Sent By The Spirit 2017 EOCCC MYIR SENT

Sent By The Spirit 2017 EOCCC MYIR

SENT

PENTECOST

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Discussion! Breath of God (Wild Goose Session 2) 1. Describe your relationship with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit helped reveal who Jesus really was. How has the Spirit done this for you? 2. The Holy Spirit changed the lives of the apostles. What has been your experience of the Holy Spirit? Have you experienced tongues of fire, a driving wind or a breath? http: // 3. Our faith life is not supposed to be lived in fear and in a locked room. Describe encounters with the Holy Spirit you have had that moved you out of a locked room.

The Holy Spirit The first Christians experience the Spirit as: • • Healing ointment Living water Raging storm Flaming fire Christ speaks of the Spirit as: • • Counselor Comforter Teacher Spirit of Truth

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Preparing to be Sent The Sacrament of Confirmation Anyone who freely decides to live a life as God’s child and asks for God’s Spirit under the signs of the imposition of hands and anointing with Chrism receives the strength to witness to God’s love and might in word and deed. YOUCAT 203, CCC 1285 -1314

Equipped to be Sent The Sacrament of Confirmation

Equipped to be Sent In Confirmation the soul of a baptized Christian is imprinted with a permanent seal that can be received only once and marks this individual forever as a Christian. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the strength from above in which this individual puts the grace of [their] Baptism into practice through [their] life and acts as a “witness” for Christ. YOUCAT 205, CCC 1302 -1305, 1317

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The Mission “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that http: // I have commanded you” - Mt 28: 19 -20

The Joy of the Gospel Evangelization takes place in obedience to the missionary mandate of Jesus: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holyhttp: // Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Mt 28: 19 -20) (#19).

The Joy of the Gospel “Yet the drive to go forth and give, to go out from ourselves, to keep pressing forward in our sowing of the good seed, remains ever present…Once the seed has been sown in one place, Jesus does not stay behind to explain http: // things or to perform more signs; the Spirit moves him to go forth to other towns” (#21).

The Joy of the Gospel In fidelity to the example of the Master, it is vitally important for the Church today to go forth and preach the Gospel to all: to all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, reluctance or fear. The joy of the Gospel is for all http: // people: no one can be excluded” (#23).

The Joy of the Gospel The Church which “goes forth” is a community of missionary disciples who take the first step, who are involved and supportive, who bear fruit and rejoice. An evangelizing community knows that the Lord has taken the initiative, he has loved us first (cf. 1 Jn 4: 19), and http: // therefore we can move forward, boldly take the initiative, go out to others, seek those who have fallen away, stand at the crossroads and welcome the outcast (#24).

The Joy of the Gospel “An evangelizing community gets involved by word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others. Evangelizers thus take on the “smell of the sheep” and the sheep are willing to hear their voice. An evangelizing community is also supportive, standing by people at every step of the way, no matter how difficult or lengthy this may prove to be. ” (#24).

The Joy of the Gospel “In virtue of their baptism, all the members of the People of God have become missionary disciples (cf. Mt 28: 19). All the baptized, whatever their position in the Church or their level of instruction in the faith, are agents of evangelization… Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively engaged in evangelization; indeed, anyone who has truly experienced God’s http: // saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out and proclaim that love” (#120).

The Joy of the Gospel Catholic schools, which always strive to join their work of education with the explicit proclamation of the Gospel, are a most valuable resource for the evangelization of culture, even in those countries and cities where http: // hostile situations challenge us to greater creativity in our search for suitable methods (134).

WYD 2016 The times we live in do not call for young “couch potatoes” but for young people with shoes, or better, boots laced. It only takes players on the first string, and it has no room for benchwarmers. Today’s world demands that you be a protagonist of history because life is always beautiful when we choose to live it fully, when we choose to leave a mark. History today calls us to defend our dignity and not to let others decide our future. As he did on Pentecost, the Lord wants to work one of the greatest miracles we can experience; he wants to turn your hands, my hands, our hands, into signs of reconciliation, of communion, of creation. He wants your hands to continue building the world of today. And he wants to build that world with you. - Pope Francis http: //

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