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Reflection - Week of May 10
Question of the Week:
How can the kind of joy that the Holy Spirit brings enable me to endure suffering?
Peter warns us in the second reading that doing good may cause us to be maligned, ridiculed, or persecuted. This is not the time to give up! This is the time to recall that Jesus can empathize with us, for he suffered unto death while doing good in order to save us from our sins and lead us to salvation. As Jesus “was brought to life in the Spirit,” may
the Holy Spirit bring life to our lives (1 Peter 3:18), enhancing them with a lasting joy that transcends suffering.
The Holy Spirit binds us together with one another and with the Lord. Witness how anxious Peter and John were to lay hands on the newly-baptized in Samaria. The journeys present-day bishops make to parishes to anoint those making their confirmation recall this practice of the early church. These bishops were chosen by the pope, by successors of the first pope, Saint Peter, who was entrusted to that role by Jesus himself and who we see today making the journey to Samaria himself to impart the Holy Spirit to the faithful. Bound together across space and time by the Holy Spirit, we can claim a brotherhood and sisterhood with the first apostles.
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Resumption of Sunday Mass Obligation
"Effective Easter Sunday, April 4 (or as of the Easter Vigil, April 3), I am ending the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, which has been in effect since mid-March 2020. However, anyone who is sick, may have been exposed to anyone with COVID-19, or who has a health condition that would endanger themselves or others by being present in church, continues to be dispensed."
-Bishop Larry Silva
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