My dear parishioners,

Season of Lent 2025

This year, the 40-day Season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and culminates in the resurrection of the Lord on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. The theme for both the Jubilee Year 2025 and this Lenten Season is Pilgrims of Hope.

As we engage in the traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, let us practice these together with our Jesuit Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAP) as it will enhance our role as Pilgrims of Hope in renewing our faith journey as well as bearers of Christ’s light, bringing hope to ourselves and others.

We are particularly called to support the Orang Asli Community, as emphasized by His Grace, Most Reverend Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim, DD. He urges us to listen to their concerns and address their daily challenges, thereby compelling us to effect real change in their lives.

Throughout Lent, the Archdiocesan Office of Human Development (AOHD) will coordinate activities in all the eight districts of the KL Archdiocese. I encourage your participation in these inter-parish activities of the Lenten season.

In our Petaling District, AOHD’s Ministry for Special Needs will host a Dental Mobile Clinic at La Salle Hall PJ on March 8, 2025, 8.00a.m. to 12.00p.m. providing dental health awareness and treatment for those with special needs. Do share this program and invite participation.

Through the SFX Religious Education ministry, I will be conducting a Lenten Reflection here in SFX on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 8.00a.m. to 12.00p.m. Do sign up when registration opens for this.

Regarding donation to the Lenten Campaign Fund, special purple envelopes will be made available in the church racks for your use. Your generous contribution will support various initiatives including 30% for Formation, 60% for projects undertaken to benefit the needy communities, and 10% for Administrative costs. Additionally, students from our Religious Education classes will collect donations using the collection box shaped like a loaf of bread, to support dedicated church groups and activities at both the parish and archdiocese levels.

For more details of this year’s Lenten campaign and its activities, and your participation, please visit the AOHD website http://aohd.org/lent/ as well as our parish website http://sfx.com.my .

Praying for all of you to have a blessed and grace-filled Season of Lent 2025.

May we be renewed in faith as Pilgrims of Hope, united with those who are lost, last, least, and the little among us.

Thank you and God bless,

Fr. Alvin Ng Sze Syn, SJ