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Sometimes it is all to easy — even without thinking — to find ourselves following the voice of the world at large. The way of discipleship isn’t the easy way and may well lead us into a position where we find ourselves in direct opposition to the world.
The intimacy between Father, Son and Holy Spirit reveals a dynamic relationship of love into which we are called to participate and to which we are called to bear witness.
It is in the Holy Spirit that we are enabled to know Christ personally and become a temple of the Holy Spirit of God while within the community of faith.
True unity is not something that we can obtain by our own efforts, by forcing people into conformity to a particular ideology. Without the submitting of ourselves to the revelation of God in Christ, our prayer and mission will only be a sad reflection of ourselves. It is only in Christ alone that our rich diversity can be fruitful for the body as a whole and reflect the wonder and glory of the gospel to a world that is in dire need of eternal life and salvation.
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 Shepherd’s voice as he calls us to follow him from death into eternal life.
Today
Tomorrow is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Mass according to Divine Worship will be celebrated as the principal Mass in the parish at 11:30am. The order of service is available. Notices for the week are printed in the parish notice-sheet: we hope to be able to include them in the order of service in due course.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.” “This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
eastbourneordinariate.org.uk
Pew sheet for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, 21 April 20240 CommentsComment on Facebook
Tomorrow is the Third Sunday of Easter. Mass according to Divine Worship will be celebrated as the principal Mass in the parish at 11:30am. The order of service is available. Notices for the week are printed in the parish notice-sheet: we hope to be able to include them in the order of service in due course (they've now been added to the linked sheet here).
“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”
eastbourneordinariate.org.uk
Pew sheet for the Third Sunday of Easter, 14 April 20240 CommentsComment on Facebook
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