![]() Before the race started all the boats would be bobbing about pointing in different directions at the mercy of the river currents, going nowhere, waiting for the starter to get us underway. I have said before that years ago I used to enjoy a little sailing, racing small boats on the River Medway. Of those two, I think we are more familiar with the power of the wind or the breeze. Luke in his Acts of the Apostles offers us two images, wind and fire, to describe what happened. We celebrate the event and we celebrate with thanksgiving all that has been, all that has taken place, all that has been achieved – what it’s meant to the world and what it means today to each of us.Īs to the historical event itself, St. So we recall the beginning and we also celebrate with joy and thanksgiving these years of service that the Holy Spirit has given us down through the centuries. It is the anniversary of the Church’s creation. They were linked together and made into the Church that we are part of today. We recall that the Holy Spirit was given to the apostles. On this Feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the beginning or birth of the Church. We celebrate getting on for 2000 years of our Church. But as members of the Church we have another celebration this weekend, though one that is not too dissimilar in fact. As citizens we heartily celebrate with everybody else. And that’s what we have been doing over this long weekend, isn’t it, celebrating Her Majesty’s 70 years of service as our queen. Sometimes it is good to just look back and celebrate with joy and thanksgiving all that has been, all that has taken place, all that has been achieved. And we congratulate our Confirmandi and their families. We give thanks to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is a privilege to share in anyone’s life, but it is an extraordinary, amazing, incredible privilege to share in the life God. So, the Holy Spirit joins us together in the Body of Christ and in life with the Father. The choice is ours but the calling is most definitely God’s. ![]() Stay on the edge or get more deeply involved. ![]() But that is true for every single one of us. The more these/those young people involve themselves in the Church the more deeply they enter the mystery of God. For months now they have been practicing and reflecting on ministries within the parish and hopefully, now will be able to take part in the life of the Church in a whole new way.īut taking part in the life of the Body of Christ that is the Church, is by virtue of the Holy Spirit’s action, taking part in the life of God, the life of the Trinity. That Holy Spirit is helping them, through the sacrament of Confirmation, to appreciate their own gifts and to share them with others in such a way as to create Church. Today/this weekend, we celebrate the fact that the Holy Spirit is inspiring in 7 young people of our parish, a life of generosity. But joined by whom, well the Holy Spirit of course, the Holy Spirit who breathes or inspires that life into us. To see Jesus is to see the Father for they are joined as one and it is to Jesus that we are joined so that through him, with him and in him we are able to take part in whatever life it is that goes on between them. You don’t get to meet many creators like the Father, nor many spirits for that matter but we do know many human beings like Jesus, so you could say that “Jesus is our man” … but he is also our God. My model is limited in many ways but mainly because they show each of the persons with a human shape whereas in the Godhead only one is human, Jesus. Indeed we pray to each of them individually. In the Holy Trinity each of the persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is knowable separately. Three persons in one block of wood! These three persons are strong in their relationships to each other, inseparable in fact, but there is space between them. Now this was possibly a mistake because he then proceeded to put the price up considerably but anyway it was still worth it.Īnd in it, you can see many of the truths that we hold about the Trinity. The person selling it was clearly the man who made it so I told him how good I thought it was and also that it made me think of the Holy Trinity. It is one piece of wood which by ingenious carving has released as it were, the three persons. ![]() But the thing is, they are not three pieces of wood. They are linked together and they are quite strong – they hold up a plant pot in my house. I saw it for sale by the side of a road we were travelling on and I was intrigued: You can see that there are three separate persons, individually carved. I want to show you a souvenir that I brought back from one of my trips to Ghana. ![]()
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