Happy New Year!
May the year 2010 be filled with blessings from the Almighty Father, and your heart, with His love
We, the Church, is celebrating the "Year of Priests" at this moment. I ask all of you to pray for priests in your diocese including Bishops. With your prayer and spiritual support, priests may be able to stand on the firm foundation for their daily ministries. Your prayer is the key for good pastoral care by priests. Also kindly pray for the vocation and appointment of new Bishop for Sapporo diocese. Prayer is important for the selection process of new bishops.
Weather over the end of 2009 and beginning of the 2010 was quite terrible in Niigata area. Though we did not have so much snow in Niigata city itself, since yesterday strong and cold wind has been discouraging people to go out. Also public transportation has been disrupted. Despite of this bad weather, more than 30 people attended the midnight Mass in Niigata Cathedral to begin the new year with prayer. Also this morning, more than 80 people including a couple of guests from Singapore attended the 11 am Mass.
I have issued a 2010 New Year's Pastoral Letter today and you may get a copy of it, though only in English at this moment, from your local parishes. The title of the letter is "Workers for the Harvesting" which obviously talking about the vocation. Also I mentioned about several other issues so that I hope you may be able to get a copy of it. If you can try to read it in Japanese, please click the link here. (Photo above is from my last trip to Bangladesh)
May the year 2010 will be filled by blessing of Almighty Father and may your heart be filled by his love.
ReplyDeleteMay the year 2010 be filled with blessing of the Almighty Father, and may your heart be filled with his love.
May the year 2010 be filled with blessings from the Almighty Father, and your heart, [be filled] with His love.
[be filled] is redundant.
Thank you, Fr.Juanito.
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