The Challenge of Poverty week: Wednesday

on 3rd October 2018

Excerpts from the Apostolic Exhortation EVANGELII GAUDIUM of Pope Francis

Tuesday 3rd October

54. ……..Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which

excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of

indifference has developed.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at

the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help

them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.

The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us

something new to purchase.

In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle;

they fail to move us.

Moving from Thought to action
Poverty awareness week takes place this week from 1st-7th October. During this week, we will support our local food bank. Please bring along donations and leave them in the box in the porch. The Mini-Vinnies will then make sure they are given to the food bank. Pope Francis writes: “At the very heart of the gospel is life in community and engagement with others. The content of the first proclamation has an immediate moral