We Belong to Christ

Good Day, Church,

Posting from Flin Flon, MB where I have been for the weekend. I am remaining here this evening to celebrate the end of the year wind-up for the Catholic Women's League of St. Ann's Parish.

I had good cause to reflect today on the feast the Church most recently celebrated: The Ascension. It would seem to me that the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord into heaven is connected intimately with the feast we are inching towards this coming weekend: Pentecost.

The two celebrations invite us, as Church, to move towards a re-commitment on our behalf to follow the promises that were made at our baptism: to reject sin and so to live in the freedom of God's children.  When we do this we are opening ourselves up to being transformed into the image and likeness of Christ Jesus. We are then engaged in living as Jesus willed the world to live.

These last weeks of Easter have been about renewing ourselves in the mystery of our faith. We need ever remember that Jesus in continuously calling each of us by name to live as He lived.

Let us remember this as we walk towards this Feast of Pentecost this weekend: we are Christ's; we belong to Him.

A blessed day, one and all.