Today, 24th April 2020, is the day we open the new web site for
the Parish of St. Vincent de Paul.
The idea of a parish web site is not new. It has been brewing for more than a year. However, none of us in the community was familiar with the construction process and time has been at a premium. It is thanks to the shutdown of most activities by the corona virus that we have been able to get to this stage in the production of the site. At least, then, one good thing has come out of the shutdown!
Our thanks go especially to Helen Jones, the Pastoral Assistant of Liverpool South Pastoral area, who has, with great patience and forbearance, given many hours on WhatsApp to tutor me and accompany me in the setting up of the site. It is entirely due to her generosity and patience that this site is opening today.
It is fitting in some ways that we open today, the beginning of Ramadan. I would like to think it is a blessing for our desire to build closer relationships with the adherents of Islam that we open on the day that they begin their Holy Month. At our prayer this morning we prayed for them, that this month be truly blessed by God and that it be a month, not so much marked by the social isolation that is imposed on us for the good of all, but by a growth in their knowledge of and obedience to God and their conversion of heart.
This conversion of heart is not just for Muslims, but for us all. Our desire is that this website will play a role in bringing us all closer together, as God’s Human Family and so be instrument for building God’s Kingdom here in the heart of Liverpool.
Terry
