My latest email from Fr Onuorah:
Happy feast of St. Joseph spouse of Blessed Virgin Mary and the worker today my dear brother. Hope you are fine today.
I have started the novena Mass...
Thanks a lot.
On the other hand, I wish to inform you that we have not receiving any further donations from anybody since ending of March this year. Because of this we stopped work in the church building site since then because there is no funds any longer. The Masses you sent were used to settle some outstanding debts, feeding and miscellaneous.
However, I observed that most people donated once and never tried to donate again till now. We are like people hanging in the air at the stage we are now in the Church building project.
We keep praying to God for His mercy and grace.
Thank you so much. God Bless.
Yours sincerely in Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ,
Rev. Fr. Joseph Onuorah.
His priest companion, Fr Michael Chigbata, has also recently appealed for financial assistance for cataract surgery as he is losing his eyesight.
The Benedictines in Brazil are also constantly appealing for help to pay their bills.
These are poor Resistance communities that have sacrificed material welfare in order to hold fast to the Faith.
Is there anyone out there who might feel inspired to take up their cause and arrange a regular collection at their Mass centre or among their friends to provide some regular assistance for these missionaries?
I was thinking I would donate, but was wondering who ordained these men, and whether they were true Priests.
At this link:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/06/15/onitsha-catholic-diocese-sanctions-two-priests-for-disobedience/The following article:
Onitsha Catholic Diocese Sanctions Two Priests for Disobedience6 years ago The Catholic Diocese of Onitsha has sanctioned two priests from the diocese for acts of insubordination.
The priests; Reverend Fathers Michael Chigbata and Joseph Onuorah were sanctioned for celebrating masses in parts of the diocese, using what they called Traditional Catholic Mass.
A press release by the Chancellor of the diocese, Very Rev Fr Prudentius Emeka Aroh which was made available to THISDAY in Awka described them as disobedient priests and called for prayers for them to change their ways.
The release said the priests abandoned their legitimately assigned pastoral duties, claiming that they had now joined a group known as Society of St Pius X(SSPX).
Aroh said, “They currently operate their illegal activities from Anaku in Ayamelum LGA and they also move about deceiving innocent Catholics that they now celebrate the Traditional Catholic Mass.
“They have neither the approval nor the permission of the Archbishop of Onitsha to celebrate any such mass or other sacrament within the Diocese of Onitsha. These two priests are living in disobedience and their faculties as priests of Onitsha Archdiocese have been withdrawn.”
The diocese advised the general public, especially all Catholics and other men and women of goodwill not to have anything to do with these two disobedient priests or others like them, saying that those who associate with them do so at their own risk, because they were working against the unity of the church.
“We request that all pray for these two disobedient priests so that the light of the holy spirit will shine on them and bring them back to the church”, the chancellor wrote.
So, these 2 "priests" (Chigbata & Onuorah) came out of the Novus Ordo. They also mention in the prior post from Matthew linked above that they have 2 other Novus Ordo "priests" that have joined them. Do you know if they have been conditionally ordained by the SSPX?
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