In a year, and a season, when we are called to deepen our commitment to prayer, Archbishop Peter A Comensoli invites us—in his video message for February—to journey back to God using the prayer Jesus taught us, the Our Father, which encourages us both to praise God and to depend on him for everything we need: love, forgiveness, protection, even our ‘daily bread’.
There is an intimate connection between our prayers and our actions, as we saw in the encouraging response to the Archdiocese’s recent Advent Appeal, where parishes raised $150,000 for the people of Ukraine.
The Church continues to play a vital role in serving society’s most vulnerable and has a valuable part to play in the wider social services sector, according to public policy expert Prof Mark Considine, who spoke at the recent Catholic Social Services National Conference.
Also this week: We hear about the most recent Encounter event, where young people came together in prayer and adoration to draw closer to Jesus. The upcoming ‘Mercy Melbourne’ night (19 March) similarly promises to bring more than 40 parishes across the city together in a powerful night of prayer, bearing witness to God’s forgiveness through the sacrament of Reconciliation. We also recall the story of how seminarians at Corpus Christi College were moved, in the years after the Second World War, to reach out to brother seminarians in Cologne, Germany, in their hour of need. And we find inspiration for our Lenten prayer journey in a Carthusian’s short letter on the vastness of God’s love.
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