Journey With Us This Lent
Division, discord and war mar the regions where CNEWA serves. In Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria; in Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea; in the vast subcontinent of India; and in Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Romania, we see the pain of a beautiful but broken world:
Gaza’s children’s precious formative years devastated, their lives focused on finding food not learning and playing and growing. A pensioner in Ukraine, her family dispersed by war and fear, left alone to fend for herself as bombs and shells fall. Hospitals in Lebanon with empty medicine cabinets and full examination rooms, its doctors and nurses unable to provide medication and care to even the sickest among them.
Something must change. And even here at home, there may also be something in our own lives that we must change. Your Lenten sacrifice can touch the life of someone living through such brokenness. As you grow closer to God, you, too, can help your brother or sister experience this same conversion.
Lent invites a response to God’s initiative for conversion, and alongside renewed prayer and fasting, almsgiving remains a vital expression of this response. Through such prayerful generosity, hope and healing take root in a broken world. This year, give alms to CNEWA, and help us continue this vital work to foster communion and unity around the world.
As a sign of our gratitude, you will receive a special edition of the Way of the Cross, written by young people from Lebanon — a deeply personal witness to faith.
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Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, speaks of the power of forgiveness and the need to break the chains of loneliness, especially the hidden loneliness fostered in the virtual world. We offer these questions to all for your personal Lenten reflection:
This Lent, as I reflect on the journey of my life, whom will I choose to forgive for genuine hurt and pain I have suffered?
This Lent, how will I seek freedom from hidden loneliness and break through to experience true friendship and connection?