An
Ethiopian court official feels God tugging on his heart. He
tries to read the Scriptures, but needs more, so he acts someone to help him
better understand God’s Holy Word. He
then asks: What is preventing me from being baptized? So
often God can be working in our lives, but we have to be willing to listen, we
have to be willing to respond. When
we had the second grade children receive First Holy Communion last Saturday,
the joy that they were experiencing was truly something that we needed in our
community with all the struggle we had with the tornado this past week. In
the next month, we will have the graduating seniors celebrating the baccalaureate
mass, we will have the 11th graders receiving Confirmation from the
Bishop, we will have baptisms and sacrament of holy matrimony. These
sacraments and these other holy events will be special encounters with God and
with our community of faith. The
Ethiopian continued rejoicing in the Lord after he rose up from the waters of
baptism and continued on his journey. May
we do the same in response to the way we experience God in his sacraments.
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