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Hami Hill honours the Holy Spirit Perth’s Portuguese community marked the feast of Pentecost on June 8 with a special celebration at Holy Cross Church in Hamilton Hill. The day was full of colour and tradition. Full report - Pages 10-11
Embrace hope, reject mediocrity: Pope ON JUNE 7, Pope Francis made a phone call to a group of young Italians who were on pilgrimage, encouraging them to embrace hope in God and reject mediocrity. “Don’t let yourselves be discouraged by failure or anxiousness that wants to remove your dreams, that wants to close you into its dark mentality rather than letting you fly in the light of hope. Please, do not fall into mediocrity, into that mediocrity that lowers and makes us grey, for life is not grey, life is for betting on grand ideas and for great things,” he said in a phone call to the participants of the 36th annual pilgrimage from Macerata to Loreto, Italy. The basilica in Loreto is believed to contain the “holy house” where the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary at the Annunciation. The Pope said that he was pleased to be with the young pilgrims “virtually”, the Holy See Press Office reported. He asked especially for their prayers for the June 8 meet-
ing of prayer at the Vatican with the presidents of Israel and Palestine and the Orthodox Christian Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I. “I ask you, please, unite yourselves to us and ask God, through the intercession of the Madonna of Loreto, to make resound in that
“Please, do not fall into mediocrity, into that mediocrity that lowers and makes us grey, for life is not grey.” land in a new way, the song of the angels, ‘Glory to God in the highest and peace to mankind’,” the Pope added. Pope Francis also expressed his joy at the theme chosen for the pilgrimage, ‘God is the Lord of surprises’, saying “this is true!”
“For this reason, don’t be afraid to dream of a more just world; to ask, to seek, and to enhance,” he stressed. “You know that faith is not an inheritance that we receive from others, faith is not a product that one buys, but is a response of love that we give freely and we build daily with patience, through success and failure.” The Pope encouraged the young people to trust in God’s goodness, urging them, “don’t be afraid to throw yourselves into the arms of God”. He emphasised that they should not give in to the temptation to be negative but, rather, choose to be joyful in faith. Finally, Pope Francis reminded the pilgrims that “nothing is lost with God, but without him, everything is lost”. He stressed that they should open their hearts to God, because with faith “your eyes will see his life and his miracles”. - CNA
Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on June 4. PHOTO: CNS / ALESSANDRO BIANCHI
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