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    Pentecost Sunday Homily – May 23, 2021

      Pentecost Sunday (B) 2021

      INTRO: RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!

      A friend of mine just ran a ½ marathon. He talked about being in the “FLOW”!! ???

      I had to look that up.

      “FLOW IS A STATE OF BEING WHEN WE ARE COMPLETELY FOCUSED. IN THE FLOW OUR WORK SEEMS EFFORTLESS. WE FEEL INSPIRED AND MOTIVATION SPRINGS FORTH FROM WITHIN!”

      Now I want to be clear to help you understand that the “FLOW” is NOT something YOU MAKE HAPPEN. You DON’T DO IT…
      IT “DOES” YOU!
      You don’t find the “flow”…… the “flow” finds you and “carries” you… !!!

      This is the day of PENTECOST, where the SPIRIT of GOD, the PARACLETE finds the community, blows through the community…giving us the “flow”
      of compassion,
      unity and
      PEACE!

      The Apostles received that flow way back then…….and so did you and I at our baptism and again in CONFIRMATION.

      I could ask… “Do you feel it, now”?
      Do you feel the “flow”?
      Probably most of us would honestly say, “NO”!
      But the “flow” IS THERE, it is just that we are probably too busy with many things… human life, pandemic worries, crazy violent news happenings, taking us away from being in the “flow” and feeling it!

      Believe me…. The HOLY SPIRIT has found you and wants you in the “flow”.

      JESUS always wanted unity within the world … and we are not perfect at this. There is …. at many times ….. SUCH DIVISIONS between us. That is not at all what Jesus wants of our world.

      On PENTECOST we always hear that we are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites…. And so forth.

      I always translate those communities as WE are a mixed race, a mixed color, a mixed creed of people. And the CHRISTIAN “flow” should be that it doesn’t matter that we have this MIX in our world. Our attitudes and conversations with “the mixed race, color, and creed should FLOW charitably and with ease to all.

      That’s the unity JESUS wanted. KINDNESS and GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS …. NO JUDGEMENTS and HARSH CRITICISMS.

      CONCLUSION:

      We are a blessed church community, to be able to gather each weekend and receive the real presence of JESUS CHRIST. He will mold us into His image and to be in the “flow” getting along in the world with ALL our brothers and sisters!

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