The Priesthood and The Challenges Of Our Time
From Sunday, June 11, to Friday, June 16, 2006, the Bishop and the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki had their Annual Retreat. I preached the retreat. While it continued, many of my fellow priests developed so much interest in it that they requested for the hand-outs of the discussions. By the end of the retreat, many of them suggested that it would be better if I should make the discussion available in the form of a book instead of hand-outs. This book, The Priesthood and the Challenges of Our Times, is the response to that request. To all who would read it, I wish to recall that proverbial anecdote about some blind men who went to behold an elephant. Each of them touched a different part of the immense creature and concluded that what he touched was the whole of it. Paradoxically, each of them was both right and wrong. Right, because each of them described exactly what he felt. Wrong, because each of them thought that the little part of the huge animal he touched was the whole of it. Nevertheless, in fairness to the blind men, they could be exonerated for whatever mistake they made in their assessment of the elephant because their inability to see meant a total loss of comparative memory. Unlike the blind men, if I claim that what I have said in this book is all that can be said during retreats for priests, I will never be exonerated because such a claim will be revoltingly preposterous. Anybody who touches the Atlantic Ocean with his finger and comes out with the claim that he has drained it should have his head examined to ensure that he has not developed some mental problems.
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