Mbaka, was recently transferred by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu from
Christ the King Parish, GRA Enugu to Our Lady Parish Umuchigbo Nike,
located at Emene, a suburb of Enugu metropolis. Rev. Mbaka made this
claim while addressing a large crowd of Catholic faithfull who gathered
yesterday to either witness or escort him to his new parish.
However, he expressed optimism that he would overcome the challenges
with his faith in God, also given that his travails would peak within
the Christian
Lent season. The transfer came shortly after the controversial cleric
made a widely publicised visit to Aso Rock where he met with President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Before then, he had been criticized in some quarters for being overly political on national issues.
Addressing the congregation yesterday, Mbaka said: “I know we are going to suffer within now and few months to come.
I am going to suffer and suffer; I know that. I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my head.
“I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration
ministry’s assets. I know I’m going to suffer. Fortunately, it is going
to happen in the month of Lent.
“So, I am going to use my exit here as a Lenten observance but Jesus
said it all in John 16:20 to his apostles that you will be sorrowful and
the world will be rejoicing but very soon I will turn your sorrow to
joy”.
The fiery Catholic priest stressed that the Adoration Ministry would
also experience bits of his suffering but that it was the will of God,
therefore he accepted the transfer.
Mbaka stated further that “the quantum of the assets of the Adoration
Ministry is the only thing I am bothered about for now. Where am I going
to keep them? “I am going to stay in one small room that has only one
small bed, one small table, little toilet and bathroom. So, where am I
going to keep all the Adoration assets?
“My clothing and books I can keep in the car or somebody’s house but
where will I keep these assets that I have given to the Catholic Church
of Enugu?
“But I say may God take the glory and whoever that has offended me, I have forgiven.
I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling anybody. If anybody
allows the devil to use him, the same that advised you to make a mistake
will laugh at you when you cry over the error.
“The baby is born, there is no going back. We are moving out. We have
been doing it and we will do it again. Moses was going out with a rod in
his hand, Mbaka is moving out with his bible and this nobody can take
away from me.
“I am giving God the glory and I welcome the church’s choice and action with absolute acceptance and obedience.
So, there is no negation to what God has approved and what the church
suggested. “Nobody should see me as a recalcitrant priest. I am not. I
have taken an oath of obedience and I stand on it. I pray God to bless
all of you who in one way or the other have supported the work of God
here and those who have sincerely allowed God to use them for the jobs
we did here all these years.
“God will bless the people of God here and reward you according to your
labours. The parish is not going to collapse, the church will continue
to grow”.
He told the members that their journey to Our Lady Parish, Umuchigbo
Njinike, Enugu where he had been posted as Resident Priest, serving
fewer than two priests, should be seen as the journey of the Israelites
out of Egypt.
“God has planned a future and hope out of disaster and where I am going, He will go before me to level mountains.
The Bible says that He will deliver me from all evil; He will keep my going out and coming in both now and forever.
“I am praying that God will keep his church and my fellow adorers so
that our journey to Umuchigbo will be a journey of Israelites out of
Egypt.
“Some of them were grumbling leaving Egyptian soil because they were
having the phobia for the unknown, but I am telling you people as a
courageous leader, do not be afraid.
We are moving and in no distant time, you people are going to smile”, Mbaka told his congregation.
#FOC Source: authority
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