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DIOCESE of Mazara del Vallo
established in 1093 by the Normans from the "Great Count" Ruggero d'Altavilla

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PASTORAL PLAN 2010 - 2011

"THE FACE OF HOPE "

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The Risen Christ in the face of hope

Bishop's Message for Lent 2011

L ' meeting of Jesus with the Samaritan woman is accompanying the journey of our church ministry this year. Meditating on the next event on the third Sunday of Lent, we will also show us the Lord the desire of the 'water welling up to eternal life "(Jn 4.14) and draw to the hope that shines on his face transfigured, covered in the gospel of the second Sunday.

The times we are living puts a strain on our faith, because it contains few signs of light and many shadows of the crisis. It seems as if, suddenly, has failed in all the security you the last decades we have put in the resources and intellectual achievements human. We find ourselves helpless and fragile, beset by anxiety and fear, uncertain about what the future may hold, weighed down by a solitude that is not relieved by the many people we touch.

seems almost a cliché, but it is a beautiful truth, the claim that their Lent can help us find the right not to crush us by our surroundings and make sense of liberating the present tribulation. This sacred time, in fact, gives us the opportunity to restore order in our lives through listening to the Word of God, prayer and penance, led by the Spirit, as Jesus "was led by Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil "(Mt 4.1). We need to return to ourselves, to stand before Jesus as the Samaritan woman at the well, to feel that he reveal all our sins to be forgiven by him and continue to follow him as faithful disciples. In his spiritual testament Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic minister for minorities of Pakistan, assassinated on March 2 last year in Islamabad, wrote: "I want my life, my character, my actions speak for me and say that I am following Jesus Christ. [...] Long as I live, until my last breath, I will continue to serve Jesus and this poor, suffering humanity, Christians, the needy, the poor. " This is the message that comes from a witness, that he understood the meaning of the words of St. Paul: "To me [...] to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil. 1.21).

This goal, however, is not achieved through shortcuts, but only by taking the cross daily and follow Christ (cf. Lk 9.23), especially during Lent, Easter itinerary that, discounting our baptism makes us died to sin once again to rise to new life in the Risen Lord.

Let, therefore, in the path, following the exhortation of the liturgy: "Be frugal and thrifty the table, the language is simple and heart, brothers, it's time to listen to the voice of the Spirit "(Office of Readings Hymn ). Specifically, each covering a bit 'of his time to continue reading a book of the Old or New Testament; accompany the reading with personal prayer, save money, removing it from its table and giving it to those in need because poor are always at our side. It would be very significant if each family together with the Word, in prayer and in preparation of the gifts of charity, experiencing, as well, the joy of being a domestic Church, supportive and welcoming.

good Lent.

Mazara del Vallo, March 9, 2011 - Ash Wednesday

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Bishop Domenico Mogavero