Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This Sunday we begin the journey towards confirmation for some of our young people. The program for this year is slightly different. We are reminding them that our faith does not stop at the door of the church but involves other people particularly those who lives may not have run as smoothly as they would have wished. Jesus, in the gospel today tells us a story. It’s a story of those with lots of material wealth but no spirituality and of a poor homeless individual sitting at the gate looking for scraps. He is poor but he has dignity and faith. He is a respectable person, but the rich man does not see him as such. All of us as Christians need at times to move out of our comfort zone. Our faith calls us to do that. Go and take the Christ with you is the challenge put before us at the end of every Mass. That is the challenge we are trying to put before all of our confirmation students this year. We are trying to enable them to live their faith in the market place. Every month we hope to have a speaker that will encourage them and their parents to get involved in some activity outside of the four walls of our church. Our program will be running on a Sunday evening once a month and at the end we will celebrate Mass. This Mass on the confirmation class Sunday will take place at 7:45 pm and it is open to everyone So as we journey together in faith let us pray for one another and go out to the whole world with joy to proclaim the good news in word and deed. Let the Journey continue. Pray for me as I pray for you, Fr Karl