A Jubilee Season of Hope

In this 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, we ask: Lord, in these difficult times, we enter into the desert of Lent this year on our annual Journey to Jerusalem with much grief in our hearts for those lost to us…

the bullets and missiles in Gaza & Ukraine; the rhetoric and spin of governments; those still living in fear of the pandemic; Yet we turn to these words of Hope:

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us… and we saw his glory… full of grace and truth.”

Why Did God Become Human?

There are two ways of looking at this:

1. The Sin-centered view: where humans are the central focus.
2. The Love-centered view: where Jesus becomes the central focus. Both views have been the discussion and understanding in the Church for centuries. There is no definite doctoral statement on either one. They stand side by side. The context of our view shapes the way we see God, creation sacrifice and sin… Jesus loves you and came in love to save you. Have you ever thought about that? Jesus loves YOU. Jesus loves YOU! Now, He wants you to fall in love with Him.

This is the reason for our hope. (Meditation by Mary Ann Ronan)

In the Desert, Jesus Leads Us To Holiness Of Life.

“Jesus' temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, contrary to the way Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to attribute to him. This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for us: "For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sinning.” “By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert” (CCC 540).

Lent: A Season Of Giving

As a Church, the Bride of the Bridegroom, Jesus, we are invited to make the most out of this time of Lent, in order that we grow into deeper union with Jesus and so conform ourselves to Jesus Christ.

Generosity is a very practical way to live our faith and there si now better time for this than in Lent.

Increasing our offertory enables our parish to increase administrating the pastoral care and sacramental life of our great Parish in: Teaching, Sanctifying, Evangelizing and Ministering to the needs of the faithful. Strengthening the parish offertory also strengthens the ministerial resources and stewardship of the parish, and by extension the hearts of parishioners and our outreach. We are partnering with Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) to help with this outreach program. Look in the mail for your information pack!

Fr. Kilian, Fr. Samuel, our Deacons and our Parish Staff and Volunteers.

 

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