God is providential!  Just last November, during my annual retreat, I was drawn to pray with the book called Coming to Life: Being Baptized by the Holy Spirit, by Fr. Robert DeGrandis.  During that time, the Holy Spirit was inviting me and challenging me to bring this renewal of the Holy Spirit to the parish somehow, someway.  Then, in a matter of weeks, I received the phone call about Immaculate Conception Parish.  When I was researching what the parish did on their website, I saw that at some point, they offered a Life in the Spirit seminar for parishioners.  This spurred me on to consider further what we can offer here at St. Francis de Sales that will help us get a clearer sense of what the Holy Spirit is doing in our lives and desires for us.  Finally, this year of St. Francis of Assisi took to me to Franciscan, Fr. Dave Pivonka TOR who created the awesome series called “The Wild Goose.”  This is a 14-part series that helps us discover a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit.  Each video is roughly 25-30 mins and covers different aspects of the Holy Spirit’s workings in our lives.  These 7:00 p.m. Tuesday evening gatherings in the Memorare Center will start on June 2 and go till August 25.  Every week, we will learn about the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The plan is simply to watch a video each meeting and have a heart-felt discussion after.  I may spice up the discussion with insights from other books I have read on the Holy Spirit too.  We need to give the Holy Spirit more space in our lives and give God more chances to transform our lives.  Can you give Him an additional hour each week this summer?  It may change your life forever!  Please sign up here or by calling the parish office and commit yourself to learning what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  In the Acts of the Apostles this weekend, the apostles chose those filled with the Holy Spirit to help them continue to build up the Body of Christ and serve the community.  Just think about what can happen when we fill up our lives with Holy Spirit!

Fill us Lord with your Spirit,
Fr. Jeremy