Yes. This is a phrase we saw recently on those candies distributed during Valentine’s Day, but this blog is not about those (sigh of relief from your end and mine). Just a thought on a good “travel companion” that has been naggin’ at me since the beginning of Lent: The Holy Spirit! Our Blessed Lord went into the desert filled with the Holy Spirit. I desire the same during these holy and transforming days.
Lent, in my view, can often slip in unexamined fashion, into an enclosed gloomy ambience composed of the heavy clouds of personal sin and the tempestuous winds of its social counterpart. Although I say the former with great reverence for the human condition and cannot/will not dismiss the gravity of sin, my “travel partner” seems to keep picking my head up to Christ with His generous Gifts and savory Fruits. Meanwhile, He is coaching me out of old and unsuccessful life strategies (He’s better and less expensive than Stephen Covey) to new ones — He’s the best coach..sorry Coach Calhoun, you’re #2)
This past weekend I was so thankful to be part of about 90+ young and a couple not-so-young people’s Confirmation here at Good Shepherd. It was confirmation in the Holy Spirit not only in the sacraments sense, but also in my interior priestly life: I WANT IN ON THIS LENTEN JOURNEY AND ALWAYS in your ministry as I did with the Great High Priest in His.
In addition—it’s been a real long winter here in Tally so I’m asking my “travel companion” to, as the Veni Sancte Spiritus says, “Fove quod est frigidum/Melt the frozen, warm the chill.”
Happy trails to all. Forget HIM not!
Father Will Ganci
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