The Thirteenth Station:
Jesus is the Word of God to bring light
into the world

Pentecost Sunday
Mass at the Immaculate Conception Chapel

Celebrant:
Father Paul Wilderotter - Florida

Homily by:
Deacon Patrick LaBella, Sayville, New York

The message which I tried to convey in brief was that as Christ gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to his disciples, and commissioned them to build his Church after he goes to the Father so to it is with each of us. We received that same Holy Spirit and when we leave Jamaica our work is not done, but rather has just begun. We are to take our faith of the risen Christ with us and share the love and blessings that God gives each of us, with one another, both near and far. And as the Church celebrates this day we too should celebrate that in faith, hope, love, and charity our service along with all our brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world, may one day rid this very poor country of suffering, pain, and despair caused by lack of the most basic necessities of food, shelter and medicine. Christ is sometimes hard to recognize, but not here he was and continues to be all around us in everyplace we were and in everyone we met. We came here to offer ourselves in service and in return the people of Jamaica have given us the face of Christ and allowed us to meet him in the flesh.

 

 

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