FAITH BOOK

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

Mini-reflections on the Sunday scripture readings designed for persons on the run. “Faith Book” is also brief enough to be posted in the Sunday parish bulletins people take home.

From today’s Gospel reading:

“On the evening of that first day of the week,

when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,

for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst

and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’"

Reflection:

Pentecost is not simply the celebration of a past event; it is an identity to be lived. The risen Christ still enters our guarded spaces, still speaks peace, still breathes his Spirit upon us, and still sends his Church into the world. We may not be perfect, but through the gift of the Holy Spirit we are empowered so that fear does not leave us locked away as frightened disciples.

So, we ask ourselves:

·        For us modern disciples:

·        What gift of the Spirit have I received?

·        How am I using that gift to strengthen the Church and serve others?

·        Do our communities reflect unity amid diversity, or division and rivalry?

Click here for a link to this Sunday’s readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052426-Day