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MERRY CHRISTMAS
EZIGBO ANURI NA NCHETA OMUMU JESUS CHRIST

GREAT LA SAGRADA FAMILIA

What a giant and wonderful church is this? so amazing and worth including as one of the wonders of the world. La Sagrada Família is spanish word for 'The Holy Family' it is a Roman Catholic basilica under construction in Barcelona, Spain. This famous church cathedral construction according to information i gatherd is not supported by any government or official church sources. Private patrons funded the initial stages. Money from tickets purchased by tourists is now used to pay for the work, and private donations are accepted through the Friends of the Temple.

The construction of sagrad famila Construction actually began in '1882 and its formal title is Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família. Originally designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852 – 1926), who worked on the project for over 40 years, devoting the last 15 years of his life entirely to the endeavor, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. On the subject of the extremely long construction period, Gaudí is said to have remarked, "My client is not in a hurry." After Gaudí's death in 1926, work continued under the direction of Domènech Sugranyes until interrupted by the Spanish civil war in 1935.

Parts of the unfinished building and Gaudí's models and workshop were destroyed during the war by Catalan anarchists. The design, as now being constructed, is based both on reconstructed versions of the lost plans and on modern adaptations. Since 1940 the architects Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig Boada, Lluís Bonet i Gari and Francesc Cardoner have carried on the work.

The current director and son of Lluís Bonet, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, has been introducing computers into the design and construction process since the 1980s.

Mark Burry of New Zealand serves as Executive Architect and Researcher. Sculptures by J. Busquets, Etsuro Sotoo and the controversial Josep Subirachs decorate the fantastical façades. According to the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya, 2.26 million people visited the partially built basilica in 2004, making it one of the most popular attractions in Spain. The central nave vaulting was completed in 2000 and the main tasks since then have been the construction of the transept vaults and apse. Current work 2006 concentrates on the crossing and supporting structure for the main tower of Jesus Christ as well as the southern enclosure of the central nave which will become the Glory façade.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Works of Spain (Ministerio de Fomento in Spanish), has projected the construction of a tunnel for the high speed train just under where the principal façade of the temple has to be built. Although the ministry states that the project poses no risk to the basilica, the engineers and architects of the temple disagree as there are no guarantees that the tunnel will not affect the stability of the building.

A campaign is being waged by the Sagrada Familia preservation society (Patronat de la Sagrada Familia) and the neighbourhood association AVE pel Litoral."I wish i will have the opportunity to visit this great Basilica and according to me this great Church Construction is Antoni Gaudi's MAGNUM OPUS. (The Pictures is from Sagrad Familia website)

SALVE REGINA (HAIL HOLY MOTHER MARY)


SALVE REGINA

Salve Regina,
Mater Misericordiae
Vita dulcedo
et spes nostra salve

Ad te clamamus,
exsules filii Hevae
Ad te suspiramus,
gementes et flentes
In hac lacrimarum valle

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra
illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui
Nobis post hoc exsilium ostende
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis, Virgo Maria.

MARRIAGE IN IGBO TRIBE NIGERIA

Marriage is a legal union between a Man and a Woman coming together to live and stay together happily as husband and wife. The aim of marriage is not only for procreation. It is a sacred institution as well as a vocation, because not everybody is going to get into marriage. Religious and Priests do not marry because that is their vocation, which they heartily accepted. Unequivocally marriage is sacrosanct and very important in life.
There are many tradition and cultural settings in Nigeria and there are more than 80 tribes in Nigeria and so many different languages in Nigeria. There are three main Religion in Nigeria Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion. But my Focus is on Christian marriage.

with kindness while the children in turn also love their parents and honor them.

In Nigeria marriage is one of the highly regarded traditional values. We have other values like, respect for the elders, respect for the authorities, committing no adultery, respect for human life, respect for expectant women to mention but a few. We so much believe in the sanctity of marriage and the traditional union existing and only between a Man and a Woman and not other way round, in Igbo tribe in the southeastern Nigeria from were I came from, in Africa and Nigeria in particular, that is why divorce is not so popular over here in Nigeria. Although the issue of adultery still persists which is one of the sins which has eaten deep into our Christian lives and it has destroyed many homes. The issue of adultery has caused so much traumatic and psychological problems to families in the world. It has separated many children from their parents, parents from their children and families from their homes. However in Nigeria marriage with children are highly regarded especially male children, which in our cultural and social setting the significance of their heir is what matters. Some Christians in Nigeria remarry when their wife is unable to give them children especially male. Children come from God, male or female that is what Christians should know. Marriage is not only for children, because it is also a call and ordained by God. They’re many families and homes without the fruit of marriage or childless yet they have strong faith in the lord and remain good Christians. In Nigeria some men who are about to marry normally impregnates their partner before marriage. The reason they do that is to make sure that their wife is fertile yet they called themselves practicing Christians in Nigeria. In some Catholic dioceses pregnant bride are not allowed to wear wedding gown into the church during wedding mass. This might be part of the measure to check pre marital sex and to discourage men trying the fertility of their partners before marriage.
Love is very important in marriage because a true Nigerian Christian marriage is that which all members of the family love one another.' The husband love and treat his wife with kindness, the wife love and should not usurp authority over her husband, parents should also love their children and treat them with kindness while the children in turn also love their parents and honor them.

TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IN IGBO TRIBE

(WINE CARRYING CEREMONY)

After Christian marriage in the church the bride and the groom must have to travel to their home town in the village to perform the traditional marriage right. It is a must in Nigeria and virtually all the tribes in Nigeria observes this traditional marriage right it‘s popularly called Wine Carrying ceremony or (Igba Nkwu Nwanyi) in the southern part of Nigeria called Igbo tribe. And this tribe is mostly Christians ranging from Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Protestants and other denominations with Catholicism as the majority religion in this Igbo tribe. Traditional marriage in relation with the Christian marriage goes together. Sometimes couple performs this right with money if they don’t want to celebrate it in a bigger way but it is imperative that the bride has to take her fiancé to her kinsman and when the fiancé is very far away the member of the bridegroom must represent him and every thing will officially performed and the bride price will be paid.

IMPORTANT OF CHILDREN

Children are very sacred and important in every community, husband as the Pater Familias or head of the family in christian marriage should look after their homes and be God's fearing just like St Joseph the husband of blessed Virgin Mary and father of Jesus Christ did, for a happy marriage produces a happy parents, happy parents produces happy homes, happy homes produces happy children, happy children makes a happier family, and happier family makes a happiest society.

POLSKA/NIGERIA VIEWS

Uneqivocally most Poles are very Religious and has a strong root in catholicism. Majority of poles are Roman catholic though there are few other christian denominations that exist from information i gathered. In other hand i was born and nurtured in Nigeria. My parents are from Nigeria. Nigeria is a very large country in african continent. there are many religions in Nigeria but the most three popular ones are Christianity, islam and Traditional Religion. In all this denominations Roman catholic has few percentage of population more than the rest of other religions. So catholicism is not the only religion in Nigeria just like it is majority in poland.There are various culture in Nigeria just like it is in poland but unfortunately in Nigeria there are many tribes and different cultural settings that existed in Nigeria. There are over 80 tribes in Nigeria and i came from the tribe called Igbo in the south eastern Nigeria majority christians in general and Roman Catholic, Anglican and others respectively and in particular.i discovered that in Rzeszow and Poland there is a strong tradition of a relationship or union between a man and a woman. In some other places even in Nigeria there existed some few places were you will notice a relationship that existed between the same sex although it is illegal in my country but few practice that, but in poland is not like that even if it existed i have not seen or heard about that.

Again In Poland there is regard for the sanctity of human life, life is very precious to poles even though in Nigeria we had such belief in the right to life but some violate that for example termination of pregnancy or abortion is very common in Nigeria but not approved but many still practice abortion. But in Poland from the fact i recieved there is right to life no abortion .Greater percentage of Poles are very hospitable and peaceful in Nature my experince at train station in warsaw when i arrived poland for the first time proved to me that poland and her citizens are very kind and lovely people. they do not cheat or decieve people forigners in there country.Before coming to Poland i knew quite well that there is low employment in Poland so i was never surprise with that because i knew and read in the news about many poles leaving there country to other countries like ireland, United kingdom and U.S.A. But fortunatley there economy is improving better than it used to be in the past decades.The idea of racism existed but very little in Poland, it is a cankerworm that has eaten deep in the lives of some white men especially those that are not religious, but in Nigeria there is no such thing like descrimination or racism in Nigeria. Nigerians saw white men as second God and always give anything to make any white or even forigners happy.

From my point of view polish women are more friendly than there men. some experinces showed that making a friendship here is more of with polish Female. i have never seen any of my Nigerian brothers here who can boast of having a polish male friend if not only women and girls. But in Nigeria we make a lot of friends with any class young, old, men, women, boys, girls, rich and poor alike . we live together and friendly with all.Finally without fear or favour i personally like poland and her citizens even though there is low level of employment for forigners. My experinces here and relationship i have had since i came here proved to me that poles are very peaceful people, they are contended with what they have and above all very hospitable and trust worthy unlike in my place oif birth. The life of late Great pope John Paul II summarizes the very essence of how average poles are like.

RZESZOW

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY

October 28 of every year is my birthday anniversary and i thank God for the gift of new life, new hope, great opportunities and above all making me to see another year on top of the ones he gave me. I pray to God to keep my parents Sir and lady Innocent and Cecilia Nwagbo of Knight of St Mulumba and my 5 brothers and 2 sisters alive and healthy prosperous and my friends, nephews,nieces,inlaws,relatives and enemies alive and healthy too.(This Picture is when i was 1 year old).

I enjoy all my blog friends and comments contributors to say a big Happy birthday to me starting with Fr Odon de Castro who introduced me to blogging, My dearest friend Sr. Jose Luis Dimas, feripula, Mr John Bowden, david, aguila libera, Biby Cletus, fr Cristian,Ingrid Smith,Carl Jylland-Halverson and other bloggers.

May God bless you all and keep us all alive to see our next and many birthday Years again. i will attach more pictures of how i look presently together with this when they are ready. (This November too will mark one year i started blogging).
Feliz Cumpleaños Stephen!
Happy birthday Stephen!
Ezigbo Anuri na ncheta omumu gi Stephen!

NIGERIA CELEBRATES

Nigeria celebrates 47th independence anniversary today, i know it is a remarkable day in our Nigeria history and exactly 2 and half decades Nigeria was independent of british rule. is unfortunate i have to observe this important day in poland were i am now more pictures of the city rzeszow the region i am currently staying for studies will be posted soon. But it is a cool city in the south eastern poland.

THANK GOD WITH ME

This is the pictures of my elder sister who just had a new baby few days ago, it was a terrible experince she pass before giving birth to her second son Chinemerem Brian Cyril, he is about 2 weeks old and brother to chisom Michael cyril. She means a lot to me and i always remain grateful to her after God. The almighty Lord has work marvel for me and our families holy is his name

ETHIOPIA CELEBRATES HER NEW MILLENIUM IN SEPTEMBER 11 2007

One would ask why is Ethiopa the ancient old dynasty of Africa about to celebrate her new millenium this september 11 2007, when other countries had there's in the year 2000. Unfortunately that day reminds United States of America and the citizens the tragic terrorist attacks on their country but for Ethiopia "it will be welcoming the coming of the second millennium. The following morning will be the first day of the year 2000 (and of the month of Meskerem) according to the Ethiopian calendar".It's indeed going to be a happy momment for them. "Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar, which comprises twelve months of thirty days each and a thirteenth month of five days (or six days in a leap year). The calendar is seven years and eight months behind the Western (Gregorian) calendar with Christmas being celebrated on January 7 and New Year on September 11, which can be extremely confusing to westerners. The Ethiopian clock is similar to many equatorial countries and there is a six-hour difference between Ethiopian and Western time. This means Western 6:00am is 12:00am

Ethiopian time and 6pm Western time is 12 noon Ethiopian time. Ethiopia is also three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)." In Ethiopia there is no adjustment of clocks for Winter or Summer Time, so there is no putting clocks backward or forward an hour. Being close to the Equator there is almost twelve hours of constant daylight. In Addis Ababa, sunrise begins at around 06.30 and sunset is about 18:45.




Ethiopia according to sources is as large as France and Spain combined and has one of the richest histories on the African continent. Ethiopia is one of the few African countries never to lose its independence(CF http://www.ethiopiantour.com/) Ethiopia has many kings but their last king Haile Selassie ruled them for 45 years before he was overthrown by the Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1974.

I PERSONALLY STAND WITH YOU

I don't know what else others think but I personally stand with "A prominent critic of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, is being sued for alleged adultery." To me weather archbishop ncube committed the crime of adultery or not, which was accused him with his secretary and following the lawsuit which has been filed by the husband of a woman who worked as a secretary in the archbishop's office., i still stand with him. Archbishop is a human being and capable of ill, i believe the government of zimbabwe, mugabe and xanopi party is at work to silence the outspoken and indefatigable highest ctritic of mugabe. who has single handedly open a challenge and called for street protest against the leadership of president mugabe.

Trying to destroy the image of man of God will not help to improve the economic inflation in zimbabwe. Almost the whole world is calling for a change of government of mugabe, he cannot continue to rule he is a tyrant and oppressor capable of silencing his opponent, he should be ousted and i believe the time has come for that. I am not supporting any evil even though i don t know if the archbishop is guilty or not of the accusations. But the government of mugabe will not succeede with this because here in africa we are against his rule and that of the entire corrupt wicked African leaders .

THE G8 PLEGDES I HOPE WILL BE FULFILLED

I Hope the world richest and most industrialized countries of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. which according to the wikipedia free web encyclopedia represent about 65% of the world economy. will fulfill the $60bn Aids deal they made to help in Africa especially in fighting Malaria, Hiv and TB.

"On the final day of their summit, they repeated a commitment made at the 2005 Gleneagles Scotland summit to double aid for Africa by the end of the decade".

Even though some anti poverty campaigners expressed disappointment on the outcome of the last summit of the G8 leaders in Germany, but to me is more than a success if they will fulfill there plegdes to Africa especially the worst part were there are crisis. A bird at hand worth thousands in the bush.(Pictures from bbc.com)

MY FIRST NEPHEW

Chisom Michael Cyril is my first nephew from my eldest sister. He is a 1 year and 8 months today. i pray for God's guidance and protection on him so that he will grow up being God fearing young lad. May God bless and protect his father and my first sister.

MY SECOND NEPHEW

Kamsi Chelsea Nwandu is my second nephew from my immediate and second elder sister. He is 5 months old now. May God's protection rest upon him and his father and my second elder sister.

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

There is a lot of crisis in the world now especially in the african continent. In Iraq, sudan, somalia, cote d' voir Nigeria, Lebanon,east timor and so on. many said they did not see Rwanda genocide coming, the conflict between the Hutu-dominated government forces and the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front army led to an escalation of ethnic tension throughout country which led to the lost of many innocent lives. many children were left orphan and displaced almost a million lives lost from april to july 1994.

What about the ongoing world's worst humanitarian crisis in darfur sudan. Did we not saw that coming too. Tens of thousands of lives were lost, many were in the different refugee camps, many innocent girls who are not even up to adolescent age were victims of rape, hunger, sickness, deaths, malnutritions and so on, why all this man's inhumanity to fellow man. There is no love, no tolerance, no peace the using of chidren as soldiers (child soldiers) a lot of victims of this humanitarian crisis has suffered a lot. some took very dangerous risk trying to leave

their countries to other countries in europe through sea with ordinary boat. just like we heard in spain canary islands, The Spanish government has sent back more than 750 African migrants, including 30 children. most of them were senegalese to their homes were they came from, to me that was not fair. entering into another country illegally is not good, but what about the risk these poor africans took, what about the crisis back home which forced them to fled, what about those that died in the sea with others trying to reach europe by sea. what about those there small boat capsized and so on.

The spanish government, italian and other european countries near the western coast of africa should reconsider and investigate well before sending home illegal immigrants just like the spanish government 'said all illegal immigrants would be expelled.' this is part of the humanitarian crisis.
So many africans has suffered because of poverty, bad leadership and corruption. That is why millions of Africans were scattered round the world outside there continent.pictures copied from (www.thewe.cc)

CHILDREN WE ABUSED

Corruption from web meaning is lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. In Africa corruption has eaten deep in the minds of africans especially the leaders. corruption is a universal problem, even in the civilized world like the west. But in africa the practice is the order of the day.

Here in my country corruption is the worst nightmare that we have ever suffered as citizens for decades. Bribery, corruption, power intoxication, dictatorship reigns supreme here in africa. despite that poverty is every where here.

The recent election in my country explains how corrupted our leaders were, in my country our governmnent is fighting corruption but has the worst record of being corrupt themselves with the shelter of their immunity which will not cover them forever. How can the government be fighting examination malpractice when they massively rig and manipulate election in the very presence of these school children. Here in my country virtually all children knows what it takes to rig election, to do malpractise in school and other unethical things. This is as a result of bad leadership. I always said that 'what a person gives he takes, nobody gives what he has not and cannot offer, he who pays the piper calls the tune.' (The children we abused today due to our evil leadership and corrupt practices will have revenge on the society tommorrow.) Corruption is a cankerworm that has eaten deep in our lifes which we inherited from our corrupt leaders, both inside our families and the government

FIRST ANNIVERSARY

Today march 24th marks the first anniversary his Eminence William Cardinal Levada the Archbishop Emeritus of Sanfrancisco Archdiocese was created a Cardinal of the Holy Roman church in the consistory of March 24th ,2006 in the first pontificate of pope benedict XVI and his successor in the office of the congregation of the doctrine of faith. I wish him many more years in the service of his holyness.

INCULTURATION IN THE AFRICAN CHURCH

The Term in a lay man’s understanding is an effort to join Christianity to one’s culture, especially African traditional religion.N.I, Ndiokwere in his bookThe African Church today and tomorrow stated:"Inculturation is a process by which Christ is made present,Meaningfully and loveable to a people in their native cultureWith a view to enable The people Fully African and Fully native."The nomenclature has not been cleared until recently. But it must be distinguished from AGGIONAMENTO. Aggionamento means an updating, a ‘renewal’ of the church were it already existed.According to Achunike "aggionamenti refers to the renewal of those aspects of the church that can and must be renewed – the particular aspects that must be updated." Its not concerned with mere adaptation, which deals with the messenger and the individual elements of the Christian religion and church. Terms like assimilation, christianization, acculturation, Africanization, accommodation and enculturation can be used to describe Inculturation.INDIGENIZATION of all those terms expresses in a generic way what the whole enterprise is all about. Some Igbo Christians today face the dilemma of being a good Christian at the same time authentic Igbo men and women. And there are some Christians who ambidextrously go to church and consult oracle because of their tradition. Inculturation is the solution to this dilemma.Inculturation seeks to make us fully African and fully Christian. Inculturation can take many forms, it makes us an Igbo man and woman and at the same time a true Christian. However not much has been achieved in inculturating Christianity in Igboland except perhaps in ozo title – taking and in marriage when its done before wine carrying ceremony. Even this has no uniformity or universality in Igboland. It varies from diocese to diocese. Part of this problem is the lack of the encouragement and patronage from the church hierarchy. Some authors, uses Inculturation and Indigenization interchangeably. Indigenization can be seen as Inculturation, domestication or incorporation.Another big question is how do we indigenize the churches? We can indigenize the churches by bringing the traditional beliefs in the church like our traditional names, traditional titles and clothes in the church and Christianize or inculturate them. The work of the church is to fight and exterminate the social evils of our traditional beliefs and cultures. For Inculturation to take place, the evils of our tradition should be replaced with good ones fostered and enriched with Christian values. Catholic accommodates African culture than the Protestants.Inculturation is not a mixture of Christianity and African traditional religion, which can result to syncretism. It’s the task of making Christianity in all its aspects our own, truly African. It must be attractive, lively, lasting and authentic.Finally, there are some problems and obstacles of Inculturation in the African church, as NDIOKWERE rightly stated.‘Language Problems, the situation of skepticism/DivisionFear of syncretism, fear of Adulteration and distrustFor things African.' In conclusion, further areas to be inculturated includes liturgy, Igbo masks or mmamwu, and other local festivities.

NOTES: Igbo – This means a tribe from the southeastern part of Nigeria and majority Christians. IgboMasks or Mmamwu – This means a masquerade and it is a traditional dance in the southern Nigeria at which masks and other disguises are worn. Ozo – This means a traditional title taking by some chiefs or elders in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Wine Carrying Ceremony – This is the traditional form of marriage in Nigeria prior to the Church marriage.

MY LITTLE NEPHEW

Michael Chisom is my little nephew he is just a year old now, i still imagine a boy of yesterday whom i knew when and time he was born is now 1 year old. Well congrats my little nephew chisom, he means a lot to me i am like a father he is seeing now bcause his father is not at home, and his mother my elder sister works here home. Bravo Michael happy birthday and many more years to come.

MERCY KILLING (Euthanasia)

Euthanasia from web definition means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death without evidence of pain or distress, or a method that utilizes anesthesia produced by an agent that causes painless loss of consciousness and subsequent death.

Euthanasia is also known as mercy killing, it is not common in Africa, any body that takes his life or requested that his life will be taking because of illness or distress, will not be giving a well deserved burial and even will not by the church. Human life is holy and is of God, we african's believe in the sanctity of life. Life should not be taking away by the so called painless death or mercy killing because there is nothing absolutely mercy about the killing in the eyes of God. people and country that practise it should have rethink that God alone gives and takes life at his own will.

WORLD VIOLENCE

violence just like poverty is one of the greatest threat and problems mankind is suffering,politcal violence, religious violence,sexual violence,kidnappings,vandals, and secterian violences are in increase every day worldwide. the world will be better when communities, societies different religions learn to tolerate one another, violence goes with violence and two wrongs cannot and will never make a right.

THE CHALLENGED IN AFRICA

Poverty is one of the greatest problems facing human existence especially in the African continent, economic instability, wars, hardship, terror and manultrition. Many part of the Africa is experiencing poverty, and to me what poverty really means is one without any hope and salvation. Charity they say is very expensive if you can afford it, but developed countries should try there very best to come and salvage our fellow human beings especially in Africa were wars and economic instability is the order of the day, were leaders are very corrupt and selfish. Many souls have perished in wars, manultrition and hardship.

let us all join hands to help our fellow brothers especially in the Africa. if you have never being poor or experienced poverty you will not know what it means to be poor especially the physically challenged. Help the oppressed, help the needy, help Africans were ever and how ever you can were there is crisis, in darfur, Somalia, even in Asia and some part of the world make the world a better and happier place for your neighbor, put a smile on the challenged.