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EDOMS PRO, Eko (2026)

31/05/2026

HOLY TRINITY
*One God, Three Persons*

Throughout Scripture, God reveals Himself as three Persons from the very beginning of creation.
God does not present Himself in the singular.
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit work in perfect unity as one.

As Christians, are we working together?
For humanity to succeed, we must play our roles in unity and harmony.
The Persons of the Trinity are inseparable and equal.
The persistent disunity in our world is a significant factor in our setbacks.

*LET US LOVE, WORSHIP, AND WORK TOGETHER AS ONE.*
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Lesson from the homily inspired by the Holy Bible (Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; & John 3:16-18) delivered by Rev. Fr. Augustine Olufaku, Assistant Cathedral Administrator, Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria._

29/05/2026

WHEN GOD'S HAND BECOMES VISIBLE
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It occurred to me that one day of divine favour can rewrite a story that years of struggle could not. Psalm 30:5 says, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning,” and that morning is often just a single day where God’s hand becomes visible. It’s not that the problems vanish instantly, but the weight shifts. Doors that were locked swing open, hearts that were cold soften, and what looked like delay suddenly looks like preparation. One day of favour doesn’t mean perfection, but it means God’s presence is undeniable enough for you to stand again.

The power of one day lies in how God works outside our timelines. We measure life in months and years, but He measures in moments of visitation. Joseph spent years in prison, yet one day with Pharaoh changed his identity from prisoner to prime minister. The woman with the issue of blood suffered for 12 years, but one touch in one day made her whole. Our elders say, "Divine favour doesn’t always come with noise". Sometimes it’s a quiet phone call, an unexpected opportunity, a renewed strength to pray, or peace in the middle of chaos. The lesson is to stay positioned in faith even when nothing is happening, because favour is not earned by striving. It’s given by grace.

So when that day comes, receive it without guilt and without over-explaining it. Don’t waste it trying to convince doubters. Document it, give thanks, and let it fuel the next season. And if you’re still waiting, remember: God is not late. The same God who can turn one day around can prepare you today so that when favour comes, you’re ready to carry it. One day of divine favour is enough to make the past make sense and the future feel possible. Listen to me: God's hand will soon be visible in your case.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade

28/05/2026

WHEN BATTERED BY SPOUSE

Priests, Imams and counsellors are encountering more cases of spousal violence. I have discovered that being battered by the person you’re married to creates a wound that’s both physical and deeply personal. Marriage is meant to be a place of safety and trust, so when that is violated, it shakes your sense of self and your understanding of love. The first step in this reflection is to name it honestly: violence is not love, and it is not your fault. Listen to me: No cultural expectation, provocation, or history of the relationship makes harm acceptable. Your body and dignity matter, and your immediate safety has to come first.

The wrestling here is between hope for the relationship and the need for self-preservation. Many people stay because of children, faith, finances, or fear of what will happen if they leave. Those concerns are real, and they deserve compassion, not judgment. But enduring harm in silence often deepens the damage—to you and to the home itself. Reflection in this moment means asking: What would protect my life and dignity right now, and what support do I need to achieve that? That might mean speaking to a trusted friend, a religious leader who condemns abuse, a counsellor, or a local support service. Safety planning and separation are not betrayals of marriage; they are sometimes the only way to stop the cycle and create space for truth.

Healing doesn’t begin with forgiving quickly or fixing the other person. It begins with acknowledging the pain and refusing to normalise it. If you are willing, real change requires accountability, professional help, and sustained behaviour change—not promises alone. If they are not, your responsibility is to your own life first and to any children involved. God sees the hidden suffering, and neither the Bible, the Qur'an, Ifa, nor human dignity supports staying in ongoing violence as a form of virtue. You are not alone, and reaching out is a strength, not a weakness. Remain blessed.

POST SCRIPT
If you’re in immediate danger, please contact your priest/imam or a domestic violence helpline in your area.

By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade

27/05/2026

WRESTLING WITH BETRAYALS

I have counselled several people who have wrestled with betrayals. Betrayal cuts deeper than most wounds because it comes from someone you trusted. It leaves you asking not just “why did they do this,” but “who can I trust now?” The first response is often anger, numbness, or a desire for revenge. That’s human. However, if you stay there, the betrayal continues to control you long after it has happened. Wrestling with how to respond means sitting with that pain honestly without letting it turn you into someone you don’t recognise. The goal isn’t to pretend it didn’t hurt, but to decide what kind of person the hurt will make you.

Scripture and experience both point to a hard truth: You can’t control what they did, but you can control what you do next. Revenge feels like power, but it usually keeps you chained to them. Forgiveness isn’t excusing the act or rushing back into trust—it’s releasing the debt so the bitterness stops eating you alive. “Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.” That means you can feel the anger, process it, set boundaries, and still choose not to let it dictate your next move. Sometimes the right response is silence. Sometimes it’s a firm boundary. Sometimes it’s walking away.

In the middle of that wrestling, remember you’re not alone in it. Jesus knew betrayal firsthand—Judas, Peter, and the crowd all turned on Him. God doesn’t ask you to be naive, but He does invite you to let Him carry the judgment so you’re free to live without carrying it yourself. Responding well doesn’t mean you forget. It means you refuse to let their betrayal define your character, your peace, or your future. The measure of healing isn’t that you feel nothing anymore, but that you can choose love, justice, and wisdom instead of being ruled by the wound.

Happy EID celebrations. Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

26/05/2026

YOU ARE A MASTERPIECE

You are not a mistake, a rough draft, or a work in progress that someone else gets to define. To be a masterpiece means you possess intrinsic worth, carefully designed with intention and detail that no one else can replicate. You are fearfully and wonderfully made; thus, your quirks, your story, even the parts you want to hide, are part of the texture that makes you unique. A masterpiece isn’t flawless in the way a machine is; it’s valuable because of the meaning it holds. As the elders say, “Precious jewels are found in a clay jar.”

Masterpieces take time and pressure to emerge. The chisel, the fire, the waiting—none of it is wasted. It is written in the Holy Book, “Gold is tested in fire, and a worthy person is tested in adversity". What feels like breaking, delay, or pruning is often the shaping that reveals the form hidden inside you. You don’t become valuable when you finally “arrive.” You are already valuable, and what you’re going through is forming what only you can offer the world.

So stop comparing your unfinished canvas to someone else’s finished gallery. I wish to counsel: Guard what’s yours. Tend to it with truth, courage, and care. The world doesn’t need another copy. It needs the original work only you can be, because there is no one like you; you are a masterpiece. Celebrate yourself.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

24/05/2026

*The Lord Has Empowered Us to Witness*

You are empowered to witness, to pray, and to bear testimony for the work of God’s Kingdom.

Are you building up the Kingdom, or are your actions leading others away from it? If so, you are on the wrong path.

Whatever gift God has given you is meant to strengthen the Church, not to feed personal pride.

Today is a day of gifts—Pentecost Sunday.
Allow Jesus to renew your identity so that His power may shine through you to build up His Kingdom.

You have been empowered. How are you manifesting His presence?
Use the authority God has given you in the Spirit to bring comfort to others and to win souls for the common good.

Spiritual gifts are not for self-glorification. They are for the good of all.

Exhortation by
Rev. Fr. Eriki Stanley Bunmi
on Pentecost Sunday at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Lokoja

23/05/2026

TODAY'S PAIN DOESN'T GET THE FINAL WORD

I have discovered that despite the travails of today, tomorrow shall be better for the person who dares to hope boldly and works toward elevating his condition. It is the decision to believe that today’s pain doesn’t get the final word. As it was written, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” Whatever you’re facing now—loss, delay, confusion, exhaustion—is real, but it’s not permanent. Tomorrow is not bound to repeat today unless you let it. The fact that time moves forward means you get another chance to choose, to heal, to try again with what you’ve learned. Your tomorrow is shaped by what you refuse to give up on today.

At a time like this, it is good to counsel that better doesn’t always mean easier. Sometimes it means stronger, wiser, and more grounded than you were before. Growth often happens underground, where no one sees it. The work you do in silence—forgiving, rebuilding, holding on when it would be easier to quit—is what makes tomorrow different. You may not control every circumstance, but you do control what you bring into it; faith, effort, and a refusal to let bitterness define you.

So hold your head up. As it was written, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” The story isn’t over, and the darkest chapter rarely is the last one. Keep showing up with what you have, however small it feels. Tomorrow will be better not because life owes you ease, but because you are becoming the kind of person who can carry more light into it.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

19/05/2026

WHAT YOU DO TODAY WILL SPEAK FOR YOU TOMORROW

It is worth pondering that actions have a longer memory than words. What you choose today—how you respond to stress, whether you keep a promise, the way you treat someone who can’t repay you—quietly writes the story others will read about you later. As the elders say, "A good name is more desirable than great riches”. Reputation isn’t built in a single speech or a polished moment. It accumulates in the small, repeated choices that most people never notice. Tomorrow, when circumstances demand trust or when an opportunity opens, it’s not your intentions that get quoted, but the pattern of what you actually did when no one was watching. "You reap what you sow” is a reminder that today’s seeds become tomorrow’s harvest.

This is why character matters more than image. You can control the narrative for a while, but time exposes what is real. A single act of dishonesty can undo years of careful work, while steady faithfulness in ordinary things creates a credibility that no campaign can manufacture. The seed you plant today in habits, relationships, and integrity grows into the evidence people use to decide whether to follow, hire, trust, or love you tomorrow. You don’t get to separate who you are in private from who you become in public; the two eventually meet, because "out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks”.

The good news is that the principle works both ways. If today’s choices have been careless, tomorrow isn’t fixed. A change of direction, owned honestly and lived out consistently, starts a new pattern that will speak just as clearly. But you can’t shortcut it. There’s no replacing the weight of lived consistency with a single grand gesture. So the question isn’t “What will I say about myself tomorrow?” but “What am I doing today that will speak so clearly that I won’t need to say anything at all?”
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

17/05/2026

USE AI POSITIVELY

AI cannot think, love, or care for us the way we do for one another. God created us with emotions and the capacity for relationships so that we can experience and share these things in their fullest form.

We should use AI positively—as a tool to support and ease communication. It should assist human thinking and creativity, not replace it.

A REFLECTION ON POPE LEO XIV MESSAGE ON THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION BY MOST REV. DR. MARTIN OLORUNMOLU, BISHOP OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LOKOJA,
@ IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL LOKOJA, KOGI STATE NIGERIA

The Bishop prayed for all communicators and blessed their various tools and instruments of trade.
The Pope's message was read by Mr Patrick Edogbanya, Former Director, NOA, Kogi State Directorate.

15/05/2026

DON'T THROW STONES AT EVERY BARKING DOG

I have seen the futility of throwing stones at every barking dog. No matter how earnestly you choose to live in peace, there will be people whose purpose seems to be disruption—sometimes through open hostility, sometimes through subtler forms like emotional blackmail and hypocrisy. These are the voices that bark from the roadside, eager to provoke you into abandoning your path to trade it for a quarrel. To stop and answer every provocation is to forget your destination. As our ancestors decreed, “If you throw stones at every dog that barks, you will never reach your house.” Let me counsel: The energy you give to those grounded in deceit is energy taken from the work you are meant to do.

There is a cost to misplaced attention. Giving time and thought to people who delight in blowing hot air and stabbing from behind is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make. Hypocrisy often masks itself as concern or critique, but its fruit is division and distraction. Such behaviour usually reveals a deeper emptiness, a vacuity that seeks to fill itself by diminishing others. To be disturbed by it is human, but to be ruled by it is to hand over the steering wheel of your life. Your sensibilities were not made to be amused or outraged by every act of bad faith you encounter.

What your heart truly desires is peace—not the absence of conflict, but the presence of inner order and purpose. That peace is worth guarding. It means learning to discern what deserves your response and what deserves your silence. It means walking on, trusting that a life directed toward good will outlast the noise of those who stand against it. Keep your eyes on the place you are heading. Let the barking fall behind, and let your heart remain free to pursue what is true, good, and whole. Remember: Don't throw stones at every barking dog. Learn to move on.
Remain blessed.
By
Rev Fr Dr Paul Kolade Olutetubi

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