Stams Alumni

Happy Birthday Presido, world-wide. May your 40th bring you many more years; and God's abundant blessings upon you. Amen.

We congratulate our own:
Very Rev Fr. SYLVESTER OMOKE

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*25th September, 2023:*

"Commitment, dedication, and motivation breed success."

Proverbs 10:24
_The desire of the righteous will be granted_

*Monday blessing*

*Prayer:* Child of God, as you take up again your daily task this new week, may the Lord the giver of Life and work be the beginning and end of all you do and say this week: prompt your actions with success and bless your endeavors with His Grace and Favours; and complete them with His all-powerful help and protection: *in the name of the Father + and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen*

*Goodmorning and have a blessed week*

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*15th September, 2023*

*The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows*

The devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows flourished in the Middle Ages, and the hymn Stabat Mater was composed for it. Although it is officially celebrated today, the day after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, popular devotion in many parts of the Mediterranean celebrates it with processions on the Friday before Holy Week.

*His mother stood by the cross:*
The martyrdom of the Virgin is set forth both in the prophecy of Simeon and in the actual story of our Lord’s passion. The holy old man said of the infant Jesus: He has been established as a sign which will be contradicted. He went on to say to Mary: And your own heart will be pierced by a sword.

Truly, O blessed Mother, a sword has pierced your heart. For only by passing through your heart could the sword enter the flesh of your Son. Indeed, after your Jesus – who belongs to everyone, but is especially yours – gave up his life, the cruel spear, which was not withheld from his lifeless body, tore open his side.
(St Bernard of Clairvaux)

*Let us pray:*
God our Father,
when Jesus, your Son, was raised up on the cross,
it was your will that Mary, his mother, should stand there and suffer with him in her heart.
Grant that, in union with her, the Church may share in the passion of Christ, and so be brought to the glory of his resurrection.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. Amen.

*Our Lady of Sorrows! Pray for us!*

*Goodmorning and have a blessed day*

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*14th September, 2023*

*THE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS*

_We adore You O Christ and we bless You..._
_because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world._

*What are these Christians about, exalting an instrument of torture?*

First, we rejoice that something so terrible should have been transformed into a means of redemption for the whole human race.
Second, we remind ourselves of the fact that Christianity is not an abstract and spiritual religion. It springs from God’s direct intervention in the affairs of the world, a real historical event involving real people and, in the end, a real ex*****on on a real cross. We may theorize and theologize all we like; but all our theorizings and theologizings are nothing without the history on which they are based. Take away that history – take away the Cross – and Christianity is nonsense.

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*Let us Pray:*
God our Father, in obedience to your will your Only-Begotten Son endured the cross for our salvation.
Grant that as we have come to know the mystery of the cross here on earth, we may receive its rewards in heaven.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Happy birthday Presido: STAMSAA
Many more years ahead

Alumni presentation

During Mass.

Fr. Akagwu's Silver Jubilee of priestly anniversary and Golden Jubilee of Birth.
Football match between Alumni and students