Dilexi Te Online Reading Group

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Come and join others in their 20’s and 30’s to explore Pope Leo’s first key document, Dilexi Te, ‘On Love for the Poor’, over drinks each Thursday. The sessions, which will run over 6 weeks, will include prayer, have a little input giving an overview of the chapter (in case you only got the chance to skim it) and allow time for sharing reflections with others in small group. While we’ll be taking the document seriously, and what it’s asking of us as individuals and as a Church, but the atmosphere will be relaxed, informal and hopefully enjoyable! So sign up and come to as many as you can make. Dilexi Te, ‘On Love for the Poor’, is a document started by Pope Francis, and completed by Pope Leo that helps us better appreciate “the close connection between Christ’s love and his summons to care for the poor”, a summons that Pope Leo recognises not all take as seriously as we should. Sessions will be on zoom from 7-8.15pm from the 30th of April and each week until the 4th of June. Register to take part. For those who sign up first, we’ll be able to send a print copy of the document out, should you find that an easier than engaging with it on a screen. We may also be able to help with the drinks part, depending on how many sign up (if you want this, send us your address) “The organisers, often through force of sheer good humour, carved out a weekly space for a group of young adults to discuss the latest encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti. Despite being on zoom and inherently constrained in their conviviality, these Thursday evenings found a balance- both prayerful and fun, both sensitive/welcoming to newcomers and intimate/familiar. For me, this pushed me to read the encyclical in a different way. Not purely as something to be analysed and discussed in a scholarly way, but as something that is living and will take shape in an open-ended way, depending on how it is received by living people, particularly people who wouldn't otherwise have read it. I think this is how Pope Francis would like his encyclicals to be read.” Quote from Francis, a participant a reading about Fratelli Tutti that was run in the same way in the past The project hopes to build relationships and community with young adults in Great Britain, so is primarily for this community. The event isn't open to anyone under 18 years of age. This little project is run jointly by Bon Secours Young Adults Great Britain and Million Minutes, and promoted with art work from JP DeQuay of the Ecological Conversion Group. If you have any questions, contact Chris Knowles (message us on the app)

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