The next item on Luke’s catechetical agenda is prayer. The instruction begins with a parable “about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.”

Once again Luke reminds us that Jesus & Co. are “on the way to Jerusalem.”

Bishop Edward K. Braxton hosted a luncheon Sept. 12 at his residence for Father Evaristus Okaa Onwuogu, Personal Secretary to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Valerian M. Okeke, Archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria. Father Onwuogu was a guest of the bishop while visiting fidei donum missionaries from Onitsha, who are serving in Belleville.