He also berated religious leaders that professed prosperity and view suffering among the Christendom as taboo.
He urged Nigerians to shun corruption and live righteous life worthy of emulation in the spirit of Easter celebration when Christians world over reflected on Christ’s sufferings and eventual death and resurrection. He noted that Christ suffered and won victory for mankind and that in the same way, people faced difficulties in life, with the hope of coming out triumphantly and happy at the end.He said, “My message is that there is still hope because we know that, according to St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians: 18:14, the fact that Christ is alive should give us hope, otherwise our lives would have been in vain.
“There is hope and Christ showed that hope in the father; went through suffering and you can see that at the end of the day, his resurrection brought us life. “Three days to the day, things become very more serious with what we call the Tridum; the Maundy Thursday activities, the Chrism Mass, the Mass of the Last Supper, whereby Christ washed the feet of the twelve at the Last Supper, showing what it means to serve; that the greatest among us should be servants. It shows us that the master of the house has to take the position of a slave.
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