Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church 

Ave Maria!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

The Season of Lent calls us to renew ourselves by renewing our relationship with our selves, with Others and God. And the way prposed by Jesus is Fasting, Almsgiving and Prayer. May the Season of Lent build relationships and mend the broken ones.

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2020

Theme: “We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20)

1. Lent is a favourable time to prepare to celebrate with renewed hearts the great mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the cornerstone of our personal and communal Christian life. 
2. LISTEN and ACCEPT: Christian joy flows from listening to, and accepting, the Good News of the death and resurrection of Jesus, inviting us to a relationship of openness and fruitful dialogue” (Christus Vivit, 117). 
3. EYES FIXED and CONTEMPLATE: “Keep your eyes fixed on the outstretched arms of Christ crucified, let yourself be saved over and over again. And when you go to confess your sins, believe firmly in his mercy which frees you of your guilt. Contemplate his blood poured out with such great love, and let yourself be cleansed by it. In this way, you can be reborn ever anew” (CV 123). Jesus’ Pasch is not a past event; rather, through the power of the Holy Spirit it is ever present, enabling us to see and touch with faith the flesh of Christ in those who suffer.
4. FACE to FACE RELATIONSHIP: The experience of mercy is only possible in a “face to face” relationship with the crucified and risen Lord “who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal 2:20), in a heartfelt dialogue between friends.
5. PRAYER is an expression of our need to respond to God’s love which always precedes and sustains us. Christians pray in the knowledge that, although unworthy, we are still loved. Prayer penetrates deep within us and chips away at our hardness of heart, in order to convert us ever more fully to God and to his will.
6. ENGAGE with his word, you will experience the mercy he freely gives. 
7. DIALOGUE vs CHATTER: God wishes to establish with each of us a dialogue through the paschal mystery of his Son. This has nothing to do with empty chatter, empty and superficial curiosity, which characterizes worldliness in every age; in our own day, resulting in improper use of the media.
8. COMPASSIONATE SHARING: Feeling compassion towards the wounds of the crucified Christ, who is present in the many innocent victims of wars, in attacks on life, from the unborn to that of the elderly, and various forms of violence, environmental disasters, the unequal distribution of the earth’s goods, human trafficking in all its forms, and the unbridled thirst for profit, which is a form of idolatry.
9. ALMSGIVING: There is a need to appeal to men and women of good will to share, by almsgiving, their goods with those most in need, as a means of personally participating in the building of a better world. Charitable giving makes us more human, whereas hoarding risks making us less human, imprisoned by our own selfishness. 
10. BEATITUDES and ECONOMY: 26 to 28 March - meeting in Assisi with young economists, entrepreneurs and change-makers, with the aim of shaping a more just and inclusive economy. The economic life, can be approached in the same evangelical spirit, the spirit of the Beatitudes.

Wishing all a blessed season of Lent.

 
Fr. Rajan sdb
Parish Priest

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