Let’s Go!

     A group of disciples in today’s Gospel are locked in a room together – possibly the same room where the last supper was held. Why? Fear. Even there they did not feel safe.
    Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a play about hell called, “No Exit”. It consists of three people trapped in a large room with no way out. They pass the time talking about the past but their reflections are too late to change anything. The final line in the play is “Let’s go”, but they can go nowhere. For them hell is being tied to a past and a present that cannot be changed.
     We create our own prisons.
     The disciples of Jesus have locked themselves in a room – it must have been hell.
     Then into this locked room Jesus comes bringing peace. He then gives them His Spirit – now there is an exit. In the gift of the Spirit fear is changed into freedom. Now the disciples understand the past in a new way and realize that their future is full of hope. They are now free to reach out to others who also feel trapped in their own lives and who without the Spirit of God also experience hell.
     Pentecost comes from the Greek word for “fiftieth”. Tradition held that God made this covenant with his people fifty days after the Exodus event. Now God renews his covenant with his people through the gift of His Spirit. Now, we too are offered a new opportunity to renew our relationship with God. It is a time for new beginnings, a time of new creation. Through God’s Spirit a whole new life is possible – let’s go!
     In the account of the disciples new freedom, the crowds hear them speak in their own languages. We too have been gifted with the language of the Spirit. It is the language of forgiveness, love, and understanding - a language which everyone understands and needs to hear. That is the language we disciples, friends of Jesus, are commissioned to speak and the promise is that when we speak it people will recognize it as their own language.
     So, let’s go!!
                                                                                                            Fr. King

Today’s Readings:

Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23

    Vocation Awareness:

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and we shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth! Blow, strong winds of spirit, stir the fire of your love; encourage our response.
(Acts 1:15-17, 20-26)

VV   Scripture Readings for the Week VV

                                                      May 12th – May 18th

Mon       Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119; Mk 8:11-13
Tues      Jas 1:12-18; Ps 94; Mk 8:14-21
Wed       Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113; Jn 15:9-17
Thurs    Jas 2:1-9; Ps 34; Mk 8:27-33
Fri         Jas 2:14-24, 26; Ps 112; Mk 8:34-9:1
Sat        Jas 3:1-10; Ps 12; Mk 9:2-13
Sun       MOST HOLY TRINITY
             Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9; Dn 3:52-56; 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18