Pentcost 2013

 

Catching the Spirit… Catching the Fire!

When I first began this column I titled it “Setting Our Church on Fire” I was inspired by a book on pastoral planning called Dreams and Visions by Bill Huebsch. Huebsch examines the possibilities for our Church if each one of us were to set our hearts aflame with the spirit and then come together to set our Church on Fire with the Holy Spirit. Just imagine the possibilities!

            Today is Pentecost, the day where the disciples, 50 days after Easter, huddled together afraid and feeling alone when the Fire of the Holy Spirit came to them and they “caught” the fire of the Holy Spirit. They caught the Spirit… and look around you today… we ARE the result!

            Today we face another Pentecost. We are in an era of the New Evangelization and we have been tasked with not only to be spreading the Good News to non-believers but also to believers who have lost the fire in their hearts. Today we are like those frightened disciples as we face changing times and new ways of being Church… but opportunities abound! We live in exciting times! This Pentecost let us try to catch the fire of the Spirit and together we will set our parishes and collaboratives on FIRE!

God Bless, Holly Clark