This Sunday we will arrive at the great feast of Pentecost. It is, of coure, the feast of the Holy Spirit and, many would say, the birthday or baptism of the Church. Why not join us here at St Brigid's for Mass at 10.30 via our website 3churches.org.
The long season from Ash Wednesday through to Pentecost has been a journey of special difficulty this year with the lockdown running alongside. It'll be a while, I think, before all these things make any sense. So let's join the apostles and Our Lady together in spirit, together in prayer, and await what God the Father and His Son Jesus want to do with us all in this year of strangeness 2020. Open up your hearts, because I suspect there is plenty that is new coming down the line, the unexpected, maybe the different.
One of my very favourite lines from Scripture is
Commit your life to the Lord, trust in him and he will act (Psalm 37)
This was a big theme of my colleague and great preacher in Ottawa back in the 80s Fr Bob Bedard (left). But, he used to warn, be careful, because it is a dangerous prayer!
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