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‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’ After saying this he breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’
As Helen points out in our Children’s Liturgy this week, whilst we’re all walking around with face-masks trying to protect ourselves from other people’s breath, here’s Jesus breathing on His disciples! But it’s a breath which cleanses and heals, transmitting to them something which infinitely enhances their lives, an infectious joy and peace: the Spirit, the Breath of God. And He sends us out to share the gift with others! So let’s pray, this Pentecost, to be super-spreaders of the Spirit!
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We’re celebrating with the Prayer of the Church tomorrow, Mass at 9am, and a Pentecost Praise Party at 8pm! And you’re invited, if coming to the Zoom Mass, to wear something red, in honour of the fire of God’s love which descended on the Apostles.
Use this link to join us for any of the meetings on Zoom:
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Thanks to Tracey for compiling this week’s newsletter, with ‘Thought for the Week’ from Canon Tom.
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All meetings will open at least 10 minutes before the given start time.
Sunday 31st:
7.45am Adoration
8.30am Lauds (Morning Prayer)
9am Mass (Optionally, wear something red)
5.30pm Vespers (Evening Prayer)
8pm Pentecost Praise Party (not on Zoom - click here)
Monday & Tuesday:
8am Adoration
9am Mass
Wednesday:
6.10pm Vespers
6.30pm Mass
A little plea for help:
Would anybody be willing to co-ordinate readers for daily Mass, just for the final few weeks of Zoom Masses? Partly because I haven’t had time to do it this week, and partly in preparation for when I’m gone! Thank you in advance. --Joseph.
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This is being hosted by Fr Tom Dubois, in our neighbouring parish of Nailsea & Portishead - but everybody is very much invited!
Joseph Meigh will be live-streamed in from Corpus Christi with his piano, for a few Pentecost songs... but there’s plenty of room for special guests, so if you have a Holy Spirit song you’d like to sing on Sunday night, just get in touch!
Starts on Sunday at 8pm on their livestream page, just click the button here:
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PENTECOST MUSICAL MEDITATION
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As part of our Pentecost celebrations, I’d like to share with you this little song I wrote to the Holy Spirit. Well, I say ‘little’ - once I started writing, I couldn’t stop! But think of it as a 10-minute prayer break, a ‘musical meditation’ on the Holy Spirit.
You’ll hear that I’m joined by an invisible band of angels on various other instruments - including my friend Matt Dean, who provided some great guitar-playing! I’m afraid the mix is only half-finished, so please forgive the rough edges.
Lyrics are on-screen, and in the description below the video. Here’s the third verse... because not enough songs to the Holy Spirit mention Our Lady, His spouse!
I don’t know how to pray,
but You intercede within me with sighs too deep for words.
Fill me today as You formed the Word Incarnate
inside the holy Virgin Mother of God,
model of our response to You:
“Let it be done by Father and Son in the Holy Spirit.”
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Speaking of Our Lady, thanks to Maricris for sending in this picture of her being kept beautiful in her May finery.
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PENTECOST CHILDREN’S LITURGY
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So many thanks to Helen from Corpus Christi, who’s kindly prepared this Children’s Liturgy for Pentecost Sunday! As always, it’s a full Liturgy of the Word, just with a simplified translation of the Gospel, and the homily involves cutting and sticking ;) Do share with families who have young children!
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PENTECOST MESSAGE FROM BISHOP DECLAN
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Pentecost brings 50 days of Easter celebrations to completion with the coming of the Holy Spirit, filling the hearts of God’s people with the fire of God’s love and renewing the face of the earth. Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. The beginnings did not look too auspicious as the disciples were hiding behind locked doors for fear of the authorities. They were a group of vulnerable people whose lives had been shattered and whose hopes had been destroyed. What changed them in a remarkable way was the coming of the Holy Spirit...
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CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH MAG
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The June edition of Corpus Christi’s Parish Magazine is available now to view online, many thanks to Angela Clarke. Introduced by Canon Tom, the edition features an article on Lourdes by Sonia, and another (by some bloke or other) about how to survive your first year in Seminary - as well as more amusing pictures and riddles.
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With our prayers,
Canon Tom Gunning (Parish Priest)
and Joseph Meigh (seminarian)
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