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Welcome!
Rejoice! Blessings to you and your loved ones from your Catholic Charismatic NY Diocesan Service Team in this new Holy year of our Lord Jesus Christ!
A Message from Fr. Bill Cosgrove ...
Dear Friends of the Renewal,
We have come to proclaim anew, as Peter proclaimed on the day of Pentecost, that Jesus Christ is Lord and Messiah, risen from the
dead, seated in glory at the right hand of the Father, and established as judge of the living and the dead. I have come to repeat the Apostle's urgent call to conversion and the forgiveness of sins, and to
implore from the Lord a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church in this country....
"Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth!" The words of today's Responsorial Psalm are a prayer which
rises up from the heart of the Church in every time and place. They remind us that the Holy Spirit has been poured out as the first fruits of a new creation, "new heavens and a new
earth" in which God's peace will reign and the human family will be reconciled in justice and love. We have heard Saint Paul tell us that all creation is even now "groaning" in
expectation of that true freedom which is God's gift to his children, a freedom which enables us to live in conformity to his will.
Today let us pray fervently that the Church in America will
be renewed in that same Spirit, and sustained in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel to a world that longs for genuine freedom, authentic happiness, and the fulfillment of its deepest aspirations!...
We invoke the Holy Spirit upon the Church in the United States of America, so that firmly rooted in the faith transmitted by its fathers, profoundly united and renewed, it
will face present and future challenges with courage and hope -- that hope that "does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit that has been given to us"....
By your personal witness, and your fidelity to the ministry or apostolate entrusted to you, you prepare a path for the
Spirit. For the Spirit never ceases to pour out his abundant gifts, to awaken new vocations and missions, and to guide the Church, as our Lord promised... into the fullness of truth...
As we give thanks for past blessings, and look to the challenges of the future, let us implore from God the grace of a new Pentecost for the Church in America May tongues of
fire, combining burning love of God and neighbor with zeal for the spread of Christ’s Kingdom, descend on all present!
Father Bill Cosgrove
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