Mbaka’s New Life In Edo Monastery

Rev Father Ejike Mbaka, a controversial catholic priest, has been sent to the monastery in Edo state by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Callistus Valentine Onaga, where he will remain till January, 2023.

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings that houses and works for monastics, monks, or nuns, whether they live in communities or alone (hermits). Mbaka like others in the Edo monastery will be cut off from the rest of the world and for one who had enmeshed himself much in politics he would stray his ears to know the fate of his one time verbal victim, Peter Obi.

A monastery typically includes a prayer space, which may be a chapel, church, or temple, as well as an oratory, or in the case of communities, anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds.

Depending on the location, monastic order, and occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a variety of buildings that promote self-sufficiency and community service. A hospice, a school, and a variety of agricultural and manufacturing structures such as a barn, a forge, or a brewery are examples of these.

Monastic Life Mbaka Will Experience

Life inside monasteries is governed by community rules that specify the inhabitants’ gender and require them to remain celibate and own little or no personal property.

The extent to which life within a particular monastery is socially separated from the surrounding populace can also vary greatly; some religious traditions require isolation for contemplation away from the everyday world, in which case members of the monastic community may spend the majority of their time isolated even from each other.

Others are concerned with interacting with local communities in order to provide services such as teaching, medical care, or evangelism.

Some monastic communities are only occupied seasonally, depending on the traditions involved as well as the local weather, and people may be a part of a monastic community for periods ranging from a few days to nearly a lifetime.

The life within the walls of a monastery may be supported in a variety of ways, including manufacturing and selling goods, often agricultural products, donations or alms, rental or investment income, and funds from other religious organizations, which were traditionally the traditional support of monasteries. Christian monasteries have a long history of providing hospitality, charitable, and hospital services.

Monasteries have frequently been associated with education and the encouragement of scholarship and research, which has resulted in the establishment of schools and colleges, as well as affiliation with universities.

Christian monastic life has evolved to meet the needs of modern society by providing computer services, accounting and management, as well as modern hospital and educational administration.

Fr. Ejike Mbaka has been sent to the monastery by Enugu Catholic bishop to pray and to involve in humanitarian services.

In the light of the above, the stay of Mbaka in monastery for roughly three months is expected to make him stronger in his life and ministry.

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