Dear Parishioners and Friends,
Today is Pentecost Sunday. We commemorate the coming of the
Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Our Lady in the Upper Room and also celebrate
the birthday of the Church. It was the day that the Church was manifested to
the world by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Each of us, as members of the Church, needs the Holy Spirit
in order to live as a Christian. The gifts that He shares with us are
dispositions in our soul that make us docile in following His promptings. When
He moves us and inspires us to act in a certain way, the gifts of the Holy
Spirit give us the ability to do just as He is directing us.
According to the Catechism
of the Catholic Church the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are: wisdom,
understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord
(1831). These divine dispositions perfect the virtues and make it possible for
us to act in a divine way and attain holiness. It seems to me that one of the
best ways to describe a saint is to say that he or she is a person who is
filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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