Month: February 2022

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for Lent 2022

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“Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest,
if we do not give up. So then, while we have the opportunity,
let us do good to all” (Gal 6:9-10)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Lent is a favourable time for personal and community renewal, as it leads us to the paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. For our Lenten journey in 2022, we will do well to reflect on Saint Paul’s exhortation to the Galatians: “Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up. So then, while we have the opportunity (kairós), let us do good to all” (Gal 6:9-10).

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Retreat with the Comunitat de Jesús 22 January 2022. Antonio SICILIA VELASCO

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To begin with, I want to share with you what my experience was on my return from Guatemala a little over 10 years ago.

In the first interview with the bishop I resigned from a parish ministry and chose to continue in a missionary ministry, outgoing, trying to make my way in an unknown environment even though it was my city. I joined a grassroots Christian community that I had known well for many years and I committed to volunteering with two NGOs, which made it possible for me to contact people from very different environments and realities unknown to me in the life of my city. This led me to two realities that currently vitalize my life as a citizen, my faith in Jesus and my commitment to the Kingdom: 1) My family expanded. I share a house, table, joys, difficulties, hardships and projects with a family from Senegal made up of a married couple and three children aged 16, 4 and 1 and a half years and who left in Senegal another two children aged 14 and 12. We also share the faith and trust in God that they call Allah and I, simply, Father. A great unexpected gift for me. And 2) My option for the poor materialized at this time with the concern and relationship with migrants, their world, their faces, their stories, their dreams, their way of the cross… which led me to commit to the Circle of Silence.

Read the full document in PDF: Retreat with the Comunitat de Jesús 22 January 2022. Antonio SICILIA VELASCO eng