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“This Current of Grace Is for All the Church...Not Just for Some...” ® ® NEWSLETTER Fall 2017 “This current of grace is for all the Church...not just for some...” Pope Francis, 50th Anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Pentecost Celebration, Rome 2017 by Br. Ken Apuzzo, BH hirty-eight years ago, as a very ner- ery Sunday of my life and had also attend- Commandments. On this retreat I wit- But when they began to share about their vous college freshmen, I attended ed Catholic school, not once had I ever nessed for the first time “normal” men my present and past struggles, many of which T a young men’s retreat that pro- had what I could call an encounter with age that spoke about God as if they actu- I also struggled with, I was baffled! If these foundly changed God! As far as I could tell, ally knew him. God was an men struggled with sin like I did then why my life. Though believing in God was a very “Each Brother in everyday part of their lives. did God speak to them and not to me? As I I had attended one-sided deal. You could our community has He spoke to them and they listened to their personal stories a consis- Mass just pray, yell or try to make a had experienced his love, tent turning point for these young men about ev- deal, but God was far away experienced this guidance and forgiveness in was a spiritual grace that they called being and silent. I simply thought current of grace.” a very tangible way. Continued On Back that God only interacted My first thought was and spoke to the Mother Teresa’s of the that these guys were really world and not to an average college guy “Holy Rollers” and who definitely had some interesting never did anything interpretations of the Ten wrong, and so God was close to them. Rome Gathering. Above, Pope Francis greets pilgrims on Pentecost. (Right) Br. Ken Apuzzo and Br. Clinton Reed with Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Papal Household, at one of the sessions. God First God Alone Sharing Our Vision Blest to Be Best By Br. Ken Apuzzo, BH here is a great Chinese restaurant Tnear the University of Minnesota with an unpronounceable name. Behind CurrentBaptismCurrent in the Holy Spirit can be experienced in many different ways,ofof but it is always GracecharacterizedGrace by conversion to the personal the main counter is a series of awards lordship of Jesus. From this encounter flows a new awareness of Jesus’ presence in one’s life, power to strive for holiness, and the ac- tivity of spiritual gifts. Other fruits include freedom to worship God in song and expressive vocal praise, deeper appreciation of the going back almost ten years proclaiming Scriptures, and zeal to share the love of God with others. We asked several people associated with our ministries to reflect on their this Chinese restaurant as “The Best of own experience of the release of the Holy Spirit in their lives. Here’s what they had to say... Minneapolis”. It must be very helpful for their business and an encouragement to Graced With Gifts because of the work He started within me millions of gallons of water in the form of the owners. As we all know, it is nice to by Melanie Blaszczak, when I was baptized with the Holy Spirit— the Holy Spirit. I felt unable to move, yet Parish Youth Minister be noticed once in a while. a work that I am confident is still not done! I felt safe, secure, and strong. It was like I recently had a conversation with a The baptism of the Holy Spirit there was a T hink of a time when someone gave you significant leader of a Catholic Campus showed me that I truly am a power feeding a gift. You wanted nothing more than to ministry. This person travels extensively daughter of God who was put into me. Even rip open that box to see what you got with and is very familiar with what is happen- in my helpless the gift wrap flying everywhere around on this earth with a purpose to ing around the country with Catholic state, the Lord you. But how about if you just put that gift use my spiritual gifts to magnify college ministry. He offered the Brother- was so present off to the side and didn’t open it for years? my Father in heaven. hood an incredible compliment: he said, The box just stayed there collecting dust. in His Power “I wish the Brothers were serving at every Flooded With Power and His Love That is how my spiritual gifts felt by Joseph McBride, college campus in the country.” I tried that I couldn’t because they were not being Project Engineer to respond in what would appear to be bear it. During opened or used. To be honest, Powerful Preaching. Joseph shares a humble and professional manner, but that time, the until the baptism of the Holy Originally, I wanted the gospel message at a student retreat. inside my heart leaped for joy! Lord flipped my We are a new and still-small religious Spirit I didn’t know these gifts nothing to do with whatever entire life up on its head. I knew from that community that, as you know, has a existed. Once I was baptized this “Baptism in the Holy point on that my life would never be the particular passion and mission for college with the Holy Spirit my whole life Spirit” was. However, I same, and I couldn’t wait! students. We do not receive many na- was reinvigorated. The Bible was eventually came Going forward from that experience of tional or public accolades. We have been not just a book anymore and to a realiza- being baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Lord serving the Church’s mission on college the mass was certainly not just tion: was no longer some far-off and distant another hour wasted. I saw the if the fairy-tale character called ‘God’. He became beauty of God and His people. It gos- “We have been serving a very close, personal, and intimate King. was like a veil was lifted and for the first pel He became someone who I wanted to fol- the Church’s mission on time I saw life as a beautiful adventure was instead of dull story. I saw that I desired low, more than anything else, in a lifelong college campuses for over God more and more in my life. I wanted adventure. I can honestly say, since be- thirty years and have to spend time in prayer and go to mass. ing flooded by the Spirit, these have witnessed remarkable absolutely been the best years of my I was transformed and renewed from transformations...” within. life, and I fully expect the years to I began to see the Spirit of God come, for the rest of my life, to be campuses for 30 years and have witnessed move in my life like never before, and I even better. some remarkable transformations in the started to rely more on the gifts of the Filled With Joy lives of the students we serve. Spirit that I was given. One of those gifts by Stephen Beck, While we’re very proud of our Aerospace Engineer was wisdom. I needed to make tough life missionary fruitfulness, we must first choices after college and was eventually true, acknowledge our debt to the Holy Spirit. uring my first year of college my shown a life that I didn’t know existed. and if D We didn’t learn how to serve campus faith-life was mostly non-existent. I was Currently, I am a youth minister serving God was ministries overnight: the Holy Spirit has living the stereotypical “party scene,” but I the Church. As I continue living my life for real, then it been guiding us for decades in develop- was never happy. I was always searching for Christ I am always reminded that is absolutely the most important thing in ing approaches that actually help today’s something to fulfill me. I “live and move and have the universe to be filled with God’s pres- young people encounter Christ. We’ve Late in the year a friend invited me to a my being” within Him ence. Period. So I decided to give God had our share of setbacks and failures day-long retreat which, for some reason, I a shot, a real chance: I gave my small, along the way – but we’ve been faithful to agreed to attend. The focus of the retreat Graced and Gifted. hesitant ‘yes’ to God. That decision was the promptings of the Spirit, while hum- Spreading the fruits of was the Holy Spirit, specifically on the unequivocally the best decision I have bly acknowledging that God always has a the Holy Spirit she has charismatic renewal. We were told that at received, Melanie ever made in my entire life. better plan. the end of the night, we would have the ministers at a par- That night I encountered the raw And finally, I’d like to “pay forward” ish youth opportunity to be “baptized in the Holy power of the Lord and the sheer this compliment to all of you who are our group. Spirit,” and the talks throughout the day presence of the Holy Spirit like I friends, alumni, students, staff, families were meant to prepare us for that. and supporters. If you did not recognize could have never dreamed pos- Initially, I did not want to be there.
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