Big Brother Big Sister Youth Mentoring Programme Urgently Requires Volunteers:

Have you an hour a week to volunteer to build a friendship with a young person in Kilkenny who needs a little extra support? You will be matched with a young person based on your hobbies, interests and personality. Full training and support will be provided throughout your involvement in the programme. To find out more go to www.foroige.ie/bbbs or contact Kate Carroll, Big Brother Big Sister Programme Officer on 086 068 5200 or kate.carroll@foroige.ie

Reflection

“Like Simeon, let us also pick up this child, the God of newness and surprises. By welcoming the Lord, the past opens to the future, the old in us opens up to the new that he awakens. “It is not easy for the old man in us to welcome the child, the new one.
“ The newness of God presents itself as a child and we, with all our habits, fears, misgivings, envies, worries, come face to face with this child. Will we embrace the child, welcome the child, make room for the child? Will this newness really enter our lives … ?
Brothers and sisters, these questions are for us, for each of us, for our communities and for the Church. Let us be restless, let us be moved by the Spirit, like Simeon and Anna. If, like them, we live in expectation, safeguarding our interior life and in conformity with the Gospel, if, like them, we live in expectation, we will embrace Jesus, who is the light and hope of life.
Pope Francis