A Word from Your Pastor - May 19 Pentecost

Dear Parishioners:

Happy Pentecost!

 

Come, Holy Spirit!  With these words, we open our hearts to the Gift of God, the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, sent to us by the Father and the Son, as the first fruits and pledge of Eternal Life.  A life lived under the influence of the Holy Spirit is a life that mirrors Jesus Christ, Who reveals the Father to us all. 

 

The Church is called into being by the Holy Spirit.  That same Spirit reminds us of all that Jesus taught and gives us the strength and courage to spread the Word.  We are hearing the call to “Rebuild the Church” from Pope Francis and from the work of the Spirit among us.  Can you begin to hear the invitation to you and your family to seek the “lost” and to be a welcoming community that brings others to Jesus Christ? Are you ready to respond by a leap of Faith?  Will you be part of rebuilding the Church so that the world may come to the Unity that God wills for His People?

 

This weekend we inaugurate our new Organ at the 10 a.m. Mass.   We are grateful to all who have made this possible.  We look forward to a continued growth in our music program and in the sharing of joyful song that leads us into worship.  Do you have a gift for song or for music?  Now is the time to come forward to share your talent with your brothers and sisters.
 

Once again, the Diocese of Columbus has asked St. Timothy to host a Seminarian for the summer.  This year we will welcome a College student, Pushkar Baum, from Newark, St. Francis DeSales Parish.  He will arrive this Tuesday to begin his 10-week stay with us.  A special project he will be overseeing will be to make plans for our parish collaboration with the Josephinum in the New Evangelization, taking the Gospel to the streets, two by two.  Give some consideration to being a part of this venture.

As the School year winds down and summer begins, please be sure to keep God and His Church in your weekly routine.  When you are away for vacation, seek out the nearest Catholic Church and bring back a bulletin to let us know you have been to Mass!

Year of Faith October 11, 2012 – November 24, 2013

We continue our journey through the Year of Faith.  As one way of observing this year, each week a small section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is read before the start of Mass.  This is a small way of offering some food for growth in Faith throughout this year.

ARTICLE 2     THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION

III. The Interpretation of the Heritage of Faith

The supernatural sense of faith

91 All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs them  (Cf. 1 John 2:20, 27.) and guides them into all truth. (Cf. John 16:13.)

92 “The whole body of the faithful... cannot err in matters of belief. This characteristic is shown in the supernatural appreciation of faith (sensus fidei) on the part of the whole people, when, ‘from the bishops to the last of the faithful,’ they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals.”  (Lumen Gentium 12; cf. St. Augustine, De praed. sanct. 14, 27: PL 44, 980.)

93 “By this appreciation of the faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (Magisterium),... receives... the faith, once for all delivered to the saints.... The People unfailingly adheres to this faith, penetrates it more deeply with right judgment, and applies it more fully in daily life.” (Lumen Gentium 12; cf. Jude 3.)

Comment: Our current culture emphasizes a sense of individualism. Our Faith and every other culture that preceded us put in the center the common reality of the family, the tribe, the people.  In short, there are some things that the individual receives not individually, but as a member of a community.  The sensus fidei is given to the whole Body of Believers.  Faith is not a matter of a survey or a vote.  Rather, it is a matter of an intuition that comes to all through an active, committed practice of the Faith.  We know the Faith, we learn the Faith by living it.  How are you and your family responding to the truths of the Faith and Morals?  Do you put them into practice before you “judge” them?