Dear Friends,
Now that the long Easter season has ended, today we join with the whole Church in celebrating the Most Holy Trinity, God in whom we live and move and have our being.
When we are baptised, it is into the name of the Holy Trinity, God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit: God, creator, saviour, and life-giving spirit. In the Christian story, God is like a dynamic community, always giving and receiving love from person to person—that love which is the creative energy of everything. Our baptism declares that we too are caught up in this community, and invites us to flourish as we join in receiving and giving love. At the font we commit ourselves to foster this community and to stand against all that would spoil and destroy it, especially that innate selfish rivalry that seeks our survival by the exclusion of others.
A Christian writer of last century once said, ‘’The Holy Trinity is our social programme.” He was acknowledging the fact that belief in such a God commits us to organising our societies and relationships so that all may freely give and receive love and esteem and respect, and that all may live in the life-giving dynamic of such community.
Thursday is the feast of Corpus Christi, when we especially thank God for the gift of the Blessed Sacrament. There will be Masses at 8:40 am (simple School Mass in the hall, to which all are invited) and 12:15 pm, and the Solemn Mass at 6:30 pm. The priest and people of S. Luke’s Parish will be guests for the evening Mass, and then for the pot-luck meal afterwards.
Janette Lewis died peacefully on Thursday morning, having carefully settled all her affairs during her long illness. She has been involved in this S. Michael’s community at several periods over many years, whenever she could during her distinguished nursing career and latterly in her retirement years. We shall farewell her from S. Michael’s on Monday afternoon. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
May God bless you all.
Fr Peter Williams
