Pastoral Letter of His Grace Paolino Lukudu Loro, Archbishop of Juba on the process of the forthcoming elections
Introduction May the mercy and love of God be manifested to you in this Lenten season. Lent is the time of the year in which God invites us to a sincere renewal of our lives in line with the Gospel. It is an invitation to realize our need of God. On Ash Wednesday, we started a pilgrimage to be marked by the practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving which are a way to prepare us for the journey. In this Lenten season God offers us once more the opportunity to restore our relationship with Him. God wants us to repent from the many sins we have committed against him and ourselves, especially in Southern Sudan: tribes against tribes, killings, abductions, robery, corruption and so forth. We must atone for these sins by prayers and good deeds. Like the Prodigal Son (Lk 15:11-32), the Sudanese people should arise and in humility approach the Merciful God for pardon. Ahead of us, there are still many opportunities and this is the time to restore our relationship with God and others. In h...