Come, Holy Spirit, Fill Our Hearts with the Fire of Your Love Pastoral Letter – Archbishop Dermot Farrell

ARCHBISHOP FARRELL – PASTORAL LETTERPlease find attached to this email and at this link Archbishop Farrell’s Pastoral Letter for Pentecost, Come, Holy Spirit, Fill Our Hearts with the Fire of Your Love.
The Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter introduces a Process for the Modification of Parishes for Mission, which is also attached and available here.
From Come, Holy Spirit, Fill Our Hearts with the Fire of Your Love:
This Pentecost Letter puts before the Diocese a process which provides for initial reflection in parishes on their future. This process also sets out the formal steps to be taken, together with the Archbishop, when new parish structures and relationships are being considered... I ask Parish Pastoral Councils and Partnership Pastoral Councils, through prayer, listening, discernment and decision-making, to find together a way into the future for their parishes locally.
In the Holy Spirit, we are called to let go of what was, and open ourselves to where Christ is leading us, to embrace the hope God has for us and for all creation... Now is the time, in prayer and reflection, to deepen the renewal which has been long under way among us.
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