Holy Father's Prayer Intentions

June 2009
General: That international attention towards the poorer countries may give rise to more concrete help, in particular to relieve them of the crushing burden of foreign debt.

Mission: That the particular Churches operating in regions marked by violence may be sustained by the love and concrete closeness of all the Catholics in the world.

The urgent task of education

The Holy Father recently addressed the general assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) on the theme: "The educational question: the urgent task of education". I thought that these thoughts are very relevant to our Movement and vocation:

"At a time in which relativistic and nihilistic concepts of life exercise a powerful enticement, a time in which the very legitimacy of education is placed in doubt, the principal contribution we can make is that of bearing witness to our trust in life and in man, in his reason and in his capacity to love", said the Holy Father.

"The difficulty in forming authentic Christians interweaves and melds with the difficulty of creating responsible and mature men and women", the Pope explained. He also emphasised the importance that "an awareness of truth and goodness, and free adherence to these values, should be at the core of the educational project, so as to give form to a process of overall development. For this reason", he went on, "alongside an appropriate curriculum that identifies the aim of education in the light of the model to be followed, there is a need for authoritative educators to whom new generations can look with trust.

"A true educator places himself in the front line and knows how to unite authority and exemplarity in the task of educating those entrusted to his care. We ourselves are aware of this, having been given the role of guides among the People of God, guides whom the Apostle Peter invites to tend God's sheep and to 'be examples to the flock'".

Oceania Assembly 6 -8 June

Raffy has just circulated a final agenda for our Oceania Assembly on 6 - 8 June. We'll be welcoming guests from Perth, Sydney and New Zealand when we gather at Anglesea.

Anyone else interested in attending the Assembly of Communion and Liberation can contact us at the email address in the sidebar.

next meeting

CL Melbourne will meet on Sunday 17th May at 2.30 pm at the Pastoral Centre of St Francis Church - Lonsdale St cnr Elizabeth St Melbourne.
We will be attending Mass at 4.30 pm in St Francis Church.

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