Visible Expression

The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...

"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."

Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Come O Holy Spirit...





Looking through some old photographs the other day, I came across these taken about 1994. This first one shows the late Bishop Brewer cutting the 'Confirmation Cake' for the young people, whom he had Confirmed earlier that same evening, gathered round the table.

 


 The number of children confirmed that day totalled seven. Like the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
The spirit you received is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, 'Abba, Father!'