We are continuing our journey through the Easter season this week. In two weeks, the Easter season will come to an end with our celebration of Pentecost. As we celebrated our graduates and first communion students at Holy Savior last weekend, and as we celebrate our mothers and grandmothers on Mother’s Day this weekend, we know that the end of the school year and the beginning of the summer vacation season is around the corner. This weekend, in our prison ministry, we are welcoming Bishop Kopacz to celebrate Mass with us, his first time ever at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl. You can imagine that the inmates and I are very excited.
Our readings today at Mass get us ready for Pentecost in two weeks as these readings speak about the Holy Spirit. The people of Samaria, new converts to the Way of Jesus, receive the Holy Spirit as hands are laid upon them by Peter and John. One of the inmates last week was asking me about the Holy Spirit, saying that the concept of the Holy Spirit was a bit difficult for him to understand. He said that as a boy, the Holy Spirit was referred to as the Holy Ghost. Perhaps the change in terminology in referring to the Holy Spirit helps us understand the Spirit of God in a clearer way.
May the presence of the risen Christ and the Holy Spirit be with us as we continue our journey during the Easter season. Blessings to all of you this week. Father Lincoln.
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