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Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh Visits Oblate Ministries in Sylhet February 28th, 2024
From Fr. Séamus P. Finn, OMI, Director of OMIUSA JPIC and OIP
(Originally Published at OMIUSA.ORG)
As you are aware, We have worked closely with Oblates in Bangladesh for a number of years and particularly in the Diocese of Sylhet, where Bejoy D’Cruze, OMI, was the founding Bishop, before he moved on to his present assignment as Archbishop of Dhaka.
The Oblates continue to have the number of ministries in the diocese and this posting yesterday reminded me of the vitality and energy that sustains their mission presence.
This celebration was on the occasion of visit to the diocese by the Apostolic Nuncio, Most Rev Kevin S. Randall, Bangladesh. – Fr. Séamus Finn, OMI
From the original post of Face book:
His Excellency Most Rev. Archbishop Kevin S. Randall, The Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh spent the last day in Sylhet, visiting Baluchor, Khadim, Caritas and Bishop House. Thank God and all who spent your energy for his safe and successful pastoral visit to Sylhet Catholic diocese. _ Fr. Soroj Costa, OMI
Take Action to Support Migrant Ministry under Threat February 26th, 2024
The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Annunciation House in El Paso, a network of migrant shelters that has been in operation for almost 50 years, and aims to shut it down. Paxton’s legal action appears to be part of a broader Republican push to target Catholic nonprofits serving migrants at the border amid an effort to make immigration a key 2024 election campaign issue.
Maryknoll’s Office for Global Concerns provides a way to show solidarity to Annunciation House and to send a message to the attorney general. Interested in more information, click here and here.
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VISIT THE WEBSITE TO TAKE ACTION: https://maryknollogc.org/action/join-us-solidarity-annunciation-house
FURTHER READING:
- Maryknoll’s Office for Global Concerns – https://maryknollogc.org/action/join-us-solidarity-annunciation-house
- El Paso Matters article (the first hyperlinked ‘here’ in the sentence in the blurb: https://elpasomatters.org/2024/02/20/ag-ken-paxton-targets-el-paso-annunciation-house/
- NPR piece on Annunciation House (the second hyperlinked ‘here’ in the sentence in the blurb): https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1233217761/texas-is-suing-an-immigration-nonprofit-after-accusing-them-of-human-smuggling
Sacred Heart Church -Oakland, CA – Greenteam Sees Success February 26th, 2024
By Fr. Jack Lau, OMI, Sacred Heart Church -Oakland, CA – GreenTeam
Sacred Heart Green Team-Oakland in Feb. 2023; seeing the blight of litter on our streets and in our community realized, the solution “starts at home.” So, we began to chart how much trash we collected in front of our house or apartment. Each month we would tabulate those numbers and publicize it in our Church Bulletin.
2024 Lenten Resources February 21st, 2024
We invite you to join us this Lent to take actions to help preserve God’s great gift of Creation.
Invite your communities to distribute them as bulletin inserts during worship on an upcoming Sunday. Each year, these calendars go up on refrigerators and bulletin boards across communities, and open many conversations about environmental stewardship and climate action.
“Christians have fasted from meat during Lent for generations. Try eating vegetarian today and check out Oxfam’s Eat for Good resource online for other ways to use your fast to bless others”: bit.ly/eat4good
Visit their website to download the calendars:
ipldmv.org/lent
“May this season serve as a reminder of our interdependence and our call to care for our common home.”
OMI Anniversary Letter of February 17, 2024: Pilgrims Radiating our Common Charism February 16th, 2024
MISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE
The Superior General
MISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE
The Superior General
Letter of February 17, 2024
Pilgrims radiating our common charism LJCetMI
Dear Oblates and members of our charismatic family:
In two years, God willing, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the pontifical approval of the Constitutions and Rules and the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, just after living the Jubilee of 2025. Both events will help us to continue our pilgrimage in communion as missionaries of hope. In my previous letters, listening to the appeals of the last General Chapter, I recalled our commitment to care for our common home: our Mother Earth and our charismatic family. Today I would like to renew our commitment to go on pilgrimage with the laity who share the charism to continue taking steps in the direction proposed by the Chapter and the Second Congress of Lay Oblate Associations.
“May we understand well what we are!” wrote St. Eugene de Mazenod to his companions from Rome, commenting on the pontifical approbation of the Congregation and its new name: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. In these 200 years of history, every Oblate, every layman and laywoman, consecrated men and women of our family, has helped us to better understand the beauty of our charism. Each one of us who live it today brings a new ray of light that radiates in the world, a new face of this marvelous polyhedron that is this charism given by the Holy Spirit to the Church and to the world to announce the Gospel of Jesus and his Kingdom to the most abandoned.
