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The Onesimus Chapel is an online Charity and Evangelization Aid aimed at providing help to the needy.

01/09/2023

The service we render is God's and God's we are who render such service.

01/06/2023

Happy New Month. Welcome, June.

15/05/2023

The presence of God is always present.

27/04/2023

At the The Onesimus Chapel Foundation we are bent on building a network that will bring food to the table of those dying of starvation; bring sponsorship to those brains willing to expand on their intellectual capability; empowerment to skilled persons yet cruising in abject poverty and lack of opportunities; solace to the old abandoned to their misery of sickness, fragility and pain; practical consolation to the victims of disasters both natural and human, who have been rendered homeless and orphaned; justice (where possible) and compassion to the prisoners of capital punishment awaiting their days of final prosecution. Indeed, we want to befriend all who have been acclimatised with poverty, suffering, sickness, injustice and pain. Anywhere suffering exist, we will coexist with them to cast it away. Are you willing to ride with us on this glorious journey?

07/04/2023

GOOD FRIDAY

Maybe if he had come as an Emperor the world would have followed him; his own people would have listened to him and not dare to disapprove of him. Instead he came as the son of a carpenter, he learnt the trade of his father. Yet growing up, he left the trade and became jobless; he chose to become a nomad. Wandering around deserts and seas, cities and villages, mountains and hills, in search of you - in search of me. You grew bitter of him, I grew worse. And I say: who does he think he is, a common boy, to teach us the way of the Law, to call us to repentance? I who is a High Priest - You who is Wisdom itself. Yes with pride and jealousy I killed him - You killed him. Our humanity killed him. We saw only the Boy but not the God. And now he repays us with Eternal Life. Because he is Love, and true Love is Eternal. He asks us of one thing: to look beyond that poor boy, man, woman, girl, and see the Image of Himself within them.

06/04/2023

♤ Tag your Priest friends and celebrate them. ♡ Happy Birthday to all Priests.

WHAT DO WE REALLY CELEBRATE ON MAUNDY THURSDAY?

The Mystery of the Holy Eucharist - The Heart of the Mystery of the Sacred Priesthood.

Today the Church celebrates the Institution of the Holy Eucharist and the Sacred Priesthood. The two Mysteries are instituted together on an iconic day of Memorial Celebration (The Passover), to show the centrality of their role in the past, present and futuristic history, presence and hope of man's Salvation. The Passover Feast which foreshadowed the Holy Eucharist, was celebrated by the Hebrew people the night before their exodus, in thanksgiving to God for their past moments of victory, their present state of divine sustainance in one communion and their gleaming hope of deliverance and healing from physical captivity in Egypt. God sustained this memorial sacrifice within them by choosing priests from among the people, to serve in relation to God. Nonetheless, the Passover meal offered deliverance from physical captivity, yet it was incapable of restoring man to true friendship with God.

The holistic restoration of man to his original state became possible only through the fulfillment of the Passover in Christ. Hence, in the Holy Eucharist, Christ gives to His Church His Body and Blood the night before His agonizing exodus to Calvary. He does not leave the Church orphaned, but institutes the Sacred Priesthood, so that through the action of His priests, His Body and Blood will forever remain present with His Church. Thus, the Church celebrates the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist in thanksgiving to God for the deliverance from the captivity of sin through the gift of His Son, the communion of all the Saints (both living and dead) and the hope of the beatific vision which has been brought closer in the Mysteries of the Holy Eucharist and the Sacred Priesthood. Finally, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Priest is called as an indispensable agent of the Exodus. He acts in such capacity to serve, and to ensure that the flock is always and in all ways nourished, renewed and restored by the Eucharistic meal, especially as the journey gets tougher and the weight of the Cross grows heavier.

29/03/2023

The trajectory of our actual indispensability and dependency is such that the Priest will always need the Lay Faithful and the Lay Faithful will always have need of the Priest; and within such mutual benefit, a unique dependence on God is achieved by both, not distinctly, but in One Communion.

13/03/2023

Understanding, Gratitude and Humility

16/02/2023

Happy Feast Day Onesimus Family
THE NAME WE BEAR SPEAKS OF THE IDENTITY WE BEAR

St Onesimus 16th February.

Martyr and former slave. He is mentioned in St. Paul's Letter to Philemon as the slave of Philemon in Colossae, Phrygia, who ran away. Paul met Onesimus while the former was in a Roman prison, and Paul baptized the slave and came to consider him his own son. Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon with the epistle, asking Philemon to accept him "no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man in the Lord. So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me. And if he has done you any injustice or owes you anything, charge it to me". In Paul's Letter to the Colossians, Onesimus is again mentioned as accompanying Tychicus, the bearer of the letter. The pre-1970 Roman Martyrology incorrectly identifies Onesimus with the bishop of Ephesus who followed St. Timothy as bishop of Ephesus and who was stoned to death in Rome.

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