05/05/2022

The disciples who had formed the first congregation devoted to the Father, to the Son they had all known in his life death and resurrection, have now the third part of the Trinity that is one God revealed to them.

The wind, the shaking, the flames the talking in tongues was a physical manifestation that God granted to those there in the place where his final revelation was made. We have to face the fact that this happened. It happened once and none of us have been confronted with this vision of God face-to face on Earth since that time.

A spiritual mission is also given to those present. The Baptist had brought baptism for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus had in his humanity and divinity shown us the way, the truth and the life and by accepting death in all its torments and rising to a new life, with the Father from the beginning, had generated a source of God, the Holy Spirit to be with us until the end of time; "this is my body". A grace that they can pass on to the believers that have not seen. "Receive the Holy Spirit for those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven and those whose sins you retain thay are retained".

At the Last Supper and today in the same room, Jesus, without doubt, confers what we now call priesthood on those whose names we remember as Apostles. This mission has been passed on and through the ages has been obscurred and tarnished but it is still the same laying on of hands by God to consecrate those he has chosen.

Dear Lord should not every one of your priests search for the Holy Spirit to fill their hearts with the grace of the Father won by the Son? I know that I am complaining about others when I should be asking for forgiveness of my own sins. I am only human and cannot see as you see. I know that this spirit of devotion will soon be replaced by today's  cares of this life but sincerely ask to be absolved and free of sin. The Saints in Heaven led by your Mother; did she too receive the priestly ordination to forgive sins? continue in their worship and  may their prayers bring succour to me, my family and to the whole world.