My dear Friends
We are in a season full of grace.The Church has celebrated several weeks of Eastertide, following on from the Resurrection.It is written in the New Testament that Jesus appeared to His disciples in Galilee many times after the Resurrection and prepared them for the time when He would ascend to the Father and send down the Holy Spirit as a Comforter and guide for their lives, in speech and action
'All that has life has breath.' Filled with the Spirit, in which we 'live and move and have our being', we can do anything that God wants us to do. We can pray, we can love, which is our greatest commandment, we can dance and sing and we can especially heal the sick and give light to the blind.
Henri Bergson, was a French philosopher in the 1930's and 1940's (he was a relative of mine on my grandmother's side.)He wrote about the 'elan vitale', the life force, which in religious terms is the Holy Spirit. Bergson spans the bridge between Judaism and Catholicism. They say, with his writings on Time, that he influenced Proust and his 'A la Recherche du temps perdue', In pursuit of Lost Time, which is written in the genre of the stream of consciouusness.(cf James Joyce and his novel 'Ulysses')
'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was null and void and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep.'
Let us meditate on these great mysteries as we approach the great Feast of Pentecost this Sunday.
Shalom from
Gila
We are in a season full of grace.The Church has celebrated several weeks of Eastertide, following on from the Resurrection.It is written in the New Testament that Jesus appeared to His disciples in Galilee many times after the Resurrection and prepared them for the time when He would ascend to the Father and send down the Holy Spirit as a Comforter and guide for their lives, in speech and action
'All that has life has breath.' Filled with the Spirit, in which we 'live and move and have our being', we can do anything that God wants us to do. We can pray, we can love, which is our greatest commandment, we can dance and sing and we can especially heal the sick and give light to the blind.
Henri Bergson, was a French philosopher in the 1930's and 1940's (he was a relative of mine on my grandmother's side.)He wrote about the 'elan vitale', the life force, which in religious terms is the Holy Spirit. Bergson spans the bridge between Judaism and Catholicism. They say, with his writings on Time, that he influenced Proust and his 'A la Recherche du temps perdue', In pursuit of Lost Time, which is written in the genre of the stream of consciouusness.(cf James Joyce and his novel 'Ulysses')
'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was null and void and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep.'
Let us meditate on these great mysteries as we approach the great Feast of Pentecost this Sunday.
Shalom from
Gila
