Faith Hope and Love ep 533 - Pentecost Sunday of Easter -

Faith Hope and Love ep 533 - Pentecost Sunday of Easter  - 

Year C

June 8th 2025

Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish - Weekly Parish Mass - podcast of Eucharist, including readings, prayers, homily)

Greetings from Surfers Catholic parish!

Please find linked below the latest edition of the Parish weekly Homily and link to the (audio) podcast of the mass, especially produced for those who are unable to be with us at mass.

Faith Hope and Love ep 533  Pentecost Sunday of Easter  - Year C

FIRST READING: Acts 2:1-11
Ps 104:1+24, 29-30, 31+34. "Lord, send out your Spirit and renew the face of the earth."
SECOND READING: Rom 8:8-17 (new)
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION ((no bibl. ref.)). Alleluia, alleluia! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful. And kindle in them the fire of your love.
GOSPEL: John 14:15-16, 23b-26

Image Credit Shutterstock Item ID: 2100398038 - Holy Spirit religious symbol, white dove on red background - Vector Formats- Contributor: Xolopiks
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Please listen to the audio recordings of the Mass – (Mass, Readings, prayers, and homily), for Pentecost Sunday. Year C - by clicking this link here https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-533  (EPISODE: 533)
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The Holy Spirit makes us disciples, able to be the Warm breath of human kindness at times of terrible coldness and need.....

In the first book of the Bible, we are told that God "breathed on" us the first day he created us. "Genesis tells us that the Lord put his lips to ours and breathed in us and gave us his spirit of life. And so we became human beings. And John tells us that on the day of Pentecost, the risen Lord breathed on us a second time and gave us new life in The Spirit. Courage replaced caution and a fire was lit in our hearts that has scattered the darkness of fear forever. Those first disciples became new creations and so we are. The new life of the Spirit has been given to us so as to call us to a heroic life, —- to be instruments of God's peace and mercy in a beautiful but broken world."

The Gospel today, from Saint John, tells us about the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is clear again that these early followers were hiding behind closed doors, feeling very, very fearful. And they were not imaging the danger. They were right to expect that they would be persecuted and harmed for being followers of Christ. The coming of the Holy Spirit takes their fears away. Interestingly the Spirit does not take the danger away, but it gives us disciples boldness to do what is right and not be frightened into backing down.

At the heart of our Christian life, fear is taken away, and peace and forgiveness are given. In turn, we as instruments and living vessels of God's Spirit, - we too can dispel the fears of others and proclaim peace and forgiveness that are given to us in Jesus. Our gifts are different, each person has different gifts. We need all the gifts that each person has so that we can continue the work of Christ in our world.

How different our world looks when we begin to recognize that each person brings his or her own gifts and that we need those gifts to live in the fullness of Jesus Christ.

We KNOW the Spirit is at work in our lives especially when the love and sacrifice we show is clearly coming from a loving hand far bigger than our own lives and our own finite motives and actions when we do actions that are loving and unselfish, we are deeply aware that there is a power and a loving presence at work in us that is bigger than just ourselves. ….Transcending our limitations … and not explainable only by our own actions… but bigger, ……. And "of which are freely cooperating part…."It is God's Holy Spirit at work in and through us. At work in the world. A power of unselfish, sacrificing love and service. Unconditional love. That is at the heart of creation.As the readings this weekend tell us, we become beloved sons and daughters of God, and heirs to God's kingdom.

We have been given the freedom of the children of God. But, this freedom is given to us in order that we too can live as Christ did, being all about service, sacrifice, and self-forgetting love.

The Gospel this weekend also reminds us that the presence and action of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the lives of the church will always work to remind us of all that Christ did and said, and keep us close to Christ and his values. The Holy Spirit is the "Spirit of Truth." All who live by the Spirit, strive to live authentic, honest, integrated lives built on truth.

Finally… just an interesting insight -- … we often read this text about how (after the Spirit descended) people of different languages and cultures could all hear and understand….. but what is interesting is that the text does not say that the people were not speaking the same language… In fact, they were still speaking in the language of the different cultures present. But even so, they could all understand the same message. This is a reminder that the Spirit brings not uniformity, but diversity and variety. We are all ONE in that rich diversity because the common language we speak is the language of God… and that is LOVE…

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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly


Also quoting from the St Mary's College daily diary entry on the Holy Spirit;

MISSION 2000 – PRAYING SCRIPTURE IN A CONTEMPORARY WAY. YEAR B. BY MARK LINK S.J.;

SHARING THE WORD THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR. GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ;

MONASTERY OF CHRIST IN THE DESERT. ABBOT'S HOMILY

Image Credit Shutterstock Item ID: 2100398038 - Holy Spirit religious symbol, white dove on red background - Vector Formats- Contributor: Xolopiks


To listen to the whole Sunday Mass each week (including homily) from Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish, please visit this link: Liturgy for you at Home (by SPCP) - https:- soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks

Faith Hope and Love ep 533  Pentecost Sunday of Easter  - Year C

The Lord be with you.
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{{Hi}}

My brothers and sisters, trusting in Gods mercy and love let us call to mind our sins.
Lord Jesus, you have revealed yourself as the way to the Father: Lord, have mercy//You have poured out on your people the Spirit of truth: Christ, have mercy//You are the Good Shepherd, leading us to eternal life: Lord, have mercy.//
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
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Ps 104:1+24, 29-30, 31+34. "Lord, send out your Spirit and renew the face of the earth."

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION ((no bibl. ref.)). Alleluia, alleluia! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful. And kindle in them the fire of your love.

Memorial Acclamation
1. We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.
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PREFACE: the Mystery of Pentecost
Eucharistic Prayer III
(pre+post variation: v2-lonjg)
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Go forth, the Mass is ended. Alleluia! Alleluia!

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Archive of homilies and reflections: http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au
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Further information relating to the audio productions linked to this Blog:
"Faith, Hope and Love - Christian worship and reflection" - Led by Rev Paul Kelly

Prayers and chants — Roman Missal, 3rd edition, © 2010, The International Commission on English in the liturgy. (ICEL)

Scriptures - New Revised Standard Version: © 1989, and 2009 by the NCC-USA. (National Council of Churches of Christ - USA)

"The Psalms" ©1963, 2009, The Grail - Collins publishers.

Prayers of the Faithful - " Together we pray" by Robert Borg'. E.J. Dwyer, Publishers, (1993) . (Sydney Australia).

Sung "Mass In Honour of St. Ralph Sherwin" - By Jeffrey M. Ostrowski. The Gloria, Copyright © 2011 ccwatershed.org.

Come Holy Spirit" Hymn: (Dedicated to the memory of Lucyanna Marković, [1998 – 2025]) -  inspired by the words of the 9th Century Hymn by Rabanus Maurus. Music and lyrics by Paul Kelly. Arranged, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk.  Sung by Jessie M, (2025) through Fiverr, - Sound effects by Mark DiAngelo, (soundbible.com, 05.11).

"Come Holy Spirit"

[Dedicated to the memory of Lucyanna Marković (1998-2025)]

Come Holy Spirit, 

Creator, come, 

Within your kingdom, 

Make us your own 

You, the living spring, 

The living fire that sings.

sweet source of everlasting love.

He who is perfect in grace

In His true light,

Can lead and show us the way, 

And raise us high 

Guide our hearts to trust 

And with your love, embrace us 

Hold our faith and make us wise   

Keep us from fruitless spite

Bring us true peace. 

Through trials you keep us safe 

Beneath your wings   

Through Him may we know you,

Love reborn and brand new 

Hear our call and we shall sing. 

All glory to the Father 

and to the Son; 

Christ and the spirit come, 

The three in one.   

Amen….     Amen ...Amen!

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"Quiet Time." Instrumental Reflection music. Written by Paul W Kelly. 1988, 2007. & This arrangement: Stefan Kelk, 2020.

Sound Engineering and editing - P.W. Kelly.

Microphones: - RODE-NT-USB-mini

Editing equipment: NCH software - MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software
NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 12.44

Sound Processing: iZotope RX 11 Audio Editor

[Production - KER - 2025]
May God bless and keep you.

The Ascension of the Lord. -Year C - Sunday, 1 June 2025 (EPISODE: 532)

The Ascension of the Lord. -Year C -  Sunday, 1 June 2025  (EPISODE: 532)

Readings for The Ascension of the Lord.- Year C
FIRST READING: Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. "God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord."
SECOND READING: opt: Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23 {or alternative: Ephesians 1:17-23}
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Matt 28:19a+20b). Alleluia, alleluia! Go and teach all people my Gospel. I am with you always until the end of the world.
GOSPEL: Luke 24:46-53

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Please listen to the audio-recordings of the Mass (Readings, prayers and homily) for the Ascension of the Lord. Year C - Sunday, 1 June 2025 - by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-532/s-yemrsl5zztX 
(EPISODE: 532)
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The Spirit helps us to make Christ present in the midst of a world which can be way too often filled with selfishness, undue privilege, inequality, arrogance, and abuse of power or authority. Tragically, this world is capable of showing a terrible indifference towards the poor, the needy, the hungry, and the suffering. As one scripture scholar put it, the Ascension and Pentecost are feasts of Christian maturity because now we're called to continue Jesus' mission with our insight into reality, our criteria, and our human decisions.

Luke's Gospel on the Ascension has a fascinating different focus from Matthew and Mark's versions. In these two other Gospels, the disciples are sent out on mission. In Luke, yes, they're implicitly sent on mission, but they're particularly sent out in the visible absence of Christ to be witnesses of Christ in their words and actions in the world.

Our Lord's absence is not as if he's dead or gone, far from it. Rather, he's alive and he has returned to the Father where he belongs, and he will return at the end to complete all things. In the meantime, which is what we're living right now, we must be his hands, his eyes, his heart in the world through the power of the Holy Spirit.

For as Acts 1 verse 7 says, the power of the Spirit is with us. We must not stand still, looking up into the sky, lamenting the physical absence of the Lord. Rather, we must not sit around waiting for his return in a passive kind of way.

Instead, we must set out on our way to take his gospel to the ends of the earth, as it says in Acts 1 verse 8. We're now adult Christians, not immature, not passive, not merely waiting for answers or tasks to fall out of the sky, but rather we are shareholders in the kingdom. We're sons and daughters of the eternal God, brothers and sisters in Christ. We have a real part to play in the action.

Before Christ's death, the disciples were like young students, being carefully nourished with a message. After Christ's death and resurrection and ascension, and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, we're still students and will always be. But we are now not merely waiting to be fed, we go out and we be nourishment for others in Christ.

The Second Vatican Council strongly emphasized this. Being mature in the faith is a requirement of the gospel, and as adults, we have our carefully thought out, reflected upon and prayed about views and insights into this shared task with Jesus. We would never presume to be sharers or cooperators with Christ, except he's invited us to do this.

We're encouraged in this by the assurance that the Lord will return, because he is alive. And we always remain vigilant, alert, awake in spirit, for at that time when he does return, he'll ask us to give an account of all the talents he's entrusted to us, and to test the fruits of what we've been able to produce with our work and our cooperation, how much it has been done in union with Christ through the Spirit. Jesus' ascension tells us, stop standing there looking up into the clouds.

There's work to be done, and there's no time like the present. In his earthly ministry, our Lord was in urgent hurry to bring his gospel and his ministry to all people. He now entrusts this ministry and this urgency to us, through his abiding presence of the Spirit.

There's no time to lose. God wants us to be about his business right away, and reassuringly he always gives us the very present assistance of God's Holy Spirit abiding in us.

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REFERENCES: 

FR. PAUL W. KELLY;

**Gutiérrez, G. and Dees, C. (1997). Sharing the Word through the liturgical year. 1st ed. Maryknoll: Orbis Books. P. 111; 

MISSION 2000 – PRAYING SCRIPTURE IN A CONTEMPORARY WAY. YEAR c. BY MARK LINK S.J; 

A BOOK OF GRACE-FILLED DAYS - 2010. BY ALICE CAMILLE)

IMAGE:  SHUTTERSTOCK LICENSED: Asset id: 1324655747  - Chapel of Ascension in Jerusalem, Israel - Upload date: 27 February 2019. IMAGE CONTRIBUTOR: trabantos

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The Ascension of the Lord.  Year C  -(Sunday, 1 June 2025)  (EPISODE: 532 )
2. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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{{May Our Lord's Fidelity strengthen you.}} welcome everyone, we gather -  Silence, reflection, prayer and contemplation of our God. On this The Ascension of the Lord.

Coming together as brothers and sisters, with confidence let us ask the Fathers forgiveness, for he is full of gentleness and compassion
Lord Jesus, you are mighty God and Prince of peace. Lord have mercy You are Son of God and the Son of Mary. Christ have mercy You are Word made flesh, the splendour of the Father. Lord have mercy .
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.  Amen.
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Memorial Acclamation
2. When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.
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Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. "God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord."

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Matt 28:19a+20b). ). Alleluia, alleluia! Go and teach all people my Gospel. I am with you always until the end of the world.
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PREFACE: Ascension I or II
Eucharistic Prayer 3
(theme variation: theme 3 )

(post version: v1-long)

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{10. thanks everyone. And may God sustain you with his grace and love.}

3. Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

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Archive of homilies and reflections:  http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au
To contact Fr. Paul, please email:  paulwkelly68@gmail.com

To listen to the weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks

Details relating to the audio productions linked to this Blog:

"Faith, Hope and Love - Christian worship and reflection" - Led by Rev Paul Kelly

Prayers and chants — Roman Missal, 3rd edition, © 2010, The International Commission on English in the liturgy. (ICEL)

Scriptures - New Revised Standard Version: © 1989, and 2009 by the NCC-USA. (National Council of Churches of Christ - USA)

"The Psalms" ©1963, 2009, The Grail - Collins publishers.

Prayers of the Faithful - " Together we pray" by Robert Borg'. E.J. Dwyer, Publishers, (1993). (Sydney Australia).

Sung "Mass in Honour of St. Ralph Sherwin" - By Jeffrey M. Ostrowski. The Gloria,  Copyright © 2011 ccwatershed.org.

"Today I Arise" - For Trisha J Kelly.  Original words and music by Paul W. Kelly. Inspired by St Patrick's Prayer.  Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.
 

"Quiet Time."  Instrumental Reflection music. Written by Paul W Kelly. 1988, 2007. & This arrangement: Stefan Kelk, 2020.

Sound Engineering and editing - P.W. Kelly. 

Microphones: - Shure Motiv MV5 Digital Condenser. And (2024+) Rode Nt-1 + AI-1 Sound Mixer.

Editing equipment:    -- MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software v10.49 (NCH Software).

NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 17.63 (NCH Software)

Sound Processing:  iZotope RX 10 Audio Editor (Izotope Inc.)

Text transcription as per recorded podcast version is transcribed by TurboScribe.ai

{excellent and accurate transcription from voice to text}

[Production -  KER -  2025] May God bless and keep you.  

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Mass Saturday morning 9am Sacred Heart Church 24th May 2025 - Australia's Patron Saint - Mary Help of Christians

Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish –

Please join us for a Special Mass for the Solemnity of Mary Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia – At Sacred Heart Catholic Church –

50 Fairway Drive, Clear Island Waters, Queensland, 4226. On Saturday morning 24th of May 2025. At 9am.

All are Welcome

If you are unable to attend, please join us spiritually by listening and praying along with the community via this audio podcast

https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/weekday-solemnity-fhl-may-24th-2025-our-lady-help-of-christians-australian-patronal-solemnity-year-c 

Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C - Sunday, May 25, 2025 (EPISODE: 531)

Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C - Sunday, May 25, 2025 (EPISODE: 531)

Readings for 22-May-22 - Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C

FIRST READING: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29

Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6+8. "O God, let all the nations praise you"

SECOND READING: Rev 21:10-14, 22-23

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 14:23). Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them.

GOSPEL: John 14:23-29

[Image Credit: by Kayla Waldron - Abide (32239). Free Download, John 15, dwell, vine and branches. Uploaded: Aug 26, 2015. Via CreationSwap]

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Please listen to the audio-recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers and homily), for Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C - 22-May-22 by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-531/s-wPcoKnJhSyx - (EPISODE: 531)

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The Father and the Son (through the Holy Spirit) will come and "make their home in us"

The readings this weekend all speak of the Holy Spirit. The theme of the readings is all about the Spirit, as our Easter Season quickly approaches Pentecost.

We cannot underestimate the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the life of the church. Without the Holy Spirit, the church would be ineffective, and we, the disciples of Jesus, need the action and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to be effective in what we seek to achieve.

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There's a line in the first reading that I really love. The words are, "It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by us." [Acts 15:28]. Or, another translation puts it, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us that…" the following be done.

This shows that the early church and its disciples, and its decisions, in practical ways, when faced with a new question for new situations and new times, gathered together in prayer, as always, and actively discerned what the Holy Spirit wanted. And then they made a decision, which was an authentic act of the Holy Spirit with the active cooperation of the disciples, working as one. We can see how the Holy Spirit becomes so much a part of their lives and our lives.

It fills our lives, our hearts and minds. And the major decisions of the church and the major decisions of Christians are inspired and lead from and to the Spirit. Christian life for us disciples becomes this beautiful cooperation, a unified action both of our own will and intellect, and also of God's Holy Spirit inspiring and perfecting it.

It's interesting that this phrase has been put to practical effect in the history of the church. Even to this day, it's my understanding that some religious orders, when their superior or leader is deciding on a very important matter, for example, to send a religious person to a new appointment or a new mission, they would write in the official letter of appointment this beautiful formal phrase, and it sounds familiar because it's from the scripture today, it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us that you be sent here, or that this be done, and then follows with the instruction. Beautiful.

And it's more than a formality, it captures the dynamic between the disciple and the Spirit, and how the Spirit fills up everything we do and say. Without it, even our best efforts could be quite misguided or quite fruitless. There's a recognition in this of not only the decision-making process and wisdom of the leader, which is real, and it's necessarily a prayerful discernment, but it's guided and graced by the Holy Spirit in everything.

We're invited by Christ to be so connected to Jesus that our decisions, our actions, our priorities will be guided by and connected to Jesus through the Spirit, without any loss of free will, and in fact, with an opening up of that free will to do what it's for, to serve God and to serve life. I love that. It's beautiful.

I also absolutely love the Gospel today. It's mysterious and very profound, and it's so beautiful and really important to our understanding. Jesus says in the Gospel that He and the Father, through the action of the Holy Spirit, will come and make their home in your hearts, make their home in you, and that we will be connected to Christ, united to Christ in the very life of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Spirit.

We will be in communion, in the broader sense of that word, with Christ in a very real way through our obedience and our love. I love all those passages in the Gospels where Jesus clearly, deliberately and explicitly speaks of the union He shares with the Holy Spirit and with the Heavenly Father, and how they abide in each other. That is, they live in and within each other.

They make a home in each other's hearts and beings. This union, this communion, is inviting us to share and abide in God's life. This is His unique and mind-blowing gift to us who become His disciples.

Can there be anything more wonderful? Having God come and make a home in us, and us make a home in God. It's that close. It's that beautiful.

We could never presume to have this or be allowed to have it, but it happens. Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit for a reason. It's in order that we would always be connected to Jesus, abide in Him, and Him in us, and Him in the Father, and the Father in the Spirit.

We will abide in His teachings, live in His love, the Spirit will live within us, will constantly remind us of Christ and His teachings, bring Him to mind, make Him present to us. God will truly live with His people and abide in and within us. God will walk with us, His people, always.

And God will be that light to show us the way through our journey through life. So really, we have nothing to fear, even when life is far from easy or simple. Finally, and most importantly, Christ promises us the gift of peace.

This is a gift we all long for, and for which the world longs to receive. A peace, He hastens to add, that the world could not give and cannot achieve of itself. God's peace is all we need, through any tragedies, through the joys and sorrows of life, as well as the failures and successes of life.

Our Lord, with the gift of the Holy Spirit, has gifted us with God's divine peace and unity and connection to God that can hardly be imagined. And also the very real authority to cooperate with and in God, and participate in real decision making in Christian living. Always in union with Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and connected to the Father through Jesus, we participate in, we discern with the Spirit for the issues and questions that come up anew in our lives.

So the answers aren't all black and white in the scriptures, although the Spirit and the living word is always ever new as well as ever ancient. But the Spirit is alive and God's word is alive in our community now, in the faithful, in the teaching deposit of the Church, and of course in the scriptures, in the sacraments. So we have been given the authority to discern rightly the Spirit's guidance in new questions that haven't been thought of before, that weren't even known of 2000 years ago, but they're issues now.

God engages us and our talents and gifts, which are God-given and Spirit-inspired, and uses all our faculties, our knowledge, our intellect, our understanding of the scriptures, as interpreted by the Church, which itself has been constantly inspired by the Holy Spirit through the ages. This freedom to decide is also a deep and challenging responsibility. It doesn't give us license to do what we want, but rather discretion, and which frees us to be open to God's ways and values, and allows us, as always, with prayerful guidance and prudence of God's grace, to make a decision to questions that need to be answered as best we can as humans, for we are limited beings.

Even though we participate in God's grace, we won't attain the fullness until the kingdom of God in its fullness. 

We are right to trust that God is there to guide and direct us, not from a distance, not even from the sidelines but close to us, but right in and with us, inspiring us as we contemplate the issues and questions of our present age. 

This is far different, though, from thinking that what I feel is what God feels, or what I want to do is what God wants to do, because we're united. That's a distortion, and a terrible one; that's not how it works.

 We saw and recall with love, the profound discernment and cooperation and love in (the late) Pope Francis's exercise of his papal ministry, which was inspiring to Christian and non-Christian people alike throughout the world. 

We trust in the power and authority and discernment that God has given us, as a body of Christ, so that we may continue to apply the gospel in each and every new situation and new circumstance of daily life.

God is with us. God abides with us and in us. God guides, leads and inspires us.

God's Holy Spirit shows us the way and gives us the direction.

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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly

[Image Credit: by Kayla Waldron - Abide (32239). Free Download, john 15, dwell, vine and branches. Uploaded: Aug 26, 2015. Via CreationSwap]

Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C (22-May-22) (EPISODE: 531 )

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (or/ The Lord be with You)

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{{May Our Lord's generosity inspire you.}}

Coming together as Gods family, let us call to mind our sins.

Lord Jesus, you came to gather the nations into the peace of God's kingdom: Lord, have mercy// You come in word and in sacrament to strengthen us and make us holy: Christ, have mercy//You will come again in glory with salvation for your people: Lord, have mercy.

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.

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Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6+8. "O God let all the nations praise you"

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 14:23). Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them and we will come to them.

Memorial Acclamation

2. When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

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PREFACE: Sundays Ordinary III

Eucharistic Prayer III

Communion side. pwk: RH

(theme variation: full )

(pre+post variation: v2-short)

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{I am very grateful for you joining us for this special time of prayer and reflection.}

Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

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Archive of homilies and reflections: http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au 

To contact Fr. Paul, please email: paulwkelly68@gmail.com

To listen to the weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks 

Further information relating to the audio productions linked to this Blog:

"Faith, Hope and Love - Christian worship and reflection" - Led by Rev Paul Kelly

Prayers and chants — Roman Missal, 3rd edition, © 2010, The International Commission on English in the liturgy. (ICEL)

Scriptures - New Revised Standard Version: © 1989, and 2009 by the NCC-USA. (National Council of Churches of Christ - USA)

"The Psalms" ©1963, 2009, The Grail - Collins publishers.

Prayers of the Faithful - " Together we pray" by Robert Borg'. E.J. Dwyer, Publishers, (1993) . (Sydney Australia).

Sung "Mass In Honour of St. Ralph Sherwin" - By Jeffrey M. Ostrowski. The Gloria, Copyright © 2011 ccwatershed.org.

- "Today I Arise" - For Trisha J Kelly. Original words and music by Paul W. Kelly. Inspired by St Patrick's Prayer. Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.

"Quiet Time." Instrumental Reflection music. Written by Paul W Kelly. 1988, 2007. & This arrangement: Stefan Kelk, 2020.

Sound Engineering and editing - P.W. Kelly.

Microphones: - Shure Mv-5

Editing equipment: NCH software - MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software

NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 12.44

Sound Processing: iZotope RX 6 Audio Editor

[Production - KER - 2025]

May God bless and keep you.

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