Saturday, May 22, 2010

receive the gift of Faith



We are celebrating the Holy Spirit for Pentecost. There are very few celebrations for the Holy Spirit unfortunately..
We also celebrate the begining of the Church, as the disciples started spreading the word after they received the Spirit.
There are two versions of the event one is in John chapter 20 and the other is in Act, chapter 2.
But there is also this mention of the Spirit in Luke 4:

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

I don't have much time to comment but I just wanted to share that in celebrating the holy Spirit we celebrate the incarnation of the Word. We ourselves are called to let the Spirit speak through us, we are called to receive the Spirit, and be part of the body of Christ (the Church).
Let's take it seriously and make sure we do our best with every little moment we have to show how much love God really is.




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