In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so please feel free to share with others these homilies and your own personal faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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The Most Holy Trinity
VOCATION: Jesus calls us - He calls you to follow Him, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and become a missionary disciple....
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What are the offerings that we bring to God? What is the meaning of "HOSANNAH!" We acclaim God for his greatness and praise Him, while at the same time calling upon Him to rescue us in our distress.... "HOSANNAH!" MP3 version
“Blessed are You, O Lord, God of our
fathers and
blessed is your glorious and holy name.
Alleluia!”
Dear Sisters and Brothers, two weeks ago, on the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, I invited you to do a spiritual exercise – “God’s Sacred History with Me”. Did you try to do it? If you did, how did it go? Did you have any trouble remembering or identifying moments in your life when you were touched by God, by his power to save, by his love and mercy, by his healing grace? If you didn’t try to do it, I invite you to look into your heart to see – why not?
Of course, we are not obliged to remember when God blessed us; nor are we obligated to have a relationship with God our Creator, our Father, nor with Jesus, Our Lord, nor with the Holy Spirit. But then, why would we not want, not only to have, but also to develop a personal relationship with each of the three Divine Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity?
“Blessed
are you in the temple of your holy glory,
and to
be extolled and highly glorified forever. Alleluia!”
It all begins with believing that Jesus, the son of Mary, is the One sent by God the Father to come into the world to reveal to us that the Father loves us as his very own children, but more than that. Jesus is the One who reveals the Father to us; He makes it possible for us to come to know the Father personally, and that He loves me personally; He loves each of us personally.
“Blessed are you on the throne of your
kingdom,
and to be extolled and highly exalted forever. Alleluia!”
So, how does it happen, exactly, that Jesus reveals the Father to us? It all begins with us deciding to believe in Jesus, not only that He is the son of Mary, but also that He is the Son of God the Father, and that it is the Holy Spirit who caused Mary to conceive in her womb the baby boy whom she and Joseph would call a holy Name, Yeshoua in Hebrew. Jesus, in English, means “God saves”. Believing in Jesus as son of Mary and at the same time Son of God, we look at Him. We look at Him on the cross, in an image, or in our imagination – and, looking at Jesus, we contemplate Him – and we realize He is already looking at us with love. We accept and welcome his loving look, and He pours into us the fire of his divine Love, the Holy Spirit.
“Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne on the cherubim. Alleluia!”
Have you ever
suffered from the painful impression that what you think doesn’t matter to
anyone? It is a very common human experience to feel that no one cares about
what I think. It is also true that the greatest pain experienced by people who
are itinerant, living on the street, is feeling invisible because people
passing by very rarely look into their eyes. St. Paul tells us to “greet
one another with a holy kiss.” The person in front of me
will feel that I care when I look into their eyes with love. They will feel
that their thought matters if I listen to them express it.
“Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, to be sung and glorified forever. Alleluia!”
“Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped” in the presence of God. He made room for God in his thoughts and in his heart. Jesus made lots of room for his Father by spending many hours in the silence of the night watching and listening. St. Paul tells us to “agree with one another”. This just means making room for one another in our mind and heart. We don’t have to agree with others, and they don’t have to agree with us. But it is an act of love to make room for the other in my mind and in my heart. Then, the Holy Spirit actually uses others to teach me about them, about life, about myself, and about God.
“If now I have found favour in your sight, O Lord, I pray, stay with me forever. Alleluia!”
We have been blessed with 50 days of Easter and today we celebrate the wondrous mystery of the Most Holy Trinity – that our Creator God is actually a divine community of 3 Persons – and that we all come from God and are all returning to God. We can feel confused or afraid in the face of the unknown – whether it’s a strange or different or unknown human being or God. We have nothing to fear from God, who wants nothing but our good and our eternal happiness. But God’s ways are not our ways, and in the ways of the Lord, the unpleasant experiences of life – storms, accidents, illness, pain, misunderstanding, conflicts, temptation, and sin – all can be used by God to help us become the person we are meant to be, the person we want to be.
“If now I have found favour in your sight, O Lord, I pray, stay with me forever. Alleluia!”
I have placed on my website a spiritual exercise to
help you go back over the moments when you were touched by the love of God. The
people of God reflected on their sacred history with God; that’s the Bible. You
also have a sacred history with God. On the Internet, look for my name – Gilles Surprenant
blog – that
will open a link Father Gilles Surprenant. Click on the link and you’ll come to my home page. There,
you will see several navigation links; look for the link Fr. Gilles’ English
Homilies and
there you’ll find today’s homily with a link to:
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE – “GOD’S SACRED HISTORY WITH ME”
https://fathergillespages.blogspot.com/2023/06/christian-prayer-gods-sacred-history.html
“If now we have found favour in your sight, O Lord, we pray, stay with us forever. Alleluia!”
“Mary
Mother of God, St. Joseph, walk with us in
the steps of Jesus. O my
Jesus, I trust in You! Thank You; You who are God, the
Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
In silence now, the Holy
Spirit helps us to lay down our offering together with that of Jesus….
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In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so please feel free to share with others these homilies and your own personal faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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