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The CCE was founded in 1983 by Rev Fr John Okoro Egbulefu and is currently and canonically a Public Association of the Faithful on its way to diocesan right as a clerical Religious Institute of Consecrated Life to which I, Fr Dr Charles Egbulefu, happily belong as the one currently Responsible for the emmanuelite Information Service.

The emmanuelite Charism is to render palpable to whoever encounters us Christ the Emmanuel in the divine person of whom as the Son of God it has been unbeatably revealed that God is with us humans, in union with us, in solidarity with us as the God that redeems His people, hence as Jesus whom the Father anointed with the Holy Spirit and power and hence with whom God the Holy Spirit was, and who, because God as the almighty Goodness itself in person was thus with Him, went about doing good, doing all kinds of good things to all kinds of persons and curing those who were under the power of the evil spirits, the devil and the demons.

Our Apostolate is, on the one hand, to use the Commandments and Sacraments instituted by Christ (to communicate truths and graces as moral and spiritual goods with which) to prolong (extend) to all nations the moral and spiritual salvation respectively that Christ accomplished through His preaching and teaching of the Word and His paschal Mysteries respectively, and, on the other hand, to use the Technoscientific Theology (developed out of the Theological Technoscience instituted by Christ and as the mediated Union of Theological Science and Theological Technology through Technical Theology) to produce (the means of healing and healthcare and of nutrition, growth, wealth, security and defence and self-reproduction, as) the material goods with which to prolong (extend) to all nations the material salvation that Christ accomplished through His miracles, and, through these material, moral and spiritual goods to reconnect and reconcile the poor with the rich . The poor are all those who have separated themselves from God as from the source of richness in all its ramifications; and they embrace the materially poor and morally poor and spiritually poor, the materially poor but morally rich and spiritually rich, the materially rich but morally poor and spiritually poor, the materially poor but morally rich but spiritually poor, the materially rich and morally rich but spiritually poor. The rich are the materially rich and morally rich and spiritually rich.

We do this apostolate partly in the parishes partly in schools, seminaries, academies of science and technology, universities, and the health centre for research.

The goal of the CCE is first the human attainment of wholeness in general, that wholeness of virtuous life in particular which is called holiness, the quality of being good to the relatively superlative degree of being good which is second to only that absolutely superlative degree of being good which is reserved to only God as to Goodness itself in person and the only one source of goodness, of richness, of beauty and beautifulness, of trueness and truth and truthfulness, and of oneness and unity. The wholeness of virtuous life means that virtuous life which is a life full of replete with, filled with, all the virtues each in full measure, in its entirety. And since God wants all His children to be holy, and God is glorified there where His Will is being done, the goal of the Emmanuelites is secondly to glorify God, the glorification of God by pursuing holiness and helping the rest of the fellow children of God to attain the God-willed holiness like themselves. Hence the goal of the Emmanuelites is the sanctification of all humans.

Our spirituality is structured according to the union of the divine Word with the human flesh by the Holy Spirit in the incarnate Word as the Godman Christ the Emmanuel, whereby in the emmanuelite Spirituality the place and role of the divine Word in the incarnate Word is occupied by the practice of Mysticism as the firm self-attachment and continued adherence of the human spirit to the Holy Spirit and, through Him, to the incarnate Son of God called Christ the Emmanuel and, through Christ, to the Father and, so, to the entire Most Holy Trinity as the God-with-us, which is cultivated through daily reception of the Holy Comunion - communication and union - with God in the Eucharistic Sacrament and is deepened through our adoration of God in this Most Holy Sacrament as in spirit and truth as He desires, while the place and role of the human flesh in the incarnate Word is occupied by the practice of Ascetism as the the self-detachment and continuous self-distancing of the human spirit from the malign and seductive spirit as evil spirits, which is cultivated through frequent reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation with God and is deepened through our temperate fasting and prudent abstinence from natural things as much as our human nature can carry, whereas the place and role of the Holy Spirit in the incarnate Word is occupied by the Life of Incessant Prayer patterned on the Lord’s Prayer as life of daily single prayer the unity (hence goodness, trueness and truth and truthfulness and beauty and beautifulness) of which results from the union of doxology (praises to God the Holy King and Lord of all Creation) and petitions (supplication to God) for humans. It is the life of daily communication with the sacred persons - with the uncreated as supernatural, hence eternal, thus divine persons called God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and with the created as natural persons called the holy Angels and the Saints, especially the Blessed Virgin Mary, in heaven - communicating our doxologies (praises and honors, devotions and venerations) as well as our petitions (supplications) to them, thereby with the mind (mentally) and with the mouth (orally), or even with man-made instruments like the pen (in writing), while they are listening and looking at us, and our listening to them with the innate capacity to obey (potentia oboedientialis) their imperative and admonitory word as the pair of innate spiritual ears as they communicate to us their liberating truths in sacred words, and our looking at them with the mind and heart (mens et cor) as with the pair of innate spiritual eyes and opening our soul to them as they communicate into it their sanctifying graces in sacred signs, and our stretching out our hands to them as they draw us through their sacred actions into their city and house and home and heart.

 The Spirit of the Founder and, hence, of the CCE is that of imitating Christ the Emmanuel , and hence consists in loving God above all other beings and of uplifting fellow humans, in doing as many different kinds of good things as possible to as many different kinds of persons as possible, and in desisting from evil, resisting the devil, insisting on the truth, persisting in goodness and assisting God as His instrument and as babysitter of His children.

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