This season of Lent, JRS offers you the spiritual booklet A time for Encounter with Refugees to invite you to reflect on our attitudes towards refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. Do we see them as threats or as brothers and sisters in need? Do we turn away, or do we open our hearts to their suffering?

Our Lenten journey should help us to break down the walls of division and recognise that we are all part of one human family, all created in the image of God.

May this Lenten season be a time of deep transformation, as we grow in compassion and solidarity with all who suffer, particularly those who are displaced and in need. May we, through our prayers, fasting, and almsgiving, become instruments of peace, reconciliation, and hope in a world that longs for the light of Christ.

This Lent, join us in 40 days of reflection and solidarity

with displaced people worldwide.