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Due to the restrictions regarding COVID -19 all Mass and Liturgies for the near future will be cancelled.

Prayer focus for June   

Pope Francis’ prayer intention for June is for National Leaders.  

Dear Lord, That national leaders may firmly commit themselves to ending the arms trade, which victimizes so many innocent people. Amen

I am always with you - written by Pope Francis

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

“I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Mt. 28:20). These last words of the Gospel of Matthew recall the prophetic announcement we find at the beginning: “They shall call his name Immanuel, which means, God with us” (Mt. 1:23; cf. Is. 7:14).

 God will be with us, every day, until the end of the world. Jesus will walk with us, every day, until the end of the world. All the Gospel is enclosed between these two citations, words that communicate the mystery of God whose name, whose identity is being-with: He is not an isolated God, he is a God with, in particular with us, that is, with the human creature. Ours is not an absent God, secluded in far away heaven; He is instead a God Who is passionate about man, so tenderly loving as to be incapable of separating Himself from him.

 We humans are capable of breaking bonds and bridges; He however is not. While our heart cools, His always remains incandescent. Our God accompanies us always, even if by misfortune we forget about Him. On the boundary that divides incredulity from faith, the discovery of being loved and accompanied by our Father, of never being left alone by Him, is decisive.

Our existence is a pilgrimage, a journey. Even those who are moved by a simply human hope, perceive the seduction of the horizon, that drives them to explore worlds they do not yet know. Our soul is a migrant soul. The Bible is full of stories of pilgrims and travellers. The vocation of Abraham begins with this command: “Go from your country” (Gen. 12:1). And the patriarch leaves that piece of the world that he knew well, and that was one of the cradles of the civilization of his time. Everything conspired against the good sense of making that journey. Yet Abraham departs. We do not become mature men and women if we do not perceive the attraction of the horizon: that limit between the sky and the earth that demands to be reached by a journeying people.

In his journey in the world, man is never alone. In particular, the Christian never feels abandoned, because Jesus assures us that He does not await us only at the end of our long journey, but also accompanies us in all of our days.