{"id":620,"date":"2024-08-10T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=620"},"modified":"2024-08-10T07:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:28:31","slug":"national-pilgrimage-propagate-devotion-to-our-lady-of-mount-carmel-in-your-dioceses-fr-udom-tells-bishops-says-only-prayers-can-deliver-nigeria-from-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/national-pilgrimage-propagate-devotion-to-our-lady-of-mount-carmel-in-your-dioceses-fr-udom-tells-bishops-says-only-prayers-can-deliver-nigeria-from-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pilgrimage: Propagate Devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in your Dioceses-Fr Udom Tells Bishops …..Says only prayers can deliver Nigeria from food insecurity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Ignatius Okorocha<\/div>\n

Rev. Fr Cyril Udom (OCD), National Promoter of devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Brown Scapular has urged Catholic Bishops to promote devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in their dioceses and parishes given the powerful roles our blessed Virgin plays in the life of her children during difficult times such as our country is experiencing now.<\/p>\n

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This is\u00a0 even as he has appealed to Christians to intensify\u00a0 efforts in praying to God through our lady of Mount Carmel for God’s intervention in the present situation Nigeria finds itself.<\/div>\n
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Recall that the Carmelite Order in Nigeria organized a three days\u00a0 National Pilgrimage in honour of our Lady of Mount Carmel at her Shrine located at Mount Tabor at Onuiyi in Nsukka\u00a0 Enugu state, where our lady’s devotees drawn from different parts of the country devoted time to pray and refected\u00a0 on the life of our Blessed Virgin Mary and her son Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n
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The climax of the event was\u00a0 the celebration of the feast of our Lady of Mount Carmel on July, 16 2024 with the concelebration of Holy Mass by the Carmelite priests led by their Vicar, camelite Sisters, members of the Secular Order of Mount Carmel (OCDS) and many other Marian devotees.<\/div>\n
Speaking on the importance of the National Pilgrimage in honour of Mount Carmel, National Promoter of our Lady of Mount Carmel and Scapular wearers, Rev Fr Cyril Udom (OCD) said,”First and foremost, the Carmelite Order has a tradition of going to holy places of Carmel Order to conduct some spiritual l activities in honour of our Lady of Mount Carmel. Here in Nigeria, as soon as we built the Shrine of our Lady of Mount Carmel, we started organizing Pilgrimages every year. Since 2019 that we came here on a Pilgrimage, we have been coming here on a Pilgrimage\u00a0 to the\u00a0 sanctuary of our\u00a0 Lady of Mount Carmel to honour her and carry out devotional activities as a way of asking her who is our Mother and our Queen to intervene<\/div>\n
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On why other parishes are not participating in the Pilgrimage , he said,’ “the annual Carmelite Pilgrimage first and foremost is organized for all the devotees of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Brown Scapular wearers.<\/div>\n
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” So, we invited all the wearers of the Scapular and different groups and societies in the church that use the Scapular to come and be part of this Pilgrimage and indeed many of them have come.<\/div>\n
\u00a0The Carmelite Fraiers are here, the Carmelite sisters are here, the Secular Carmelite are equally here (and I know you belong to that group), members of Confraternity of our Lady of Carmel are here. Our brothers and sisters from different Carmelite communities in Nigeria are here. The\u00a0 societies that wear Scapular are here.<\/div>\n
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“But you know that in\u00a0 Nigeria, we have not established the presence of\u00a0 Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u00a0 Confraternity in some dioceses. This is why the\u00a0 \u00a0devotion has not reached all parts of Nigeria. In the future we hope to continue to spread the promotion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to make sure that all parts of Nigeria have the privilege of enjoying the devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and enjoy the blessings and privileges that come with this devotion.”<\/div>\n
On the need for Catholic Bishops of Nigeria to embrace this annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in their dioceses, he said, “actually some Bishops in Nigeria know about the National Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Mount Carmel because the first thing that I do before getting into any diocese before the commencement of the devotion is to go and greet the Bishop to explain the devotion to our lady of Mount Carmel and ask the Bishop’s permission to propagate the devotion there and I tell you,all the Bishop I have met have previously given me the permission to come and establish there and to propagate the devotion there.”<\/div>\n
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On his advice to Catholics regarding the National Pilgrimage he said,” I urge Catholics in Nigeria to embrace the devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary because the Scapular is the garment of the blessed Virgin Mary. When these people are sincerely devoted their lives\u00a0 to the Blessed Virgin, they will see the need to carry out some activities in her honour and one of the activities we can carry out in the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, is to attend a Pilgrimage like we have here in Nsukka.”<\/div>\n
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On how to combat the present difficult times in Nigeria he said,” my advise to Nigerians is to turn to God in prayers in difficult times and not only in difficult times but also in good times because God has a way of blessing and encouraging us in all circumstances of our lives and of course, the blessed Virgin Mary passed through turbulent moments in her life, giving birth to Jesus Christ,taking care of Jesus and at\u00a0 the end,\u00a0 her son was killed and she endured it because of God who invited her to be the mother of God and for the sake of our salvation.<\/div>\n
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“So, in this difficult moment, we should look at this time with the point of view of salvation sharing in the suffering of Christ as the blessed Virgin Mary did,” he noted.<\/div>\n
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On his latest book that was<\/div>\n
launched, during the Pilgrimage Fr Udom<\/div>\n
said,”‘ the Title of the book is consecration and Entrustment to Our Lady of Mount Carmel”,\u00a0 Carmel’s great friend. Now from what I have been doing from promotion to our lady of Mount Carmel, I came to realize that consecration to her is very important and then in the Carmelite spirituality the essence of consecrating ourselves before our lady of Mount Carmel is to entrust ourselves to her. So that informs her title. Consecration and Entrustment to our lady of Mount Carmel. It will be one\u00a0 of the very important material\u00a0 that we in the Confraternity of our Lady of Mount Carmel will be using irn teaching people about our lady of Mount Carmel and consecrating them to the Blessed Virgin Mary.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ignatius Okorocha Rev. Fr Cyril Udom (OCD), National Promoter of devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Brown Scapular has urged Catholic Bishops to promote devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in their dioceses and parishes given the powerful roles our blessed Virgin plays in the life of her children during difficult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[341,340,342],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-uncategorized","tag-devotion","tag-our-lady-of-mount-carmel","tag-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}