Fr Onuorah needs to raise USD$25000 in order to purchase the land beside his church under construction, so that the building works can continue.

As Father explains in the video below, the church is right up against the boundary of the neighbouring land, and the side chapels (not yet built) actually project onto the neighbour's land... I guess it can only happen in the third world...

Purchasing the land will also enable them to have processions around the church grounds.

In order to raise the necessary funds, Father is looking for 25 faithful who would be prepared to give a stipend of USD$1000 for either 1. a Gregorian Mass (30 consecutive Masses offered for a departed soul/souls - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Masses), or 2. 3 Mass Novenas plus 3 single Masses, making up 30 Masses in total.

It really is a golden opportunity for us faithful who are able to afford it, as not many priests are able to accept Gregorians because of the few priests and high demand for Masses. It also gives us the opportunity to acquire friends in Heaven who will be our helpers and advocates to see that we one day join them in Paradise praising God for all eternity.

Fr Onuorah and Fr Chigbata will undertake to offer these Masses within a 2 year period so that they still have about 50% of days during that period when they will be able to accept other Mass intentions. So first in, first served as they say. Father has already been sent intentions for 4 Gregorians, so he needs another 21.

If you want to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity and at the same time support this worthy cause, here is what you should do:

1. Email Fr Onuorah your Mass intention/intentions, and confirm that he can accept: onuorajoe93@gmail.com

2. Send your stipend to Father:

Fr Joseph Emenike ONUORAH
Email: onuorajoe93@gmail.com

Bank name: Access Bank
Account name: Onuorah Joseph Emenike
Account number: 1521958238
Sort code: 185008
Swift code: ABNGNGLA
Address: International Market, Orlu, Imo state, Nigeria
Sending Currency: USD only

RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS:
1 Maryland Avenue, Anaku
Ayamelum LGA, Anambra State, 433109, Nigeria

Alternatively you can use PayPal. Fr Onuorah wrote to me recently:
Greetings in Our Lord Jesus Christ my dear brother...  happy first week of Lent.  I got a PayPal account of a Nigerian Traditional Catholic faithful who is living in US. I explained to her and she promised to send the money to me in Nigerian currency once any donation is sent to her PayPal account.
Below is the PayPal account details: My PayPal account is @ChinweOparaji
Email: f_chinwefausta@outlook.com
If any donation is sent to the account for our Church building project kindly write me so that I will inform her to forward it to me immediately in Nigerian currency.  Once it reaches me I will inform you...

We have used the Revolut app many times to successfully transfer money to Fr Onuorah.

If you are not familiar with our Nigerian missionaries and want to know more, see these threads:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/urgent-appeal-by-nigerian-resistance-for-financial-help/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/appeal-for-fr-chigbata-eye-surgery/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/resistance-in-nigeria-72685/



https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI

Happy feast of Corpus Christi to all! One can imagine a glorious Corpus Christi procession around this church when it is built if Fr Onuorah is able to acquire the neighbouring land.

Disappointingly, and rather surprisingly, there has been absolutely NO RESPONSE to this appeal throughout the entire Resistance world. How is that possible?

I have obtained 5 stipends from our little group here in Australia, that leaves another 20 that we still need in order to purchase the land. This stipend for an Australian is about 155% of the normal stipend for a Gregorian. For those in the US, it is simply the normal stipend suggested for a Gregorian. For those in Europe, I imagine it is somewhere in between. It is as much an opportunity for us faithful, as it is a helping hand for the missions.

So please, I am begging EVERY Resistance member and guest who comes onto this forum to take a PERSONAL INTEREST in helping the mission to obtain the necessary funds. If we don't help them, who will? You may not have a brass razoo, but can you not promote this among you family and friends, even SSPX friends, but especially at your Resistance Mass centres? Ask your priest/bishop to promote this appeal and help our poor brothers in the missions. Perhaps if someone in your congregation has recently passed away, you could take up a collection to have a Gregorian offered for the repose of their soul? Perhaps you are able to team up with two others and each take advantage of the Novenas instead?

I think this is so achievable if only there is the will out there to help these poor priests. There are surely 20 faithful scattered through the Resistance or their contacts who would want to take advantage of this opportunity to have a priest offer a Gregorian Mass.

PLEASE HELP!

THANK YOU!!

https://youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI
https://youtube.com/shorts/1omtSoQlJCU
https://youtube.com/shorts/SGxISVltKyc

So, they have already begun construction according to a plan that, to be completed, requires the purchase of a neighboring parcel, but they do not yet possess said parcel?  Not gonna lie...not well thought out.

Unless I am mistaken, this is connected to the priest who needs/needed money for an eye operation, all of it before they'd even schedule the operation?

Not exactly a solid, reassuring track record.

Well thank you for your support GV, you must have a great understanding of the Third World and the missions, not to mention medical procedures. Where in the world can you schedule a medical procedure before you can pay for it?  Nowhere is the answer. You would do better to remain silent if you are only here to criticise and undermine our efforts. How about making some reparation and coming up with a stipend? You might have to put up with drinking quaffers for a few months instead of your premium cab savs, but I'm sure you can do it.

My sister is a doctor who spent close to a decade in both rural Bolivia and rural Tanzania. I have four Tanzanian nephews whom she met as young orphans.  They have become part of our family and all have now graduated from colleges in northern Florida.

I know quite a bit about the third world, particularly the medical situation.  I also know that a notable part of many problems in such places is a lack of vision and poor planning.  Beginning construction before possessing the land necessary to complete the building is unacceptable and indicative of poor planning.

I appreciate a personal attack as much or as little as the next guy, but I see no need to reciprocate.

Godspeed.

There was no personal attack on you at all. Your criticism was unnecessary and undermining our efforts to help Fr Onuorah build his church. As you point out, poor planning is common in the third world, it is part of life. Help us to overcome that by remedying the situation with the land rather than dissuading others from contributing. Even if there were nothing being built, what a wonderful opportunity for the faithful to have a Gregorian Mass offered. Are you with us or against us? If you want a solid reassuring track record, just look at the videos and see the amazing results obtained so far. These good priests are worthy of our praise, not criticism. And as far as Fr Chigbata's cataract surgery is concerned, he was diagnosed, obtained a quote and then successfully raised the funds, nothing improper or poorly planned whatsoever. So jump on board GV, and get the support of that sister and nephews of yours. This is for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Nigeria has the second largest Catholic population in Africa with 35 million Catholics out of its 230 million inhabitants, the largest Catholic population being in the DR of Congo with 55 million. Imagine the harvest for Traditional Catholic priests among these simple folk. It truly is a worthy cause and our investment in this country may produce a much richer reward than a similar investment in our western countries. Please promote this appeal if you can so that our missionaries will have a beautiful church and land to attract souls.

Just curious ... how much is Father asking for the Gregorian Masses?  I will give more than the ask, but I would like to know what he's asking.

Father was asking for a loan of USD25000 in order to acquire the vacant land next door to the church construction site.

I told him that I thought the only way we could raise such a sum would be to have this appeal to find 25 faithful willing to give a stipend of USD1000 for a Gregorian Mass with the priests undertaking to offer them within a 2 year period. That would leave about half their Masses free to be offered for other intentions.

So that is the amount we are asking for this appeal. It could also be for three novenas plus three Masses if preferred to a Gregorian.

So far I have found 5 stipends here in Australia, so we are trying to find another 20.

Having said that, Fr Onuorah would be happy to accept your Mass intentions and whatever stipend you can afford. It doesn't have to fit neatly into this appeal!

Thank you.  So he's requesting (or, rather, suggesting) a stipend of $1000 for the Gregorian Masses  It's so difficult in the United States to find priests to offer Mass, so I'm surprised that more Catholics would not take advantage of the opportunity.  I did not see this appeal myself until this last bump, since I had been out of town for a couple weeks and not regularly looking at the forum.

Thanks Ladislaus. Yes, I really am very surprised too, it is such a wonderful opportunity for us. How often someone dies and it's impossible to find a priest who can accept a Gregorian, such a consolation especially when you lose someone really close to you. I really wish the priests and faithful in our Mass centres would get behind this, I'm sure we could easily raise the funds, and if we don't help the missions, who will?

It's interesting that we still refer to them as "missions" ... when my feeling is that we're ALL missionary territory now given the crisis in the Church.