CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. EDMUND OF CANTERBURY 31 May 2020 Village Way, Beckenham BR3 3NP Pentecost Sunday Email [email protected] Website: www.saintedmunds.net Salesian Sisters 020 8650 0970 25 Village Way, BR3 3NA Parish Office - CLOSED 020 8650 6313 [email protected] Fr. Steve Wymer - Parish Priest 020 8650 3390 - [email protected] Missionary Sisters of Fr. Ashley Beck - 020 8650 4117 or 020 7998 5949 - [email protected] St. Peter Claver 89 Shortlands Road BR2 0JL Deacon Sean Murphy - 020 3490 5693 - [email protected] 020 8313 3915 Deacon Duncan Aitkins - 07957 861404 - [email protected] [email protected] COME HOLY SPIRIT! This Sunday when we celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost you ask of me, I accept, and if it means suffering, I accept it seems appropriate to hear the story of what has been that too. Just teach me to follow Jesus and to love as he described as the birth of Catholic Charismatic renewal. Patti loves.” Gallagher Mansfield has never forgotten a retreat she made while at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Pittsburgh, In an instant, Patti found herself prostrate on the floor Pennsylvania in 1967. ‘flooded with an experience of the merciful love of God.’ On finally leaving the chapel she went in search of the chaplain. But we begin in the Spring of 1966, when two professors Two girls noticed her face was glowing and wanted to know from the University commit themselves to daily prayer of what had happened. Later when her knowledge and ‘asking, seeking and knocking’ for a fresh outpouring of the appreciation of the scriptures grew Patti came across the Holy Spirit in their lives. During this time of prayer they were passage from 2 Corinthians where St Paul reflects on the given two books from some friends: The Cross and the illuminated face of Moses as he descends the mountain after Switchblade and They Speak with Other Tongues. Both his encounter with God. He writes, ‘All of us, with unveiled books describe Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The two men faces, beholding the beauty of the Lord are being quickly realised that this was exactly what they were looking transformed from one degree of glory to another.’ for. After Patti’s experience, many more students were drawn to In February the following year a student retreat entitled The the chapel to experience the same. One professor Holy Spirit was planned and in preparation for the retreat the exclaimed, “What is the Bishop going to say when he hears students were told to pray expectantly and read The Cross that all these kids have been baptised in the Holy Spirit?” and the Switchblade and the first four chapters of the Acts of God had planned a birthday party that night and it was in the the Apostles. Upper Room Chapel. It was the birth of Catholic Charismatic Renewal. A few days before the retreat Patti knelt in her room. Her prayer was as follows: “Lord, I believe I have already More recently when reflecting on Luke 11, Patti writes, ‘Here received your Spirit of Baptism and Confirmation. But if it’s is an unfailing principle: From the first Pentecost on, the Holy possible for your Spirit to be more at work in my life than he’s Spirit has always come in response to fervent prayer… to been up until now, I WANT IT!” prayer that is hungry and thirsty for more of God… to prayer that asks, seeks and knocks. Within days Patti and 24 students left for The Ark and the Dove Retreat House on the edge of the city. Before each Blessed Elena Guerra in the early twentieth century urged session the professors told the students to pray the Veni Pope Leo XIII to encourage the whole church to pray more Creator Spiritus, ‘Come Creator Spirit’. One evening there fervently to the Holy Spirit and be like a cenacle of prayer. was meditation on Mary followed by a penitential service and Let us do the same as we pray the prayer used for the the sacrament of reconciliation. The following day a success of the Second Vatican Council: “Divine Spirit, renew protestant friend of the professors delivered a simple but your wonders in this our day as by a new Pentecost.” powerful talk on surrendering to Jesus as Lord and Master. She spoke of experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit as the Fr Steve Apostles did and knowing Jesus intimately and personally. Patti knew she wanted the same and wrote in her notes, “Jesus, be real for me.” At one point during the retreat the students were relaxing at a birthday party. However, finding it rather dull Patti slipped away to find more students to liven it up. Her first visit was to the chapel but on entering she found a strong compulsion to stay before the Blessed Sacrament. As she knelt Patti began to ‘tremble with a sense of awe before his majesty.’ Fearful, she wanted to leave but there was a greater desire to stay and ‘surrender herself unconditionally to God.’ She recalls praying “Father, I give my life to you. Whatever MASSES THIS WEEK - via Webcam ONLY Intentions that have had to be moved due to Mass cancellation will be offered on the closest possible date. Sunday 31 May Pentecost Sunday 9.30 am Fr Tom Creagh-Fuller RIP For the people 5.30 pm Ann Rose McCabe RIP (5th ann) Victoria Oparaji RIP (ann) Monday 1 June Mary, Mother of the Church 9.00 am Hector Baquero Jr & family Nicholapillai Pius RIP (ann) 9.40 am Rosary followed by Exposition - 7pm 6.30 pm Evening Prayer 7.30 pm Evening Reflection The annual Westminster garden party at The Passage isn’t Tuesday 2 June St Marcellinus & St Peter happening this year but instead The Passage invites you to th 9.00 am Peter Oke RIP their first ever virtual event on 5 June. 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