NEWSLETTER INSERTS - SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER - DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA

‘Let us pray that those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts might find the support, care and love they need in their community, and be open to the beauty of life.

Lord Jesus, You who invite the weary and burdened to come to You and rest in Your Heart, we ask You this month for all the people who live in darkness and despair, especially for those struggling with suicidal thoughts.

May they always find a community that welcomes them, listens to them, and accompanies them. Give all of us an attentive and compassionate heart, capable of offering comfort and support, also with the necessary professional help.

May we know how to be close with respect and tenderness, helping to heal wounds, build bonds, and open horizons. Together may we rediscover that life is a gift, that there is still beauty and meaning, even in the midst of pain and suffering. We are well aware that those who follow You are also vulnerable to sadness without hope.

We ask You to always make us feel Your love so that, through Your closeness to us, we can recognize and proclaim to all the infinite love of the Father who leads us by the hand to renew our trust in the life You give us. Amen’.

Pope Leo's Prayer Intention for November - For the Prevention of Suicide

‘We become ever more the temple of God, the dwelling place of the Most High, when we literally receive God within during Holy Communion. We become God’s holy dwelling place. This is where the water flowing from Christ’s side, “the waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High” flows at full force within us. This is the place in which God the Father, the Master Builder, builds us on his Son. Every time we receive Holy Communion it’s meant to be a rededication of the temple we have become as God the Father gives us here the grace to help us become an ever more solid living stone on Christ the cornerstone, living within us’.

Fr Roger Landry

‘By means of your accord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ is sung. Form yourselves one and all into a choir, that blending in concord and taking the keynote of God, you may sing in unison with one voice through Jesus Christ to the Father, that he may hear you and recognize you through your good deeds to be members of His Son. Therefore, it is profitable for you to live in blameless unity, that you may always enjoy communion with God’.

St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians.

‘Religious Truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge’

St John Henry Newman

‘The Catholic school is an environment in which faith, culture and life intertwine. It is not simply an institution, but rather a living environment in which the Christian vision permeates every discipline and every interaction. Educators are called to a responsibility that goes beyond the work contract: their witness has the same value as their lessons’.

Pope Leo XIV, Drawing New Maps of Hope