Rev. Fr. Kenneth Evurulobi is a beggar (I don’t have money; I need a car; and so many other pressing needs) yet I am a beggar with a choice .

Against this background, it is important that we do our best courageously to understand the schemes of Satan, that wicked harbinger of death. Albert Pike, a 34^th degree Mason remains today a significant and an influential figure in the evolution and development of Satanic rites and rituals which, although shrouded in a very powerful deceptive secrecy oftentimes denied, forms the soul and practice of Freemason. And cast in this mold, Freemason reigns supreme in the most powerful and influential institutions of the world.

Today, the president, governors, senators, etc, are talking about “Democratic Dividends”. If what they are feeding us with is all there is to the food or diet called “Democratic Dividends” despite the money accruing to the government and pushed into the budget yearly for the provision of infrastructure and for fiscal development, then the present Nigerian government, from head to bottom –no exception – is the greatest deceit. So if you ask me, I would say that in contemporary Nigerian parlance, what “ Democratic Dividends” translate into is Devil’s Deceit. The Bible says your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead. If those who ate the nourishing diet that fell from heaven are dead, then equally no matter what we eat we shall die one day. The only thing that keeps us alive is the Bread of life; the tree of life to which Adam was denied access but which has been given to us as a gift, as a demonstration of unreserved and selfless love of God put at our reach in the Holy Communion to the promise of life here and hereafter - a cause for which Christ died on the cross. The bread that gives life – life that lasts forever, is not from Mr Biggs or any Fast Food center; not the blood we suck as occult men or women or killers; not the alcohol we have wounded ourselves with; not everyday sexual pleasure; not addiction to our career or to democratic dividends, but the Living Bread come down from heaven: The Bread of the Saints: The food of Angels, the pilgrims special delight; the super substantial bread.

While the 1^st Reading impresses it upon our consciousness that no one should ever give up in life despite the hostility of our environment, the starvations we suffer and the nakedness of the realities which confront us in life for the simple reason that there is the hands of providence which cast abundant rays of hope upon our life, the gospel of today brings it to full concretization and identifies this hand of providence with the person of Jesus Christ: man’s or humanity’s greatest provision.

The second Reading taking from St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 14:30 – 15:2) raises three important topics that are topical today.

a) Tolerance

b) Imitate God in the person of his son Jesus Christ who sacrificed himself, that is, Divine Service leading to Salvation.

c) Love .

Our dear nation is hungry for tolerance which can only obtain when we enthrone true democracy. Our nation is hungry for salvation from poverty, diseases and violence, and this is very, very possible if only the leaders of our governments and those in positions of authority can be sincere, for at last only 6 months, and render true and selfless services. Our nation, states, markets, and churches can be heaven if my heart and your hart can open to our neighbor in sincerity and reach out to our nation in love.

Indeed love is the greatest. The order should be Love, salvation and Democracy. It is only when Democracy is carried on the wings of Love only for the Salvation of souls and the emancipation of nations and races can it be said to be a model of true governance, otherwise its destination is as well the same with that of atheistic communism. Anyone who was aware of the roots and environment from and around which atheistic communism germinated, developed and flourished need not be surprised to discover that when the other face of communist coin is critically examined without bias, the picture it bears is the more deadly face of violence and terrorism associated with a capitalist democracy that pays only lip service to God and his church.

World systems are, in one way or the other, the search for meaning, and this always very unsatisfactory outside the person of Jesus Christ. For America and the whole of capitalist / democratic Europe to steer their nations’ ships off the coast of terror and violence, they need not waste billions of dollars fighting and killing innocent and helpless men and women in Iraq and the middle East or looking for trouble in South Korea. They need only one thing: To look back on the history of the American Union to rediscover and recapture the love and trust in God and commitment to His Church – the only cornerstone upon which that Great Union was founded. America would always continue to live in fear, terror and violence unless she reconciles with God and His Church.

This truth is larger for Nigeria. The President, governors, Senators, Ministers must dismantle the temples of terror and occultism in their bedrooms, come out of their thick pretences, repent, confess and reconcile with God and His Church. This, more than Federal troops in the Niger Delta and Anambra is the only road map to peace.

The situation is horrible in Nigeria. While America is living in the horror, violence and terror created by its own shadow, Nigerian people are living in the horror, violence and terror of the shadows cast over them by ttheir so-called leaders. Nigeria is not strongly bound together; neither is she standing on strong foundations. Added to this, is the distressing menace of starvation, terror, poverty and violence that have engulfed the entire nation.

In this regard it has to clearly pointed out that political and economic reforms, huge foreign capital reserves, donations to Churches in millions, the slogan “Democratic Dividends” or Great Miracle Crusades, etc., can only have a human touch on the starving, hypnotized, mesmerized and oppressed Nigerian citizens if only they are conceived and executed by human hearts that live in human bodies. Vultures in the nests, sharks in the sea, lions in their dens, pythons in the forest, pythons in the swamps and wild dogs in the streets have some contributions to make to the growth and development of creation but surely, Love, Salvation and Democracy are not their primary concerns. These three ingredients of human growth and development primarily concern human beings in human communities. Animals have no tangible contribution to make to political growth and human development especially when they go beyond their ordinariness to assume a mysterious nature and occult character. Whether they belong to PDP,ANPP, AD or wear the regalia of the knighthood or that of a General Overseer, or live in Abuja, Enugu,, Abia, Rivers, Minna, Benin, their aims and objectives are the same –“to chop.” In a column in the latest edition of The News Magazine ( Aug, 14, 2006, page 14) Wale Adebanwi called them “Man Eaters.” Instead of putting food on your table, they eat up the little you have gathered. After that, they also eat you up. You are denied your food! You die hungry just because some animal is hungry somewhere! That’s Nigeria for you – a country of hungry wolves in a sheep’s clothing.

The fierce attempts to convert and groom our national institutions, political parties even churches, trade unions, local communities and mosques into satanic grounds and temples through overtly generous galore that has an inbuilt contradiction is the greatest self- deceit by a nation and a people that professes faith in a Good God. There is no need to over emphasize the fact that, according to Galatians 6:7, God is not mocked, whatever a man sows, that he shall reap. Also Galatians 5:1 says that you have been set free by Christ. Do not therefore submit again to the yoke of slavery. When God delivered us from the hand of late Gen. Sani Abacha and established the democratic era in Nigeria in 1999, He set us free from slavery. To what kind of enslavement are our leaders forcing us into in Nigerian again because of their unbridled appetite and greed for blood and power.

Food is the most primary thing man needs to survive. You can survive without clothing for months, you can survive without shelter for weeka but you cannot survive without food for days. Jesus Christ established the Holy Communion so that God can meet you at the point of your need. The significance of the Holy communion as bread is to impress it on you that Jesus Christ is the most primary person, place or thing you need to survive in life. Cars, money, education, priesthood, titles, wife and children are important but a life without Jesus is a disaster. A man who is not fed and nourished with the bread of life Jesus Christ, is a hungry man. As a matter of fact, a hungry man is an angry man and there fore lacks the focus, coordination, understanding , brevity, love and commitment which are essential qualities of a father. A man of this kind cannot place food on the table of his family.

A father who cannot place food on the table of his family is a total failure. By this, I am not referring to responsible men who are sweating it out there under sun and rain in their offices, businesses and shops yet their efforts and sufferings seem to yield no fruits and are not rewarded. They have nothing to show for their long hours of sufferings, sweat and sincere dedication to duty because of the prevailing hostile environment in Nigeria, and as such they can’t even pay their rent or build a house, nor attend to their other pressing needs neither can they afford three square meals a day. To such men as these we share their concern, anxieties, fears and difficulties and pledge our unalloyed commitment and unpretentious sympathy to their cause and struggle. We are overwhelmingly edified by the so many people they have fed and nourished with the courage, dedication and faith that are the noble product of their struggle. Indeed, the world’s scale for measurement and award of recognition and honour is a highly detested instrument in a divinely constituted and prayerized environment.

When we talk of fathers who cannot place food on the table of their families, our focus and challenge is on men who, even in their poverty or millions of naira, privileged positions and circumstances of life, have nothing to offer to people who are hungry and who are looking up to them for the provisions and values that enhance integral growth, development and nourishment of the human person, be it their children, wives, colleagues and other dependants. On association and interaction with such men, one is instead fed with the bitter taste of all forms of injustice, malice, deprivations and starvations. Like Elijah, many people especially children and women are facing painful deprivations and starvation born out of malice, greed and laziness. This fact takes on a larger significance when the state of the nation is brought under review.

Today in this solemn Eucharistic Celebration, we inaugurate the CMO (Christian Men organization) of the parish of St.Mary’s Catholic Church, Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt.

Dearly beloved and highly esteemed fathers, men of great honour and integrity, I must commend you strongly and congratulate you for making yourselves available for service to God and to his church. It is getting more difficult every day for believers, especially Catholics to identify and live practically and authentically their faith. But here today are men who have made a bold appearance and taken a resolute step. Like Elijah would say today “I am not better than my fathers”, I would say that they are not better, holier, more perfect or richer than many of us men who are hiding under the pews or many other excuses to defraud God of his dues. Such is the terms that describes the stand of many men or women who would not identify with the church by joining the CMO, CWO or CYON or any of the lay societies in order to contribute to the work of Christ and to the evangelization of the world. It is regrettable that many catholic men, women and youth have remained and chosen to remain adamant to the call of Christ challenging them to take up their mission and vocation as the lay faithful. Such that it may not be out of place to call them “Submarine Catholics”. They appear in the church every Sunday for Mass but on Monday they disappear and go under, swimming in the currents of Pentecostalism, miracle crusades, clubs, politics etc, only to surface the next Sunday. That’s our Catholics for you.

My dear people of God, what is important in your answer to your vocation in life as a Christian are Availability and Sincerity. Perfection may be desired but it is not an exclusive requirement. It is rather a goal. That I joined the priestly brotherhood is primarily a way of seeking perfection by saving and winning souls for Christ. But again I would not want to save 10 million souls and then loose mine. That is suicide.

What am I saying? All these men who have joined the CMO are not saints and perfect men. They are rather men who have their many faults, weaknesses and failures. You know them more than I do. I would not be surprised that some of my fellow charismatic members may have started to invoke “Holy Ghost Thunder” upon one or two people they see here. But then they forget that such men need salvation. Salvation brought by Christ is for all. The Apostles wanted to call down fire and thunder. Jesus said “No “. Instead, He used the man in Judas to complete the all- important number 12 for the work of evangelization. That did not prevent Judas from his personal ambition to remain the devil’s advocate despite the power of Christ’s love, his preaching and the communion Judas received from the hands of Christ. Anyone can be baptized and given communion by the pope but then salvation is a gift received through faith in Christ. Faith is not first of all, about perfection. This is its goal. True faith is about availability and sincerity to the call of Christ anywhere you find yourself. The Satan in peter did not cancel the pope in him. But unlike Judas, his response to Christ, his availability and sincerity made the difference.In contrast to Judas, he won God’s approval. The same with the rest of the Apostles. Search the whole of the bible; Jesus did not go about looking for devils to cast out but none stood on his way in life and he never allowed anyone of them to stand on his way to the accomplishment of his mission.

It will be out of place and as a matter of fact, a misplacement of priorities for a priest to come to Church and start looking for demons to cast out. Many people have so many reasons why they would not join CMO, CWO, CYON, Knighthood of St. Mulumba or St. John, or other organizations and pious societies in the Church. They see many occult men and women as belonging to these societies and infested with many demons. But they go to market and enter buses and walk along streets infested with millions of demons. The issue lies in the fact that many have not come to terms with the fact that life offers you a lot of options. You need to ask yourself these questions:

What do I want?

What have I set out to achieve in life?

What strategies have I put in place?

Again:

Who feeds you?

What nourishes you?

To every individual Christian, the answers to these questions have been helplessly surrendered to the dictatorship of relativism. But to a Christian who is committed to his/her vocation in total sincerity the answers are clear and direct – Jesus Christ: de iure et de facto.

For Ps. 118: 8 – 9 says; “it is better to trust in the Lord than to depend on man. Ps. 16 vs 5 says: “You Lord, are all I have , and you give me all I need; my future is in your hands”

I wish to observe that today, God has different categories of children:

i. Those who claim to know God but do not know Jesus Christ.

ii. Those who claim to know God and His Son Jesus Christ, but do not know or have the Eucharistic food. This food exists “de iure” but not “de facto”.

iii. Those who claim to have God and also the son in the Eucharist but do not know the power of the Holy Spirit.

iv. Those who claim to have all of the above, and added to these is the truth and beauty of Our Lady. Those in the last group are highly favored and greatly privileged. All generations shall call them BLESSED.

And so like the popular MTN advertisement, I as your son bow down in loyalty and say to you Fathers of St. Mary’s Parish: ACHIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE.

Today, we are not talking about demons. Rather, we have come here to identify men and women who have achieved something and have kept the flag of faith flying by virtue of their availability and sincerity with which they have responded and attended to their vocation and mission in life especially as these relate to Christ and his church in St. Mary’s Parish Aggrey Rd. PH in particular and in the Catholic Church of Ph Diocese in general.

We find it not only an obligation but also a privilege to honour and decorate some members of our Christian Community whose simplicity and selfless service to God, to Church and humanity, in collaboration with the Holy Spirit have been the driving force of history, and have compounded the complexities and challenges of life compelling them to release the key to the storeroom of honour, fame and success.

We are here to prayerful, respectful and joyfully offer some bottled cold waters to our own Fathers and Mothers who have exhausted their energies as pillars carrying the burden of faith and service without complaints; and to anoint and accompany them to a new junction of life in their journey to higher appointments and greater responsibilities.

The Old Soldiers in the battlefield of faith and the Elders of integrity in the Community of Believers. We respectfully appreciate your undying legacies.

The powerful animators and mobilizers of faith who equally, not by accident but by design, double as beacons of light to the younger generation. More grease to your elbows.

Both those I mentioned their names and those I did not mention their names due to the need to stick to the time schedule we acknowledge and recognize you wherever you are.

On behalf of our Lady, the patroness of this Parish Community, we say generations of this Parish shall always call you blessed.

On behalf of the Parish Priest, past and present, the associate Pastors, we bless you and recommend you to God for the irrevocable award of honour, and entrust you to the patronage of our Lady for protection.

On behalf of the Religious Sisters of this Parish Community we assure you of our prayers.

Finally, in the name of St. Mary’s Parish, Aggrey Rd. PH., the parish priest very Rev. Fr. Emmanuel D. Maru who is duly vested with the power of Governance & power of exercise of ministry, represented here by my own self Rev Fr. Kenneth Evurulobi, and in collaboration with the parish postral council of same parish hereby present ,and with the Grand permission and strong support of His Excellency Most Rev. Dr. A. O. Makozi, the Catholic Bishop and Metropolitan of Port Harcourt in the exercise of his ministry in communion with the Holy see during the pontificate of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the Vicar of Christ, Successor of St. Peter and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church – all for the salvation of souls, and to the glory of God and enrichment of this kingdom, hereby confirm and declare you fit and worthy, on Merit sponsored by Grace, for the award of honour and title for which you have been nominated. This will take place immediately in this Mass by the chief celebrant of this Solemn Eucharistic celebrations.

May God who started this work in you bring it to eternal perfection. Congratulations!

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About Rev. Fr. Kenneth Chinkata Evurulobi (Here we have had to rely on the letter Fr. Ken sent to the Holy Father , His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV in 2009).

My name is Rev. Fr. Kenneth Chinkata Evurulobi.I was born on the 31st of March, 1971 in the little village of Amuke, Ntigha- Uzor in Isiala -Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. I attended CommunityPrimary School Ntigha- Uzor, Immaculate Conception Seminary Ahiaeke Umuahia and Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary, Owerri-all in Nigeria. I was ordained a catholic priest on the 12^th of July, 1997 for the Catholic Diocese of Aba, Abia State, Nigeria by Bishop Vincent Valentine Ezeonyia cssp. My first assignment was as a parochial vicar at St Margaret’s Parish, Uratta RoadAba from 1997 to 1999. In September 1999, I was sent to Our Lady of Fatima Parish Obohia RoadAba as a Parish Priest. Since then I have served as Parish Priest of St. Pius X Obohia Ndoki and St. Mary’s Amaekpu respectively until I finally took a study leave to do a course in Systematic Theology at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

As a Senior Seminarian and while in search of greater spiritual upliftment, I became a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. As a member of this movement in the seminary, I was introduced to the Monastery. The Cistercian Monastic life appealed to me a great deal. Thus, I became a regular visitor to Benedictine Monastery at Awhum, Enugu StateNigeria. After my ordination in 1997, this monastery became my second home. Following from the experiences and inspiration I had in the course of my spiritual development, I developed a deep interest in Mysticism leading me to carry out studies in Trinitarian Theology and the Transcendental Theology of Karl Rahner respectively at the Catholic Institute. I was on to the doctorate when my admission was withdrawn unceremoniously by my Bishop.

One experience I had as a Seminarian and two revelations I had as a Priest have actually informed my reason for writing you. During one of the Charismatic Fellowships I attended while in the Seminary, one of the Seminarians told a story of how a Pastor cast out a demon from a lady and exorcised her house, only for the Pastor to come home to encounter the demon he cast out waiting for him in his own house, and how the demon latter re-possessed the pastor and put the Pastor’s house in the same kind of situation with the lady she went to deliver to the extent that the Pastor latter died shamefully. Immediately after lights-out in the seminary that night, I went for an hour visit to the Blessed Sacrament. Before I left the chapel that night, I muttered this prayer aloud: ”God may it never be that a Priest would be needed one day when I am one, and yet none would be found”. At the end, I had the beautiful and soft voice of a girl say. “Amen”. It was loud and clear. But the question that came immediately to my mind was “what would a young girl be doing in a seminary by this time of the night?” In fear, I ran out of the chapel, back to my room. All through the night I could not sleep because of fear. Years latter, I came to understand that it was Our Lady who came to me in the Seminary chapel when she latter began to make appearances to me as a Priest.

In the very early hours of the Holy Thursday of 1999 in St. Margaret’s Parish, Our Lady came again. This time around I identified her. She was in tears of blood. As there was no morning mass that day, I decided to spend the time in the Chapel. I had a vision. She took me to the inside of the church of St. Margaret. In the space just between the Altar Rail and the pews had grown up mighty iroko trees and so many other wild shrubs to the extent that whoever was sitting in the pews could not see the priest at the sanctuary behind the Altar Table even though the entire church was brightly illuminated. This is the view from the pews. From the altar, the priest could also not see the people. More still, looking at the Iroko trees from the Altar, I saw big rosaries, scapulars, crucifixes, bibles and choir robes pinned to the Iroko trees with iron pins. Mighty vultures were now feasting on top of the Iroko and perching on the Altar Rail. Our Lady told me to wait for the explanation to the vision. However, being human and in reaction to this vision, that morning I took a lighter, a gallon of fuel and a matchet to a pagan shrine just across the fence of the presbytery and decided to destroy and burn it. Again Our Lady told me that it was a misinterpretation of the revelation. She said that I should wait for the interpretation “when the time comes”. Before this time, I was not an ardent devotee to her, but after this vision, all that changed. With one Miss Ebere Eze (now Mrs. Ebere Ibeagwa) and one Miss Rosemary Ajuonuma, I discovered the Rosary and with it the power of devotion to Our Lady. Miss Ebere’s persistent accusation that I have not devoted much time to Our Lady forced me to take a resolution. From this time I became increasingly attached to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In Sept. 1999, I was appointed a Parish Priest to the Parish of Our Lady of Fatima, Obohia RoadAba. On the Good Friday of 2000, Our Lady appeared to me again while I was visiting the Blessed Sacrament at the Altar of Repose. This time around she was very, very angry and worried. She held a sharp sword. In the entire compound of Our Lady of Fatima church was lying a very old mighty python of about 100ft in length and about 15ft in width. This python has now become an object of veneration by the people. The off springs of this dangerous old python were now scattered throughout the compound of Our Lady of Fatima church. She led me to trace from the tail which was at the main entrance to the compound to the head which was rested comfortably on the sitting room of the presbytery located at the back of the church. The entrance door to the sitting room of the presbytery was entirely removed and the wall was demolished in order to create room for the python to enter. The pope was sitting down at the back of the presbytery beside the boy’s quarters cracking palm kernels. He was wearing only knickers and singlet with the miter. The crosier was lying by his side broken into two pieces. Our Lady gave me the sword to kill the python beginning from the tail. She warned me that nobody dares to kill the python from the head. Again Our Lady told me to wait for interpretations.

On the 15^th of August 2000, the solemnity of Assumption, I formed a handful of prayer partners, and during a private mass on that beautiful evening of Assumption I consecrated this group including myself to Our Lady of Fatima, who now became our patroness. This consecration was to last for seven years ending in 2007. This period was dedicated to the unveiling and interpretation of the two revelations narrated above. Few days after this consecration, and on the day I received a note of unceremonious transfer from Our Lady of Fatima to St. Pius X Obohia- Ndoki, Our Lady told me that the two revelations were given in order to prepare me to receive the interpretation to the message of the “THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA”, otherwise the message would be lost or corrupted or hijacked as it has been hijacked in the Vatican or that I myself would die a wretched mad man. From then, my life became a struggle - struggle for the freedom of the true believers. In June 2005, Our Lady started to reveal to me the Third Message of Fatima. That revelation ended on 9^th of July, 2006, and on this day I was abducted by ritual killers. These past years have been those of excruciating pain, untold suffering and betrayals. Of course, Our Lady told me to expect nothing short of this. She equally made me to understand that at no point in the life of a Christian can it be said that life has become unbearable. God always provides a foothold, even if it is a makeshift. Indeed, she has been true to her words.

My Abduction on the 9^th of July 2006 was masterminded and sponsored by the leadership of the Knight of St Mulumba, Aba Diocese who are equally strong members of Reality Organization- Dr Orji Uzor Kalu’s political machinery in AbiaState. By the special intervention of Our Blessed Lady, I escaped from their custody. On the 27^th May, 2008 another plot to kill me was hatched and brought to full implementation when, using one Mrs. Franca Onyemalu, a psychiatric nurse, an attempt was made to sedate me to death in the silence of a room at St Mary’s Parish Abayi Ariria Aba. By the intervention of Our Blessed Lady, I escaped the scene unhurt. They did not give up on this attempt. They pursued me and finally caught up with me at Obehie junction on my way to Port Harcourt, and because there was a public record with regards to this, and also as a lot of witnesses abound, the plot to kill me instantly via sedation was reduced to an effort to bring about in me a total mental breakdown of the worst type so as to silence me and confine me to the psychiatry for life.

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The attempt made on my life on the 27^th of May 2008 and the prolonged effort to reduce me to a mental wretch at St Joseph’s Catholic Hospital Ohabiam Aba were silent responses and reactions to my letters of 26^th March 2008 to the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda Fidei titled: Appeal For Your Intervention and that of 22^nd May, 2008 to the Apostolic Nuncio in Nigeria titled: Permission To Be Joined In Suit No HIH/21/2008 as a Co-defendant respectively (enclosed).

In a separate document which I sent to Vatican and copied to many other people, I convincingly stated that Freemasonry has used the P2 organization (a powerful secret cult in the Vatican) to create room for Satanists to occupy positions in the Roman Curia. In other words, the College of Cardinals has been strongly infiltrated by Satanists or the Anti-Christ. What I am saying in effect is that there are very powerful and influential Cardinals who are of the stock of the Anti-Christ, and they are vying for the Papacy. If by chance any of them succeeds in becoming the Pope, then the Church, indeed the whole edifice of Christendom, is finished.

According to the Virgin, Our Blessed Lady under whose direct supervision I carried out this investigation, the only right and effective medium of communication of this message to the Holy Father, His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV is to publish it in the media. If the message is given to the Curia it will never see the light of the day. Freemasonry, using the P2 organization has employed real Satanists to frustrate the third message of Fatima from within the hierarchy. These Satanists in disguise do not want the message of Fatima to be attended to with the urgency and undistracted attention which it deserves. For this reason the Blessed Virgin Mary is angry and worried.

The reason for the numerous attempts on my life is found in the enclosed document titled MY STORY: WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD. My Appeal (enclosed) to the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria did not receive any response.

Renewed attempts on my life and on the life of my associates have started again. It is in this regard that I humbly and most respectfully solicit your intervention on my behalf.

· .Rev. Fr. Kenneth Evurulobi is also the founder and president of an informal prayer group named “Mary”sRose Evangellistic Association”- A group of intercessors dedicated solely to Our Lady of Fatima in an act of private devotion so that the Mission and Vission of Our Lord through her mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary especially about the 3^rd Message of Fatrima will be accomplished in the world. MaysRose rests on the solid theology that, since the best of God’s gift to humanity, our Lord Jesus Christ, came through Mary and she willingly and courageously donated her entire self unreservedly to the demands of this Mission and Vision of God for the world through her despite the risks, dangers, shame and the embarrassment these seemingly constituted in her life, those who serve this mission and vision with her and strictly under her supervision share also in the overflowing love and power of God that is upon her life. This is depicted by the Roses and is personified in the Holy Spirit.