Shalom

3 Jun Sun	Pentecost
	Acts 2:111 Ps. 104:1-24, 29-30, 31, 34 Gal. 5:16-25 or 1 Cor. 12:3b-7, 12-13 Jn. 14:15-16, 23b-26

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Several weeks ago, on Palm Sunday, we were 'talking together' through these pages; and we marvelled at all that Jesus was about to do for us through His death and resurrection. Today, we marvel at a further gift: the gift of the Holy Spirit, of God's abiding presence among us.

We owe everything that is good in us to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit binds us together, making us one in the Body of Christ. The Spirit gives us courage - to speak to God in prayer and to speak of God to others. The Spirit is our Reminder, nudging our memories to be mindful of all that God has taught us through Jesus.

How do we know that the Spirit is with us? We know through many experiences: through difficult ones, like courage overcoming fear, or love remaining faithful in suffering, or temptation being resisted in times of trial. But we know the Spirit's presence most especially when our hearts are joyful and we touch God's warmth in prayer and we meet God's loving kindness in others. The Spirit is God's life in us, because God wishes us to have life - and to have it to the full.

Send forth Your Spirit, O Lord, and renew us.

DAILY OFFERING

Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH

INTENTION
That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
Elaboration

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P R A Y I N G W I T H T H E C H U R C H

INTENTION :	That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
In this month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, we are encouraged to contemplate the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist. It will spur us to seek in that Heart the inexhaustible mystery of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. It will enable us to taste the spiritual sweetness of charity at its very source. It will make us rediscover our baptismal promises and thus be made more aware of having to live our apostolic dimension by spreading love and participating in the mission of evangelisation. We pray the Lord of the harvest to grant the Church "shepherds after His own Heart" who will be ready to go out into the highways of the world to proclaim that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We pray that today's young people, docile to the voice of the Holy Spirit, will let the great expectations of the Church and of humanity resonate in the depths of their hearts and respond to Christ's invitation to consecrate, themselves enthusiastically and joyously with Him "for the life of the world". The entire devotion to the Heart of Jesus is rooted and finds its summit in participation in the Holy Mass where we fraternally assembled, listen to the Word of God and learn to offer with Christ our lives.
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