Springs for The Source, Steps to The Summit: Feast of Pentecost

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Feast of Pentecost

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The Solemnity of Pentecost fittingly closes the season of Easter. On this day, as the Risen Lord promised, the Holy Spirit came and descended upon the disciples who were gathered in steadfast prayer. Thus, they were transformed from being fearful, reluctant believers to zealous and fiery apostles of the Good News. Whenever we gather for liturgy, the same mystery happens. The Holy Spirit not only changes the bread and the wine, but makes us also the living Body of Christ, sending us forth as his living and transforming presence in the world. As we keep our Paschal candle after Second Vespers, let us pray that the fire of the Spirit may always burn in our hearts so that we, the Body of Christ, may truly shine as light in the Lord.

(Photo taken from Jean de Bourdichon 'The Hours of Louis XII' 1948)

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: Name: Leo Martin Angelo R. Ocampo; Location: Manila, Philippines

Leo is a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Manila in San Jose Major Seminary. He is currently in his second year of theological studies at the Loyola School of Theology in the Ateneo de Manila University. Every weekend, he is involved in parish apostolate at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Makati City. He is also a Center Moderator for the Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League.

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Nevertheless the liturgy is the SUMMIT toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the SOURCE from which all her power flows. For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord's supper. The liturgy in its turn moves the faithful, filled with "the paschal sacraments," to be "one in holiness"; it prays that "they may hold fast in their lives to what they have grasped by their faith"; the renewal in the eucharist of the covenant between the Lord and man draws the faithful into the compelling love of Christ and sets them on fire. From the liturgy, therefore, and especially from the eucharist, as from a font, grace is poured forth upon us; and the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of God, to which all other activities of the Church are directed as toward their end, is achieved in the most efficacious possible way. (SC, 10)

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Feast of Pentecost

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