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BT75 0QP Tel: 028 895 22461 ‘All mums Email: [email protected] Jebbeh Konneh, eight months pregnant Eastern Europe, but even there the signs did not watch and pray. Most critically of decay are clear. such power as we had we sometimes exercised for our own benefit rather than should live’ It is not the first time that this has for the good of others. We were often happened. For instance the Gospel was uncharitable. once very powerful in North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, but over We allowed ourselves to be tied very many centuries was replaced by Islam as tightly into the societies where we a way of life and of understanding. lived and kept no real critical distance. We settled into usually comfortable However in Europe where the Christian lives. God has now unsettled that Gospel has receded as an important complacency and we are once again influence on everyday life it has not called to become travellers (what the Jebbeh’s own sister been replaced by another “big story” Scriptures call sojourners) and pilgrims to take its place. Instead it has been lost her life giving birth Dear Friends, in a culture where we no longer feel at replaced by scepticism about the ability home. Lent is a time for reassessment. It is time of any story to explain ourselves or in Sierra Leone. to take stock of where we are in our the world around us. Insofar as there In the past (and nowhere more so than in relationship with God as we approach are some things that people share (a Ireland, North and South) we had a very important place and could be assured the season when we recall his great common story-the things we talk about As her baby grows, of being listened to. We enjoyed many acts of redemption and vindication. It when we’re together) these are about privileges. Now we are one voice Jebbeh fears she is a season which involves its own television, the internet and shopping. Financial insecurity is what torments us among many and struggle to get a type of sorrow but also it’s own type of could be next. now and the anxieties of modern life hearing. By and large that is a good rejoicing and resolve. Giving something have led to a mental health crisis. Such thing as we are no longer in control. up for Lent or doing something positive a crisis has many causes but at least in Now our only influence will be through which we haven’t done before during part has its origins in what many people how we witness to the Gospel story and With every Lent are ways of acknowledging our experience as the meaninglessness of it’s ethical implications. envelope, every shortcomings and doing what is in our life. This is a new place for us to be and power to put them right. To do this we need to become less of we need to think and pray very hard an institution. Institutions are important click, every It can also be a time when the Church about how to respond. because they an embody truth and Big Brekkie. as a whole takes stock. A time when Perhaps it would be useful to lay out the wisdom and hand these from one all Christian traditions ask themselves situation and the resulting problems a bit generation to the next. However they Every one of where they stand in relation to God and more specifically. are easily corrupted and can become us can help to the world around them, and on the very inward looking. They are usual First, Christianity has moved from the basis of that discernment, to do what is better at hoarding that at pruning and save lives. centre to the margins. It is very common in their power to put things right. can become weighed down by excess now to meet people to whom anything baggage. We need to become more of In the past the Church and the Gospel other than the basic details of the Gospel a movement or a network, open to the shaped whole societies- their laws, are news. Unfortunately when they prophetic voices keep that calling us institutions and customs. People hear us talking about the Gospel and it’s back to our true vocation adapted for disagree when that power or influence implications it can seem like bad news. changing circumstances. began to decline in Western Europe but An inevitable consequence of being I realise that the above may seem a little there is now no doubt that the decline is on the margins is that we are also a gloomy (penitential perhaps?).