March 30, 2025
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My dear people,
Many years ago, Pope Benedict wrote a very beautiful message for Lent.
I want to bring back to you part of his special message for Lent as we enter the middle of this season:
"Dear brothers and sisters, in this season of Lent, as we prepare to celebrate the event of the Cross and Resurrection – in which the love of God redeemed the world and shone its light upon history – I express my wish that all of you may spend this precious time rekindling your faith in Jesus Christ, so as to enter with Him into the dynamic of love for the Father and for every brother and sister that we encounter in our lives. For this intention, I raise my prayer to God, and I invoke the Lord’s blessing upon each individual and upon every community!"
If this Lent would come and go like every other Lent of the past, what a waste! I pray that we enter this Laetare Sunday with a joyful hope that life is filled with promises that shall be fulfilled by the One who has conquered sin and death. May we continue this journey of Lent with stronger desire to always give preference to Christ!
Fr. Luan