Is Jesus Lord of your life?

May 2021 – what an outstanding month! May 1st, the first Saturday in May, we celebrate the Crowning of Mary. Them, May 1st we also celebrate St. Joseph the Worker, and this year dedicated to St. Joseph, we consecrate ourselves to him. May 5th is the foundation day of the Padre Pio Prayer Groups which in a few decades have spread across the world manifesting the work of the Holy Spirit. May 2021, we celebrate the Ascension when Jesus ascended to the Father after appearing to those who believed in Him for forty days. And finally, fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending upon the Church (Acts 2). This certainly is a “fully loaded” month spiritually.
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God continues to shower His Church with endless blessings; He even purifies us so we are properly disposed to receive the Sacraments.

Pentecost is associated with the Sacrament of Confirmation. Have you looked back to reflect on the day of your Confirmation? Perhaps confirmed as an adolescent or an adult but the nature of Confirmation is to seal us with the Holy Spirit and grace us the seven gifts: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, Fear of the Lord. With these gifts we can live and say, “Jesus is Lord” (1 Corinthians 12:3).

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