OLRCP ANNOUNCEMENTS. 15th February 2026

1. The Lenten Season commences on Ash Wednesday, 18th February 2026. The Mass programme for the day is as follows:

i.Ridgeways – 6.45 am, 1:00pm and 6:00 pm

ii.Muringa - 5.30pm

iii.Huruma - 5.30pm

iv.Karura - 1:00pm

The Priest’s Office will remain closed on that day.

2.The Ash Wednesday morning Mass (6.45 am) will be animated by the daily Mass group, Lunchtime Mass (1.00 pm) by CMA & CWA groups and the evening Mass (6:00 pm) by Liturgy committee, Ushers, Lectors groups.

3.We shall have a special collection during Ash Wednesday Mass; the collection is used to finance Justice and Peace activities at the Diocesan and National level. Kindly give generously.

4.The Way of the Cross is every Friday of Lent at 5.30 pm followed by Holy Mass. This coming Friday, (20/02/2026), it will be animated by the CWA Group.

5.During the forty days of lent we shall have “THE UPPER ROOM EXPERIENCE” with daily Eucharistic adoration and guided reflections, every Monday to Friday (6 am-7 am) and Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) (6.30 am-7.30 am) followed by Mass.

6.The Catholic Women Association (CWA) will have a luncheon with the Priest tomorrow, Monday 16th. The day’s program will begin with Holy Mass, followed by the luncheon thereafter. All CWA members are kindly requested to attend and keep time.

7.Infant Baptism will take place on Saturday; 7th March 2026 at 10:00 am here in the church. It will be preceded by 3 Baptismal instruction classes for the parents and godparents. The classes will begin on Saturday, 14th February 2026 at 2:00 pm in St. Maria Goretti Hall. Registration is ongoing at the Parish Tent or at the Parish Office

8.Kindly be informed that the 2026 Parish Calendars are still available. They are going for Ksh 250 only per copy.

9.The Masses for:

a)St. Faustina SCC,

b)St. Josephine Bakhita SCC will be celebrated on Tuesday, 17th February, at 7:00 p.m.

10.The Masses for:

a) St. Jude SCC,

b)St. Stephen SCC,

c)St. Mark the Evangelist SCC and

d)St. Joachim SCC will be celebrated on Thursday, 19th February, at 7:00 p.m.

11.Home blessings for Our Lady of Fatima SCC will be held on Saturday, 21st February at 9:00 a.m.

Next Sunday’s Mass Animation

1st Mass: St Teresa of Calcutta SCC

2nd Mass St Claire SCC

3rd Mass: St Paul the Apostle SCC

Today’s Mass has been animated by the Christ the King Choir. We are a dedicated group of men and women who serve the Lord through music for the greater glory of God. Our practice sessions are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:00 p.m., and on Sundays before and after the 9:30 a.m. Mass. If you are new to the parish or have been a member for some time, are aged 18 years and above, and feel called to serve God through music, you are warmly invited to join us. For more information, kindly visit the tent outside the Church.

THANK YOU FOR WORSHIPPING WITH US AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO OUR PARISH. HAVE A BLESSED WEEK AHEAD

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THURSDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER

Fr. Silferius Aluodo
May 19, 2022
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19TH MAY 2022

LOVE IS ABOUT OBEDIENCE, OBEDIENCE IS ABOUT LOVE

ACTS 15:7-21

PSALM 96:1-3. 10

JOHN 15:9-11

In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus tells His disciples,” If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” meaning that love involves obedience and you cannot separate one of them from the other. If you separate, it means that both will lose their relevance.

Imagine about a pen without ink, can it write? Or a car without fuel, can it move? Or a gun without a bullet, can it shoot? Or a watch without a battery, can it show the accurate time? Imagine about love without obedience…. How will it thrive to the point of bringing joy?

We just cannot love another person without some surrender of will. Surrender of the will means that you as a believer completely gives up your own will and subject your thoughts, ideas and deeds to the will and teachings of God freely and even in our human relations you have to surrender your will so that you can be with another person.

Think of the different relationships that you have in your spheres of life, what did you surrender for you to relate well and for you to love? Would you be together now without the surrender of your will?

In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus is offering himself as the best example of obedient love in his relationship with God, his Father and this obedience is not under coercion but comes as a result of seeing, understanding, accepting and participating in the life of God.

It means further that when you love, it is no longer about you. Why? Because you have to offer that love to another person, you consider the other person and that is why if you continue reading today’s Gospel passage you will note Jesus saying,” Greater love has no than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

If Jesus is calling us to love God by keeping His

commandments, how do we tell the difference between right obedience and wrong obedience? Any time you are invited to obey, you need to ask yourself whether what you are being asked to do is, in fact, loving.

Is it right obedience if in the name of “love” you agree to sign a document that is forged so that the person you love can benefit? The command that Jesus gave His disciples was to love each other and love involves doing what is good and Jesus never told His disciples to do what is bad. In a deeper sense love means doing good deeds. Is there anything bad that Jesus called His disciples to do?

Since love and obedience are like us and our shadows on a hot sunny day, that is, they are inseparable. The call by Jesus to love gives us the opportunity to ponder if our obedience benefits another person and if it leads us to be more truly who we were created to be? Do you become less of who you are when you love obediently? You do not become.

Can we say that we currently live in a world in which people prefer not to obey because when you obey you will be called a weakling or you will be avoided by people who do not like obedience or because you will lose out on some benefits that come from disobedience?

Do things go wrong in our faith and in our society because we have separated love from obedience? What sacrifices are we ready to make so that we can love God and each other obediently?

THURSDAY OF THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER

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