a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Brothers, Christ has made us partakers in his mission to bring others into the fullness of divine life. As we come to the final day of our novena, on the eve of the great feast of Pentecost, let us ask him to help us see how he desires this mission to unfold in each of our lives. Let us pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, so that our lives may become living examples of the Gospel and bear fruit not only within us but also in the lives of those closest to us.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Our personal mission is an extension of Christ’s mission to bring all people into the fullness of life in the Holy Trinity. 

Grant, O merciful Father, that Thy Divine Spirit may enlighten, inflame and purify us, that He may penetrate us with His heavenly dew and make us fruitful in good works, through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who with Thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, liveth and reigneth, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. Now the evil works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are the visible signs of His Presence and Action within us. The Church has traditionally identified twelve fruits based on St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians: charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity. While some biblical manuscripts list only nine, the additional three are considered more specific expressions of the original nine.

Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!

What have you been doing today. 

I work with Your Word everyday! I listened to the Exodus 90 readings twice and then this Stanley’s podcast. I did all my exercises, got on my bike and went out to beach. I got on the pier next to the volleyball and caught the Sunrise between the clouds. I was ready to bike home and stopped to send a video to Andy who asked people to meet him there. So then I biked back to my mangroves at 26th Ave N. and went swimming. I saw the sun coming up through the trees and got out of the water to do my prayers again with the full sun in my eyes. It’s really remarkable how I feel about this. Each time it’s getting tuned-up to a higher vibration, and I sense some shift and minor changes in what I’m doing and what to say or share when I’m teaching it.

What about since then.

I Love Your Word Dear Jesus. I almost stopped at Tripps for breakfast when biking home today. All I wanted to do was read and write. I got home and found half a bowl of fruit in the fridge. I added my seed mix and made some coffee to sit on my hammock to read and write more. I've been trying to understand my challenge before me. Yes, still reading and writing now on by cracked iPad Pro with my pen. It's always so funny to me, how I almost intentionally try to scribble worse and worse to get this ai-bot correction thingy to work better and better.

What about your challenge today?

Yes, I know Your Word or shared insight, was about my Kids and the Rosary  . . . .Years ago I heard how they were closing the church store, and everything was half off. When I started to look my mom came in to ask me to send a Rosary to all her grandkids for Christmas. Course I was in tears tying to select rosaries for all our family. And now I wonder if anyone has them still. And I guess all that is relevant now is whether Chris has it or not.

This really is getting crazier and crazier every day. I try to stay focused on what is before me,  but I know so much is changing and shifting all around us. And today is Pentecost Sunday where we celebrate the time when Jesus came to visit his disciples in Galilee and filled them with the HOLY SPIRIT . . . . I'm not sure what it all means for me now, except we are starting to recruit for the Men's Welcome Retreat weekend. So I was at Church early enough for the Sunrise. I made Coffee journaled a bit and then went into Mass. I stayed for the three morning masses and plan to go back at 5:30 to help again.

I've been asking for a more powerful experience of the HOLY SPIRIT. I said tongues of fire when meeting with Dick and it was nothing new for him, but I sense that the challenge before me will be significantly new and much more than I can understand now . . . What is remarkable for me now is that as I consider this, I recognize how I have always been inclined to lay my hands on those who were handicapped.

Yes, it is sorta a weird sensation to consider now, as I really have always had that experience or desire to reach out and just touch those in pain and stuck, or trapped in deformation. Wow, it's even a struggle to say and express what I've felt or done all of my life.

This is What we are preparing you for. More and more spirit will be coming through to you each day. This is a lot more than the capacity to heal and release people from bondage. You have seen images of a lot more than this.

I get it with your Word!  It’s something that I find coming through to me a lot. Last night when my day was over and I was trying to relax. I sat down and found that Dallas had sent me a text about a live-stream including episode one from season five of The Chosen. That was just wonderful, I have seen it twice already I think. But I wanted to see it again and again anyway. I hadn’t known what Jesus had done at this time when coming into Jerusalem. It’s so weird to hear or see how Israel is fighting and killing people all over the world to get their country and temple back together. Course I’ve seen over and over again how they get closer and closer to having what they want, which will really mean the end of them all. 

What do you mean?

I guess I’ve always seen that Jesus was already here with us, simply asking for Love and neighborly friendships to bring back the peace and joy we had in the Garden of Eden when it all started. So now anyone demanding some control and experience beyond this Word feels like a lie and deception that satan has created to allow more division and conflict. I mean, any race of people who think that their own conflict and arrogant destruction of another could ever be justified. It’s like the Jews decided Jesus was not real, so they could rationalize keeping the “eye for an eye” mentality for the continued death and destruction of others. 

Where does this bring you now? 

I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for this time we share and I really enjoy how you have invited your parents and even my own.