Lenten Campaign Against Hunger & Disease Launched in Ranchi Archdiocese

Ranchi: The annual Ranchi Archdiocesan Lenten Campaign against hunger and disease was officially launched today on 1st March, 2020, the first Sunday of /lent from different parishes in the Archdiocese.

Archbishop Felix Toppo celebrating the Mass of the annual gathering of the Ranchi Catholic Mahila Sangh at Christ the King Church, Hesag spoke of the importance of prayer, fasting, sacrifice and charity. He exhorted the women to fulfil their duties as mothers and to transmit the values of the faith to their children. He then inaugurated the Lenten Campaign by giving donation boxes to the people.

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas SFX, celebrating the First Sunday of Lent Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral Cathedral Parish reminded the people that while it is our duty to think of the poor through out the year, Lent is a special time to make sacrifices, save and give to the poor. He emphasised the need to teach our youth and children to make other people’s needs our need and thus to be generous specially through sacrifice to save and contribute to the collection for fight against hunger and disease. Lenten collection boxes were distributed to the children.

In Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Samlong, the Parish Priest Fr. Nelson Barla celebrating a special Mass for Children reminded them that there are children poorer than them to whom they must be generous. In various other parishes of the Archdiocese the Lenten campaign was launched by the Parish Priests.

In the Archdiocesan Lenten Letter signed by both Archbishop Felix and Bishop Mascarenhas which was read in all the Churches today, the two Bishops have called upon the people for forty days of prayer, penance and charity and have concluded: “ We pray that every member of our Archdiocese, our priests and all our brothers and sisters in consecrated Religious Life, our seminarians, our families and young people and children, will benefit deeply from the rich graces offered through our Lenten practices, especially through prayer, penance and Charity.”