Getting Ready to Pray                     

In the United States, we are watching our lawns and gardens, suffering from the ravages of a long winter, a rainy spring, and most particularly a season of virus. Cars should be washed and trees and bushes trimmed up in we call Spring Cleaning, but we can only hope.

Spiritually as well we should renew our beliefs and traditions. It is the season for baptisms, confirmations and First Communions being celebrated in person in churches and family homes as well. We can only hope!

Some Thoughts                     

We prepare to celebrate this Sunday’s feast after having celebrated the birth of the Church last Sunday with the sending of the Holy Spirit. These weeks are a sacramental time.

The Spirit breathes life into the bones of the Church and the folks in the pews. We might profit from reflecting on our First Communion, our being confirmed, our being married or ordained.

As with the flowers, grass, bushes and trees, which have been silent and less visible these past months, our living of the sacraments might profit from a kind of spring-cleaning as well

The trees will bring forth buds and leaves and fruit of various kinds. The flowers will come out of hiding as well. The sacraments of the Church are there to bring forth beauty and fruitfulness in our lives.