Is God Communicating with YOU?

Book about God Coincidences

1. From This Day:

Within the Word

The Spirit in the Christian Life

Every other year, the Saturday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time (last Saturday) through Thursday of the thirtieth week (this Week), the daily Lectionary reads through the whole of Romans 8, and with good reason. It is in this chapter more than any other that Paul develops his THEOLOGY OF THE SPIRIT.

Those who live according to the Spirit, then, view reality from God's point of view. While they live in the world and in the body, they live by the power of God's Spirit, which enables them to do what they could not do when they were in the old Adam. The power of God's own Spirit empowers them to fulfill God's law as God intended. Thus the Spirit is the power and source of their moral life.

2. Romans 8: 26-28    (tomorrow's Mass) :

Brothers and sisters: The Spirit comes to the aid of our WEAKNESS; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. And the one who searches hearts knows what is the intention of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy ones according to god's will.

3. "Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love."

4. Notes:

In those special little moments when everything just seems to fall into place---- what do you think it is that just happened? Was it Fate? Serendipity? Providence? Chance? Happenstance? Destiny?

Last week I received a small book, as a gift, by Squire Rushnell, titled, "When God Winks at you---- how God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence."

From the back cover:

Those Extraordinary little events in your life happen for a reason, a coincidence--- sometimes a silly little thing--- CHANGES the course of your day.... or even your life. Is it chance, is it luck, or is GOD COMMUNICATIONG WITH YOU?

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This week I'm working on a paper about the Holy Spirit in my life and I seem to flooded with these "God Winks and God Incidents+ --- this mornings  reflections about today's Gospel are prime examples.

Amen.

Peace

Year of Faith

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