Eulogy written by beloved daughter Mary Taiwo Ajide on the recent passing of her beloved Father
- Mary Taiwo Ajide
- Aug 11, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 29
Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
1 Corinthians 13 – New International Version
1. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10. but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
" Daddy loved. He is loved. God loves him. He was a great man. A man of great faith. A kind soul. Humble in character. Emphatic in nature. A philanthropist. A forward thinker. A visionary. A profound leader. An education enthusiast - Mary Taiwo Ajide "
" Engr. Dr. Ajide was a great man, he thought of people first before himself, he will be greatly missed. A man of great character, he will forever be loved by us all, He has left the greatest legacy - MAA foundation "
" This is indeed a great loss. A man of exemplary character. A visionary, He is loved by us all, I pray God continues to console his family - MATAW org. "
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