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PASTORAL LETTER FOR LENT 2009
BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF MALTA
AND THE BISHOP OF GOZO
NEED OF A FUNDUMENTAL
CHANGE IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE
Dear brethren,
The Church in our dear islands is currently having two beautiful experiences which can easily be linked to the Pauline Year we are celebrating as a Universal Church. We are referring to the pastoral visitations being carried out in the Diocese of Malta and the Diocesan Mission in Gozo.
Closer to you
At the beginning of Holy Lent, we would like to speak to you about these experiences which, we can tell you right away, have left a pleasing effect in us. They filled us, bishops, with great joy, strengthened us in our Faith and encouraged us to continue working with all our might in the field of the Lord for the good of all. We would like to make our own and repeat the words our Father St. Paul the Apostle said after his pastoral visit to the Philippians: I thank my God whenever I think of you, I pray with joy, remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you first heard it right up to the present….And God knows how much I miss you all, loving you as Christ Jesus loves you. (Ph 1, 3-5.8).
