tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838698329757338280.post2242983264087658328..comments2017-12-01T10:52:19.431-08:00Comments on Sunday Bible Study by ParishWorld.net: “Receive the Holy Spirit."Editor @ Parishworld.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351018547370080019noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838698329757338280.post-62853542349491805822011-06-09T10:04:25.568-07:002011-06-09T10:04:25.568-07:00The Psalm celebrates the power and wonder
of our ...The Psalm celebrates the power and wonder <br />of our divine Creator.<br />We are invited to praise our Creator in Verse 1, <br />“Praise the Lord, O My Soul.”<br />We are reminded in Verse 29 of how we are nothing <br />without the divine breath -- <br />“When you take away their breath,<br />they perish and return to the dust from which they came.”<br />It is this same creative breath <br />which must have come down on the disciples <br />in that locked room that St. Luke speaks of <br />in our 1st reading (Acts).<br />The holy Spirit empowered the disciples to go forth <br />and proclaim God’s truth, and the Psalm <br />reflects this in Verse 30, <br />“When you send forth your breath, they are created,<br />and you renew the face of the earth.”<br />We too are called to be baptized in the Spirit, <br />and to receive the divine breath of Jesus,<br />just as the disciples did in the Gospel for this week. <br />Having been baptized in the Spirit, we are a new creation,<br />and are called to glorify the Lord in what we do.<br />In this way, as the Psalm says, in Verse 31, <br />“The Lord will be glad in these works.”<br />AmenBarry Lamontnoreply@blogger.com