DIOCESE OF PARRAMATTA REPORT
Children of Grace in the Year of Grace
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| Fr John Watkins baptises Noah, held by his parents Sarah and Daniel Ang.Photography: Alphonsus Fok & Grace Lu |
By Diocesan Pastoral Planning Officer Daniel Ang
The Year of Grace (Pentecost 2012 to Pentecost 2013) has been an opportunity for the renewal of faith in the ever present possibilities that God’s gifts place before us.
As a community of grace, our identity as Church depends on our receptivity to the self-offering of God in the life of Christ, a life ‘poured out’ on the Cross, embodied in the Resurrection, communicated in the Spirit at Pentecost and received in the gift of the Eucharist.
Grace brings us into an encounter with this very life and friendship of God, present not outside of human history but active within it, drawing us by need and desire to Himself.
For my wife Sarah and I, our year of grace commenced a few days earlier than that of the Australian Church with the arrival of our first child, a baby boy, in mid-May. The Chinese name we chose, in addition to his English name Noah, was Beng Sim which means, roughly, ‘bright, clear heart’.
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