Posts by Jean Celestin Ngoma
The Whispers of Vainglory
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568 [in het Nederlands hieronder] by Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Romans 8:18-23 St Luke 6:36-42 I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with…
Read MoreDreams and Visions
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us [in het Nederlands hieronder] By Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Revelation 4:1-11 St John 3:1-15 For the LORD provides for those He loves, while they are asleep (Psalms 127:2 GNBUK) Dreams and Visions Using Lectio Divina,…
Read MoreTake, Bless, Break, Share: A Soul’s Path to Wholeness in God
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Last Supper, Jaume Buguet, c. 1470 by Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma 1 Corinthians 11:17-end St Luke 23:1-49 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Partisanship can foster a sense of identity…
Read MoreRenewing and Exercising our Mind in Christ
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Armenian Gospels Manuscript Illustration, the Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1455 AD by Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Hebrews 9:11-15 St John 8:46-59 How much more shall the blood of Christ… purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living…
Read MoreSexagesima – The Sower
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Sower, Pieter Breugel the Elder By Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma 2 Corinthians 11:19-31 St Luke 8:4-15 He who has ears, let him hear. I like the “behind-the-scenes” content of movies because they can help reveal the chaotic process of…
Read MoreTrinity 22 – The Burden of Unforgiveness
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, unknown painter, 16th century by Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Philippians 1:3-11 St Matthew 18:21-end “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As we approach the final Sundays…
Read MoreTrinity 14 – Metanoia and Gratitude
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Ten Lepers Cleansed, Illuminated Manuscript Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Galatians 5:16-24 St Luke 17:11-19 Lord, have mercy on us (Kyrie Eleison) As we continue our journey of ascension toward the fullness of life in Christ during this Trinity…
Read MoreTrinity 6 – When you experience anger
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The First Mourning (Cain and Abel), Bouguereau, 1888 Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma Romans 6:3-11 St Matthew 5:20-26 I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement. [St Matt…
Read MoreTrinity 5 – Desiring Hope
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Raphael, 1515 Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma 1 St Peter 3:8-15 St Luke 5:1-11 “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” Feelings of dejection, often…
Read MoreTrinity 1 – Love Changes Us
HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Dives and Lazarus – Unknown French master 1 St John4:7-end St Luke 16:19-end Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. In one of his biographies, we learn that the reformer…
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