TODAY
December 23, 2020
Catholic Bishop of Enugu, Most. Rev. Calistus Onaga, today berated the ruling class over the persistent insecurity in the country, charging them to ensure that the menace ended with the year 2020.
Speaking in Enugu during his Christmas message, Bishop Onaga lamented the level of uncertainty in the country and how banditry, kidnapping and molestations have been allowed to reign freely in the country to the detriment of the citizenry.
The Bishop who said Nigerians should celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ the redeemer this year with in humble adoration especially as God did not bring the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria however, expressed regret that people were taking the graciousness of God for granted as they live and move about as if the disease does not exist.
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I believe in the Holy Spirit. (Apostlesâ Creed)
âI believe in the Holy Spirit.â With these words, the Apostlesâ Creed introduces our belief in the third person of the Trinity as an essential element of the Christian faith. Unlike the statements on the Father and the Son, however, the Creed does not elaborate explicitly on the person and work of the Spirit.
The earliest church fathers focused most of their energy on defining and defending the correct understanding of the person and work of Christ, so they did not give as close attention to the person or work of the Holy Spirit as they did to Christology. Yet they recognized that the Scriptures fully affirm the deity of the Spirit.
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Yes, we are ready to celebrate the birth of Christ…in the ‘new normal!’
Obviously, celebrations, this year, 2020, will be totally different to what Christmas was in the past…before the Coronavirus pandemic came into the scene.
Let’s check out how some of our entertainers plan to celebrate Christmas…in the ‘new normal.”
ALSTON KOCH: Not since I could remember Christmas, as a little child, to a teenager, in my land of birth (Sri Lanka), and then to Australia, and later to America, have I ever had to prepare to be disappointed, knowing fully well that it will be a ‘different’ Christmas this time around. Of course, there will be a ‘Christ’ in Christmas 2020 because you can’t take the Christ out of Christmas. But, this year, it will be a different one. Locked down for more than nine months, in Melbourne, and not knowing what the ‘new normal’ has in store for my first Christmas, in Oz, for nearly seven years, is almost absurd, and a sure disappointing cel