Parish of The Holy Spirit, Bovey Tracey & Saint Cyprian, Ugbrooke part of the R.C. Diocese of Plymouth. Charity Number 213227 Parish Priest: Father Pat Costello Secretary: Mrs Angie Hill – 07434 635722 The Presbytery, Ashburton Road, Office hours: Tuesday – Friday, 9.30am - 1pm Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9BY E-mail:
[email protected] Telephone: 01626 833432 Website: http://www.holyspiritbovey.org Safeguarding: Marian Lancaster Cheques: PRCDTR Bovey & Chudleigh RC Parish Sunday 31st May 2020 NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Year A PSALTER 1 PENTECOST SUNDAY _________ ___________________________________ Once again we conclude the season of Easter with the Feast Day of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost). Like so much, this time (i.e. Easter, Pentecost) has been snatched from us, with the whole of life seemingly concentrating on the Coronavirus and its influence on us, even to the point of death itself. What is asked of us and the Christian is summarised by the expression “to live in the Spirit”. What the Spirit brings is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. That can seem little more than a vague platitude but St Paul in attempting to specify this living in the Spirit gave us in his letter to the Galatians Chap 5 v22, a list of how we live and act in the Spirit. At the time when we were preparing for a new millennium Pope John XXIII dedicated each year to a person of the Trinity with the year of the Holy Spirit prayer to accompany it. It is still very suitable for us at this time “Father pour out your Spirit upon your people and grant us a new vision of your glory, a new experience of your power, a new faithfulness to your Word, a new consecration to your service and grant that your love may grow among us and your Kingdom come!”.