May Thoughts

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.

Holy week and Easter are behind us and we are rapidly going through the Sundays after Easter. In May we have two of the major feasts in the church year. May 14 the Feast of the Ascension and May 24 the Feast of Pentecost.

On the Feast of the Ascension we celebrate Christ’s ascending into Heaven. Back on Christmas I asked us all to pay attention to what was to happen to Christ. WHY, Because His life shows us what will happen to us. We were born, live and die as did Christ. God will also raise us from the dead as He did with Christ. He will also carry us up to heaven as He did with Christ so that we can spend eternal life with Him. The things that happened to Christ are, in time, to happen to us. As Christ was lifted to heaven so will we, this is in part why this feast is important to us.

May 24 this year is the feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the Holy Sprit coming and resting on the apostles and giving the strength to preach the Gospel throughout the world. This is the birthday of the Church. You and I are Christian because of God’s action through the Holy Spirit and the action of the apostles. Through them the message of Christ has come to us, it ns now our job to carry that message throughout our world.

Yours in Christ

Fr. Glenn.