Fr. William Orbih

I spent the first five years of my life in the ancient city of Benin. Then I moved to Lagos, Africa's most populous city.  At age ten, I moved again. This time to Nigeria's capital city,  Abuja, where I found my vocation to the priesthood.
Yes, I have moved quite often. Yet moving does not define me, except that the gift of never
staying too long in a place has taught me the natural spirituality of detachment. Thanks to this, I am a highly opinionated introvert who is often able to let the things I cannot control flow.

My life right now is defined by two concepts that I stumbled upon during my ongoing graduate
studies in theology at Notre Dame. The first is transcendence as God's attribute of attributes. The
sin of sins is any human attempt to grasp and colonize a God who is only to be touched and
worshipped.

I have also encountered the primacy of hope in Christianity. Our hope is the first thing about us,
and I desire a church where we all recognize ourselves as ministers of God's hope in a world full
of gloom and despair.

Saint Augustine of Hippo is my patron (favorite) saint, and Anthony De Mello is my favorite
spiritual writer. I also owe a lot to St. Dominic Guzman and Saint Louis Maria De Montfort. And
of course, The Blessed Virgin Mary is my sweetest sweetness.