Millets are magical plants. Their capacity to mature within three months of rainfall, in certain parts of Africa, is legendary. All those who have been to northern Cameroon or Northern Nigeria in dry season knows what the area looks like a wasteland. The field of view is so desolating that one wonders if any living creature can call the area home. Only stunted shrubs and baobabs are the vegetation capable of embracing…
1st Reading : 2Chronicles 36 : 16-16, 19-2 2nd Reading: Ephesians 2: 4-10 Gospel : John 3: 14-21 One erroneous image of God is the one that assigns to him the image of a judge. The idea reached its epic in the medieval era when the emperors created an image of God that could permit them to rule in all majesty. Thus, if God is the Supreme Judge, all those who exercise…
Gn 9, 8-15, Ps. 24 (25), 4-5ab, 6-7bc, 8-9, 1 P 3, 18-22, Mc 1, 12-15 Jésus a reçu deux types du Baptême : Baptême de l’eau au Jourdain et Baptême du feu au désert. Parmi tous les évangélistes, il n’y a que Marc qui a su exploiter ce fait. Dans l’évangile d’aujourd’hui, il les juxtapose l’un après l’autre et ne met en lumière que des moments fars de ces évènements non seulement…
The readings of the day : 1st Reading Genesis 12:1-4a, Responsorial Psalm Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 2nd Reading 2Tim 1:8b-10 The theme of this Sunday could be God’s call and man’s response. In the first reading, the author of Genesis narrates the call of our father in faith, Abraham. He tells us how God asked Abraham to quit his father’s land and his people to an undisclosed location. “Go forth from…
