ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PRIESTS AND THANKSGIVING OF THE PROFESSED (TEMPORAL AND PERPETUAL)

Saturday, the 28th day of September 2019 saw 21 of our Brothers (Priests) one year in the Lord's vineyard and Thanksgiving of the newly Professed (Temporal and Perpetual). The occasion was marked with a concelebrated high Mass chaired by the Superior General, Very Rev. Fr. Affusim, Matthew-Mary Chizoba SHL. The Mass was concelebrated by Frs. Cyprian Njoku SHL (Vicar General), Romanus Ugwuadu SHL, Michael Iloegbunaefu SHL, Damian Njoku SHL, Lambert Iroakazi SHL, JohnBosco Azuaka SHL, Emma-Maria Uwaoma SHL and the Secretary General, Ignatius Johnson SHL.

In his homily Fr. Ignatius SHL thanked God for the gift of the priesthood and for our Congregation. He congratulated the celebrants and admonished that we seek to do the Will of God always by performing our priestly obligations according to the dictates of the Church. He also reiterated to the professed brothers that which was told them by the bishop on the day of their profession that they have to be committed to their religious obligations and devote their lives completely to God and in service to humanity.

CROSS SECTION OF OUR PRIESTS THAT CELEBRATED THEIR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AS PRIESTS OF THE TWO HEARTS OF LOVE OF JESUS AND MARY.

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PRAYER OF THE TWO HEARTS OF LOVE OF JESUS AND MARY

JESUS! MARY! I LOVE YOU, BE APPEASED, SAVE ALL SOULS, AMEN. (10X).
O! HEARTS OF LOVE, O! HEARTS EVER UNITED IN LOVE,
MAKE ME TO LOVE YOU ALWAYS AND HELP ME TO MAKE OTHERS TO LOVE YOU
TAKE MY POOR SINFUL HEART TO YOURSELF AND DO NOT GIVE IT
BACK TO ME UNTIL IT BECOMES A FLAMING FIRE OF YOUR LOVE. I KNOW THAT I AM UNWORHTY TO COME TO YOU,
BUT TAKE ME TO YOURSELF
AND USE ME AS IT PLEASES YOU FOR I AM ENTIRELY YOURS, AMEN.
O POUR LOVE! O HOLY LOVE!
PIERCE ME WITH YOUR ARROWS AND SEND MY BLOOD FLOWING INTO THE WOUNDS
OF IMMACULATE HEART, O! IMMACULATE HEART UNITE WITH
THE SACRED HEART TO GIVE LIFE, TO COMFORT, TO GLORY AND TO LOVE, AMEN.
O! JESUS O! MARY YOU ARE THE HEARTS OF LOVE, I LOVE YOU
CONSUME ME, I AM YOUR VICTIM OF LOVE, AMEN.
O! HEARTS OF LOVE CONSUME ME, I AM YOUR VICTIM OF LOVE, AMEN.