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The Catholic Church in Montreal is proud to launch a new publication from Archbishop Christian Lépine.
 
It is prayer booklet, to make it easier to pray, to read the Bible, to recite the rosary, whether alone, as a couple, as a family, with children and young people.
 
This booklet is called "FAMILY PRAYER - in every home," published on March 25, 2020, in honour of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord.
 
“COVID-19 affects all of humanity in one way or another. Let us take the time to rediscover the importance of prayer in our personal and family lives. Let us open our hearts to God present with us and to his work of salvation. Let us learn, with the help of Jesus Christ, how to grow in solidarity with our families and our society”, Mgr Christian Lépine.
 
I invite you to use it and distribute it. It is a free PDF document. (The document  link is above in red)
 

The Catholic Church in Montreal launched last September a “construction” initiative meant to build vibrant, mission-driven parish communities.  By 2021, the archdiocese expects to have an action plan ready to help the Catholic Church in Montreal make what the Quebec bishops are calling a “missionary shift”.
 
The readiness to do so stems from the bishops’ 2016 pastoral manifesto, The Missionary Shift of Christian Communities, which was a response to Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the New Evangelization, The Joy of the Gospel.  The Communications team is pleased to hereby present a summary.
 
“Montreal is missionary territory…and it is time to rebuild, to transform, to be renewed” says the archbishop, Christian Lépine.  “In the past, the mission of evangelization took place elsewhere, not here”, he notes.  “Now it is here”, he says.  “I believe that is a good thing because to be on a mission in in the very nature of the Church, in its DNA”.
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