Pentecost

Pentecost Surprises

Send your Holy Spirit of life and love to us and hurl us out to all corners of creation. Are you ready to be sent by the “breath” or the “wind” of the Holy Spirit?

Pope Francis at Pentecost in 2013 provided these reflective questions:

Let us ask ourselves today: Are we open to “God’s surprises”? Or are we closed and fearful before the newness of the Holy Spirit? Do we have the courage to strike out along the new paths which God’s newness sets before us, or do we resist, barricaded in transient structures which have lost their capacity for openness to what is new? We would do well to ask ourselves these questions all through the day.

At Mass this Sunday, we have the opportunity to ask the Holy Spirit to provide us with a deeper understanding of what it means to be sent, to be hurled to all corners of creation, to explore the new paths that God sets before us, without resistance, without fear, without barricading ourselves with defenses. The Holy Spirit is breath, is wind, is active, and is dynamic. Let it be so among our community.