FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Thomastown Parish

The First Friday Fr. Dan and Sister Anna will bring Communion this week to the people on the ‘regular’ list. If we haven’t been calling to you and you, a family member, or neighbour would like to receive Communion at home, please contact Fr. Dan at 0876644858, or the Office on Tuesday – 7793191.

Do this in Memory, our Mass with children and their families as the children prepare for First Communion, will be held next Sunday, 2^nd April, at the 10.30am Mass.

Reflection

Dear brothers and sisters, a faith without giving, a faith without gratuitousness is an incomplete faith. It is a weak faith, a faith that is ill. We could compare it to rich and nourishing food that nonetheless lacks flavour, or a more or less well-played game, but without a goal: no, it isn’t good, it lacks “salt.” A faith without giving, without gratuitousness, without works of charity, makes us sad in the end: just like that man who returned home “sorrowful” with a fallen countenance, even though he had been looked upon with love by Jesus in person.
Today we can ask ourselves: “at what point is my faith? Do I experience it as something mechanical, like a relationship of duty or interest with God? Do I remember to nourish it by letting myself be looked at and loved by Jesus”? Letting oneself be gazed at and loved by Jesus; letting Jesus look at us, love us. “And, attracted by him, do I respond freely, with generosity, with all my heart?”
Angelus for the 28th Sun Ord B
Pope Francis