Pastor's Corner, July 21, 2013

Dear Parishioners and Friends, 

We continue our reflections on the gifts of the Holy Spirit with the gift of counsel. Counsel renders us docile to the counsel of God regarding our actions in view of our path to holiness and perfection. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit which helps us to judge whether an action is a good to be done or an evil to be avoided. 

This gift assists our intellect and conscience to ask ourselves, “Will this particular act that I am contemplating lead me to holiness?” “Is it something good that I should do or an evil that I should avoid?” It is a gift that strengthens a good conscience, provides solutions in difficult situation and helps us give counsel to others so that we can help them become saints too. 

The Holy Spirit speaks to the heart through the gift of counsel and shows those who have it what to do. Christ gave his followers a gift like counsel when He told them, "When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."

In Christ,

Msgr. Baker