NEWSLETTER INSERTS FOR TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME
‘Our worlds no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking at a devastating speed and volume in order to say nothing. Modern civilization does not know how to be quiet. Noise is a deceptive addictive and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence. This age detests the things that silence brings to encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God’.
Cardinal Robert Sarah
‘We do not want merely to see beauty, though God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it’.
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and other Addresses, New York, Harper One, 2001, p. 42.
‘Sadly, migrant children are more easily ignored, because they lack adults capable of protecting and supporting them….The cry of displaced children rises to God…God hears their cry and, in order to bring about liberation, he forcefully appeals to the conscience and action of each one of us, just as he did with Moses. We cannot remain indifferent, nor can we become accustomed to such suffering’.
Pope Leo XIV, Message for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
‘Before the concrete faces that confront us in daily life, the entire Christian community is called to regard these children as its own sons and daughters, and to engage with the concrete story of each one of them’.
Pope Leo XIV, Message for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
‘The vulnerability of the young knows no religious boundaries and unites us in a shared humanitarian and spiritual responsibility’.
Pope Leo XIV, Message for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
‘Faith communities are called to create spaces in which every boy and every girl is respected and valued in his or her own cultural identity, thereby preventing the risk of radicalization by extremist groups. Ultimately, to protect a child is to safeguard the divine image imprinted within him or her’.
Pope Leo XIV, Message for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees
‘It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted…It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.’
Pope St John Paul II
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