Nsukka, 02 June, 2022 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The Bishop of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Nsukka has urged the people of God in the country to work towards disregarding the things that divide them and instead to foster the common humanity that unites them.
In his homily circulated on Monday, May 30, Bishop Godfrey Igwebuike Onah cautioned the people against the tendency to only focus on the things that make them different, yet they have so much in common.
“We see only what makes us different. It is possible that there is a oneness in us that Jesus sees that we are not seeing because we are disagreeing on so many things. Because our uniforms are different, because our ways of prayer are different. Maybe because of that we are not seeing the unity that Jesus sees in us,” Bishop Onah said during his homily on Sunday, May 29.
The Nigerian Catholic Bishop added, “It is possible that just as it is difficult for us as human beings to perceive the oneness of Jesus who is God the Son, so is it difficult for us to see the oneness of believers in Jesus.”
He alluded to the resemblance of siblings, saying that Jesus sees all people as one even when they do not see it themselves, and that it is possible for outsiders to see the resemblance in siblings who do not see anything they have in common themselves.