Newsletter - Thomastown Parish

2022 Newsletters

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Reflection

In September 2019 Pope Francis instituted ‘The Sunday of the Word of God’. The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time is to be ‘a Sunday given entirely to the Word of God, to appreciate the inexhaustible riches contained in that constant dialogue between the Lord and his people.’ This would be a fitting time to ‘strengthen our bonds with the Jewish people and to pray for Christian unity’. We are reminded that just before his Ascension the Risen Lord appeared to the apostles and broke bread with them. ‘He then opened their minds to understand the Scriptures’ (Luke 24:45). The Pope, in his apostolic letter Aperuit illis, wrote ‘The relationship between the Risen Lord, the community of believers and sacred Scripture is essential to our identity as Christians. Without the Lord who opens our minds to them, it is impossible to understand the Scriptures in depth. Yet, the contrary is equally true: without the Scriptures, the events of the mission of Jesus and of his Church in this world would remain incomprehensible’.