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On Sunday, April 27, the fear, when the threat of nuclear us remember the words he build the civilization of love.” of Divine Mercy. whole Church celebrated war was brought to a head. In proclaimed at his election: the canonization of Pope his famous Encyclical, Peace “Be not afraid. Open wide the Throughout his papacy, he was He believed that each one of John XXIII and Pope John on Earth, he implored world doors for Christ.” For the next a tireless defender of the dignity us is called to holiness and he Paul II. During their years leaders to work for a genuine 26 years, he proclaimed this of every person – born or knew that we needed the saints in the papacy, they were peace built on justice and not a message through his writings unborn, rich or poor, healthy or to inspire us on our journey. extraordinary pastors whose false peace secured by nuclear and his travels around the sick, oppressed or free. Pope John Paul II canonized initiatives brought renewal arms. world. an enormous number of saints to the Catholic Church and He had a clear understanding – more than all of the popes reinvigorated our mission to He also surprised everyone He visited Canada on three of the mission of the family in the previous 300 years announce the Gospel to the by his calling of the Second occasions: in 1984, he crossed to build up the civilization of combined. world. Their canonization, Vatican Council, firmly our country from coast to coast; love, and encouraged every however, recognizes something believing that the Holy Spirit he returned in 1987 to meet family “to guard, reveal and We give thanks to God for St. more – both of these men are wanted to renew the Church. Indigenous Peoples from the communicate” God’s love John XXIII and St. John Paul outstanding models of holiness He knew the Church could not Northwest Territories at Fort (Familiaris Consortio, 17). II. Their witness of holiness for us. They inspire us to live separate itself from the modern Simpson; and in 2002, he came inspires us to open our hearts holy lives. world. In every age, it needs to for an incredible week to be He made important efforts to God’s love and to respond bring the values of the Gospel with hundreds of thousands of towards Christian unity and generously through lives of Pope John XXIII, or “good Pope to culture, social institutions, young people for World Youth interreligious dialogue, themes humble service. John” as people called him, economics, law, politics – to Day in Toronto. that were highlighted at Vatican Let us follow their example and reached out to the whole world, everything that makes up the II. support one another in living to men and women of good fabric of our life together in The horrors of Nazism and holy lives. With God’s grace, will everywhere. Shortly after society. Communism, which he Perhaps, what touched us may we be bold and courageous his papacy began in 1958, he witnessed firsthand in Poland, most was the personal witness witnesses of the joy and hope visited the Regina Coeli Prison. Thanks to the vision and profoundly influenced his life. to holiness which he gave in that Jesus brings us. He told the prisoners, “I place courage of good Pope John, the In his address to the United his final years, as Parkinson’s my heart next to yours.” He had Council reignited the energy, Nations in 1995, he boldly disease and arthritis took a big heart that embraced all the enthusiasm and the hope of affirmed: “The answer to the their toll and the world saw who were suffering. Catholics all over the world. fear which darkens human him become more and more Most Rev. Ronald Fabbro, csb existence at the end of the 20th frail. 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Many regarded him, Sixtus IV limiting the membership of the College Paul II since his October 1978 priesthood by Archbishop Sapieha because of his age and ambiguous reputation, of Cardinals to 70; within the next four years he election to the papacy, was born in Krakow on November 1, 1946. as a transitional pope, little realizing that the enlarged it to 87 with the largest international in the Polish town of Wadowice, a pontificate of this man of 76 years would mark a representation in history. Less than three months small city 50 km from Krakow, on Shortly afterwards, Cardinal turning point in history and initiate a new age for after his election he announced that he would May 18, 1920. He was the youngest Sapieha sent him to Rome where the Church. He took the name of John in honor of hold a diocesan synod for Rome, convoke an of three children born to Karol he worked under the guidance of the precursor and the beloved disciple—but also ecumenical council for the universal Church, Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska. the French Dominican, Garrigou- because it was the name of a long line of popes and revise the Code of Canon Law. The synod, His mother died in 1929. His Lagrange. He finished his doctorate whose pontificates had been short. the first in the history of Rome, was held in 1960; eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, in theology in 1948 with a thesis on died in 1932 and his father, a non- the subject of faith in the works of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the third of thirteen Vatican Council II was convoked in 1962; and the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the commissioned army officer died in St. John of the Cross. At that time, children, was born on November 25, 1881 at Sotto during his vacations, he exercised Code was appointed in 1963. 1941. il Monte (Bergamo) of a family of sharecroppers. his pastoral ministry among the Upon graduation from Marcin He attended elementary school in the town, was His progressive encyclical, Mater et Magistra, was Polish immigrants of France, Wadowita high school in tutored by a priest of Carvico, and at the age issued in 1961 to commemorate the anniversary Belgium and Holland. Wadowice, he enrolled in Krakow’s of twelve entered the seminary at Bergamo. A of Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum. Pacem in terris, scholarship from the Cerasoli Foundation (1901) Jagiellonian University in 1938 and In 1948 he returned to Poland advocating human freedom and dignity as the in a school for drama. and was vicar of various parishes enabled him to go on to the Apollinaris in Rome basis for world order and peace, came out in in Krakow as well as chaplain to where he studied under (among others) Umberto 1963. He elevated the Pontifical Commission for The Nazi occupation forces closed university students. This period Benigni, the Church historian. He interrupted Cinema, Radio, and Television to curial status, the university in 1939 and young lasted until 1951 when he again his studies for service in the Italian Army but approved a new code of rubrics for the Breviary Karol had to work in a quarry took up his studies in philosophy returned to the seminary, completed his work and Missal, made notable advances in ecumenical (1940-1944) and then in the Solvay and theology. In 1953 he defended for a doctorate in theology, and was ordained relations by creating a new Secretariat for chemical factory to earn his living a thesis on “evaluation of the in 1904. Continuing his studies in canon law Promoting Christian Unity and by appointing the and to avoid being deported to possibility of founding a Catholic he was appointed secretary to the new bishop first representative to the Assembly of the World Germany. ethic on the ethical system of of Bergamo, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi. Angelo Council of Churches held in New Delhi (1961). In 1942, aware of his call to the Max Scheler” at Lublin Catholic served this social-minded prelate for nine years, In 1960 he consecrated fourteen bishops for Asia, priesthood, he began courses in the University. Later he became acquiring first-hand experience and a broad Africa, and Oceania. The International Balzan clandestine seminary of Krakow, professor of moral theology and understanding of the problems of the working Foundation awarded him its Peace Prize in 1962. run by Cardinal Adam Stefan social ethics in the major seminary class. He also taught apologetics, church history, Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow. of Krakow and in the Faculty of and patrology. Since his death on June 3, 1963, much has been At the same time, Karol Wojtyła Theology of Lublin. written and spoken about the warmth and was one of the pioneers of the With the entry of Italy into World War I in 1915 holiness of the beloved Pope John. Perhaps the In 1958, he was appointed titular “Rhapsodic Theatre.” bishop of Ombi and auxiliary of he was recalled to military service as a chaplain. testimony of the world was best expressed by Krakow by Pope Pius XII. On leaving the service in 1918 he was appointed a newspaper drawing of the earth shrouded in After the Second World War, he spiritual director of the seminary, but found time mourning with the simple caption, “A Death in continued his studies in the major to open a hostel for students in Bergamo. It was the Family.” seminary of Krakow, once it had continued on next page at this time also that he began the research for a multi-volume work on the episcopal visitation of Bergamo by St. Charles Borromeo, the last volume of which was published after his elevation as pope. In 1921 he was called to Rome to reorganize the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Nominated titular archbishop of Areopolis and apostolic visitator to Bulgaria (1925), he immediately concerned himself with the problems of the Eastern Churches. Transferred in 1934 to Turkey and Greece as apostolic delegate, he set up an office in Istanbul for locating prisoners of war. 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He was always out of nowhere, a little far-fetched looking beyond the border of his (“outside the box,” we’d say diocese, and encouraged others to today), and definitely unpopular so the same. with those who wanted the status quo. John was not a “detail man”, Looking outward is what the so it would take another pope to cardinals of the Church did when see the inspiration through to the they elected Wojtyla in October end of the Council and launch the 1978, the first non-Italian pope in first phase of renewal. It would over 400 years. Taking the name take yet another to bring it to John Paul II, he clearly signalled fruition into the new millennium. that he intended to continue the work of John and Paul, as had his St. John XXIII’s inspiration was immediate predecessor John Paul just the beginning. He didn’t need I. ‘Continuing their work’ now to see all the possible variations meant that St. John Paul’s plans or even necessarily the “big for implementing the Council picture.” Instead, he trusted the in Krakow would become his Spirit to guide the Church, as In 1964 he was appointed the new epoch, receiving his instructions in the plans for implementing the St. John Paul II well as the process that followed. archbishop of Krakow by Pope Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio ineunte, in which Council across the whole of the continued What he didn’t anticipate were Paul VI, who made him a he indicated to the faithful their future path. Catholic Church. To this, he the hardened ideas of many in the cardinal on June 26, 1967. would dedicate the rest of his He gave an extraordinary impetus to Curia. Yet, there were far more life, combing carefully through Besides taking part in Vatican Council II (1962- Canonizations and Beatifications, focusing on forward-thinking bishops with the documents of the Council, 1965) where he made an important contribution countless examples of holiness as an incentive their minds set on the renewal and finding there, the inspiration to drafting the Constitution Gaudium et spes, for the people of our time. He celebrated 147 and the up-dating of the Church Cardinal Wojtyła participated in all the assemblies beatification ceremonies during which he for many of the great reforms for which Pope John called. of the Synod of Bishops. proclaimed 1,338 Blesseds; and 51 canonizations he would oversee, including the for a total of 482 saints. He made Thérèse of the St. John XXIII was able to steer new Catechism of the Catholic The Cardinals elected him Pope at the Conclave in Child Jesus a Doctor of the Church. Church and the revision of the October 1978, and he took the name of John Paul the Council through its first Code of Canon Law. II. On 22 October, the Lord’s Day, he solemnly He considerably expanded the College of session with the help of Giovanni Cardinal Montini, who had a inaugurated his Petrine ministry as the 263rd Cardinals, creating 231 Cardinals (plus one in Yet this “combing” would mind like an engineer, and who successor to the Apostle. His pontificate, one of the pectore) in 9 consistories. He also called six full also lead him to make many saw the big picture and all the longest in the history of the Church, lasted nearly meetings of the College of Cardinals. innovations, as well, while pieces necessary to fit it together. 27 years. drawing inspiration from his He organized 15 Assemblies of the Synod of His personal, mystical prayer early life and ministry, to begin Driven by his pastoral solicitude for all Churches Bishops - six Ordinary General Assemblies, one gave him the same confidence in such things as World Youth Day and by a sense of openness and charity to the Extraordinary General Assembly and eight Special the Holy Spirit as held by Pope and continuing the reform of entire human race, John Paul II exercised the Assemblies. John. Moreover, Montini had Petrine ministry with a tireless missionary spirit, the Roman Missal. His personal worked in the secretariat of State dedicating it all his energy. He made 104 pastoral His documents include 14 Encyclicals, inspirations – coming from the under Pius XII before becoming visits outside Italy and 146 within Italy. 15 Apostolic Exhortations, 11 Apostolic depth of his prayer – led him archbishop of Milan. He was a Constitutions, and 45 Apostolic Letters. to preparing the Church for the He had more meetings than any of his progressive thinker all his life. He promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic new millennium with renewed predecessors with the People of God and the He came to know personally the Church in the light of Tradition as authoritatively vigor and dedication for the leaders of Nations. More than 17,600,000 pilgrims intransigence of others in the interpreted by the Second Vatican Council. He also faith. He would work tirelessly, to participated in the General Audiences held on Curia, especially among those reformed the Eastern and Western Codes of Canon the point of near exhaustion in Wednesdays (more than 1160), not counting other who would have frustrated the Law, created new Institutions and reorganized the body and mind as he dealt with special audiences and religious ceremonies. work of the Council. Montini Roman Curia. a debilitating disease. The words knew how to work behind the His love for young people brought him to establish of the gospel would famously As a private Doctor he also published five books scenes to keep the Council on the World Youth Days. The 19 WYDs celebrated become the catch-phrase that of his own: “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, track. St. John trusted him and during his pontificate brought together millions of would bring his renewal to its “Gift and Mystery, on the fiftieth anniversary his instincts. young people from all over the world. At the same near conclusion, as he counselled time his care for the family was expressed in the of my ordination as priest”, “Roman Triptych” poetic meditations, “Arise, Let us Be Going” and So did the other cardinals who, the faithful to “…put out into the World Meetings of Families, which he initiated in deep (Luke 5:4).” 1994. “Memory and Identity”. in turn, elected Montini to be the next pope when “good Pope John Paul II passed away on April 2, 2005. From We have inherited the legacy John Paul II successfully encouraged dialogue John” died in June 1963, after that evening until his funeral on April 8, more of two saints in this day, in the with the Jews and with the representatives of other the first session. As Paul VI, he than three million pilgrims came to Rome to pay unfolding of Vatican II and religions, whom he several times invited to prayer would work to see the completion homage to the Pope. Some of them queued up to its implementation. May we meetings for peace, especially in Assisi. of the Council and its early 24 hours to enter St. Peter’s Basilica. be grateful for their docility implementation, and would Under his guidance the Church prepared herself to the Spirit of God, and may On April 28, Benedict XVI announced that the be assisted and encouraged by for the third millennium and celebrated the Great we continue to follow their normal five-year waiting period before beginning another young bishop much like Jubilee of the year 2000 in accordance with the willingness to serve the Lord as the cause of beatification and canonization would himself, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla instructions given in the Apostolic Letter Tertio we “put out into the deep.” Millennio adveniente. The Church then faced be waived for John Paul II. of Krakow. A participant at the Two saints at the Council Diocese of London Youth Ministry Outreach Updates Generation Life Mass of Chrism Retreat March For Life

1, 3 & 6 Month Strong Catholic Families Student Council Follow Up NET Family Faith Festival Strong Catholic Youth Formation SOUL’D OUT - Diocese of London Youth Ministry Outreach 2014-2019 A common question asked of youth It is the DLYMO Team’s intention to • We are Beatitude: A banquet reach back one, three and six months ministry leadership is: “How do we reach out to each of the 5000 Gr. 8 honouring senior students will later with resources, supports and get more young people to Church?” students within the Diocese each year. be hosted by Bishop Fabbro. invitations to further Youth and Family Dr. Christian Smith of the University We are planning for each student to Attendees will be identified Ministry initiatives. of Notre Dame has been studying receive a ‘transition package’ through through their reputation for living variations of this question for the past the GR8OUTREACH initiative; Gr. 8’s the beatitudes, and nominated by Soul’d Out’s primary aim is to engage, eight years through the National Study from across the Diocese are invited adults in their home communities. strengthen and inspire the faith of the of Youth and Religion. In particular, his to participate in the end of year • Personalized Prayer App for iPhone young people throughout the Diocese. team has considered: What factors in GR8FESTIVAL; be able to consider and Android: This app allows Out team is working so that families adolescence influence the religious how the Sacraments strengthen us students to sign up for a service and parishes become the primary commitments and practices during via Living Stones; and experience the that sends personalized prayers beneficiaries of any renewal of the emerging adulthood? What differences Catholic Christian Leadership Camp in straight to their phones. Catholic faith in southwestern Ontario. in the lives of teenagers are associated the summer months. Each year beyond • Web Portal: A robust youth- with stronger and weaker religious faith Gr. 8 there will be a host of activities focused website, modeled after There is a debt of gratitude owed to and practice among 18 – 23 year olds? and events offered for the students and the excellent US site for 18-30 year the Catholic Community Foundation of their families. olds, bustedhalo.com. Parents Southwestern Ontario (www.ccfswo. Their research has identified five key and families can use the portal to ca). Their belief in this five-year plan factors that were consistently important There are also a number of initiatives to engage in activities and service and willingness to financially support for committed, faith filled young adults engage high school students. Activities projects complementing the work this initiative is a great gift to the during their teenage years: for Gr 9 – 12’s include: of their teens. Diocesan family. I encourage you to • 24 Hours of Service: The day review their web site and acquaint • Strong parental religion – religiously • A Life Time of Hope, Life Time of will combine traditional service yourself with their great work. committed parents Peace: A Creative Composition activities with time to reflect on • Frequent personal prayer Competition integrated into the what’s different about a Christian Dan Moynihan is the Youth Ministry • High importance of religious faith in Career Studies curriculum that call to service in this world. Specialist for the Diocese of London. daily life invites students to explore “What You can contact him at 519-433-0658 • Expression of importance of does God’s vision for my life Students and families can anticipate x247; [email protected] or on religious beliefs have to do with personal joy and that each time they participate in an Twitter @moynihan • Religious experiences – making peace?” activity the Catholic community will a commitment as a teenager • Holy, Holy, Holy: The Grade to God and/or experiencing a 11 year will include a menu miracle, prayers answered and/or a of weekend retreat options to ‘powerful religious experience’ make this experience accessible “The role of parents in education for everyone. Options for parent/ The Diocese of London Youth Ministry child and family retreats will be is of such importance that it is Outreach (DLYMO) has shaped and offered. focused its efforts into a five-year plan • Reaching out: Mission trips, titled Soul’d Out. This programing and cultural exchanges and almost impossible to provide an ministry will be rooted in the factors international retreats to expand identified by Smith seeking to nurture their horizons, deepen their faith (CCC 2221) committed, faith-filled young people and experience the universality adequate substitute.” throughout the Diocese. of the Church.

The Catholic Community Foundation becoming more secular, confusing and of Southwestern Ontario was formed in isolated. We encourage all Catholics, parents, 2011 as a community-based organization grandparents, relatives, single people SOUL’D OUT focused on giving hope and life to Our Catholic youth need our support, our and others, to embrace Soul’d Out as Catholic Values by supporting creative encouragement and our demonstrated a valued community-based effort that and one of a kind activities in our local belief in the importance and goodness of delivers unique faith-based opportunities and the communities. The loss of Catholic Values Catholic Values. They need to realize how and growth experiences for our Catholic is evident and re-igniting them is a important these Values are to their daily youth as they move towards their future vital part of sustaining and growing the lives, both as youth and as they move adult roles. We are asking all Catholic Catholic faith and the everyday value and towards adulthood, parenthood and individuals and families to consider Catholic importance of living the gospel in our community leadership roles. financially contributing to the Foundation daily lives. in meeting our goal in support of one of Soul’d Out is a unique, specially designed the most innovative, comprehensive and When the Soul’d Out Catholic Youth program that focuses on supporting focused Catholic youth programs of our Community Program emerged, the Foundation 25,000 Catholic youth across the time. embraced this initiative emphatically. We Diocese of London within an incremental, committed to raising up to $2 million over age appropriate and engaging set of Today, you can help by making a financial Foundation of five years to support what we believe to educational events and experiences contribution to the Catholic Community be an effective and urgent investment in that will help them learn about, live and Foundation of Southwestern Ontario our Catholic youth. It is often stated, that regularly engage with their Catholic faith by going to our website www.cfswo.ca youth are our future, and for the Church and Catholic Values. It was the program’s or www.CanadaHelps.org or simply by Southwestern this is absolutely true. Investing in the uniqueness, innovation and continuity mailing us a cheque to: 740 Hyde Park sound formation of Catholic Values via over five years in connecting youth as Road, P.O. Box 28115, Oakridge, RO, enhancing the faith experience amongst they transition through high school into London, ON N6H 5E1. our youth is a vital and profound need adulthood that captured the support and Ontario in a world that is constantly changing, commitment of the Foundation. N  Entering Grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 this September? CCLC 2014 E Catholic Christian “I learned a lot about myself. I feel that my faith is stronger and I have more confidence Leadership Camp . I learned in everything I do that I have a lot to share with others” - Student

CCLC is a 5 day, 4 night What: I believe that every youth should What I love most about CCLC summer opportunity to grow as a leader go to CCLC because it gives them is that the program is unique in faith. At camp, you will strengthen your an opportunity to expand their for campers at different horizons. Not only do they get stages in their lives, from the leadership skills through activities focused on to make new friends from all activities you are interested in communication, team work, trust, creativity over Southwestern Ontario but to the social justice issues you and more. they also get the opportunity are faced with daily. At camp, to learn about themselves. there are opportunities to come Campers entering grade 12 are together in small groups, large Social justice, faith and prayer will be key at a different point in their faith groups, groups of the same aspects throughout the week at camp. and leadership journeys than age, and groups of different The strength of CCLC is its staff, which is campers entering grade 9, and ages. Everyone at CCLC gets to at CCLC we get that. know one another and leave as made up of 20 faith-filled, dynamic post- friends regardless of where secondary students. Staff members are they come from or who they dedicated to engaging and serving each and knew going into the first day of camp. every camper.

When: June 30-July 4 July 7-11 July 14-18 August 4-8 August 11-15 August 18-22

Where: Camp Sylvan, a Scouts Canada Facility located on Highway 7 between Parkhill and Thedford. It is a 440 acre site with full service bunk houses, kitchen facilities and covered wagon sleeping amenities. Entering Grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 this September?

A TYPICAL DAY AT CAMP

7:30 Wake up - Get ready for the day

8:15 Breakfast - Our food is hearty, healthy, & always What I love most about CCLC I would encourage parents to My camp journey started in homemade... In other words, delicious! is that the program is unique register their kids because it is my final year of high school, for campers at different such a unique and rewarding a period of discernment 9:10 Flag Pole - Staff & campers meet for stages in their lives, from the experience. Regrettably I was for many, and I believe CCLC announcements, prayer, & opening activities activities you are interested in never a camper at CCLC, but played an instrumental role in 9:25 Jam Session – Grade-level groups explore to the social justice issues you I have been lucky enough to that discernment process. I leadership skills and abilities are faced with daily. At camp, counsel over the past few years remember leaving camp at the 12:00 Lunch - Back to the dining hall... Scrumptious! there are opportunities to come and the change I have witnessed end of the week with such a together in small groups, large within myself through my camp strong conviction in my faith and 1:00 Camp Activities - Campers self select activities groups, groups of the same experience has been profound. a confidence in my leadership based on personal interest. Sports, the arts, music age, and groups of different abilities that I had never before and outdoor nature options are available ages. Everyone at CCLC gets to had. CCLC has had a positive 4:00 Free Time know one another and leave as impact on my life and will friends regardless of where continue to do so in my faith life 5:00 ID session - These small group sessions draw campers into experiences of self-reflection and they come from or who they and everything I do. exploration knew going into the first day of camp. 6:00 Dinner - Rich & energy boosting... Mouth Greg McKie watering! CCLC Associate Director 6:45 Evening Prayer

7:00 Mass - Daily celebration of the Eucharist is the “In high school, there’s such an intense heart of CCLC pressure to be dating and to fit a certain image that it’s hard to stay true to 8:00 Group Activity - All campers and staff gather together for fun & games yourself all of the time. Hearing all of this advice from leaders closer to 9:45 Nighttime Camp Activities - A time for campfire, our age had such an impact on me... stargazing, songs, skits & s’mores! CCLC was an AMAZING experience 10:45 Evening Program - Campers quiet their hearts and I wish every teenager could have and reflect on their day a chance to go! I can’t wait until next summer!” - Student 11:30 Lights out

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40 Birchmount Walk • London, Ontario N6K 4K5 • [email protected] sons and daughters of a loving God. office, to their Pastor and parish staff, and the people in the pews beside them, wants to Calling All Youth The time of transition from elementary school walk with them on this journey and values their By Claire Bondy to high school is filled with excitement and presence in our faith communities. Youth Ministry anticipation, but also some fear, trepidation, and uncertainty. It has the potential to be a pivotal Stay tuned for pictures of the mess that will take Make a mess, let your voices be heard, make moment in regards to their journey of faith, place at our GR8FESTIVAL on May 15 where 400 some noise… These are some of the messages transforming it from the faith of their family to a of our Grade 8 students will encounter faith at a that Pope Francis imparted on the young people faith of their own. This ownership comes over high energy, action packed event. Listen for the gathered in Rio for World Youth Day last summer. time, and entails questioning and exploration. It noise of the students as they receive their “Tool He is calling on the youth to step out in faith and is our desire to provide support for these young Kits for Transition” from Bishop Fabbro in June. proclaim their faith with their lives. people and their parents as they embrace their Watch for the responses to our Living Stones faith. Challenge, giving young people an opportunity to It is in this spirit that we are embarking on an The programs and opportunities we are offering reflect on their participation in the Sacramental initiative called Soul’d Out. Our primary efforts to these young people and their families will life of the Church. Be aware, for the voices of this year are to engage and inspire the 5000 send a clear message that their Church cares for these young people, secure in the knowledge Grade 8 students in the Diocese to help them them. We want them to know they are a valuable that they are a part of a Church that cares find their voices. We will be providing them with part of their parishes and that everyone, from deeply for them and embraces their place in our opportunities to be messy, loud and joyful, and Bishop Fabbro, to the Youth Ministry Outreach communities, will be heard. in the midst of that, to embrace their identity as NET Chris Bray Ministries Chris Bray is a full time By: Mike McPherson, travelling Catholic worship Coordinator of Youth Ministry, artist and speaker. Having Mary Immaculate Parish received multiple Gospel Music Association Covenant NET is an acronym, awards and numerous top 10 which stands for National and #1 hit songs on Christian Evangelization Team. NET is a radio in Canada, his ministry Catholic missionary organization has spanned North America that brings together young from headlining the National adults from across Canada, March for Life rally on trains them for five intense “…the Christian Community must Parliament Hill for 25,000 weeks and sends them out people, the Air Canada to begin their ministry. The Centre, working with great mission of NET is to evangelize help [parents] assume their Catholic figures such as young Catholics, reaching them Matt Maher, Audrey Assad, through retreats and parish Jackie Francois, Leah ministry. The goal is to challenge responsibility of educating their Darrow, Steve Ray, Ralph these young Catholics to love Martin, involvement in Life Christ and embrace the life of children in faith.” (GDC 227). Teen, World Youth Day, the Catholic Church. NET is NCCYM, and hundreds a part of the Church’s urgent of conferences, retreats, mission of evangelization schools and parishes. Visit to go out into the world to www.chrisbraymusic.com awaken the faith of those we to have Chris sing & speak serve by inviting them to live for your event. as Disciples of Christ. This ministry is powerful and can “Chris is an enthusiastic, be a life changing experience Christ centered person who is for everyone touched by it. talented in many ways. Chris Incorporating NET into your faith is not only an accomplished community can be beneficial to worship leader and musician, all involved, and we look forward but also an inspired to welcoming NET back into the composer.” Diocese of London in 2015. - Fr. Graham Keep

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Homily of Pope Francis at the Mass of Canonization At the heart of this Sunday, faith. That is why on the body and popes of the twentieth bestowed in abundance upon Church; for this reason I like to which concludes the Octave of of the risen Christ the wounds century. They lived through the the People of God, meriting our think of him as the the pope of Easter and which Saint John Paul never pass away: they remain, for tragic events of that century, eternal gratitude. openness to the Holy Spirit. II wished to dedicate to Divine those wounds are the enduring but they were not overwhelmed Mercy, are the glorious wounds of sign of God’s love for us. They by them. For them, God was This hope and this joy were In his own service to the People the risen Jesus. are essential for believing in God. more powerful; faith was more palpable in the earliest of God, Saint John Paul II was the Not for believing that God exists, powerful – faith in Jesus Christ community of believers, in pope of the family. He himself He had already shown those but for believing that God is love, the Redeemer of man and the Jerusalem, as we have heard in once said that he wanted to be wounds when he first appeared to mercy and faithfulness. Saint Lord of history; the mercy the Acts of the Apostles (cf. 2:42- remembered as the pope of the the Apostles on the very evening Peter, quoting Isaiah, writes to of God, shown by those five 47). It was a community which family. I am particularly happy of that day following the Sabbath, Christians: “by his wounds you wounds, was more powerful; lived the heart of the Gospel, to point this out as we are in the day of the resurrection. But, have been healed” (1 Pet 2:24, cf. and more powerful too was the love and mercy, in simplicity and the process of journeying with as we have heard, Thomas was Is 53:5). closeness of Mary our Mother. fraternity. families towards the Synod on not there that evening, and when the family. It is surely a journey the others told him that they Saint John XXIII and Saint John In these two men, who looked This is also the image of the which, from his place in heaven, had seen the Lord, he replied Paul II were not afraid to look upon the wounds of Christ Church which the Second Vatican he guides and sustains. that unless he himself saw and upon the wounds of Jesus, to and bore witness to his mercy, Council set before us. John XXIII touched those wounds, he would touch his torn hands and his there dwelt a living hope and an and John Paul II cooperated with May these two new saints and not believe. A week later, Jesus pierced side. They were not indescribable and glorious joy (1 the Holy Spirit in renewing and shepherds of God’s people appeared once more to the ashamed of the flesh of Christ, Pet 1:3,8). The hope and the joy updating the Church in keeping intercede for the Church, so that disciples gathered in the Upper they were not scandalized by him, which the risen Christ bestows on with her pristine features, during this two-year journey Room. Thomas was also present; by his cross; they did not despise his disciples, the hope and the joy those features which the saints toward the Synod she may Jesus turned to him and told him the flesh of their brother (cf. Is which nothing and no one can have given her throughout the be open to the Holy Spirit in to touch his wounds. Whereupon 58:7), because they saw Jesus in take from them. The hope and joy centuries. 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