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Fr Gilbert Alaribe is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Nigeria. He specialised in Old Testament Scripture and currently lectures at the Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri, Nigeria
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Fr. Gilbert Alaribe reflects on the spiritual primacy of action over passive thought, demonstrating through Scripture, theology, and African communal memory why deeds alone give flesh to faith and hope.
Fr. Gilbert Alaribe reflects on the parable of two brothers, reminding us that good intentions and beautiful thoughts remain sterile until they fall into the soil...
Fr. Gilbert Alaribe explores how the formless void of personal suffering, loss, and trauma can become the canvas for divine renewal, grace, and spiritual transformation.
Explore how the void: chaos, corruption, and moral collapse, threatens civilization. Fr. Gilbert Alaribe examines historical trauma, institutional decay, and the dikes we must build to...
Explore how grace redeems life's broken pieces. Fr. Gilbert Alaribe examines irreversible choices, personal tragedy, and historical trauma in Part II of From Emptiness to Fullness.
Fr. Gilbert Alaribe explores the journey from human emptiness to spiritual transformation. Blending the parable of the ruined clay, the theological doctrine of creation ex nihilo,...
Bridging psychology, neuroscience, and theology, Fr. Gilbert Alaribe explores how personal fragmentation, cognitive, emotional, volitional, and spiritual, mirrors outer societal fractures. He outlines a comprehensive journey...
Using the Igbo story of a shattered calabash restored with resin, this essay presents atonement as a communal process of healing and restoration. Blending Yom Kippur,...
Moving beyond the trap of emotional numbness, this profound spiritual reflection reclaims human passions and honest tears as essential raw materials for holiness. Discover how vulnerability,...
