Friday 27 May 2022
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Light, of Strength, and of Love. With His sevenfold gifts He enlightens the mind, strengthens the will, and inflames the heart with love of God.
A community in Christ seeking and sharing transforming grace, reconciling love and compassionate hope
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Light, of Strength, and of Love. With His sevenfold gifts He enlightens the mind, strengthens the will, and inflames the heart with love of God.
In love, Christ enters the cruelty of human suffering at the hands of his captors and the abandonment of our alienation. Can we allow Love to reach through our deep moments of suffering and make some sense of our pain?
Listening in stillness allows space for God, by the prompting of the Spirit, to speak to us in the particular situation of our lives and lead us into the fulfilling of our vocation. This listening in prayer is to hear the Good Shepherdβs voice as he calls us to follow him from death into eternal life.
We are not all apostles. But we are followers of Christ, and our words of declared love for Christ must be demonstrated by tears of conversion and the love of our neighbour, or else it is merely empty rhetoric.
Christ directly addresses the disciples’ fear. They need no longer hide in an attempt to cover their fear, shame and alienation from God, a result of the Fall. They are to be reclothed with a dignity that belongs only to those who are the children of God.