Judith Dyeme Daduut

Prayer to St. Rita O Powerful St. Rita, rightly called Saint of the Impossible, I come to you with confidence in my great need. You know well my trials, for you yourself were many times burdened in this life. Come to my help, speak for me, pray with me,
intercede on my behalf before the Father.
I know that God has a most generous heart
and that he is a most loving Father.
Join your prayers to mine and obtain for me the grace I desire: (Share your request…) You who were so very pleasing to God on earth and are so much more now in heaven,
I promise to use this favour, when granted,
to better my life, to proclaim God’s mercy,
and to make you more widely known and loved. Amen. St. Rita, Saint of the impossible, Pray for us. 22nd May - Happy feast day 🎊

May the Lord bless the work of your hands today 🙏🏽

You may be wondering why a woman is holding the Crozier (The staff of authority) and wearing an episcopal-like ring surrounded by Roman Catholic bishops and priests? She is called an Abbess which is the female version of an Abbot. She is the female superior in spirituals and temporals of a community of twelve or more nuns. The position of an Abbess in her convent corresponds generally with that of an Abbot in his monastery with a few necessary exceptions. An Abbess can exercise supreme domestic authority (potestas dominativa) over her monastery and all its dependencies, but as a female, she is debarred from exercising any power of spiritual jurisdiction, such as belongs to an abbot, like the celebration of the liturgy or sacraments. So below was the Abbatial consecration of Rev Mother Abbess Mary Bride Njoku, OSB. This took place at Nativity Benedictine Abbey Ugwueke, Umuahia Diocese, on 8th December. It was the first of its kind in Owerri Ecclesiastical Province. Mother Mary Bride was a lecturer at Seat of Wisdom Seminary Owerri before her election and elevation. We wish her all the best in her new role.