SIWES

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) was introduced by the federal government of Nigeria to bridge the gap between theory and practice among products of our tertiary institutions. The scheme was first initiated and funded by the industrial training fund (ITF) during the formative years 1973/1974.

As a result of increasing number of student enrolment in higher institutions of learning, the administration of this function of funding the scheme became enormous, hence ITF withdrew from the scheme in 1978 and the scheme was taken over by the Federal Government in 1979 and handed to both the National University Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). By 1979, the Colleges of Education were not part of the scheme and later in 1984, the Federal Government reverted back to the Industrial Training Fund which took over the scheme officially in 1985 with funding provided by the Federal Government. In theory, we are to read novels, books, but in practical we have to know how to do things by ourselves practically. That is why crop science department has seen it as a step forward of progress by sending their students to embark on it.

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (08 Sept. 2017

⏰Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (08 Sept. 2017)

📕Mic 5:2-5a; Ps 13:5, 6 (R. Isa 61:10a); Matt 1:1-16, 18-23

🎤"THOSE WHOM HE CALLED... HE ALSO GLORIFIED" (Rom 8:30)

May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit abide with you both now and for ever. Amen.

Today, we celebrate with joy the work of the redemption of man by God in history. This is the major role which the genealogical accounts of Jesus' birth serve to play in the Gospels (Matt 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38). They show that the promised Messiah comes in history as the son of David, to also purify the history which has been distorted by sin.

With that importance placed at the coming of Jesus in history, we normally give special honour to those who were honoured first by God as instruments for bringing that messianic purpose to fruition (cf. Rom 8:30). That is why the Church celebrates the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Is that not fetish and foolish? Does that appeal to common sense? Maybe, we begin from there - common sense.

The world today has the Mandela Day in its calendar in celebration of his role in fighting for the freedom of the black South Africans. In Western Nigeria, Chief Awolowo's birthday is still celebrated with much enthusiasm because of his role in the political life of the Yorubas. Same with Tafawa Belewa in the North. Recently, the Igbos also began the celebration of Ojukwu's birthday.

Can you see how we find meaning in those worldly celebrations but sometimes thought it foolish to honour those whom God himself honoured?

The prophet Micah placed so much importance around the Maiden (cf. Mic 5:2-5) and the angel Gabriel honoured her with a kind of greeting meant for royalty, _"Hail!"_ (cf. Luke 1:28).

Can you today put aside the worldly bias about some matters of faith (read Heb 11:1-2) and join the Psalmist in greatly rejoicing in the Lord for his love for humanity?

Remember that these celebrations would amount to nothing without the person of Jesus. So the celebration is actually an acknowledgment of the power of God in using what is weak to do great things.

As we rejoice in the Lord today, may he who also called us enable us to share in the glory of his Son. May this glory manifest itself in all that we shall undertake in this week and beyond. Amen.

Have a glorious day ahead. Peace be with you.

I wish you a miraculous day ahead. Peace be with you.

BIRTHDAY OF OUR BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Catholics all over the world today celebrate the traditional birthday of the Blessed Virgin MarY

In other parishes and chapels in the archdiocese, all Masses today will be in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Palma earlier said the number of activities to honor the Blessed Mother is evidence that the Philippines is “Pueblo Amante de Maria (A People in Love with Mary).”

“We are proud, happy, and grateful in our devotion to Mama Mary,” he said.

He encouraged the faithful to deepen their love for Mary by understanding her role in the salvation of mankind.

There is no actual record of Mary’s date of birth in Jerusalem but Catholic tradition celebrates the event as a liturgical feast on September 8 or nine months after the solemnity of her Immaculate Conception celebrated on December 8.

Msgr. Joseph Tan, media liaison officer of the Archdiocese of Cebu, said the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary has become a popular devotion in the Philippines.

“The event resonates the culture wherein we celebrate birthdays of our loved ones. For us, this celebration inspires hope. Mary is the new Eve. She is the mother of Jesus, and the fulfillment of salvation. Her birthday is a celebration of our aspirations of a better future, putting our full trust and confidence in God’s promises,” he said in an interview.

Tan said Mary’s birthday is often celebrated by attending masses, praying the rosary, as well as offering flowers and candles to the Blessed Mother.

“But the best present we can give to Mary is to follow her virtues and characters. She was holy and free from sin. But what I want to emphasize in this Jubilee Year of Mercy is Mary’s compassion and sensitivity to the needs of others,” he said.

“She showed her being merciful when a newlywed couple ran out of wine in a wedding banquet in Cana (in Galilee). She, indeed, is the mother of mercy,” the monsignor added.
Tan encouraged the Filipinos to seek Mary’s intercession for the good of the country and its people.

“Let us offer prayers for our new president. We pray for peace and order especially in the wake of the bomb attack in Davao City, as well as, the ongoing war against illegal drugs,” he said.

CONGRATS TO MY ONE AND ONLY JUUJUU. HAPPY WEDLUCK

CONGRATS TO MY ONE AND ONLY JUUJUU. HAPPY WEDLUCK
JUDITH OGECHUKWU

My REAL love and very caring lady, third after my mum. You are absolutely, astoundingly gorgeous, Your presence brightens my day every time, You are always happy and kind  to people, its like a big breath of fresh air when I walk into room H5 and see you there. You really made my year in school and I still think about it and it makes me smile. Strangers can get away with you being friendly. In whom I see 90% of what it takes to be a wife, I mean real wife.

 It just started in 2014 when we were in year two, (who knows if we have met accidentally in PRE-SCIENCE).

Just when I think I can’t be more happy and content in my life, you appear in front of my eyes and clear the air of this type. Whenever I look back in time, I cherish the time we spent together; Our hang outs, Our fights, Our quarrels, Our project works, I miss everything. I can discuss everything with you under the sun. The time spent together is full of happiness and fun. Loving you has been a journey of discovery for me. I never knew the happiness that true love could bring up until the time that I met you. Words are not yet enough to tell you how much I love you and how I really feel, so I try each and every day to tell you in small ways that I love you with all my heart.(hope am not lying small lolllz)

It started like a play and joke, though I have once imagined and asked you the foundation of this relationship, but no one can tell. You really added to my social life, you forced me to build up my social life, though I turned down few of your suggestions. You supported and encouraged me in my spiritual/prayerful  life. (though you won’t believe me)

Even if I can forget everything about you, I will never forget how you CARED for me on my sick bed. You stayed all the day till night to see that I was getting better. You provided my food though wicked malaria did not allow me to demolish the food (how I wished the food will appear here).

How I wished I was born before Mr. Celestine, I would have been the first to meet your people (just typing) but God has plan for everything, as you always call God the MASTER PLANNER. Am very sorry I could not attend your wedding, though I will push the blame to Power Of Tongue but it is not my own making. 20^th April, 2017 was the day I experienced what the Bible said in Ecclesiastes 7:2. Am very happy that you understood my reason. Thanks to NNE BABY who also understood me.

I also wished to use this opportunity to plead with you to caution those who drink panadol on my behalf when am not even suffering from any headache, Let them mind their businesses(if at all they have business shaaa) especially those who are still in school but their minds are always on pre-matured relationship. Those who are in year one or year two but always fill their mind with nothing more than dating their fellow students or  men, old enough to be their father’s last sibling. I would like them to look up to you because you really showed a good example.

Lastly, it is a known fact that you are married, we can’t be together as before, but I really wished you success in all  your  endeavour, I pray to have someone who is like you. You are really a wife material and friend’s material. YOU ARE A TRUE AND CORRECT FRIEND

In your marriage, you will progress in peace, blessing and Love of God. I won’t go against what is written in Genesis 3:16   but I pray God to reduce the pain for you, make it bearable for you, you will go and succeed. You will always celebrate your anniversary up to Diamond Jubilee.

I miss you, I love you, but because of law of karma, I will stop here to say congrats and God bless you. Our MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP will always be with you. Just place your trust in God and His mother Blessed Virgin Mary.

BYE   

BYE

October 12, 2016 Wednesday of Week 28; St. Seraphim of Montegranaro

October 12, 2016

Wednesday of Week 28; St. Seraphim of Montegranaro

FIRST READING
Galatians 5:18–25

Brothers and sisters:
If you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self–control. Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 1:1–2, 3, 4 and 6

R. (see Jn 8:12) Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life. 

Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night.

R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life. 

He is like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. 

R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life. 

Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. 

R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.

ALLELUIA
John 10:27

R. Alleluia, alleluia. 

My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

GOSPEL
Luke 11:42–46

The Lord said:
"Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others. Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces. Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk." 

Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, "Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too." And he said, "Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them."

About Today

Psalm week: 4.

Other saints: St Wilfrid (634 - 709)

Wilfrid was born in Northumbria in 634 and was educated at Lindisfarne and Rome. On his return to Northumbria he took part in the Synod of Whitby (664), where he promoted Rome’s way of calculating the date of Easter, and the Roman form of Christian worship. Two years after the Synod at Whitby, he was appointed bishop of York. However, because of a row with the Celtic bishops, he was immediately replaced by Chad, though three years later he was restored to his see at York. There followed a decade of hard work in which he preached widely, built many churches (for example the two great churches in Hexham and in Ripon), introduced the Benedictine rule into Northumbria, and strengthened the place of Christianity in the community at large.

  Over the next 25 or so years he was imprisoned, and exiled. During his period of exile he worked in the south of the country among the Saxons in Sussex who had never heard the Christian message. In due course he returned to York as bishop for a dozen or so years; he was again driven out by the king, reinstated by Rome, resigned from the see, then accepted the bishopric of the newly established see of Hexham, and all the while kept in touch with Ripon, which his biographer says he “loved better than any other place”. He died in Oundle, in October 709 but was later buried in the church he had built in Ripon, in what is the oldest crypt in Europe north of the Alps.

  Wilfrid’s life was tempestuous (in tune with the times). He said what he meant without fear or favour, whether to king or archbishop, and at whatever personal risk. His was a life full of incident – undoubtedly he was at times unjustly treated. He was missionary, evangelist, monk, bishop and (despite his evident shortcomings), saint.

Thursday 6 October 2016  Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Saint Bruno, Priest

Thursday 6 October 2016



Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time

  Saint Bruno, Priest

About Today

Psalm week: 3.

St Bruno (c.1033 - 1101)

He was born at Cologne and educated partly at Reims. He was head of the episcopal school there for almost 20 years. In 1075 he was appointed chancellor of the church of Reims and had to devote himself to the administration of the diocese. The bishop at that time, Manasses de Gournai, was impious, corrupt, and violent. Through the intervention of Bruno and others, the Council of Autun suspended Manasses, who retaliated by demolishing the houses of their accusers and confiscating their goods. In 1080 a final decision of the Pope, together with a popular uprising, deposed Manasses.

  Bruno was the obvious candidate as his successor – nearly 50, known and trusted, and experienced in administration. But in 1077 he and two of his fellow-canons at Reims had made a vow to abandon the world and enter the religious life. It had not been possible to act on that vow at the time. Now it was. Bruno fled.

  He went first to join St Robert, who had settled at Molesme and gathered followers round him, who were later to become the Cistercian Order. But this was not his vocation. In 1084, with six of his companions, he presented himself to St Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble, who installed them in a wild spot called Chartreuse, not far from Grenoble, among steep rocks and snow-covered mountains. They built a small monastery where they lived in deep retreat and poverty, entirely occupied in prayer and study.

  In 1088 one of Bruno’s pupils from Reims became Pope Urban II and resolved to continue the work of reform begun by Gregory VII. In 1090 Urban summoned Bruno to Rome to help. Narrowly avoiding being elected bishop again – of Reggio in Calabria, this time, which he escaped by getting one of his former pupils to be elected instead – Bruno managed to persuade the Pope to let him resume the solitary life. He founded a new monastery in the diocese of Squillace in Calabria, and for the rest of his life led an amphibian existence, being called away from time to time to help the Pope in his project of reform, but always returning.

  Bruno pioneered the “mixed” form of religious life, of hermits who live together in a community. He did not plan to found an Order, but the seed he had planted at Chartreuse grew into the Carthusian Order, which continues to this day, with some 24 houses spread across the world.

  

Other saints: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher (1811 - 1849)

Eulalie Durocher was born at Saint Antoine-sur-Richelieu in Quebec. Housekeeper at the rectory in Beloeil and facilitator of pastoral activities from 1831 to 1843, she saw the great need for instruction of youth. Girls especially received little schooling. At the request of Bishop Ignace Bourget, she went to Longueuil to found a new teaching community with her companions Henriette Céré and Mélodie Dufresne. On December 8, 1844, the three foundresses made their religious profession in the church of Longueuil.

  She died on 6 October 1849 at the age of 38. By her faith, her judgement and her apostolic creativity, this woman had a great influence on the society and the Church of Quebec.


Thursday of Week 27;

FIRST READING
Galatians 3:1–5

O stupid Galatians!
Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit from works of the law, or from faith in what you heard? Are you so stupid? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so many things in vain?— if indeed it was in vain. Does, then, the one who supplies the Spirit to you and works mighty deeds among you do so from works of the law or from faith in what you heard?

RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Luke 1:69–70, 71–72, 73–75

R. (68) Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. 

He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. 

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. 

Through his holy prophets he promised of old that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us. 

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. 

He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. 

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. 

This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. 

R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.

ALLELUIA
See Acts 16:14b

R. Alleluia, alleluia. 

Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son. 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

GOSPEL
Luke 11:5–13

Jesus said to his disciples:
"Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,' and he says in reply from within, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.' I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. 

"And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"