Feast of Mary Mazzarello

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May 13, 2013...

Feast of St. Mary Mazzarello, a girl who grew into a woman of faith, a saint who noticed the saint in the priest John Bosco and wanted keenly to follow that saintliness, a person who was totally open to the Spirit and believed that the Spirit guided her through this person called John Bosco... St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello - an evidence of a relationship and a shared vision that has given rise to a great enterprise, as Dominic Savio termed it, 'a business of salvation of souls'... a beautiful mission of accompanying the young to their destiny, that is Sanctity.

WORD 2day

13th May 2013

We are invited to a new phase this week... to prepare ourselves for the great feast of the Pentecost, the birthday of the Church! Yes, the Church was born with the recognition of the presence of the Spirit. They had seen the marvels of the hand of God...and then they witnessed with their eyes the wonders that Jesus performed and the signs that he gave. But they had no idea, who this Spirit was! They knew God had a Spirit and God was Spirit! But Jesus and the encounter with Christ, introduces them to the person of the Holy Spirit, and there the Church was born. The apostles spoke of the Reign of the God, and there were two important features of the Reign: First, the Trinitarian Communion, the new perspective of the One God we believe in; Secondly, the fact that the Reign of God as the reign of peace, a peace that 'has overcome the world'.