Pentecost:  50 days after Easter! Wow, we’ve made it again! So, how do you celebrate a birthday? When we’re young, it is with great excitement, when we hit our “milestone” very often it is others who gather the gang, when you get to the point where, if you double your age you don’t want to live that long, it all takes on different meanings! Still, it is a birthday. So too the Church.

    We’ve entered into the 2012^th year of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is a time to think about the goodness of our age, the wisdom that accompanies it, the family that we belong to, the life that we are called to live.

    Doing so invites us to live out in word & deed our Catholic identity. It is not who we are, it is what we are! On this birthday of the Church, let’s celebrate with the Lord the good news that with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that Christ is Risen ……Truly He is Risen & He lives in His Church!