Dear Holy Spirit Parish:

    “May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the                                                               Gospel.”

                                                                                                                                                          (Pope Francis Jubilee Prayer)

To be Pilgrims of Hope, we need to be rooted in Jesus Christ and full of his Holy Spirit of Love.  Then we will naturally act with Hope even when the world around us seems harsh and dry.  Like Moses striking dry hard rock with the rod of Hope and calling forth life giving water and like Jesus striking the Samaritan woman’s hardened heart with love until life giving water flowed through her, so too our hope will call forth from the world around us hidden springs of life.

As you read this I and ten college students will be in route back from Denver.  Since this letter was written before we left, I can only hope we return with stories of water brought forth from hearts hardened by the harshness of this world through our actions of Hope.

This weekend we begin assessing the strength of our faith and depth of our love in two ways.  Today the ME25 Survey is available in pews at church and online by way of a link on our parish website homepage.  The ten minutes survey of 25 questions will give us a clear sense of how engaged our parish members are.  “Engaged” means how strong our faith in Christ is and how strong our community ties are.  Please fill one out and make sure all of those at home with you do as well.  Don’t let husbands leave it in wives’ hands!!   We need to hear from everyone.  If you need a survey sent to you, please call the parish office.

The second way we will find out how strong we are as a community of faith is through our annual Stewardship of Treasure renewal.  In September we ask everyone to take a step in growing closer to Christ through the Stewardship of their Time.  In January we asked everyone to take a step deeper into community through the Stewardship of their Talent.  Each Spring we ask parish members to reflect on the impact the ministries of Holy Spirit parish have had on your family’s life and on the world around us, then take a step in their Stewardship of Treasure.  With Natasha retiring from her Music Coordinator position after Easter, so she can give more time to family, a dream of our Sacred Worship Committee is to bring on board a trained liturgist - musician.  

So many acts of Hope taking place.  The Bishop’s Mass of Reparation, open to all, on Thursday March 27^th at 10:00am at the Cathedral. Thank you to those who submitted letters with recommendations to the Bishop as to what our Church needs to make reparation for.  Our Listening Session with members of the Hmong Community Monday March 31^st.  These are acts of Hope touching difficult situations in our world.  I pray with you that as for Moses and Jesus, from them will come forth springs of life giving water.

Fr. Steve

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