We have now completed our journey through the Easter season this year as we celebrate Pentecost this weekend. The Holy Spirit has been alive in our Church and in our parish in many unique ways during the Easter season this year. We had the ordination to the priesthood of parishioner Andrew Bowden just a few weeks ago. Just this Saturday, we had the ordination to the transitional diaconate of Carlyle Beggerly at his home parish in West Point. This past week, we had the Holy Spirit touch the lives of some of our youth in a special way in the sacrament of confirmation, probably one of the largest confirmation groups we have ever had at St Jude. This Sunday evening, we celebrate the Holy Spirit and Pentecost in a special way at our Pentecost dinner in our food and our fellowship. Although we have not been able to have our Pentecost celebration here at St Jude in the same traditional way these past three years due to the pandemic, we are thankful to be able to gather this Sunday evening in food and fellowship as a parish family.
In one of our readings today for Pentecost from St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he states that it is only through the Holy Spirit that we are able to say that Jesus is Lord. The Spirit unites all of us in the Body of Christ, no matter what our background, no matter from where we come. Our parish of St Jude reflects this spirit in some different ways in our activities, in our diversity, in our warm welcome, and in the way we very joyful live out our Catholic faith as individuals and as a community guided by the Holy Spirit.
Blessings to all of you this Pentecost weekend. Father Lincoln.
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