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Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra stresses the importance of joint efforts, effective planning, and a spirit of sacrifice as plans continue to be put in place ahead of World Youth Day 2023.

By Vatican News staff writer

On Thursday, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the Substitute of the Secretariat of State, inaugurated the operations headquarters of the World Youth Day, scheduled to hold from 1-6 August 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Addressing the dignitaries gathered at the event and the members of the Local Organizing Committee, the archbishop expressed his joy at being at the place where the event will be “thought about, planned, organized… and prayed over.”

From the Office of the Superior General of the Josephite Society of the Sacred Heart

Once again we find ourselves trapped in unnecessary and unwarranted mourning. Our collective prayers are lifted for consolation for families and friends of persons who were victims of senseless racist violence. This time in Buffalo NY. These poor victims were guilty of being African American and having the audacity to shop at a grocery store in the middle of the day. We continue to condemn violence, white supremacy, and hatred repeatedly and like other episodes, we are growing numb and weary with our seemingly daily grief. The Josephites stand with the families and all those who seek justice for them and for all of God’s children. The senseless hatred, systemic and personal racist behavior must stop. Violence on any level mocks God and His Divine goodness as the Creator of something and somebody good. Let us turn our collective prayers to collective action so that no child of God has to fear bigotry, oppression, death, or violence again.

By John Lavenburg | CRUX
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NEW YORK – Now three days removed from a racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville says the answer to the often asked question ‘what needs to be done’ hasn’t changed from the last time it was asked.

“We are called by Our Lord ‘to love one another’ as he has loved us,” Fabre, chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism told Crux. “We are all sons and daughters of the one God, and we must learn to take care of each other with the utmost respect.”

Rev. Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS, was appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop-elect of Charleston. He is a priest of the religious order the Missionaries of St. Charles, or Scalabrinian Fathers, and will become the 14th Ordinary for the diocese. Bishop-elect Fabre-Jeune currently serves as administrator at San Felipe de Jesús Mission in Forest Park, GA., and as the local superior of the Scalabrinian priests in Atlanta. He will be ordained and installed on May 13, 2022.

Vespers

Solemn Vespers before ordination will be held May 12, 2022 at 6 p.m. Watch the livestream here:

• https://www.facebook.com/events/485050563343481

Ordination

Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS, will be ordained May 13, 2022, at 2 p.m. Follow along via livestream here:

• https://youtu.be/iUxPAbfdTTQ
• https://www.facebook.com/events/475163664399387

Program

Download the Vespers/Ordination program here: Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune, CS