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 Spring Fair 2010 is an opportunity for all members of the St Patrick’s Cathedral community to share their God given talents. Many members of the community are already sharing their talents by participating in Sunday liturgies as a reader, acolyte, singers, minister of the Eucharist, altar server, greeter, etc. However talent is diverse. Each of us has a particular talent. While we may not all have the ability to sing or read at Mass we can use our talents in other ways to help build our church community. Whatever your talent is, Spring Fair 2010 offers you an opportunity to showcase your talents in your community.
- If your talent is in sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrap booking, drawing or woodworking why not create something for our craft stall
- Gardeners, why not plant a few cuttings for the plant stall?
- Bakers you are welcomed to attend our baking bee on Thursday September 9 from 6pm or bake at home and bring your baked delights on the day of the Spring Fair.
- Dancers, why not join our entertainment line up. Polish your dancing shoes and help entertain our patrons on the day of the Fair.
- Artists, an opportunity exists in our kids’ space stall for face painting, tattooing, drawing and painting. Can you help?
Be part of Spring Fair 2010. Join a stall, and assist our stall holders. Create and donate to our stalls. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated.
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Today we consider some of the personal difficulties we might have to face as disciples. First, there is no part-time discipleship. Our commitment must be wholehearted and complete. We must have a willing attitude that frees us interiorly from all other concerns so that we might be able to follow Christ regardless of our state in life or our occupation. This attitude of commitment comes not merely from our own generosity of heart but from our having been transformed into Christ through faith and baptism.
We may face conflicts when our various allegiances seem to clash. We may have family responsibilities. There are children to raise, elderly parents or infirm relatives to care for. What does discipleship require of us? We all must earn a living. Are we expected to leave our employment to follow Jesus? And if so, what then will we do? All disciples must face the interior struggle caused by the conflict of legitimate responsibilities.
The freedom of which Paul speaks comes with genuine love. If, out of love, we can negotiate successfully these conflicts caused by competing responsibilities, without compromising our total commitment to Christ, we will find a new kind freedom. This is the freedom that enables us to be faithful to both sets of responsibilities according to the proper priority. We will see that commitment to Christ is primary and the circumstances of our lives with the accompanying responsibilities set the parameters within which we live out our commitment. It is not in opposition with these responsibilities or despite them, but by means of or through them that we live out our discipleship.
Dianne Bergant CSA |
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In the Gospel passage St Luke, narrating the miracle of the multiplication of the five loaves and two fish with which Jesus fed the multitude “in a lonely place”, concludes with the words: “And all ate and were satisfied” (cf. Luke 9: 11-17).
I would like in the first place to emphasize this ?all?. Indeed, the Lord desired every human being to be nourished by the Eucharist, because the Eucharist is for everyone. If the close relationship between the Last Supper and the mystery of Jesus’ death on the Cross is emphasized on Holy Thursday, today, the Feast of Corpus Christi, with the procession and unanimous adoration of the Eucharist, attention is called to the fact that Christ sacrificed himself for all humanity. His passing among the houses and along the streets of our city will be for those who live there an offering of joy, eternal life, peace and love.
In the Gospel passage, a second element catches one’s eye: the miracle worked by the Lord contains an explicit invitation to each person to make his own contribution. The two fish and five loaves signify our contribution, poor but necessary, which he transforms into a gift of love for all. ?Christ continues today ? I wrote in the above-mentioned Post Synodal Exhortation, ?to exhort his disciples to become personally engaged? (Sacramentum Caritatis, n. 88).
Thus, the Eucharist is a call to holiness and to the gift of oneself to one’s brethren: ?Each of us is truly called, together with Jesus, to be bread broken for the life of the world? (ibid.).
An except from the Homily of Pope Benedict XVI
Solemnity of Corpus Christi...2007 |
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The Trinity and Relationship |
A reflection...
The Trinity declares that relationships are at the very centre of God. We believe that the Father, Son and Spirit are in full communion, communication and relationship with each other at all times, in all places. To know Jesus is to know the Father and the Spirit and vice versa. They are one. This special relationship also indicates to us that nothing should matter more in our lives than our relationships with one another. To be like the God we profess every Sunday is to commit ourselves to our relationships, in all their varieties. To work hard on our relationships is, for a Christian, to touch the divine…
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Veni Sancte Spiritus - Come Holy Spirit |
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 When Pentecost day came round, the apostles had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.
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