The Life of The Spirit Is Manifested In Us
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
On Saturday 2 February, we celebrated the feast of the Presentation of Christ to the Temple. In this feast we remembered, O Heavenly Father, the gift that Joseph and Mary had offered to the world when they presented to you the child Jesus in the temple. On this occasion, we present to you all the children in our families, we commend them to your sublime will and entrust their future to you so your graces work in the world through them as they become your holy tools.
On this fourth Sunday of the Glorious Epiphany of the Lord, we offer ourselves to God as we reflect with our Mother the Church on the Gospel of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, to learn from him how to draw from the water of life. This passage of the Gospel leads us to think of Christ the Son of God, the giver of the true water of life to those who seek it so they never thirst again.
Christ has opened the gates for us to worship God in the spirit and made us realise that there is no true worship to God outside the law of the spirit. The spirit makes us die from the works of the body in order for us to worship God in his new order. The life of the spirit is manifested in us when we bear fruit to God and at the moment in which His life triumphs in us.
Let us stand before God like the Samaritan woman did at Jacob’s Well and ask ourselves: our we being led by the spirit of truth? Are we truly searching for the water of eternal life? Are we ready today to quit our old habits and let the spirit of God renew us from within and nourish our inner human for our own good and the good of the universal Church?
Let us open our hearts and minds today to the mystery of the Son as manifested in the depth of time, and let us work on creating new spaces in our lives and on digging new wells at the bottom of our souls to hold in them the water of eternal life.
On a parish note, “the old nights are back” is the theme which the Committee of the Elderly in our parish has coined for activities it has prepared for the end of this week, bringing us back to the old beautiful time in our villages and their evenings and customs. Our village customs reflect the beauty of the family spirit of love and friendship between us. Come to enjoy and remember together the old days through these activities which will be held at the hall of the Cathedral for three days, on 6, 7 and 8 February.
On Wednesday this week, the preparatory classes for the children of the First Holy Communion in the Parish will start. Around 100 children will participate in the spiritual and sacramental preparations for the next 5 months. We pray for them and thank the teachers for volunteering and for their work and love. On Wednesday evening, a new initiative will be launched in the parish under the name of “The Living Word.” It is an initiative of religious education in English for our youth and other parishioners to have more depth in our faith which is built on the Word. The sessions of The Living Word will be held every Wednesday at 8.00 pm, in English.
We pray to you O Lord and ask your Holy Spirit to work in us and lead us to salvation through your Son Jesus, from whom we draw the water of life which is never exhausted.
