Apostolic is a practice of love and zeal regardless of fatigue and inconvenience. Spirit is a doer of good and kindness with detachment, openness and purity of intention. “Love your enemies, and do good to them, without expecting a return, for you are children of God… [1] What foils it? Anxiousness distracts the mind. WorldlinessContinue reading “Apostolic Spirit”
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Use Me
(Based on the Prayer of St Francis of Assisi) O God, Make me an instrument of the Spirit; where there is bias, openness; where there is intransigence, reconciliation; where there is hesitancy, zeal; where there is judgment, compassion; where there is fear, peace; where there is selfishness, love. O God, Help me to confront prejudiceContinue reading “Use Me”
The Holy Spirit
“The Holy Spirit is to our souls as the sun is to heaven – giving light, giving warmth, filling with brightness and joy.”[1] Sunshine provides possibility and enables nature to produce beauty of shape, noise, and fragrance. Spirit enlightens and inflames the soul to make harmony with reverence, zeal, and kindness. “The tender mercyContinue reading “The Holy Spirit”
Baptism
John calls, Change our ways and make straight the Way. Jesus wants to join the narrow Way… He answers the call. He asks the brazen John to baptize him – a rite of passage – to begin his ministry But John is humbly hesitant – the pain of change… the path would not simply straighten.Continue reading “Baptism”
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