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From: Fr. Bob
Date: 05 May 2008
Hey group: How about some interaction regarding the two feasts (Ascension yesterday) and Pentecost (next Sunday, May 11). It would be good to interact about these and hopefully help each other grow in our faith. Here's some comments of mine and hopefully you will add yours - let's all interact and grow together.
Also, don't forget the cookout on Thursday, June 5 @ 8:00pm. We'll have hot dogs, hamburgers, and some fun entertainment and games. Let us know if you are coming so we can make adequate food arrangements - but if you forget, still feel free to come.
Here's my thoughts re: Ascension and Pentecost: and feel free to post yours.
Ascension - it is mind - boggling to me that God would leave this earth and entrust his work to you and me with all of our weaknesses and failings. In a way, God trusts us more than we trust Him - how ironic! He must have a real special need for us and mission for all of us.
Pentecost: I looked at the scriptures last evening and wondered what a spirit-filled person is with this feast. It hit me that Rdg. #1 Acts 2:1-11 and Rdg. #2 First (I) Corinthians 23:3b-7, 12-13 talk about diversity, how the spirit descended on many and the body of Christ is made up of a lot of parts. Is a Spirit-filled person open to diversity - that is, not either/or thinking but both/and thinking. Do we have a lot of issues in our life because we are not open to diversity, that is, we form judgments, prejudices, biases, people don't do what I want, live up to my expectations, etc. and thus live with a lot of anger, bitterness, etc.
Is a spirit-filled person open to diversity? Let me, and all of us know what you think and your thoughts.