Pentecost Sunday

 I hear from young people is that they believe practicing the Faith means boredom and conformity. The person who follows Christ becomes a “cookie cutter” person, made to look like everyone else by following specific rules; a robot that doesn’t think for themselves and loses what makes them unique. It’s only by rebelling against the Faith that one can become uniquely themselves, different from the boring masses.

 As wild and rebellious as a young person thinks they are being by leaving the Church, the truth is that they end up acting like most of the rest of society. It is in the saints, and those closest to Christ, that we see radical individuality and uniqueness. We were made in the image and likeness of God as a soul specifically created for a purpose. Thus, the closer to Christ I draw, the more myself I actually am. I am powerful and unique, not by leaving the Lord, but when I am closest to Him!

We see this in our readings this Pentecost. When the flame of the Holy Spirit pours out upon the Apostles, they preach the Good News in such a way that each individual language and culture can understand and receive it in their own manner. Their uniqueness is gathered and utilized, not covered over or abandoned. St. Paul touches on this profound truth in our Second Reading: “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone… As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.” How unhelpful it would be to have a body full of noses or eyes or ears? It is when each part acts most fully as it was created that the body is at its best. It is the same with the human soul. As we draw nearer to the Lord, we receive the best of both worlds; the stability of being members of a body and the individuality of my particular call and destiny.

The great St. Catherine of Siena, one of the most unique people to ever live, purportedly said, “Become who you were born to be, and you will set the world on fire.” While her exact quote is slightly different, the point is well made. I have a specific and unique role to play in the great story, a “definite service” in the worlds of St. John Henry Newman. But I find that role not by rebellion, but by drawing closer to the fire of the Holy Spirit and the flame of the Sacred Heart. This Pentecost may my nearness to the flame of love allow me to light a fire throughout my family, community, and world.

Fr. Drew Hoffman 

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Dear Parishioners,

The reflection below on the articles and videos were written by Maria Corte, the mother of Guillermo and Paloma Nava.

Merry Kaelani 

As we navigate in this world as a family and realize that it is filled with faith detours, we see how we can easily become distracted and get lost in this chaos tailored by the enemy to lose faith in our journey with God. In one of the videos we watched “Serving in the Saviors Way”, it helped us realize that we need to analyze the reason and intention why we are serving our brothers and sisters. https://youtu.be/hgEf1_bpyAQ?si=ibutkS3l7vE9WPyT

Why are we serving? Is it to satisfy our ego? Or to truly fill a need? 

This hit me on the head today as I was delivering a corsage to one of my son's friends who didn't have the means to pick it up. I offered to take it to his home, but when the young man did not meet us on time, I became upset. Listening to the video “Serving in the Saviors Way”, helped me understand that I am helping the young man out, and that the reasons that he was late may be personal. I asked myself, who am I helping, me or him?

Then the real questions rose in my head.

How many times have I let Jesus down when He was waiting for me? And regardless of me being late to Jesus or even not showing up, He was still there, waiting, and didn't question my absence, He was just happy to see me show up. This same mercy I need apply to those I choose to help without judging or questioning why or how of their circumstances.

In the video with Fr. Mike, we see how we need to help ourselves keep our faith alive by surrounding our lives with Oxygen-rich people. It doesn't matter if the people who become fire extinguishers and put out our faith fires are our long friends from childhood, college, or sometimes even close family members, we don't have to keep them around if our faith gets put out by them. We need to surround ourselves with people who earn our trust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qCrNV5Hro

We need to continue watering that seed like in the video “Faith is like Planting a Seed”, and continue to keep pulling the weeds, and continue to water the seed, and continue to pull weeds, and water the seed, and continuously keep doing these two things until the seed germinates, grows and gives us fruit which represents our faith multiplied, not only in us but in the people that surround us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B8Uj24ZRY and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLrtcGUCygw 

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