Lenten Challenge & Invitation
The 2025 Lenten message of Pope Francis is a challenge and an
encouragement for us to journey in hope together. Our Holy Father
encourages us – as he always does – to move out of our comfort zones
and to engage with others. This is all the more essential in “a world which
seems to have lost its heart”.
Abstaining from alcohol is one way of offering hope and support to those
who are living under the shadow of addiction. A Pledge for Lent can be
taken in a parish Pioneer centre or via www.pioneerassociation.org.
You might be the first person in your family, school or workplace to take a
few steps as a Pilgrim of Hope during this Jubilee Year. Consider inviting
a few others to join you on the journey! You will be helping them – as their
sponsor or anchor – to kindle the fire of God’s love in their hearts.
Think also about prayerfully adopting a person who is waiting on a place
in Cuan Mhuire or as part of a Residential Treatment Program. You might
also pray for those at local level who are being sustained – one day at a
time – by the 12 steps of the AA fellowship.
Messages of prayerful support for people who are living with addiction
can be posted to Fr Robert McCabe, PO Box 13492, Dublin 7 or can be
sent by email to prayer@pioneers.ie.
Additional information is available at www.pioneerassociation.org.