Martin Jumbam

Catholic Meditation - Second Sunday of Lent - Year B

Martin Jumbam

Mother Church invites us to celebrate Sunday, February 25, 2018, as the Second Sunday of Lent – Year B. In the Entrance Antiphon we pray: “Remember your mercies, Lord, your tenderness from ages past. Do not let our enemies triumph over us; O God, deliver Israel from her distress. Amen.” 

Catholic Meditation - First Sunday of Lent - Year B

Martin Jumbam 

Mother Church celebrates Sunday, February 18, 2017, as the First Sunday of Lent – Year B. The Entrance Antiphon of this day’s Mass says: “When he calls to me, I will answer; I will rescue him and give him honor. Long life and contentment will be his. Amen.”

Catholic Meditation - Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

Martin Jumbam

The Universal Church celebrates Sunday, February 11, 2018, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, as the sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B.  In the entrance antiphon, we pray: "Be my protector, O God, a mighty stronghold to save me. For you are my rock, my stronghold! Lead me, guide me, for the sake of the name, your name. Amen.” 

Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

Martin Jumbam

Sunday, February 04, 2018, is the fifth Sunday in ordinary time, Year B. In the entrance antiphon we pray: “Come, let us worship the Lord. Let us bow down in the presence of our maker, for he is the Lord our God. Amen.”

Nestor, a victim of Biya's war of attrition

Martin Jumbam

Nestor, not his real name, is a taxi driver in Bamenda. I prefer not to mention his real name for fear he might be harassed and accused of supporting secession, were his story to be known to the forces of repression that seem to smell a ‘secessionist’ in every young Anglophone in every hidden corner of this part of our land –  this “land of promise, land of glory.”  Where is the promise, where is the glory!?

Catholic Meditation - Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

Martin Jumbam

Mother Church celebrates Sunday, January 28, 2018, as the fourth Sunday of ordinary time, Year B.  In the Entrance Antiphon we pray: “Save us, Lord our God, and gather us together from the nations, that we may proclaim your holy name and glory in your praise. Amen.”

Catholic Meditation - Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B.

 Martin Jumbam                                        

The Universal Church celebrates Sunday, January 21, 2017 as the third Sunday in ordinary time in the Church’s year B.  In the Entrance Antiphon we pray: “Sing a new song to the Lord! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Truth and beauty surround him; he lives in holiness and glory. Amen.” 

Catholic Meditation - Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B

Martin Jumbam

Mother Church celebrates Sunday, January 14, 2018 as the second Sunday of OrdinaryTime, Year B. In the entrance antiphon we pray, “All the earth shall bow down before you, O God, and shall sing to you, shall sing to your name, O Most High! Amen. 

Catholic Meditation - Feast of the Epiphany - Year B

Martin Jumbam 

The Universal Church celebrates Sunday, January 07, 2018, as the Feast of the Epiphany, that is, the manifestation of Jesus as Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Saviour of the world. The entrance antiphon of this Mass says: "The Lord and ruler is coming; kingship is his, and government and power. Amen." The Epiphany is the celebration of the adoration of Jesus by the wise men (Magi) from the East, the pagan world that has come to adore the new born King, the Messiah, when the Jewish world, except the shepherds to whom the angel announces his birth, is still largely unaware of his birth.

Catholic Meditation - Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth - Year B

Martin Jumbam

On this last Sunday of the year, December 31, 2017, Mother Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth: the family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It is an opportunity for us too to offer all the members of our own families on the altar for God’s blessing. In the entrance antiphon we pray: “The shepherds went in haste, and found Mary and Joseph and the infant lying in a manger. Amen.”