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#SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

We did not receive the gifts to remain the same. We received the gifts to be transformed, and in being transformed, be able to transform the world. When we receive the gifts of the Spirit, we become God’s agents in the world, witnesses tot he Gospel, missionaries of faith in Christ; we become change agents, spreading love, and joy, and peace, and kindness, and gentleness, and forgiveness, and fidelity, reliability, trustworthiness, goodness, self-restraint, contentment, etc. The Holy Spirit does not live us the same Continue reading #SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

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Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis (Pentecost, 31 May 2020)

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit” (1 Cor 12:4), as the Apostle Paul writes to the Corinthians. He continues: “There are different forms of service, but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone” (vv. 5-6). Diversity and unity: Saint Paul puts together two words that seem contradictory. He wants to tell us that the Holy Spirit is the one who brings together the many; and that the Church was born this way: we are all different, yet united by the same Holy Spirit. Let us go back to … Continue reading Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis (Pentecost, 31 May 2020)

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#SV – Love-filled

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

The Pentecost feast reminds us once again that for us Christians, it is a ‘new’ version of Pentecost; one in which love is made accessible to us to live and share in a very radical way. This radicality of love has already been exemplified in the life of Jesus himself, who readily gave his life for the sake of love. In that sense the ultimate consequence of love is death – death to selfishness, to clannishness, to parochialism, to ethnicity, to racism, to extremisms that exclude, injure, hate, hurt, main, kill, destroy, and impoverish others. It is only when we … Continue reading #SV – Love-filled