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The Diocese of Saint John is conducting a comprehensive planning study of the entire diocese to help gauge the interest and support for the Cathedral Restoration, an Endowment for Parish Evangelization Efforts, and Individual Parish Needs. Parishioner insights are being sought through interviews and listening sessions. Your thoughts are extremely valuable during this planning process, and participation is greatly appreciated.

The CCCB video series Journey through Lent will be available once again on the CCCB website. This year’s Lenten reflections are delivered by His Eminence Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, and the Most Reverend Brian Joseph Dunn, Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth.

The Holy Father Francis' Message for Lent 2023 is entitled "Lenten Penance and the Synodal Journey". In his message for Lent this year, the Holy Father chooses the Gospel of the Transfiguration, inviting us to an experience of Lenten penance in which we are called to “ascend ‘a high mountain’ in the company of Jesus”. Like the disciples who were led by the Master to Mount Tabor, we will not be alone on this uphill journey, but in the company of our brothers and sisters. This is the reason why, Pope Francis reminds us, our Lenten path is a synodal journey. At the end of a pathway that “requires effort, sacrifice and concentration”, we will arrive to the summit, where “the panorama that opens up at the end amazes us and rewards us by its grandeur.”

'Le message du Saint-Père pour le Carême 2023 est paru ce vendredi 17 février, à quelques jours du mercredi des Cendres. François s’appuie sur l’évangile de la Transfiguration pour expliquer le sens de l’itinéraire ascétique du Carême, qu’il met en parallèle avec le chemin synodal.'