DAILY HOMILIES #St. Joseph's school

In Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, we see a priest who lived out the selflessness required of the priestly vocation. As we read in today’s Gospel passage, Tansi “sold everything he had to purchase the kingdom of God.” Blessed Tansi was often accused of taking his Christian faith too seriously. For a time, Tansi worked tirelessly in the parishes of Nnewi, Dunukofia, and Akpu/Ajali before discerning his vocation as a Cistercian monk at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in Leicester, England. He lived this vocation at the abbey for 14 years. Father Tansi used to say: “If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God”.