Australia's bishops: join the Year of Grace

The Australian bishops' have launched a Year of Grace for the faithful down under and are calling on Catholics everywhere to join them to celebrate and renew their faith. The initiative kicked off on Pentecost 2012 and is an exhortation from the bishops of Australia to "Start afresh from Christ."
The bishops say the Year of Grace stems out of their decade long reflection on the Apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (at the start of the new millennium).
This letter recalls the events in Rome during the Jubilee year of 2000 and Pope John Paul II’s challenge to the whole Church to "contemplate the face of Christ."
Chairing the organizing committee for the Year of Grace is Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge who says “the bishops have decided under the impulse of the Holy Spirit we think, to call all Catholic people in Australia to a kind of time of retreat to a year long retreat. Not everyone can go off to a retreat house, but to a kind of retreat time where in many different ways we together will seek to contemplate the face of Jesus in a new and deeper way: asking ourselves the question ‘how does this or that element of the Church’s life relate to Jesus?. Where is Jesus in this or that?’ That’s a fundamental question of this time.”

To find out more about the initiative : www.yearofgrace.catholic.org.au

Catherine Smibert has been talking to Archbishop Coleridge and some of the other organizers of the Year of Grace and brings us this report:
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