A Word from Your Pastor June 4 - Pentecost

Dear Parishioners:

With Pentecost, the Easter Season comes to its close.  The Holy Spirit pours out the “Gifts of the Spirit”: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Knowledge, Piety, Fortitude and Fear of the Lord.  We are strengthened in Faith and in our power to be witnesses of the truth of the Gospel to all the world.

We also happen to be at the end of the academic year, having celebrated our 8^th Grade Graduation this week and watching our young people complete their days in High School and College.  These are happy and challenging times, when each generation is invited to take up the whole enterprise of human life.  It is natural to ask questions at these moments.  Who are we? What do we really believe?  What is worth our commitment?

God understands human nature better than any of us.  He invented it and in the Person of Jesus, He has lived it to the full.  God is with us on our journey through life and He has plans for us, plans full of Hope.

One aspect of God’s Plan for us is that we share in His Unity.  We are called to be one with God and one with each and every other human being.  Pentecost reverses Babel.  The nations that became divided through human selfishness and pride are brought back together by the Gospel.  As a community of believers, we are called to lead the way, to be one in mind and heart and ready to serve.

We offer words of congratulations to all who are involved in graduations – to the students, the teachers and administrators, and to their parents and families who make these accomplishments possible.  We also invite all to ask the Holy Spirit to guide them as they discover new pathways.  May we keep our priorities always in order: seek first God and His Kingdom and all the rest will be added.  Come, Holy Spirit!  Fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your Love.