Pastors Message

buy cheap Autodesk AutoCAD Raster Design 2017 Dear Parish Family, 

The Church is inviting us to the grace of the season of Great Lent. We begin our 50 days of renewal of our lives on February 24, the Ash Monday. Our holy Mother Church always offers us hope: hope in the love of our Heavenly Father and hope in the joyful destiny of our eternal life with God. Let us joyfully prepare ourselves to  celebrate the Lent, trusting in the love of our Heavenly Father.

Our Holy Father Pope Francis speaks in his Lenten Message that “God in his providence offers us each year the season of Lent as a “sacramental sign of our conversion”. Lent summons us, and enables us, to come back to the Lord wholeheartedly and in every aspect of our life.”

The Holy Father reminds us that we do many things during Lent like abstinence, prayer, acts of discipline, charity and so on.  All these are “sacramental signs of conversion.” Conversion of our hearts is the focus of Lent. We may diligently complete all special Lenten practices and our commitments or we might fail. Conversion of our hearts – lives – should but happen. Before we begin Lent on February 12, let us prayerfully ask the lord the areas of conversion in our lives.

Conversion means, to Pope Francis, ‘a coming back to the Lord.’ This is something we should desire and discern during this Lent. Coming back to Lord reminds us the welcome the prodigal Son received at his Fathers house. The forgiving embrace, the rings of dignity, and the celebration of joy. May this season of Lent help us to experience the same in our lives.

Conversion is also needed in our parish life. Conversion is not simply an individual act alone. Our parish family also should ‘come back to the Lord.’ The choices we make, the plans we propose, the duties and responsibilities we undertake, the celebrations we look for – all these are to be planned and executed in such a way  that our parish family would come back to the Lord and become His sons and daughters.

God bless you!