CONTRADICTIONS
- Mar 20
- 1 min read
Research affirms what makes great parishes:
Good Community
Good Teaching and Preaching
Good Music.
In other words, an experience of love, an experience of truth, an experience of beauty.
With Christ at the centre of our community, teaching, music and art, we shall – with the help of Almighty God – create great parishes.
Recently, the pope visited the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Rome. It was Pope Leo XIII who asked St. John Bosco to establish the parish near Termini Train Station.
Pope Leo XIV:
Dear parishioners, I see in you a special presence of closeness, of proximity amid the challenges of this area.
In fact, there are many young university students, commuters who come and go for work, immigrants looking for employment, young refugees who have found the opportunity to meet peers.
Within a few metres, you can touch the contradictions of this time: the carefree spirit of those who come and go with all comforts, and those who have no roof over their heads; the many possibilities for good, and rampant violence; the desire to work honestly and the illegal trafficking of drugs and prostitution.
Amidst the contradictions of life, we can make a difference.
AMEN.
