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Bishop Banda’s Homily, Saturday, 5th Week, 2018

March 24, 2018

“What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.” He is unstoppable. This is the principle complaint of the chief priests and Pharisees about Jesus. His ability to perform signs threatened their power base and at the same time it vindicated the lowly and the poor. The chief priests and Pharisees were […]

Bishop Banda’s Homily, Friday, 5th Week of Lent

March 23, 2018

Humility is the single most important attribute in opening our hearts and minds to God. We receive from others in proportion to what we give up of our selves. We only gain in so far as we able to sacrifice. We can give only what we have and we can receive only in accord to […]

Bishop Banda’s Homily, Thursday, 5th Week of Lent

March 22, 2018

It is said: “A promise is a promise.” It ought to be fulfilled not in the distant future but here and now – in our life time. This applies to all promises that we make. Promises during our baptism, when we renounce evil and promise to uphold Jesus. Those in married life, they promise: “Till […]

Basic Bible Course Second Graduation Ceremony

March 21, 2018

Mount Olivet Biblical Centre, Mufulira, 17th March 2018 On 17th March 2018 the graduation of the second group who completed the three units of the Basic Bible Course (Extra-Biblical Introductions, Old Testament, New Testament) took place at Mount Olivet Biblical Centre in Mufulira. A total of 27 people (24 of them present, three unable to […]

Bishop Banda’s Homily, Wednesday, 5th Week of Lent

March 21, 2018

The fiery furnace of tribulation is something that will definitely come in our lives. Perhaps not only once, but many a times. At times, we may even wonder, but why? The fiery furnace comes in all forms and shades: e.g. loss of employment, hurt from a broken or painful relationship, ill-treatment, accusations of all sorts […]

Bishop Banda’s Homily, Tuesday, 5th Week of Lent

March 20, 2018

The desert experience of the people of Israel reminds us of the desert as a place of severity, abandonment and utter helplessness. However, that was the only route to travel from Egypt to the Promised Land. Any other route was not feasible. This journey could have taken at the most eleven days, but it took […]

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