Love As a Joyful Experience of Letting Go

By Fr. Maurice Emelu | February 14, 2024 |
A leaf that is bent in the middle of the sky.

On this Ash Wednesday, which falls on Valentine’s Day, a reflection on love seems fitting. Love is a universal emotion, quality, and virtue deeply embedded in our hearts and lives, and its broad definition is commonly understood. Yet, let’s delve deeper into one of its aspects we seldom consider–love as a joyful experience of letting…

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Way of Love: A Girl that Changed My Life

By Fr. Maurice Emelu | September 28, 2021 |
A close up of the face of a statue

As a boy of fourteen years old, the life of one girl moved mine more than any other–showing me the way of love. The girl is Thérèse, from the little city of Lisieux in Calvados, France. She is popularly known as the Little Flower, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. To her, I owe an early exposure to…

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