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John 20:19

Witness
I have been living out Religious life for the past 9 years and several things have become clear to me. The one I would like to highlight here is that He has shown me that I always need the Holy Spirit. There is never a time in which I do not need the inspirations and light which the Spirit gives to those who ask for it.

Many times I have gone astray and have followed a path to a dead end, but I have always come back due to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. When is there ever a time in which we can point to ourselves and say that we have inspired ourselves to holiness? There is never a time in which we are the source of good, or a source of good to others. Only the Holy Spirit is that source of Good and is that source of good to others.

God is the only one that is good and the Holy Spirit showers down upon us everything that is for our benefit and the benefit of others. Let us always strive to be open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and to help others be open to those gifts as well, by out prayers and sacrifices and by our obedience to what God asks of us in our respective states of life.

On the evening of the first day of the week God re-created the world.

Where at creation he had said, “Let there be light!”, Jesus now says: Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me so I send you out, like light into the darkness.

Receive my breath of life in the power to speak forgiveness and to drive away the darkness.

The power of sacramental absolution rests in the ministerial priesthood; it is part of the power of the keys given to Peter. Yet it is true of all of us in the church, through the priesthood of all the faithful.

The Lord tells us our forgiveness is dependent on our forgiving others, we are asked to forgive our fellow servants and if we don’t he will hand us over to the jailers (Mt 18:35). “So my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from the heart.”

Let us pray
Lord, you have forgiven us
may your Spirit plant your mercy and trust into our hearts
so that we can forgive those who sin against us
and ask forgiveness of those whom we have sinned against.
We ask this through Christ our Lord
Amen.