1. --
Lanie LeBlanc OP
2. --
Carol & Dennis Keller
3. --
Brian Gleeson CP
4. --
Paul O'Reilly SJ
5. --(Your
reflection can be here!)
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Pentecost Mass during the day 2020
Our readings this Pentecost Sunday tell of the mighty
deeds of God through the Holy Spirit. We read/hear in the
Acts of the Apostles how the Holy Spirit empowered the
disciples to spread the Word by speaking in tongues. In the
first Letter to the Corinthians, we learn about being the
body of Christ with its many parts and that the abundant
gifts of the Spirit have been given to all of us. The Gospel
according to John recounts Jesus breathing the Holy Spirit
upon the apostles and sending them forth to forgive or
retain sins.
Wow, the Holy Spirit was certainly busy! Then, as in our
day and time, the multi-faceted work of the Holy Spirit is
absolutely necessary. Each of us have different needs and it
is the Holy Spirit with the many titles and "jobs" of
Comforter, Advocate, Guide, Sanctifier, etc. who helps to
fill those needs. It is also the Holy Spirit who empowers
each of us to use the gifts given to us to help one another.
The multiplicity of the spiritual gifts, the many forms
of service, and the amazing workings of the Spirit within us
provides us with an immense array of opportunities to
nurture the faith within us and also to spread the faith. In
our world today, there is no one whose life has not been
altered in some way by the pandemic. That means that we all
need to be redirected once again by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Each of us needs to be healed in some way to feel
truly whole again and to move forward and assist others get
through this dreadful time.
This process may take some time, but the Holy Spirit is
most willing and able to continue working in us for the long
run. Where is it that you need "refilling" to be truly
willing and able once again? Where is it that the Holy
Spirit wants to use your gifts, both established and new, to
"renew the face of the earth"? Let us pray loudly,
fervently, and with one accord the Sequence in today's Mass
or simply "Veni, Sancte Spiritus/ Come, Holy Spirit!"
Blessings,
Dr. Lanie LeBlanc
OP
Southern
Dominican Laity
lanie@leblanc.one
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Vigil of Pentecost May 30, 2020
Genesis 11:1-9 [or Exodus 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5) ;
Responsorial Psalm 104; Romans 8:22-27; Gospel Acclamation –
Prayer to Holy Spirit; John 7:37-39
As the Church celebrates the greatest, the most important
commemorations and rememberings of the Spiritual life of its
members, the importance of those most important celebrations
have an "opening act." In a manner of a great concert venue
or before a speech by an important person, there is an act,
a person, or a presentation that prepares the audience for
what is about to happen. So, it is with this magnificent
celebration of Pentecost following the Ascension of Jesus to
the Father. This is truly a big deal, an event that shapes
the future of the Church. In shaping that future of the
Church, it shapes the entire trajectory of human history as
well. So, this weekend we start our remembering of the
coming of the Holy Spirit by a vigil, a watching in the
evening hours of the day preceding Pentecost.
One other point, the experience of the Hebrew people
might be helpful for understanding religious celebrations.
The Jewish people celebrated and continue to celebrate three
major festivals and three lesser festivals. The three great
festivals were occasions of pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the
City where God dwelt among humanity. Those feasts were:
Passover, the remembering of the liberation from the culture
and enslavement of Pharaoh; Pentecost, fifty days after
Passover and a remembering of the covenant at Mount Sinai;
the Feast of Tents at the end of the year, a celebration of
the harvest and a remembering of the forty years in the
desert during which time the Hebrew tribes were welded into
a nation of People Chosen by God.
The lesser feasts are also rememberings of events in the
history of the Chosen People. The Day of Atonement was a day
of complete rest, penance, and fasting. It became a day
dedicated to turning away from failures against the covenant
with God. It was the day when a "scape goat" was burdened
with the sins of the people and sent out into the desert to
Azazel as a return of evil to the source of evil. Another
goat was sacrificed as a sin offering to Yahweh. The feast
of Hanukkah is a celebration of renewal. Its origin comes
from the purification of the Temple by the Maccabees after
the desecration of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes in the
second century before the birth of Jesus. It came to be a
celebration of rededication to the covenant of faithful
Jews. The feast of Purim is a celebration of the events in
the story of Esther. The hatred of one man was such that he
acquired the permission and authority to exterminate all
Jews in the Babylonian Empire. Purim is a celebration of
salvation of a God’s Chosen.
These celebrations are not merely holidays for parties
and freedom from work. The Jews were/are aware of their
histories and these days are days of remembering. In most
cultures, the origins and meanings of celebrations get lost
by activities celebrating days off and opportunities for
partying. While partying was clearly a part of these
festivals, there was much more. For the Jew, remembering the
interventions of God was the occasion for reminding God of
his interventions. As God remembered, and the people
remembered, that intervention was once again present. When
God remembers, that remembering is not a thing of the past,
but a current day reenactment of the event itself. This
reminds us of Eucharistic celebrations, when the liturgy of
the Eucharist is a remembering and reenacting of the
sacrifice of Calvary, the empty tomb, and the Ascension of
Jesus which makes us One Body in the Lord.
Knowing the ancient and present events of our faith gives
meaning and intention to our remembering and to celebrations
of the festivals of our liturgical year. The readings for
the Vigil of Pentecost set the scene for the coming of the
Holy Spirit. If we have ever doubted the need for an
infusion of the Holy Spirit, it is clearly now. The pandemic
has drawn people of good will together in a communal effort
to save citizens of the world from terrible death. Yet, it
has also divided individuals and nations from each other.
Those whose health and youth make death by virus improbable,
defy science and rational thought to pursue their own
desires in opposition to necessity for others. Clearly,
increasing conflicts and violence are an indication of the
shallowness of character that comes from selfishness and
ego-centric rantings. We have an urgent need for the Spirit
– "Come, Holy Spirit, and renew the hearts of the faithful!"
Most churches and liturgies, attended online, will focus
on the readings for Pentecost and dismiss without mention
the vigil readings. However, the vigil readings set the
scene for the necessity of Christian Pentecost.
There are four suggested readings for the first
presentation. The reading from Genesis explains the fourth
iteration of sin in Genesis. The first is, of course,
humanity’s choice for the "apple of the knowledge of good
and evil." The second is Cain’s murder of his brother Abel,
setting the environment of violence of those different than
us. The third is the Noah and the flood story where the evil
unleashed by the prior sins causes chaos and terror and
violence in the world. The fourth story our reading
regarding the Tower of Babel. When the people decided to
make a name for themselves, they came to rely solely on
themselves for meaning, purpose, and destiny. In that pride
they increasingly fail to communicate effectively with each
other. Their very language separates them and disperses them
to the four winds. They are no longer one people, but
enclaves of national interests, subdivided into personal
interests. Ever since, it has been the game plan of despots
to divide people into manageable followers and enemies. In
our day of expanding technology which ties us to the entire
world in seconds, we more and more focus on telling others
about ourselves in place of listening to others and sharing
with them. Come, Holy Spirit, and open our ears and hearts
to others so that we come to know ourselves more fully!
The second choice is from Exodus and describes the
liberated Hebrew Tribes learning about the God who saves.
They commit to living out in practice God’s will. Moses is
called to the top of Sinai and there, as we know, received
the commandments of God. For the Jews, Pentecost – fifty
days after the Passover liberation from Egypt – is the
remembering of God’s giving the guides for the path of human
life lived in truth. Those commandments teach what is
necessary to live fully and truthfully as a human. Truth
lived is the way to abiding happiness and peace.
The third choice is from that firebrand prophet, Ezekiel.
His time of prophecy was near the end of the Babylonian
Captivity. It was a confusing time, a time when the
extraordinarily successful Babylonian Empire was challenged
by the Persians. There was uncertainty; there was fear;
there was no path to the future. The terror, the
uncertainty, the difficulties experienced by the exiles are
in parallel with our own times, if we think about it. In the
reading from Ezekiel, we hear a story that was taken up as a
song we know as "Dry Bones." All that is dead, all that is
without hope, all that has no pathway to a future is
scattered over the earth. As Ezekiel follows God’s
instruction to prophesize over those dead bones. As Ezekiel
does so, the bones rejoin, sinew and muscle bind them
together, and a great crowd of living persons rises out of
the dust. God instructed Ezekiel to shout over the dry
bones: "Hear the Word of the Lord." As the bones comes
together, Ezekiel is told to shout, "Prophesy to the spirit,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the Spirit; Thus says the
Lord God: From the four winds come, o spirit and breathe
into these slain that they may come to life." And so, it was
then and so it will be now – if we hear the Word of the
Lord. Are we not suffering a sort of death by the events of
our time? Are we not overwhelmed by a virus we are yet to
understand and conquer? Are not the political environment,
our economic and social structures, the conflicts within our
Church indications of the dryness of our bones and the
absence of our spirits? Come, o Spirit, and recreate our
lives with the Word of the Lord our God.
The fourth choice is from a minor prophet, Joel. Joel
promises that the spirit of God will be poured out on all
flesh. Old men, hardened and discouraged by life’s
challenges, shall dream dreams and young men shall see
visions. Young men are the dreamers. Old men are those who
foresee what will come about because of the events of the
day. In the darkest of days when the sun loses its power and
the moon turns to blood, all will be rescued. Even in the
darkest of time, the Spirit of God will bring hope and a
return to a vital and active living. Come, o Spirit, and
lift up our hearts and firm up our wills to live the Word
you have given us.
The responsorial psalm begs God to send us his spirit and
to renew the face of the earth. The verses are a shout of
joy at the presence of God and God’s works. It is a prayer
that we open our eyes to see what God has done and is doing:
that we open our ears to hear: that we open our hearts to
the love of God.
The reading from the Apostles is from Paul’s letter to
the Romans. Paul describes creation as groaning in labor
pains, bringing forth a recreated world. It is in hope that
we are saved. When we hope, we wait and are expecting
something, for the completion of God’s creation. The Spirit,
Paul tells us, makes up for our weakness, our timidity, our
lack of energy as we seek adoption as children of God in
spirit and in body. It is the Spirit that carries us through
the rough spots of our cultures, our works, our families,
and our communities. The world is becoming a new creation!
Would that the Spirit bring it about, now!
The gospel for this Vigil is short. Jesus compares
himself to living water – that is water springing up from
the earth, falling from the heavens. That living water
brings life to all that is dry, all that is dormant, all
that lacks vitality. This living water is Jesus, the Word of
God. How well this flows from the readings regarding the
Tower of Babel where words confused and divided! How well
this fits the Word of God given Moses at Sinai! How
wonderful is this Word of God that is spoken over our dry
bones raising us back to fullness of life! How healing is
the Word of God spoken in times of great distress when even
the sun and the moon fail us. How encouraging is the Word of
God that lifts us up as we groan in labor pains to bring
about the Kingdom of God!!
In that hunger, we will watch for the coming of the
Spirit as the watchman on the wall waits for the dawn. May
our hearts discover the hunger in our hearts with us till we
are fulfilled in the Lord!
Pentecost Sunday May 31, 2020
Acts 2:1-11; Responsorial Psalm 104; 1st
Corinthians 12:3-7 & 12-13; Sequence "Veni Sancte Spiritus";
Gospel Acclamation – Prayer to Holy Spirit; John 20:19-23
There are two distinct and seemingly contradictory
presentations of the coming of the Holy Spirit. The event in
the first reading from Luke’s Acts of the Apostles places
the coming of the Spirit on the fiftieth day after the
Apostles experienced the empty tomb on that awesome first
day of the week. That is significant as the fiftieth day
after Passover for the Jews was the celebration of the gift
of the Law of Moses from God at mount Sinai. Luke’s
intention is to tell us that the Law of Moses reaches its
fulfillment in the Law of the Spirit. Luke reaches back to
the book of Genesis to describe the coming of the Spirit. In
Genesis, the spirit of God, literally in Hebrew, the breath
God, hovers over the chaos of waters unfettered and sweeping
without boundaries over the entire earth. Chaos is replaced
by ordering of light from darkness, waters from the earth,
emptiness to plant life, lack of life from living beings,
and no caretakers to the caretaking of humanity. Luke
envisions with the coming of the Spirit of God as a new
creation.
Luke adds an additional symbolism. Fire is a source of
energy that quickens. It brings water to boil, it brings
light to darkness, it purifies and cleanses. Tongues of fire
appearing over the heads of the disciples still clinging to
the safety of the upper room, purifies their understanding
of the ministry, preaching, death, resurrection, and
ascension of Jesus. Luke continues, erasing the failure of
the Tower of Babel – communication is reestablished. The
languages of the many Jews living in various nations of the
world, those many and varied languages, are heard and
understood by the Jews. The communication of man to man is
enriched and all hear the good news in their own language.
The mystery of the Christ is available to all persons from
whatever part of the world they come.
What response can we give to this great news from Luke?
What is an adequate answer to this strange, unexpected
sudden change in the future of humanity? But, then, why
should it have been unexpected? Did we not hear of this
future in the four options of first readings from the Vigil?
Perhaps we just were not ready to hear it? Perhaps, more to
the point, our experience had yet to lead us to the
necessity of the coming of the Spirit. It takes experience,
both personal and communal, to discover the need for the
Spirit. The wonder of the Scriptures – both Hebrew and
Christian – is that its stories, its message, and its words
apply to all times and all places. The more we know, the
more we search for truth and the meaning and purpose of
human life, the more likely we are to hear the Word of the
Lord. May the Spirit we celebrate today pass over us as the
breath of God. May the chaos of the events of our days be
ordered to the good of all God’s creation. May our efforts
allow and encourage all and everything to thrive and
flourish as is the Will of God.
In response to the narrative of the Tower of Babel,
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians tells us that the
divisiveness of language and culture is overcome and we
become in fact One Body in the Christ. We are enlivened by
the drinking of the Spirit in all the moments of our living.
The Spirit of God is present if we listen, if we open our
hearts to that Spirit, if we understand we share in human
life and necessarily depend on living together in peace and
harmony bound by the Love of God. Even though this may sound
like so many of the sound bites on TV commercials, this "we
are all together" is never more apparent than in times of
terror, of distrust, of violence, of efforts to break up our
unity for the purposes of conquest. Let us not be seduced
into condemnation, into violence, into self-centered actions
that are potentially harmful to others.
The sequence for Pentecost is a wonderful poem describing
our faith. That poem is copied at the end of this reflection
for your convenience.
In the gospel, we hear John’s narrative about the coming
of the Spirit to the disciples. The time of this coming is
the day of Resurrection. The disciples are gathered in fear
in the upper room. Jesus comes to them, unannounced, without
doors being opened, without invitation. He just comes among
them and greets them with a blessing of peace. That peace is
a removal of guilt, of fear of the Jews and the Romans, and
a hope for a future that is beyond terror, beyond fear,
beyond despair, and isolation. We are no longer reliant
solely on our personal strength. "Peace be with you!" is
Jesus’ greeting to us as well. The Spirit, sent by the
Father and the Word, is the person of the Peace and Unity of
the Trinity. The disunity espoused by the powerful of the
world is revealed as a lie disrupting human life. The Spirit
brings unity of all to one another. That is how we discern
the activity of the Spirit: when we are united in care,
concern, empathy, and love, that is evidence of the Spirit’s
presence.
In John’s account of that evening of the first day of the
week, Jesus breathes on the disciples. John is reaching back
to the first verses of Genesis in a parallel with Luke’s
account in the Acts. This is a new creation: a new order has
been established. The very life of the Trinity is made
present; the energy that unites, that enlivens, that is the
vitality of the Trinity is available to those willing to
accept the message of God. To share in the life of God is to
live with the energy, inspiration, and unifying energy that
is God’s. If we wish to share in the eternal life of God,
then we will invite and embrace the Spirit of God within our
faith that will lead to the movements of our hearts which
will lead to the enriching of the rational potential of our
minds.
May that Spirit
come to be among us.
Here is the
Sequence for Pentecost Sunday:
Veni, Sancte
Spiritus
Come, Holy
Spirit, come!
And from your
celestial home
Shed a ray of
light divine!
Come, Father of
the poor!
Come, source of
all our store!
Come, within our
bosoms shine.
You, of
comforters the best;
You, the soul’s
most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment
here below;
In our labor,
rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness
in the heat;
Solace in the
midst of woe.
O most blessed
Light divine,
Shine within
these hearts of yours,
And our inmost
being fill!
Where you are
not, we have naught,
Nothing good in
deed or thought,
Nothing free from
taint of ill.
Heal our wounds,
our strength renew;
On our dryness
pour your dew;
Wash the stains
of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn
heart and will;
Melt the frozen,
warm the chill;
Guide the steps
that go astray.
On the faithful,
who adore
And confess you,
evermore
In your sevenfold
gift descend;
Give them
virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your
salvation, Lord;
Give them joys
that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
Carol & Dennis Keller
dkeller002@nc.rr.com
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SHARING THE SPIRIT’S GIFTS: PENTECOST SUNDAY
2020
A philosopher and writer named Jean-Paul Sartre wanted to
explore the agony of people who feel trapped and stuck in
their lives. He saw this as being hell on earth. So he wrote
a play about hell and called it No Exit.
Three people arrive in hell. It consists of a living room
with mirrors around its walls. There is no exit in the room,
and there is no interval or intermission in the play. The
three characters stay on the stage the whole time, since
they can never leave the room and must stay together getting
on one another’s nerves. While they keep talking about the
past, there is nothing they can do now to change it. As they
remain locked in the room, the final line spoken is ‘Let’s
go’. But they don’t go anywhere and they can’t go anywhere,
because they cannot change anything in the past or the
present. All they have are mirrors that keep reminding them
they are trapped and stuck in their past. It’s sheer hell
for them, but that’s the way things are.
It’s one thing to be locked in a room with no exit. It’s
another thing to lock yourself in a room because you believe
that the world outside your door is hostile, and that if you
leave your room you will be killed. In our First Reading
today, this is the situation of the first followers of
Jesus, his apostles. Ever since he was crucified they have
retreated to a room and locked themselves in. They are so
scared of those that killed Jesus and may come looking for
them that there is no exit, no way out. They are trapped,
and they feel they are in a kind of hell.
But there is an exit after all. The risen Jesus comes and
stands among them and says to them: ‘Peace be with you. As
the Father sent me, so am I sending you [sending you out].’
He also breathes upon them the Holy Spirit, ‘the Lord and
giver of life’. When they breathe in the Spirit, they
breathe in the Spirit’s gifts of courage, confidence, and
conviction. The Spirit’s gifts change their darkness into
light, their sadness into joy, and their fears into freedom.
The Spirit empowers them to give fresh meaning to the past
and to look to the future with fresh hope. So the Spirit, in
fact, is their exit from their feelings of frustration and
hopelessness, and their exit from the room itself into a
brand new life of generous and loving service.
So they walk out bravely into the streets outside the
Upper Room. There they meet hundreds and even thousands of
people. There are Parthians, Medes and Elamites, visitors
from Rome, Crete and Arabia, etc., etc., all waiting to hear
the message from the Apostles. So, filled with the Holy
Spirit of wisdom, understanding, courage, confidence and
love, the preachers begin telling all and sundry, the good
news about Jesus. Wonder of wonders, every person there
hears in their own language the marvellous things that God
has been doing in the person and life of Jesus!
Here in our gatherings today, however small because of
Covid19, that same powerful Pentecost Spirit of God is in
our midst. Every one of us is a human being, and it’s likely
thaevery one of us is a baptised Christian, a follower of
Jesus. We share that much together. But none of us in our
shared space is exactly the same as any other person. Thank
God for that! Hell is where everybody is the same, and in
the same boat. No! There is a variety of personalities, and
the Holy Spirit has distributed to us a variety of gifts.
And that same Spirit of God, as St Paul insists in our
Second Reading, is ‘working in all sorts of different ways
in different people’. Our task is first of all, then, to
identify, recognise and respect, just what gifts the Holy
Spirit has given us, and just what gifts the Holy Spirit has
given to other people in our lives.
What are your outstanding gifts and what are theirs? Is
it a loving, joyful, and peaceful heart? Is it patience,
kindness, friendliness, or generosity? Is it a willingness
to forgive the hurt and harm someone has done to us, to let
go of the past and move on? Is it loyalty? Is it fidelity?
Is it an ability to organise? Is it an ability to teach? Is
it skill in reading, writing, or speaking? Is it expertise
with figures, statistics, and accounts? Is it shopping for
the family? Is it cooking? Is it catering? Is it sewing,
cleaning, or gardening? Is it simply answering the phone or
the doorbell particularly politely? Is it sport, drawing,
painting, music, singing, dancing, taking photos? Is it
telling jokes and making others laugh? Is it welcoming
strangers and making them feel at home? Is it making
friends? Is it comforting the sorrowful, seeing and
acknowledging the good in others, looking at the bright side
of life, or starting helpful conversations? Is it visiting
poor, sick, or lonely people? Is it giving food, money, or
other material assistance to needy people here or overseas?
Is it being ready to drive a neighbour to the station or the
hospital, or take a ‘shut-in’ person to church or an outing?
The great thing about the special gifts that the Holy
Spirit of God has given to you, to me, and to all others in
our lives, is that they have not been given to us just for
our own satisfaction, enjoyment, and fulfilment. They have
been given to us for the benefit, service, enrichment and
joy of others. So our second task today is to re-dedicate
and re-commit ourselves to serving others with whatever
gifts have been given to us.
Therefore, before we say today ‘Let’s go out’, let us
also give thanks to God for the huge variety of gifts that
the Holy Spirit has given to us personally and individually,
and to all the other people who make up our community. In
the words of St Paul, may we thank God that ‘there is a
variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all
sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord;
working in all sorts of different ways in different
people…’! And let us put our thanks for those gifts into our
individual and shared prayer today!
Only after we have given thanks to God today for all the
rich gifts that the Holy Spirit has distributed among us,
can we go out to proclaim the good news of Jesus, and to
keep serving the Lord in all the others who come into our
lives, into our hearts, and into our homes!
"Brian
Gleeson CP" <bgleesoncp@gmail.com>
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Year ABC: Pentecost (Asparagus)
"When the Spirit of truth comes He will lead you to
the complete truth"
Not everyone likes asparagus.
I know this because Glen - an American friend of mine -
has recently "come out" as an asparagus hater after many
years of silent suffering, false smiles and little white
lies. But his thin veneer of civilization finally cracked
last Thanksgiving at the family dinner (for Brits, think
Christmas dinner, but with more patriotism). And he still
believes that the whole disaster would never have happened
if his dad hadn’t insisted on a second round of bourbon
before dinner. (Again for the Brits, that’s whiskey, Jim,
but not as we know it).
But when the main plate arrived, there it was -
ASPARAGUS!!! - in all its horrid dark green mushiness - the
colour of aliens and stinging nettles. And somehow, it just
caught him at the wrong moment. Emboldened by four units of
Jack Daniel’s finest, (other brands of life-changing
inspiration are available) he turned to his mother and said.
"Mom, I’m really sorry, but I just can’t eat this. I’ve
always hated asparagus and now I don’t live here any more -
I’m effectively a guest - I just can’t bring myself to do it
any more. I’m sorry but I just can’t eat it."
There then followed the longest and worst two-minutes
silence of his life.
And then Steff, his sister, held their mother’s hand and
spoke quietly: "Mom, I’m sorry, I love you very much, but
I’m with Glen on this one. I actually can’t stand asparagus
either."
There was another - shorter - pause and Glen’s father
spoke. "Mary, I’ve never talked to you about this before,
but actually I hate asparagus too."
Glen looked back towards his mother and saw the tears
form in her eyes. In that instant he wished he had never had
a drink in his life. And as the first drop fell on her
cheek, he wondered where he could go to sign the Pledge. And
when she spoke, it was the first and only time he had ever
heard her swear.
"But I only cooked it because I thought you liked it - I
hate the f $#*%ing stuff!"
There is a terribly unfair stereotype that all American
family stories end up with a tearful and emotional group
hug. I apologize that this story fulfils that stereotype.
And so, next Thanksgiving, Glen will go home to celebrate
with his family.
A special plate of asparagus will be cooked.
It will be placed with great ceremony in the middle of
the table.
And absolutely no-one will eat it!
And Glen will celebrate with his family that they have
learned to live in Truth and Love.
I know that human beings cannot bear very much reality,
but the next time you feel tempted to that little white lie
of social complaisance, think of Glen’s family and just
ponder whether or not the Truth might actually be the most
truly loving thing.
"When the Spirit of truth comes He will lead you to the
complete truth."
Let us pray that it may be so with us.
Paul O’Reilly, SJ <fatbaldnproud@opalityone.net>
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